Log in or Sign up

Lakers Vs HEAT: NBA Finals

Discussion in 'Lakers Discussion' started by karacha, Sep 27, 2020.

Page 15 of 42

ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

I just can't. The dumass lights us up.

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#281
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

AC with dumb plays.

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#282
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

Abysmal.

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#283
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

WTH JR Smith is doing out there?

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#284
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

James with the lazy 3s again.

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#285
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

WHY IS JR on the f***ing FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!?

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#286
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

Screw Danny Green. Go do your dumass podcast you scammer.

4 shots. in a row. One hit the f***ing bottom side of the rim...

Piece of useless garbage for 15 millions. Hope we dump his sorry a** in the offseason for ANYTHING.

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#287
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

Lit up by a guy named Kelly.

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#288
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

WTH was that?

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#289
karacha Moderator Staff Member

Joined:

Sep 6, 2014

Messages:

8,546

Likes Received:

27,703

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

Zen, this thread is not GameTime. Please slow down. You were alone here.

karacha, Oct 2, 2020

#290
Chick-n-Stew - Rookie -

Joined:

Jan 27, 2020

Messages:

85

Likes Received:

171

Trophy Points:

33

Offline

So the Lakers got a load of zone tonight and they go and set an NBA record for 3's in a Finals.

This team is destined to ride the purple-n-gold con-trail left by KB8-24 to a championship and beyond !!

Chick-n-Stew, Oct 2, 2020

#291
JSM - Lakers Legend -

Top Poster Of Month

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

17,233

Likes Received:

67,070

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

65, 23, & 10 from our duo tonight. No stopping that. This is over in 4. This was a must win for them.

JSM, Oct 2, 2020

#292

raviator, The Showtime Mamba, TIME and 1 other person like this.
gcclaker Moderator Staff Member

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

8,908

Likes Received:

20,271

Trophy Points:

113

Location:

Wherever I am at the moment...

Offline

Placing James in the middle of their zone defense manufactured some points with timely scoring dimes to Davis or his own. Miami will play that same scheme again and I trust our staff to put our players in positions to succeed and exploit it.

gcclaker, Oct 2, 2020

#293

Juronimo likes this.
ZenMaster - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

5,907

Likes Received:

13,171

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

karacha said: ↑

Zen, this thread is not GameTime. Please slow down. You were alone here.
Click to expand...

That's what I have. What's the concern here? Too much pressure on the server?

ZenMaster, Oct 2, 2020

#294
OX1947 - Lakers MVP -

Joined:

Jun 3, 2016

Messages:

8,077

Likes Received:

17,373

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

ZenMaster said: ↑

That's what I have. What's the concern here? Too much pressure on the server?
Click to expand...

This is a more advanced Laker site. This isn't a low rent laker site like Lakersground.net. The site doesn't get syntax errors when more than 10 people get on it and we have a gametime thread where information travels faster.

OX1947, Oct 2, 2020

#295

JD likes this.
JSM - Lakers Legend -

Top Poster Of Month

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

17,233

Likes Received:

67,070

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

Miami with the ewok defense tonight

JSM, Oct 2, 2020

#296

LTLakerFan, Cookie, raviator and 3 others like this.
JDLakersFan2019 - Rookie -

Joined:

Jun 17, 2019

Messages:

90

Likes Received:

223

Trophy Points:

33

Location:

San Antonio, TX

Offline

GAME 1: LAKERS 116, HEAT 98

The Los Angeles Lakers made a big statement in Game 1 of the 2020 NBA Finals against the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat, with a convincing 116-98 victory.

The Lakers dominated the Heat in the paint area as they’ve done to their opponents the entire postseason. No team has been to deal with LA’s size particularly Anthony Davis and Game 1 was no different.

Anthony Davis was the best player on the court with 34 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 blocks. This has been a consistent theme for the Lakers during these playoffs. Davis also hit 2/4 of his three point attempts, was perfect from the free throw line going 10/10, and shot 11/21 overall from the field.

The Heat got off to a great start leading by 13 points in the first quarter, however the Lakers erased the deficit very quickly and dominated the rest of the way out scoring Miami 106-75. They really just could not contain Davis, who really was the catalyst for getting the Lakers erasing the early deficit.

Miami’s best hope at containing the Lakers size particularly Anthony Davis was with their All Star center Bam Adebayo, who has been the Heat’s consistently best player during their run to the Finals.

Unfortunately for the Heat, Adebayo was very ineffective and really struggled with the Lakers size, he had only 8 points and four rebounds in 21 minutes of action before having to leave the game due to injury.

Lakers supporting cast around superstars Anthony Davis and LeBron James have been much maligned throughout the season as well as the playoffs despite the Lakers very successful run to the Finals. While there was some reason for skepticism particularly when it comes to the Lakers ability to spread the court around their two stars because the Lakers have been mediocre at best when it comes to three point shooting during this season.

However, during this postseason run the Lakers shooting has been much improved hitting timely shots particularly down the stretch of a lot of these games. In Game 1 once again the Lakers got key contributions from their role players such as Danny Green, Kentavious Caldwell Pope, Alex Caruso, Rajon Rondo, and Markieff Morris.

As a team the Lakers shot 15/38 on their three point attempts, which is just under 40 percent shooting. If the Lakers continue to shoot this well from three point range Miami really has no chance especially considering the big size advantage.

The big story line after Game 1 was two key injuries for the Heat, which are injuries to two of their top players in Goran Dragic and Bam Adebayo. Both players left the game and were unable to return, they are also both listed as doubtful for Game 2.

Now what impact does this have on the series the rest of the way? Most people would agree that these injuries really could be devastating for the Heat because both Adebayo and Dragic were instrumental in Miami’s improbable run to the Finals.

For Miami their biggest advantage is really at the point guard position with Dragic particularly with some of the issues the Lakers have had defending opposing point guards. Dragic did not play in Game 2 and his status for the rest of the Finals is uncertain.

GAME 2: LAKERS 124, HEAT 114

Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic were out for Miami in Game 2 as expected, Tyler Herro and Meyers Leonard were inserted into the starting lineup. These guys are more then capable replacements although it certainly these are two huge losses for the Heat.

Miami continued to play a lot of zone defense in Game 2, which they have done the entire postseason. Despite how well the Lakers shot the ball in Game 1 clearly Miami’s strategy has been to entice them to shoot more three point shots and keep the ball out of the paint.

As effective as Miami’s zone defense throughout the playoffs they have not faced a team like the Lakers with the great size particularly with Anthony Davis and a player like LeBron James who is such a great floor general.

LeBron is just too smart of a player and he is just continuing to pick them apart. LeBron not only did a great job once again facilitating the Lakers offense, but also whenever he put his head and attacked he was able to get to the rim at will.

The Heat gave a valiant effort tonight led by Jimmy Butler who had a great all around game with 25 points, 13 assists, and 8 rebounds. Miami also got some great production from their bench particularly Kelly Olynyk who scored 24 points including hitting 3/7 of his three point attempts.

Miami clearly missed Bam Adebayo because just like in Game 1 they simply had no answers for Anthony Davis who he scored 32 points, 14 rebounds, and has made 15/20 of his shot attempts. AD was also hitting his jump shot consistently in this game and when that’s the case there really is no way of slowing this guy down.

Anthony Davis just has the entire package offensively because he’s terrific in the low post with a variety of moves, can hit the jumper both mid range as well as three, he is a nightmare matchup in the pick and roll, a great rebounder, and can take opposing players off the dribble.

In addition to his incredibly efficient offensive game AD has once again been a force on defense doing a great job when he has switched on some of Miami’s perimeter players, he’s altered a number of shots, and really just causing so many problems for Miami with his length.

The Lakers as a team did a great job attacking and taking advantage of Miami’s zone defense. The Lakers are doing exactly what you need to do against a zone defense, which is moving the ball and attacking the middle of the zone. This has resulted in a number of easy buckets in the paint as well as generating a number of open looks from three point range.

As dominant as Davis has been LeBron James continues to show why he’s still arguably the best player in the league at 35 years old. LeBron has continued to pick apart this Heat defense, he has not been fooled by Miami’s zone defense and LeBron is just doing such a great job as a floor general making sure the Lakers are in tune on both ends of the court.

LeBron scored 33 points, 9 rebounds, 9 assists, made 14/25 of his field goal attempts, and was 3/8 on his three point attempts. Miami knows LeBron as well as anyone because he spent four seasons there, winning two titles and two Finals MVP’s.

However, that has not helped the Heat contain LeBron because he has been just as dominant as AD. LeBron has improved so much as a shooter throughout his legendary career and it has shown late in his career.

The Heat were simply outmatched tonight in Game 2, while they did hang in there despite being so outmatched from a talent perspective watching this game you never really thought there was any chance they would win the game because the Lakers were in control the entire game.

The Lakers are now only two wins away from winning their 17th championship as a franchise and their first in a decade. Game 3 is Sunday night we will see if Miami can respond and make this a series.
Click to expand...

https://jdgarzablog2019.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/2020-nba-finals-lakers-vs-heat-lakers-lead-2-0

This is the link to my personal blog, have not been online since last summer. Definitely missed this forum, exciting times as a Lakers fan.

JDLakersFan2019, Oct 2, 2020

#297
gcclaker Moderator Staff Member

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

8,908

Likes Received:

20,271

Trophy Points:

113

Location:

Wherever I am at the moment...

Offline

Miami had no choice but resort to the zone. They go man to man and it is a repeat of Game 1. We did enough to keep them at bay. James and Davis found seams, spaces to score on passes. Our offensive rebounding also shot up. At one point we had 16? Crazy number. Had we made more threes (not our strength), it would have pulled them out and destroy them.

gcclaker, Oct 2, 2020

#298

Cookie, The Showtime Mamba and JohnnyComeLately2k6 like this.
Azndude2190 - Lakers 6th Man -

Joined:

Oct 7, 2014

Messages:

1,580

Likes Received:

3,897

Trophy Points:

113

Offline

Usually I'm pretty cautious about my predictions, but at this point, I'll be surprised if we don't sweep this series. That's with good or bad shooting. If we shoot 3s at a 37+% rate, we'll blowout the last two games. If we shoot under, it'll be like today, probably closer, but we'll still win the game.

Azndude2190, Oct 2, 2020

#299
Helljumper - Lakers All Star -

Joined:

Oct 5, 2014

Messages:

4,832

Likes Received:

14,321

Trophy Points:

113

Occupation:

Student

Location:

Los Angeles

Offline

OX1947 said: ↑

This is a more advanced Laker site. This isn't a low rent laker site like Lakersground.net. The site doesn't get syntax errors when more than 10 people get on it and we have a gametime thread where information travels faster.
Click to expand...

Hey man, to be fair, there were some benefits back in the day to having underpowered websites... Mainly, it was always exciting when CL would crash because I’d wonder if some big trade had just been announced causing everyone to login and crash the server

Helljumper, Oct 2, 2020

#300

raviator, JohnnyComeLately2k6 and ZenMaster like this.

(You must log in or sign up to reply here.)

Page 15 of 42

Share This Page