Lakers Vs Rockets: 2nd Round Discussion

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  1. abeer3

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    lakers shooting 25% from three?

    harden with 11 FTs to AD and lebron's combined 4?

    centers on the floor for only 17 out of the 27 minutes played so far?

    recipe for 0-1.

    this guy isn't surprised.
     
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    This will be a quick series :D
     
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    ron-doh!
     
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    Play Rondo 20+ minutes every game and lose in 5.
     
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  5. karacha

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    Us in 5 again? I don't think we can do that man. It will be hard.
     
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    Frank Vogel, probably: “Challenge accepted, I’ll give Rondo 30+ minutes a game so we can lose in 4; the NBA isn’t allowing coaches to bring their family into the bubble and I wanna go home”.
     
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    5? we get swept

    Modern NBA defenses are too good AND you have a coach who likes to play 2 bigs. This is like forgetting the last 20 years of NBA basketball.
    You completely neutralize Lebrons ability to get into the pain and his passing ability

    I just don't understand this: rondo hasn't played forever and they acted like he was Chris Paul coming back from injury
    Without spacing guys like Kuzma and KCP are going to look bad as their roles are to exploit weaknesses that are no longer there.
     
  8. LaVarBallsDad

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    I'm concerned.
     
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    We could see this coming.

    Lakers have been the worst 3 point shooting team in the bubble and they're going up against probably one of the best in the bubble.

    The Isos for AD in the high post were horrible, PJ Tucker owned the heck out of him
     
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    Yea I'm worried, but at the same time, I find it hard to believe that Houston is going to play this well 3 more times against us.
     
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    What a clusterf*ck. :Laugh:

    Kobe would've torched Houston.
     
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    Frank Vogel really played a player who hasn't played since March extended minutes.
     
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    Part of this was Caruso foul trouble but then again he played ahead of Caruso which every advanced metric said was your 3rd best player in the first round. So who the ***k knows
     
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    not having bradley could end up costing them the series

    OKC had dort on harden all series. without bradley, they have to double harden and that just allows them to get wide open looks from 3
     
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    Ugh.
     
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    This was ugly.

    I don't have an intelligent take on this series or what we can do to adjust.

    The only thing that comes to mind is to play Ludabrow mostly at the 5 and try to spread the floor. Rondo should play only when LeBron is on the bench if that. Also we have to get Kuz going somehow. He was invisible out there.

    That's all I got. I wish Bradley was available.

    Sent from my VS995 using Tapatalk
     
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    not if tucker guarding him
     
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    Yes, slowly.. as in 2-3 per game if there is garbage time.

    :Crazyartest:
     
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    AD needs to put his big boy pants on

    tucker absolutely abused him tonight
     
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