BtB GS game 2
Gary Collard
By Kelly Dwyer on nba
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Los Angeles Lakers 124, Golden State 118
The Lakers are trying to beat teams with offense, and it's just not
working. They won, so I suppose things worked in Los Angeles' favor; but
even against an improving team like the Warriors � at home, this
shouldn't be that close.
Golden State lost because they don't talk defensively, they have the
personnel to switch on quite a bit, but don't often do (nor do they
stick, if we're honest), and Kobe Bryant(notes) was able to move into
open spaces in the Laker offense to collect the pass and score (or
shoot), or the master was able to find all manner of teammates,
finishing with 11 assists.
The Laker offense was fine. I thought Kobe was a little too jump
shot-happy (with that bum finger, and the lack of interior stoppers for
Golden State), but a good chunk of them went in. Pau Gasol(notes)
managed 27 points and 12 boards, while Jordan Farmar(notes) tossed out
12 points and five assists in under 30 minutes.
The defense was off, though. Golden State, playing on the second night
of a back to back and with a thin rotation, was quicker and was tossing
it in from all over the floor. It was Golden State's inability to
properly defend or keep Los Angeles off the line (the Lakers shot 36
freebies, making a needed 32) that denied GSW the win.
And Kobe, with those 44 points. That hurt them, too. He's just fantastic.
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greg brown
"Gary Collard" <garyc...@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Behind the Box Score, where Cleveland is bringing the D
>
> By Kelly Dwyer on nba
>
> [...]
>
> Los Angeles Lakers 124, Golden State 118
>
> The Lakers are trying to beat teams with offense, and it's just not
> working.
Well this is not true. Before we lost our best on ball defender, we had been
beating teams with defense since the start of the season. Now against Golden
State last night, we tried to beat them with our offense and fortunatly,
did.
>
> Golden State lost because they don't talk defensively, they have the
> personnel to switch on quite a bit, but don't often do (nor do they stick,
> if we're honest), and Kobe Bryant(notes) was able to move into open spaces
> in the Laker offense to collect the pass and score (or shoot), or the
> master was able to find all manner of teammates, finishing with 11
> assists.
>
Is this "Kelly Dwyer's" first look at a Don Nelson team? Golden State, like
all Don Nelson teams, doesn't play defense because defense is not what they
are asked to play by the head coash. It is a typical Nelson team in that
they are asked to win games with their offense, a practise that makes for
some exciting regular season wins, while fizziling in the post season.
>
> The defense was off, though. Golden State, playing on the second night of
> a back to back and with a thin rotation, was quicker and was tossing it in
> from all over the floor. It was Golden State's inability to properly
> defend or keep Los Angeles off the line (the Lakers shot 36 freebies,
> making a needed 32) that denied GSW the win.
>
> And Kobe, with those 44 points. That hurt them, too. He's just fantastic.
>
Whoa, talk about Captain Obvious. Gary, who is Kelly Dwyer?
Greg
Gary Collard
One of the pioneers of online NBA analysis, and certainly one of the
sharpest NBA observers out there, now with Yahoo (archive
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie?author=Kelly+Dwyer ).
I've been posting these (usually written for every Su-Th game) all year.
He does every NBA game, so how much is devoted to a given Laker game,
especially on a 8-12 game night, is uneven.
His self-flagellation earlier this week on missing on the Queens is classic:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Getting-all-wrong-on-the-Sacramento-Kings?urn=nba,210989#remaining-content