kekgeek1 wrote:Thing I haven't figured out yet do the wolves play down/up to their competition like in the cavs or thunder game or do those teams play down to us
Mostly down to the Wolves. This is the NBA after all...
Sam and Wolves were classy and gave Kobe one last signature game with a win. :P
Horrible loss to horrible team. At least it looks like Sam is playing that Rubio, Lavine, Wiggins, Dieng, Towns lineup that many of us were hoping to see already couple of months ago.
If the Wolves re going to soooo obviously tank a game why was Miller even in a uniform? Miller is so slow and provides nothing for this team. I would rather see Jones getting those minutes.
CoolBreeze44 wrote:Towns with a grand total of 4 shots in the half. FOUR
He only made 3 of them. God sam is a joke, he was guarded by randle and Bandon Bass
I know Sam Mitchell is a subpar coach. But c'mon guys. It's becoming overkill here.
You have to blame the players for some of this stuff... Sam Mitchell sucks can't be the kneejerk reaction EVERY time.
Can't we blame Thad Young every once in awhile or something?
It was more of a joke, sorry really didn't come through because of my negative attitude in games. Right Kobe was great, good D by wiggins. I'm sorry
The sad thing is that the Lakers played such terrible basketball. They basically play hero ball every possession.
And it worked! But that team isn't winning 17 games playing like that. It was terrible basketball.
Agreed, I thought the first half was some of the worst basketball this year both ways.
Maybe don't have the most run play be a Ricky/Dieng PnR when Wiggins and Towns are on the floor. Seriously it felt like they ran that PnR like 5 straight plays and surrounding it were a couple Prince long two's. It was bad enough that I was criticizing Ricky in my head for doing a horrible job properly keeping everyone fed with touches. Needless to say I turned off the game at half-time being down that much to the Lakers. I'll have to pay more attention to Ricky if he's been doing this because it would be a reason for our bad looking offense if he's spending decent stretches of the game running a PnR with him and Dieng with Towns and Wiggins on the floor.
Interesting that we're criticizing the offense from last night when we shot over 50% and set a season high in assists. We got spanked as usual on 3-pointers, but still.....the defense - ugh.
I think the biggest revelation for me is how poorly the squad defends without KG in the mix. This team just sucks defensively and that was supposedly Mitchell's calling card.
