Comments on: Fine Tuning the Lakers’ Offense

By: Tuningbox

Tuningbox — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:20:36 +0000

Kobe and Gasol are great players and they complete each other. I am glad to see them every week.

By: bluesky

bluesky — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:56:22 +0000

Last season, i was happy to see Gasol and Kobe played pick-and roll together against Orlando, i believe if Lakers play pick-and-roll and screen-and-roll, mix with trial angle offense, Lakers is very dangerous team because it’s hard to stop the offense.Kobe and Gasol are smart players. A great shooter like Kobe, he only needs 1, 2 seconds to have a good look and shoot the ball, look at Ray Allen in Boston Celtics offense.

By: Darius

Darius — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:34:23 +0000

Another point that didn’t make the post is that the Lakers high P&R seems to be so much less effective when both Bynum and Pau are in the game. Those guys just don’t provide the spacing that Odom at PF can/does. LO may not be a good shooter, but he is capable of hanging out at the 3 point line and that leaves the paint open for easier penetration by the ball handler or for the roll man. When it’s Pau/’Drew in there together, one of them is always near the paint and that means that Kobe will not have a clean lane to penetrate and will see a lot of resistance at the basket should he try to finish at the rim.

Another point is that one of the main reasons the P&R is such a popular play is all of the options that come off of it. There is the opportunity created for the ball handler and the screen man, but it’s also a great way to get outside shooters shots. Well, our shooters that aren’t making shots and they aren’t keeping defenders honest. So, that just leads to even more crowding of the paint as wing defenders sag and our shooters not making teams pay for playing us that way. I’d rather just stick to the sets that have the highest success rates and go from there.

By: sT

sT — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:19:27 +0000

Darius, this was a great post and now you are able to write full blown articles here (all of the time), you know, not just an extended comment about whatever it is you want to talk about at the time, but an in depth view/position that can be commented on by others. The only Laker weakness that I see is their 3 point shooting, but we are winning games as it is, so fine I guess. I want to see Kobe not take like 30 attempts a game anymore, I like the facilitator Kobe now, 10 dimes a game would be nice, huh?.

By: jeff m.

jeff m. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:07:32 +0000

Great post, as always. Part of the reason for the Lakers’ inefficiency might be regular-seasonitis, as others have noted, but I wonder how much of it is a strategy not to show too much regular season, at least so close to the middle.

I get the sense that they don’t want to peak too early. Like how they make adjustments from one half of a game to the next, they seem to be conserving energy until when they need it most; the end of games, and the end of the season. It’s just another edge that they want to have over other teams to keep them off balance. Sure, other teams have seen their playoff-style mode, so it’s not some huge secret, but knowing about it and playing against it are two different things.

By: Darius

Darius — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:10:55 +0000

New post up. Schedule, links, and more.

http://www.forumblueandgold.com/2010/03/02/around-the-world-wide-web-lakers-begin-march/

By: Craig W.

Craig W. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:16:07 +0000

Kaveh,
Yes, on a normal basis the long 2pt shot isn’t as good as a 3ptr. However, we are not normal and we are backing up to the 3pt line. Moving forward we get a better shooting motion and we also are very poor at the 3pt shot. I suspect there would be no difference in points and our defense would be better if more shots were going into the basket.

By: Yusuf

Yusuf — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:09:08 +0000

ESPN did a great interview with Bruce Bowen on the daily dime. He talks about Ron Artest’s defense, he has some good insight I think he would be a good commentator.

By: Warren Wee Lim

Warren Wee Lim — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:06:11 +0000

Spacing Spacing Spacing.

I think this is the very essence of the post… whether its Kobe over-dribbling or Bynum forcing inside action, or plain and simply Fish sucking from outside, its clear that the offense has to figure itself out or else, like Bill said, we might be running on low battery before we know it.

By: Sudhakar

Sudhakar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:16:44 +0000

Hey guys,

I have a somewhat off-topic question. Looking on ESPN, I see that Larry Hughes is a free agent. Do you think that the Lakers would go after him? I know he is a few years older than his DPOY-contending self if Washington, but won’t he provide that shooting and defense we need from the Point guard position?