I’ll be the first to admit that it’s been hard to watch the Laker defense of late, for example the Knicks’ guards seemed to get into the paint at will and the defensive rotations have been horrible. And, in the last 10 games, the Lakers have given up an average of 12.5 offensive rebounds a […]
Archives for February 2007
Magic, Nash and Some Blog Talk
There is so much great and interesting stuff put out in the basketball blogsphere the last couple days that to just talk about Lakers’ lack of focus on defense last night seems masochistic. So today bask in the sunshine, the darkness may creep back in tomorrow. Let’s start with friend-of-this-site Nate Jones of Jones on […]
Preview and Chat: The New York Knicks
Turning it around. Call it a slump, blame the injuries, say the season of bad defense is catching up with them, say that Mercury is retrograde so the stars are lined up against us, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is the Lakers are 3-7 in their last 10 and have looked like a team […]
Stepping Up
Over at LAist, in a little preview of Sunday’s game, I stated something for that more mainstream audience I think is understood here: When stars like Kobe and LeBron clash, the guy that gets the win is the guy that gets the best play from his supporting cast. With that in mind, let’s look at […]
Preview and Chat: The Cleveland Cavaliers
4-4? At the start of this road trip Phil Jackson said 6-2 was feasible, I was hoping for 5-3, but in the end I can live with 4-4. However, the Lakers need to win today to reach that lowest of goals. Missing Luke. For the last couple games, the Lakers have been very slow up […]
Raptor Game Podcast
It wasn’t the kind of game I wanted to talk about, but I agreed to go on tthe Hoops Addict podcast today and talk Lakers, Raptors, Bosh and more. You can listen to it here. Or, you can just try to forget that game ever happened.
Preview and Chat: The Toronto Raptors
A word or 75 on Detroit. Some teams just have your number, teams where the matchups all seem to be in the other guy’s favor. The Pistons are apparently that for the Lakers, because the two Laker games against the Pistons may have been their two worst this season. All you can do in these […]
Preview and Chat: The Detroit Pistons
The John Amaechi story. I’m not going to break far from this blog’s long-stated purpose of trying to focus on the court not off (remember, I started this site in frustration of the lack of stories and media discussion actually about basketball and not the soap opera in LA in the wake of the Kobe/Shaq […]
Hot Zones
If you want to slow Kobe Bryant from beyond the arc, you want him to shoot from the left side of the court, not the right side. I know that because of my favorite part of the NBA.com site, the Hot Zones. Shots from every NBA player are charted and put into one of 14 […]
Preview and Chat: The Atlanta Hawks
Did you see Smush play defense? The Lakers had maybe their best defensive game of the year against the Wizards on Saturday, and Gatinho sat down with a pen and paper and tracked Smush: Well, last night was an over all good game for Smush. He used his length to bother Arenas and was savvy […]