Well, that, theoretically, wasn't as bad as it could have been. Lakers win, 103-90.
by Kevin Sawyer on Nov 17, 2010 10:58 PM EST
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This was one of those games sportscasters describe as "not as close as the score suggests."
It is precisely as close as the score suggests. The Pistons modestly rallied from a major deficit to save face against a vastly superior opponent. Detroit, adjusting for home court advantage, is about 13 points worse than the Lakers.
So everything went as planned. Kobe Bryant scored a lot of points on a lot of shots. Lamar Odom destroyed everyone without noticing. Pau Gasol is probably on the team. Let's all breathe a sigh of relief.
Key Players
The Piston Bench: 42 shots to score 39 points? Yeah, that about speaks for itself.
Pau Gasol: So, at what point are people going to realize he is the Laker's best player.
Greg Monroe: He had a nice little game, during which the Pistons were +8. Given the big bag of awful everyone else managed to register, he should be named the MVP of the game.
MVP
Greg Monroe
Deciding Factor
People forget how well the Lakers play on defense. Of course, this has nothing to do with Pau Gasol, who is just some random scrub who joined the team just in time to collect a title. I repeat, do not credit Pau Gasol with the fact that the Los Angeles Lakers play amazing defense. He is European and, therefore, soft.
Elsewhere in the NBA
Kevin Love and Michael Beasley are having the most ridiculous statistical seasons for a bad team that we've seen in a long time. Beasley is averaging 33 ppg on 56% shooting over the last five, while Kevin Love manages to make a 24-14 night a disappointment.
The Heat beat the Suns all to hell. I guess that means they've gotten over their "issues", all of a sudden.
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Only saw parts of the game
But the parts I saw, LA was really exploiting height advantages on offense. I know Pau and Odom are “good” as well as “big,” but this shows what a disadvantage we have with our roster against a team with a big and good front court.
Had to watch the game on DVR and just finished, here are the thoughts I wrote down while watching
In chronological order:
- Considering its Kobe and the Lakers, you’d think that there would be more people there.
- Rip with the double T on a legit call (I love Blaha but it looked pretty clear that Rip smacked Kobe in the side of the head on the second fake before maybe grazing his wrist)…keep it classy. I have to say though that when it happend, I thought to myself, “Good omen or bad omen….gooood”
- Jonas Jerebko sighting chillin’ with Arnie’s family…Arnie is a mystical and powerful man and I imagine this is a big reason why Arnie is confident in leaving Jonas alone with his wife and daughter. Any other man should never be so foolish.
- Speaking of Arnie’s family, I’m going to put this civil-like, your daughter is very attractive and I am impressed by her skills with spiking, setting, and digging balls on the court as mentioned by George this evening.
- Pau Gasol is most definitely the best player on the Lakers this year.
- Will Bynum is still playing pretty poorly.
- With Tayshaun talking almost enviously about playing against the Lakers in the interview during the 2nd quater, I get the feeling that we need to trade Tayshaun to LA for Bynum. I don’t care what we have to give up to get him, it needs to happen. My guess is Tay would fluorish and in a place like LA and we could easily take back one of their other SFs in a deal. (LOOK UP A DEAL)
- Kobe hit a bunch of threes…that sucked.
- Where in the world is Greg Monroe?
- 3rd quarter collapse once again…
- End of 3rd quarter…“If we can just cut this to 19 at the end of the quarter we got a chance…”
- Bynum has not played more than about 15 minutes this season that was at the level that we’d expect given the contract we just gave him and his talk this summer.
- Chris Wilcox baby! Now thats more like it!
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
by The Boourns on Nov 17, 2010 11:39 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Tayshaun Prince for Andrew Bynum, straight up.
This is a ridiculous trade, though. LA needs Bynum to win this year.
How about:
Tayshaun
Chris Wilcox (Swap Wilcox with Maxiell works as well)
1st Rounder (2011?)
For
Andrew Bynum
Matt Barnes
A couple of things that makes me feel like this could still happen:
1) LA is seeking another big and Dampier is at the top of that list. What happens if they sign dampier for a vet minimum and he plays way beyond his contract? If so, Andrew Bynum with 2 years left on his contract is a pretty expensive backup to Pau when Dampier may be able to fill the position.
2) If LA really wants to keep Barnes, then we can always take back Vujajic instead whose expiring and will most likely not be re-signed. He can move to the end of the bench immediately.
3) If there is any high draft pick that we should be willing to give up, its probably this year’s where the talent screams mediocre. While I’d rather package it with Rip to get rid of Rip’s contract, the possibility of inserting a big like Bynum into our starting frontcourt should be worth it.
4) I know I know, still a pipedream and LA isn’t likely to mess with their lineups given how well they play together but if I’m LA, the idea of having Ron Artest and Tayshaun Prince as your starting and back up SF is pretty fucking enticing, and Tay would seem to be a perfect fit for the triangle offense.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
ESPN Thought It Was A Bad Call On Rip
just sayin’..I was a little surprised that Q sent everyone to guard, or should I say, try to guard, Kobe, except Tay, who is a noted Kobe-stopper himself.
just Vpinion
by V. on Nov 18, 2010 2:02 PM EST up reply actions
yeah...Tay's days of stopping Kobe are over...
I thought Stuck did a reasonable job on him but Kobe was just lights out last night.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
Oh and I don't disagree that the double T was a bad call...
But the foul call itself I thought was pretty evident.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
If nothing else, we got an MST3K reference in the recap
The game was worth it, just for that. Commence Joel vs. Mike arguments!
"Detroit Bad Boys is full of HOMOS ,JACKASSES and NON-sports fans."
-ralphgoblue/thunder_god08
Joel, hands down
There’s something about his pathos. Mike seemed so… smug, as if he deserved being there. But I think the real argument is: Frank vs. Pearl
just EPINION
Pistons were curb-stomped.
Kobe and the Lakers’ best player didn’t play the entire 4th quarter and the Lakers were up 93-67 when they finally took Odom out at the 7 minute mark. 3-4/5 of the Pistons starters (or what should be the starters) battled back against Vujacic, Ebanks, Caracter, Blake & Brown. Yes, it was 23-10, and a commendable run, but the Lakers had already lit their victory cigars. The game was over and it was an ass whooping.
Man Lakers Bench sucked
No wonder their starters are playing massive minutes
As usual Pistons forced to play long stretches of 5 on 8, reffing even more egreious than usual. Double technical on Rip (although in general that’s good for the Pistons), McGrady pushed from behind and hurt, not flagrant, Daye, little love tap going for the ball, Laker not hurt, four point play (second of the game).
Lakers defence so effective they telepathically stopped a whole whack of wide wide open Pistons jumpers from going in.
That’s what I saw anyway. Hopefully things will start to look up from here on in.
One other thing
Odom grabs a Piston by the arm from behind in the open court, nobody else around. Early in game when score was tight. No excuse for that shit.
the lakers bench
is usually very good. just for some comparisons we held the lakers 10 points below their season average in ppg. they are tops in the league at 113 ppg. brown, blake, and barnes combine to score 27 ppg and they scored only 10 points against us. so it’s possible we didn’t even get our ass kicked as bad as we should have.
i actually agree
and chris bosh just wants to chill. I know what hes saying, but lets micro-analyze some more…
If Bosh thinks Spoelstra wants to work hard, wait until Riley takes over. Dum dum DUM……
by garrettelliott on Nov 18, 2010 9:34 PM EST up reply actions
“Their chemistry is great. Obviously, we’d like to get our chemistry to where theirs is.”
—F Tayshaun Prince, after the Lakers blew out the Pistons Wednesday.
sick of him complaining all the time. that’s why our chemistry sucks
go away tay
It’s funny that he’s in such a vacuum that he doesn’t realize he is part of the problem.
by Alex_Be on Nov 18, 2010 9:44 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Caught the end of the game.
Where the lineup was:
Stuckey, Gordon, Daye, Villanueva, Monroe
They played well together. They rotated well on defense (especially Monroe) and all of them have offensive skills.
More please.
Best live concert film ever?
Yes.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
Well, they've only played 10 minutes together, but according to 82games
Offensively: 1.34 points per possession.
Defensively: 0.53 points per possession.
We obviously need a greater sample size because this is likely all garbage minutes, but I would like to see this on the floor more.
Terrence J. is feeling a bit fishy...
by Trout Jefferson on Nov 20, 2010 7:16 PM EST up reply actions
It’s arguable that Kobe was the Lakers’ second-best player during all five of their recent championship runs.
by -PS- on Nov 19, 2010 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yer in the choir gulks?
Lemme guess, baritone?
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
by The Boourns on Nov 19, 2010 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
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