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[essential1]

To everyone crying about pau's performance did yall see the 8 assists? 

That's not the problem people have with him.

It's one his inability to play defense or box out. And his inability to insert himself in the offense, then complain about not being apart of the offense.

 

[daddyrabbit251]

This mobile NT is

Jamison is a beast out there and D'Antoni knows it lol. Pau mins will dwindle more which could either A.) anchor the bench play B.) mess with his mind and he folds C.) anchors the bench AND saves his legs and knees for the playoffs

Pau always plays ball pretty much year round at 30+ mins which is has def taken some yrs off of his career. With the way teams play small ball now he isn't a starting PF anymore. Him moving to the C, and Jamison getting more run with Dwight spaces the floor for Kobe, Dwight, and Nash. I look for D'Antoni to make a few more tweaks and we should start to show some consistancy going into Christmas

 

[daddyrabbit251]

can't lie, seein jamison and meeks drop 30 and 20 plus off the bench almost brought a tear to my eye. Ready, my body is

 

[Nike Still Sux]

We will gladly take Pau for Amare straight up.

 

[the natural mystic]

Doesn't Pau have a twitter account. We need to send him that video and ask him where that guy went.

 

[pmatic]

OFFENSIVE BREAKTHROUGH FOR L.A.?

The Los Angeles Lakers scored 122 points in their win over the Denver Nuggets on Friday, finally breaking through offensively under Mike D’Antoni. The key was reserves Antawn Jamison and Jodie Meeks, who combined for 54 points, shooting 12-for-18 from beyond the arc.

Dave McMenamin of ESPN Los Angeles has the story from Staples Center …

It’s only been six games, so the jury is still out on Mike D’Antoni’s ultimate impact. But give the coach credit for this if nothing else: His system has transformed the Los Angeles Lakers’ bench from a bunch of sorry substitutes to the Jodie & Jamison Show.

Antawn Jamison scored a game-high 33 points and Jodie Meeks scored 21 on 7-for-8 shooting from 3-point land as the reserve duo nearly matched the 56 points scored by the Denver Nuggets’ starting five in the Lakers’ 122-103 win Friday.

The Lakers have been up-and-down as their 3-3 record suggests since D’Antoni took over, but it only has been up for Jamison (who’s putting up 17.8 points in the last four games) and Meeks (who is 15-for-29 on 3-pointers since D’Antoni first assumed his seat on the sidelines).

“Me and him, we’ve been kind of like roommates here lately,” Jamison said of his relationship with Meeks since joining the team as free agents this offseason. “We know we were brought here for a certain role, and we’ve been struggling together, as well.”

Jamison and Meeks are the two Lakers beyond Steve Nash who best fit in D’Antoni’s offense. Meeks is one of the best 3-point shooters in the league, while Jamison is the stretch four needed to really spread the floor for the pick-and-roll game.

Of course, you can’t discuss a Lakers game without dissecting Pau Gasol‘s role in the offense. Gasol took just seven shots and scored just six points, but he did have eight assists to six different teammates.

More interesting is that the Lakers had their best offensive game of the season on a night in which Gasol and Dwight Howard played just 12 minutes together on Friday, easily the fewest they’ve played all season. Jamison and Howard played 20 minutes together, while Jamison and Gasol played 13 minutes together. So basically, Gasol played more as a center than as a power forward.

Now, the question is whether the offensive explosion was a result of the lack of Gasol-Howard playing time or vice versa. It may be the latter, because Jamison was productive from the start, scoring eight points in the first quarter and another six in the second. And since his stretch four was playing so well, it was easy for D’Antoni to go back to him for extended minutes in the second half.

So you could argue that Jamison, a 14-year veteran, is the biggest X-factor in the league this season. If he can consistently make shots, D’Antoni can continue to stagger Gasol’s and Howard’s minutes, and the Lakers can really spread the floor.

Thus far this season, Jamison-Gasol has been the best combination of the three (see table below), while Jamison-Howard has been the worst. But Jamison and Howard are actually a plus-40 in 68 minutes together over the last four games. As the team gets comfortable with their new coach, Jamison continues to emerge as a vital cog.
“I’ll ride him,” D’Antoni said of Jamison. “I’ll probably have to kill him. But he can do it. He said he can do it, so we’ll see.”

Yes, we will.

Lakers efficiency with Gasol, Howard and Jamison combinations

Link

 

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[sohi 23]

Yall think we should trade Hill? I like what he brings but it's clear (like it was in NY) that Dantoni's system is not a good fit for him.


wow at the vid of Pau. Look at all those points in the paint. Brings a tear to my eye.

 

[essential1]

Yall think we should trade Hill? I like what he brings but it's clear (like it was in NY) that Dantoni's system is not a good fit for him.


wow at the vid of Pau. Look at all those points in the paint. Brings a tear to my eye.

No. Young guy takes a 25% pay cut to play with your team, then you trade him. Sets a bad precedent for the future FA market,

 

[goldmember]

W.

 

[essential1]

Just saw this from yesterday

Sometimes, styles and coaching regimes run their course, and rival execs already have begun speculating that if the Suns change directions, Alvin Gentry could be sitting next to D'Antoni on the Lakers' bench next season. CBSSports.com

Yes please.

 

[laker4lifeman]

Can't we just trade Eddie for Alvin already that man never looks happy

 

[pmatic]

Eddie Jordan has the best job ever.

 

[VinMillerHearn58]

Sits behind the D'Antoni and looks disinterested

 

[essential1]

Sits behind the D'Antoni and looks disinterested

The Most Uninterested Man... Eddie Jordan

 

[kvsm23vs24]

We will gladly take Pau for Amare straight up.

Hell no.

 

[knightngale]

Are those hickey's on Kobes neck???

probably smashed Doris Burke at halftime

 

[SORIANOTRON]

jamison x dwight shut me the **** up last night.

i think i need to start getting on heads more

 

[thegoldenchild]

great that we shot so well from the floor.. but im very upset defensively.. it was soo bad.. besides we're not gonna shoot like that every game... just need to be a lot better on D

 

[CHAOSE57]

To whoever missed the game last night

 

[essential1]

Plenty of rumors heating up... I'm compiling right now. Post when I'm done.

 

[CHAOSE57]

Plenty of rumors heating up... I'm compiling right now. Post when I'm done.

 

[essential1]

Sources close to the situation stressed again this week that the Lakers don't want to even think about trading Gasol and making another huge on-the-fly change until after Steve Nash returns, based on the premise that it's impossible to make a judgment on whether the Gasol-Dwight Howard tag team is doomed until Nash is playing 30-something minutes a night. ESPN.com

There’s been speculation there were talks between the Lakers and Knicks about a Stoudemire-Pau Gasol trade but a source claims nothing took place. New York Post

The name that keeps coming up for the Lakers is Ryan Anderson, the Hornets’ long-distance shooter who was once a Net and later played for three seasons with Howard in Orlando. He’d be perfect. But first, they want to see if Nash can jump-start Gasol. New York Daily News

Thought there were more. Misread them as D'Antoni talking about how Pau fits..

But at least there's a Ryan Anderson mention.

 

[mr j 858]

Essential:

Using NYC newspapers as your source of trade rumors is like using Bleacher Report

 

[essential1]

Essential:

Using NYC newspapers as your source of trade rumors is like using Bleacher Report

Not really. But proceed.