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I watched the whole game, and you're basically agreed with me, just in more detail. Their offense wasn't perfect against the zone, but it was a small issue compared to their D and rebounding. The LA bigs need a little more movement without the ball against the zone, every time they cut and Kobe had the ball - he found them for a good look. Not a major issue though.Originally Posted by gko2408
This is where watching the actual game trumps what the stats tell you.Originally Posted by ehh
Who cares if Artest shot 1-5 from three or if Sasha needs to play more? The zone had nothing to do with LA's problems last night. They shot 50% from the damn floor.
They played no D and didn't rebound, that's why they lost. Screw the zone, that had very little impact on the outcome.
In the 4th, Lakers had to struggle to get shots off. Pau and Bynum had trouble with the hard doubles that the Suns pushed at them.
For the Lakers to have won that game, they needed to do a couple of things:
1st, Better defensive rebounding/boxing out. Giving the Suns as many shots as they did. There was one rebound in the 2nd half where Amare was surrounded by 3 Lakers and still came up with the offensive rebound. That shouldn't happen at the NBA level.
2nd, The role players need to hit their open shots. The Suns thrive off running off missed shots and a big part of the reason why the Suns looked completely outclassed the first 2 games was because of the made shots Farmar, Artest, and Odom were hitting. When they're hitting shots (which happens rarely), it slows the Suns down just a bit and allows the D to get back.
The Suns did play D, with the hard doubles on Pau and Kobe. They decided to let Artest and Odom try to beat them and those two weren't able to.