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Antonio:
I dunno if you all care about this aspect of the game, but.. Lakers are right now a joke, defensively. Fisher is a great one-on-one defender, but he's getting old, and when he defends hard he doesn't have power no more in the other side of the court. Against the Nuggets Phil put him against Dahntay Jones late in the game, and Fisher stepped up offensively hitting some big shots. He's getting old, i understand it. It's not bad attitude. Anyway he just can't defend against high pick'n'rolls. Kobe is a lock-down defender, but he only defends 10-15 minutes per game, cause he has to carry the offense. He's not defending well right now, and he didn't defend well against the Rockets. Too many times i've seen him surprised on a defensive rebound, or beated in a one-on-one penetration. Melo exposed him a couple of times in Game-1. Ariza? Well.. he's the best defender in the team, by far. He lacks some muscles, and he suffered Melo because of that, but you can say nothing about Ariza's attitude. He's the best defender in the team. Gasol? Embarassing. He doesn't move his fucking feet. He's just there, standing, and defending against his man when he receives the ball. He does no team defense. No movements to stop penetration, he doesn't double the other pivot, he's not playing well at all, defensively. He defends better when Lamar is on the floor, cause Lamar is a team defender, and he does the dirty works. But i'm disappointed by Gasol. Bynum? A complete disgrace. This kid is one of the worst defenders in the League, plain and simple. It's embarassing. That's the reason why he never gets a good minutage. Ok, he got the size. Ok, he got long arms. But damn, he's outpowered and outrebounded by everybody he faces, and he does ZERO team defense. I gotta say i'm highly disappointed by him. For sure he has room to improve, but we can't have him on the floor for long, at the moment, cause he's embarassing defensively. Kareem should teach him how to defend, and not only how to make some spin moves or baby sky-hook. Talking about the bench, Shannon Brown is a good defender. He's a wonderful athlete, he can run, he can stay with his opponent, and i like his attitude. Farmar, Sasha and Walton are not defensive specialists, but they are role/bench players, so it's not that important. I mean they don't stay on the floor long enought to be a problem defensively. Powell is a good defender. He hustles, he uses his body, he's a good athlete. I'm happy by his efforts. And Lamar, i already said it, he's along with Ariza the best defender in the team. Absolutely 10x more important than Bynum for this team, at the moment. He's the real key for our success. No Lamar, no party. Cause he's the only one defending inside with real team defense.

Kool Beenz:
you can nik can argue about this shit lol

Antonio:
Our two great problems defensively are:

1) high pick-n-roll's. Cause Gasol and Bynum just doesn't move their asses (and Fisher and Farmar doesn't have the size to "swich" the defender)
2) open 3 pointers. Cause our guards just doesn't move their asses quick enought to defend the perimeter well. Too many open 3's against us.

We are too lazy. No passion at all. We aren't moving our asses.

Phil A.K.A. mr. "take a long breath" should really try to do something about that. And fuck his zen.

wcsoldier:
the pb is that the team is not commited to D ... the rare times they put effort in it , they look good ...  outside Fish and Walton , everybody has the physical tools to play at least decent D  but working hard is obviously not in the Lakers vocabulary and on a team with a lack of veterans , the coach has to show the example and give his team the mentality ... you have to push Gasol and Bynum who are lazy fucks on D to put effort in it but the " team has to auto-coached itself" theory of Jackson shows his huge limits

Antonio:

--- Quote from: wcsoldier on May 21, 2009, 02:34:57 AM ---the pb is that the team is not commited to D ... the rare times they put effort in it , they look good ...  outside Fish and Walton , everybody has the physical tools to play at least decent D  but working hard is obviously not in the Lakers vocabulary and on a team with a lack of veterans , the coach has to show the example and give his team the mentality ... you have to push Gasol and Bynum who are lazy fucks on D to put effort in it but the " team has to auto-coached itself" theory of Jackson shows his huge limits
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It worked with Jordan, Rodman, Harper and Pippen tho'.

(i know, they were not young, and they were menthally on another planet compared to Bynum, Gasol, etc...)

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