--Aaron Brooks must continue this.....shoot at a high percentage, drop like 25+ --Ron ARtest needs to wake up ..........25+ 9-17 type effort ---CHuck Hayes must negate Gasol......he's done it before....it totally screws the lakers offense and it's all on Kobe --please take care of the basketball.....and luis scola needs drop close to 20 --quick start is a must, as we have seen this team doesnt do well coming back.....take a lead and pray we hold it
You nailed it. Most important is taking care of the ball. And Aaron Brooks...he needs to shoot more...i rather him shoot than Artest dribbling and taking bad shots. If they want to be efficient...i take Aaron Brooks pick and pop than Artest one on one dribble and pop any day. I mean if Artest is on then it's cool...but he's been inconsistent lately. Aaron Brooks can take 3 any where any time he want....he's such a good shooter...he needs to shoOT MORE i can't stress this enough.
Not allow Chuck's foulsls to affect his minutes.The only one that should, should be the 6th. Game 7, time to save NOTHING!!!
Brooks needs to score to win. In the three wins, Brooks is averaging 26pts In the three losses, Brooks in averaging 11pts
I don't get the point of these threads. Everyone who creates one of these is blatantly stating the obvious. My one and only key? 1. Score more points than the Lakers on Sunday. OH SNAP! That was obvious too. My bad.
The key was crisp good passing. We can't get all worried and running around like crazy and making bad passes when we get flustered...take a breath and don't rush.
In order for us to win we shouldn't lose our composure, we must expect LA to strike hard in the first quarter, but we shouldn't let that rattle us....just keep on doing what we've been doing from game 6 and throw in an extra 110% effort....so that's a total of 210% effort...which should be sufficient enough for the game 7 win.
Correct,game 2 was a good example in which we simply didn't pass the ball around from the beginning because the Lakers got off to a good start. Adelman will need to take a full time out really early,if that happens on Sunday.
Why doesn't AB shoot off a curl pick like Rip Hamilton, Ray Allen, and Tmac used to do? He seems to be a very accurate jump shooter with a quick release and it's definitely a higher percentage shot than an Artest iso on the perimeter. I want the ball in AB's hands at the end of the game in a pick and roll otherwise.
At least don't lose the rebounding battle by a lot. Also another thing is that we at least need to hit 33% of our three pointers while Brooks must keep attacking. He must play the game of his life this Sunday.
Minimize turnovers, and keep the bigs out of foul trouble. Also, stay loose as all the pressure is on the Lakers.
You left out the most important thing... SCOLA! SCOLA! SCOLA! SCOLA! SCOLA! SCOLA! SCOLA!
One thing I think Adelman needs to look at is playing Scola & Landry together more. We picked up a break when Chuck got his 4th foul. The Rockets had absolutely nothing going on offense in the 3rd until Landry got in the game. I would consider putting him in for Chuck halfway through the 1st and 3rd quarters, since it usually takes the Lakers 4-5 minutes to figure out they don't need to guard Hayes.
