Awesome, Lakers are more likely to lose when Kobe takes more shots. This will just encourage him. I'm sure Morris will play more minutes at the 3, I think he would match up well with World Peace.
I disagree, between Nash on defense and Dwight, Pau being injured, Lin's penetration ability may be one of the keys to the game.
So with Artest under the basket, we should let JLin do penetration the floor rather than passing to Asik for an easy in and out... Arrr...
I see harden getting about 30-35. Lin i say 10-15. thats IF he can make his shots, other teams still knows he can't shoot so they're going to give him that perimeter shot but try to cut him off from driving the lane. just because dwight isnt there doesn't mean harden and Lin will have their way. they have to get past their good defensive guards. I dont see lin running past nash too much.
And with a small Lakers line up we should use our PG to attack the basket rather having him protect the Rox from fast-break ran by Nash and Kobe. It doesn't seem to be a plan to me.
I hope he will play. I don't care how many shots he misses Parsons impacts the game in a lot of ways. Plus we need his D on Kobe. And parsons needs to learn through his mistakes the more playing time the better. Parsons will play.
Thought this was interesting, if there are any degenerate bettors like me out there... http://www.covers.com/articles/articles.aspx?theArt=301677
Kobe can play defense when he wants to. a lot of the times he's just a lazy defender. when it comes down to crunch time all a sudden you see kobe making plays on defense when they need it most. it happens all the time. Same with nash. a lazy defender but capable. They know they'll need the extra effort being down 2 and i dont think they're just going to let our player run right through them. im sure they'll be a lot more concerned with harden, so i think others are going to have to be ready to step it up and make shots IE out of a double team of harden. Lin, Parsons, Delfino all need to be on their shooting game because they're going to get plenty of shots if they want.
