he is not a Chinese, he is just a faker. No real Chinese would love the rapist. He would offer the rapist all his relatives, not just females.
sign up some guy from UFC and let him play defense on Kobe. As soon as we do that Kobe's having another sore throat excuse
http://www.nba.com/games/20090506/HOULAL/boxscore.html They were the reasons why the game was kept close. I know +/- isn't everything but they were more +'s than the starters... Hayes with +15 and Landry with +11. Bynum couldn't even budge Hayes, let alone Gasol who has to shoot jumpers with Hayes guarding the paint. If anything our bench destroyed them.
true but we were playing against their bench and our bench was better than theirs yesterday at that point
If Rox cant solve the Yao Ming situation, then he has to go to the bench for the Rox to win, not to mention Von has to play. Yao stop letting Pau shooting 10 footers all night
They weren't playing Gasol and Bynum together. When they go with that lineup, we should go with Yao and Scola and rip them a new one. The reason the Lakers are going away from Gasol/Bynum is because they realize they lose that matchup to Yao/Scola. That is why I keep pointing out that we need to split Yao and Scola up and work Hayes in there to give us better defensive quickness against Pao/Bynum/Ariza. Yao/Hayes/Artest makes a lot more sense on those 3 than does Yao/Scola/Artest. Or Scola/Hayes/Artest makes more sense. Or Yao/Artest/Wafer makes more sense with Artest taking Odom and Wafer taking Ariza. But we have to split up Yao and Scola if the Lakers are not going to play Bynum and Pao together. They are getting the quickness/speed advantage by playing small against Yao/Scola. We need to be able to spread out and defend better. Yao/Artest/Wafer Yao/Hayes/Artest Scola/Artest/Wafer Scola/Hayes/Artest Yao/Landry/Artest Scola/Landry/Artest any of those combos should be used when the Lakers do not have Bynum and Pao on the floor together. The only time Yao and Scola should be playing together is when there is foul trouble or for an isolated half court possesion at the end of the game or when the Lakers counter us with Bynum/Gasol on the floor together. And I doubt PJ goes back to Bynum/Gasol this whole series until we adjust away from our two slow bigs and get more speed on the floor to counter Odom.
i agree completely, I thought Odom deserved a tech after blocking Scola and taunting him. My favorite Yao "foul" was when he jumped into Gasol on that layup attempt. When players drive against yao they do the same thing 90% of the time and its a no call.
The NBA is a joke on every night that is ref'ed by Joey Crawford.. I pray if there's a game 7, they leave this sucker at home.
The refs decided the game, that's all there is to it. I just rewatched the 3 by artest that was changed to a 2, it makes no sense. He's full 2 steps behind the arc and after he releases it lands inside the arc, but that shouldn't matter. It's totally mindblowing how they even had to take a look at that and then with the same footage we have, decide to take a point away. The touch fouls on Scola, Battier, Wafer & Yao were absolutely atrocious. The Lakers went over the back multiple times yet they only called one, but not on LA. Lowry jumped and got the rebound, ****-a-chick flops and there goes the whistle. The blown call on the elbow by Kobe is obvious. After recognizing a pattern in some games where the Rockets got screwed I've noticed something that was also in this game and therefore I have waited until now to point it out. Most of you probably know this but in every single game where the Rockets got seriously screwed (@ Cleveland, vs. LA, @ Jazz, last night and plenty more) the refs make up for their so called mistakes by calling tick-tack fouls in the beginning of the 4th. Last night, they called 3 straight touch fouls on LA which were obvious to cover up the fixed game. Funny though that they have not come up with a better way to hide it. I'm 100% convinced this game was rigged and LA was supposed to win no matter what. Artest said in the interview he pointed out to the refs how Kobe was slapping his hand away and told them to clean it up and control it. Since they didn't do it, Artest had to take matters into his own hands. The refs did this on purpose because they knew that one way or another a Rocket would not take it anymore or the Rockets would just roll over. I'm glad Ron & Luis showed the balls I have desperately wanted from this team. This is what we needed last year against Utah and we need more of it. No more p***y fouls, only hard playoff fouls. That's still missing from the Rockets, the hard fouls to send a message. Clear example was right after Artest got ejected Kobe blew past Battier and Shane just gave him a nudge in the back for the AND-1. What is up with that ?? The guy just had your guy Ron ejected and you give him up 3 points in a p***y way ? I expected more from Shane, especially after the ejection of Ron. I'm glad Rick Adelman is behind the fighting mentality but I'm not sure the whole team is. You should never have a touch foul in the playoffs, only good hard fouls. Come on Shane, man the f up !! In the post game interview he didn't want to comment on the Artest situation because he was afraid of a fine ?? Sound familiar ? No --> Last year after the rigged game 4 where Battier supposedly fouled Korver late in the game they asked him about it and he wouldn't speak on it because he was afraid of a fine and his wife would be mad at him. What kind of mentality is that, fear of a fine ?? Come on Shane, man the f up !!! Some points about the game itself - Artest, Landry & Hayes were incredible - AB was still hesitant to shoot and reluctant to pass it to Yao (notice how he made the three pointer from way out when it didn't really matter and how he all of a sudden bounce passed the ball to Yao ??) - Defense was terrible, especially on Kobe. Battier did not do well enough against Kobe and should've bodied him up more. Also they should've mixed it up so put Artest more on him and double-team way more. Battier should also get more involved on offense and Wafer needs to play better defense although the refs prevented him from even touching another player. - FT shooting
I am also 100% sure that yesterday's game was rigged.. and was not mad at Yao sitting out most of the game b/c.. I EXPECTED IT TO HAPPEN ON TUESDAY! At least he will be rested for Game 3.. and this post should be its own thread.. Seriously.
Let me get this straight. You want Battier to man up, and do something in the game like Artest. If Battier got ejected, there would be NO one to defend Kobe well. You need to look at your logic again. If Artest is the Yang, then Battier has to be the Yin. They complement each other well. Battier cannot go off on people...or else Kobe will go off on us.
What jonesy was trying to say is that Battier needs to verbalize his emotions, and intellectually defend what is right. I don't think he wants Battier to become a physical beast like Ron. I do agree on the foul part, if he was going to foul him, he should have done with more of physical emphasis. After last nights game i have lost all respect for Kobe as a professional athlete.
Your logic: 1) Lakers won't play Bynum/ Gasol 2) If they don't play Bynum/ Gasol, we should not play Yao/ Scola. You are saying we should play Yao 24 mins and Scola 24 mins or there about? That's just wonderful, effectively removes 1 of our top 3 / top 4 scorers completely from the game?! If you offer Jackson that deal, I am sure he will be very happy to oblige.
