Agreed- the Loss to the Lakers was unaccepatable. Agreed- there were some coaching blunders that I thought were not addressed. Agreed -Jho and Stro Sucked. Agreed -Tmac and Yao were not their usual self. Guys Lakers are not a sucky team- yesterday they lucked out ( just as we did when we played them at their gym). True it laid bare our weaknesses- but a win would never have exposed the problem. If we fix the issues with whatever we can get done- I think we still will be in Playoffs. Would you really be spewing all this negative stuff if we won the game yesterday? Yes I am equally pissed that Chuck hayes was not given a shot or why Barry and DA were not in the game ( atleast one of them)- but let us give the team a pass on this one. Heck some wise idiots are even suggesting trading Yao and Tmac- what the hell is going on? Did this BBS get infiltrated by Utah Jazz fans!
I thought I was the only one, dude. One loss and everybody's jumping off the cliff like a pack of lemmings. Sure it sucked, but to begin with we're not even that bad. We just didn't come to play, even though as we are we are better than the Lakers, hands down. Get over it already and stop whining, you bunch of crybabies. Trade Yao for Tony Parker. You'd think someone had crack with their milk this morning.
I was at the game last nite and felt we could have won even into the 3rd Q, a disappointment. It was sad watching Wesley try to guard Kobe Bryant.
No, but pretty close now. Never thought we would've breezed through Lakers like most of the posters here. Kobe and company always gave us a fist when we play them. I knew when Kobe sort got in the attack mode, that was it for us. I blame Gumpy for this one and did they watch the laker Dallas game. Cook was the only guy they have that can put the ball in the basket and we left him wide open. We looked rusty out there too. It's NBA, bad games happen, but we cant allow many of them now.
I did watch the dallas game. I did watch cook take off- and I did expect Van Gundy to have noticed that. As you correctly said, despite the issues we still were in it till pretty much the 3rd quarter. That is sports for you- there will be disappointments, but you don't give up. This board has a schizophrenic personality- to say the least! This same team almost stole one from Detroit on the road- if we did not have yesterday's reality check, perhaps change would not happen and we would be exposed in the play offs ( glad that it happened before the trade deadline) I do not know if Keith Bogans is the solution but at least now they acknowledge that D Wes has limitations. Now the question is how will we address the PF position ( I am sure there are enough people here who would say all is well- I am not one of them), how will we improve our abysmal shooting percentage? The lonny baxter trade suggests- either Stro will not be traded or we are cooking up a big one which gets a PF ( after DA's chat with JVG). It will all work out. I dont agree with all of the stuff JVG does- but he is a solid coach, absolutley no doubt about that ( and even intelligent coaches make dumb mistakes)
