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What happened?

 

I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to the game but I looked at the score and it was a relatively close game (6 point lead or so) and then it seemed like all of a sudden the Lakers were up by 20.

 

Golden State desperately needs Bogut back and healthy, though. Without him they are way too predictable and easy to defend. If their perimeter shots aren't falling, they have nobody to really get the ball into the paint, get to the line or get any sort of easy baskets from. I know they are a jump shooting team and that happens with teams who rely heavily on perimeter shots, but still.

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What happened?

 

I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to the game but I looked at the score and it was a relatively close game (6 point lead or so) and then it seemed like all of a sudden the Lakers were up by 20.

 

Golden State is just playing sloppy and are shooting uncharacteristically bad. A bunch of missed threes. Kobe went to work in the third though, he found open teammates and got to the rack. Even missed shots at the rim led to easy putbacks for our bigs. He should have a double double already if it wasn't for Pau and Dwight missing a few bunnies.

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A great read:

 

No adjustments or direction (Warriors 77, Lakers 101)

 

On the sideline the coach stands in stoic observation.Meanwhile on the court his (now temporarily “shut-down”) center is tucking the ball under one arm while frantically waving the other to try to clear grid-lock in his team’s half-court offense. Then defensively when he steers his man towards a help defense that never materializes because it’s sleeping comfortably in the corner, the coach’s center sweeps both arms in a dramatic matador motion right towards the offender. Am I wrong — or aren’t these gestures just about the only in-the-moment signs of the recognition of urgency that we’ve seen so far this season?

 

Personally, I’ve been grateful for that new perspective — and missed it on the court and bench tonight. That animation that publicly says that you (gesturing specifically) and you (gesturing again) and I myself should be held accountable. Don’t such gestures really say, “Hey, dammit, that shouldn’t have happened. And it can’t happen again. We’re in a game we need to win.” “We didn’t execute.”

 

“We didn’t take care of the basketball — 18 turnovers, 12 assists. We didn’t execute. And then they dominated us on the offensive boards.” With all respect, coach, we don’t need to hear you tell us that post-game. We saw it clearly enough ourselves, beginning right at the start of the second quarter (when you went “small” again) and then continuing throughout the remainder of the game like a slow-moving train wreck.

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