Owner Real Deal Posted December 12, 2012 Owner Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Great, great interview. I suggest watching all four vids, when you have the time. Even if you don't like Kobe, it's very interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STt32vWt20c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvKgswUiwWk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIqgOz_x8oI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSOpNu7c_Xg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check my Stats Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Get Pau in the post. That's all i needed to hear. Thank you Kobe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted December 12, 2012 Author Owner Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Get Pau in the post. That's all i needed to hear. Thank you Kobe.1) Will Pau stay in the post? 2) Will D'Antoni instruct him to get into the post? I wish it were that easy, really...and I hate how some of our fans are saying that there isn't any room for Pau down low, since we have Dwight. That doesn't make sense to me, at all, especially in an uptempo offense + a big man like Dwight (who is not Shaq, needing every inch of paint to go to work in). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NomarFachix Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 I love Kobe so much.. great interview. Hate Stephen A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted December 12, 2012 Author Owner Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Hate Stephen A.BLASPHEMOUS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Regime Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Well its nice to see Kobe take accountability and acknowledge his mistakes. You can just tell that he's at a point in his career where he just wants to play basketball and avoid all the other bull shit. As far as the whole Pau thing, I admire Kobe's confidence and faith in him but I don't buy it. We're going to trade him at some point this season if we really want to win a championship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check my Stats Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 How can you sit here and say that when they have been so brutal without him too? So ignorant, especially when the Lakers as a team are statistically better with him on the floor opposed to off, Dude is a bigger scapegoat than Odom was 10 fold. It is on D'Antoni to utilize him better, and for Pau to meet him halfway. Not saying Pau is without blame, but holy [expletive] some people act like he is Andrea Bargnani... he's shooting 42%... a big reason is because he is Zydrunas Ilgauskas on offense right now... it pretty much eliminates all the positives he brings to the table, especially since he is the team's 2nd best passer. His effort level needs to be higher, but lets not act like this is an addition by subtraction situation, they are better with him than without him right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check my Stats Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 1) Will Pau stay in the post? 2) Will D'Antoni instruct him to get into the post? I wish it were that easy, really...and I hate how some of our fans are saying that there isn't any room for Pau down low, since we have Dwight. That doesn't make sense to me, at all, especially in an uptempo offense + a big man like Dwight (who is not Shaq, needing every inch of paint to go to work in). I don't know where you'd get the numbers, but I'm sure if you looked it up, a Pau Gasol post up is probably a historically much more productive play than a Dwight Howard post up, both individually and as a team. Saying there isn't room for pau is a gigantic cop out, especially since Pau doesn't need exclusively the low block to be effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted December 13, 2012 Author Owner Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 I don't know where you'd get the numbers, but I'm sure if you looked it up, a Pau Gasol post up is probably a historically much more productive play than a Dwight Howard post up, both individually and as a team.Dwight Howard led his Orlando Magic to the NBA Finals in the "four out, one in" offense that SVG handed him in ORL, so I doubt that's true. If the numbers are similar, it would be from back in 2009 and 2010, when Gasol was playing center, Odom at PF...and a lot of that production wasn't exactly due to Gasol, but from the triangle and Kobe making the game far much easier for Pau. Gasol's best years were in the triangle offense, and with Kobe. It helps that there are really no true positions in the triangle, that it requires five able-bodied passers, and that Gasol had so much flexibility and opportunities to max out his abilities...but now, things are different. He would be better without this offense, I'm sure of it...but we can't win championships with him as our second option anymore, and now that we have Dwight and Nash, Gasol has to be the guy to adjust. If he's not going to post up in our starting five, he has to do it when we have him out there with the second unit...or SOMETHING. Saying there isn't room for pau is a gigantic cop out, especially since Pau doesn't need exclusively the low block to be effective.I'm not saying there isn't room (and maybe you aren't saying that I am, lol)...there is. I'm saying that Gasol doesn't want it. There's the Dwight Howard excuse, but even with Howard on the bench, Gasol stays high with the bench unit...and if there's ANY a time where we need Gasol down low, it's when the bench is out there. His passing can get them open shots. And to touch on the other post...no, he's not Bargnani, but he's reminding us of him this season. We can't have Gasol playing that way, no matter who is at fault. We pull him away from the rim, and suddenly, he's rebounding less, not able to kick out to shooters, and he's shooting the ball inconsistently...and that wears him down enough to change the way he plays defense (even though he has never been a good defender, he still has length). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 http://espn.go.com/espnradio/newyork/play?id=8740998&s=nyc Podcast of the interview, has more than just the clips, more will be up tomorrow Kobe gave props to melo said he is the toughest player he's had to guard, said knicks can win title Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Regime Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 His effort level needs to be higher, but lets not act like this is an addition by subtraction situation, they are better with him than without him right now. He's not fit for D'Antoni's system. I'm sick of people saying that we need to give Pau more of an opportunity in the post. He was good a couple years ago, not now. Dude can barely elevate and finish over opposing big men. You add all that to the fact that he doesn't play a lick of defense (struggles with his lateral movement and slow on his rotations), and you get a guy who is easily replaceable. Laker fans have already thrown out the idea of starting Jordan Hill over him, its that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 He's not fit for D'Antoni's system. I'm sick of people saying that we need to give Pau more of an opportunity in the post. He was good a couple years ago, not now. Dude can barely elevate and finish over opposing big men. You add all that to the fact that he doesn't play a lick of defense (struggles with his lateral movement and slow on his rotations), and you get a guy who is easily replaceable. Laker fans have already thrown out the idea of starting Jordan Hill over him, its that bad. He lit the US up in the post in the Olympics. He's still got the skill there, even if he doesn't have explosiveness around the rim (which he never really had to begin with). Give him post opportunities and he will perform. With Pau, it's a mental thing, and it always has been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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