lakers @ Kings Game Thread

[Kings Fan Gerard]

I can't believe Evans had another shot to win the game at the end of regulation and he still couldn't come up with a shot.

 

[kingsnation]

I don't mind the 1on1 ISO. That's fine. But at least call a timeout so you can make sure Reke will start the play with more than 3 seconds left on the clock!

We had no timeouts left.

 

[Kings Faithful]

I don't mind the 1on1 ISO. That's fine. But at least call a timeout so you can make sure Reke will start the play with more than 3 seconds left on the clock!

There was none.

 

[rainmaker]

I find this hellarious. So nobody wants Tyreke on this team anymore? Everyone will be in love with him next time he wins a game for us. He's 20 ******* years old! Give it a rest.

Now some here want him benched. Others say he can't play the point. And others say he single-handidly lost this game for us. Please. I think he's entitled to a few bad games as a 20 year old rookie with the defending nba champions game planning or him. He's young. He'll get much better.

This was a very tough loss. I'm sick to my stomach. But Tyreke wasn't the only one making mistakes at the end. We are a very young team that just forced the defending champions to double overtime. We will learn from this.

 

[Aenadin]

Huh?

laker fans who chant for tacos in their home games? where do they lie? somewhere between fanatic or bandwagon?

i know a bunch of bandwagon laker fans too just annoying some who have followed the magic days i respect... any ways

i dont expect us to win the championship this year i expect us to bring it to the lakers.... im happy with how some of our players played... but it would have been more gratifying if we WON

 

[rainmaker]

Also, Tyreke won't be holding the ball as much when he has Kevin moving and cutting off the ball. That will make a huge diffrence.

 

[fansinceday1]

Oh well. What's good about basketball is there is another game in 48 hours. That's why when my football team loses it hurts........ For a whole week. Goodnight kings fans.
Go kings!

 

[Luv4Kings]

laker fans who chant for tacos in their home games? where do they lie? somewhere between fanatic or bandwagon?

i know a bunch of bandwagon laker fans too just annoying some who have followed the magic days i respect... any ways

i dont expect us to win the championship this year i expect us to bring it to the lakers.... im happy with how some of our players played... but it would have been more gratifying if we WON

LOL! I didn't know they did that.

I think many Laker fans are just spoiled. I mean, they expect to win every game and last night, they booed. Pretty funny.

 

[The Hammer]

Except I believe the lesson Tyreke learned isn't better than the lesson that the entire team would have learned had they won the game off of their hard work and passion. He didn't put the players in position to make mistakes, he put Tyreke in position to make mistakes, while the rest of the team was forced to watch their hard work being squandered.

The hard work and passion are not in danger of going away, they are the baseline. To treat them as if they are anything but that is to coddle. Their hard work was not squandered, and to treat it as if it would be squandered if you lose is not the way to approach working with a growing young team.

 

[Aenadin]

I find this hellarious. So nobody wants Tyreke on this team anymore? Everyone will be in love with him next time he wins a game for us. He's 20 ******* years old! Give it a rest.

Now some here want him benched. Others say he can't play the point. And others say he single-handidly lost this game for us. Please. I think he's entitled to a few bad games as a 20 year old rookie with the defending nba champions game planning or him. He's young. He'll get much better.

This was a very tough loss. I'm sick to my stomach. But Tyreke wasn't the only one making mistakes at the end. We are a very young team that just forced the defending champions to double overtime. We will learn from this.

well i didnt say i dont want him around... i just wanted him to learn if benching him in late game situations helps him learn then so be it.... well we cant blame it ALL on him the lure of trying to break kobe's ankles and demolishing the laker D must have been too tempting to ressist for him

in due time he will learn to be better... just a tough loss

 

[SacKings384]

We had no timeouts left.

Well if that's the case then I'm mistaken. I watch the Lakers feed and they mentioned that they were surprised that Westphal wasn't taking the timeout.

 

[Aenadin]

LOL! I didn't know they did that.

I think many Laker fans are just spoiled. I mean, they expect to win every game and last night, they booed. Pretty funny.

well its La.La. land.... if they lose they go Wah.Wah. land

 

[Luv4Kings]

Does anyone know where I can hear the postgame interview with Westphaul?

 

[BMiller52]

I find this hellarious. So nobody wants Tyreke on this team anymore? Everyone will be in love with him next time he wins a game for us. He's 20 ******* years old! Give it a rest.

Now some here want him benched. Others say he can't play the point. And others say he single-handidly lost this game for us. Please. I think he's entitled to a few bad games as a 20 year old rookie with the defending nba champions game planning or him. He's young. He'll get much better.

This was a very tough loss. I'm sick to my stomach. But Tyreke wasn't the only one making mistakes at the end. We are a very young team that just forced the defending champions to double overtime. We will learn from this.

The whole team basically wet the bed. Oh well. For a team starting an oldest player of 23 years old, taking the defending champs to double OT is pretty freaking good.

 

[Rockmeister]

So nobody wants Tyreke on this team anymore?

Tell me where nobody said they didn't want Evans on the team anymore. I didn't read ONE post that said so.

 

[Arco Thunder]

Coach said that the last play of regulation is called the 1-4 flat an it was designed. Reporter asked him, " but it was Kobe, 1 on 1.". Coach said "yeah, it was fun wasn't it?"

WHAT?

I don't know about his answers during his interview. I think I need to sleep on all of this.

 

[The Hammer]

I see what you trying to say. Evans did not execute because he wanted to take on Kobe and Brown every time without recognizing what the defense was giving him. His job should be setting up the play for the team. Just to score all the time in the those clear outs are not what Westphal had intended. He will learn but in order for that to happen he must recognize the best play is the one where he creates for others instead of his self. It will make his game easier once he learns, of which I have no doubt he will.

Tyreke Evans, already, at this point, is one of the best one on one players in the world. The choice between going iso and trying to create for others is a false choice. A great player, which is what Tyreke will be, will be able to pass off and change what he was going to do if nothing is there on the drive/iso.

People you all need to remember that Tyreke was getting to the basket at will for about the first 25 games, and, that was with the other team's entire defense focused on him, and off of timeouts with few seconds left, etc., etc., he's 20 years old and he's already literally one the best in the world at that. I put him in that situation every time. He will learn what to do.

 

[bibbinator]

If you want Evans to be The Man at the end of a big game you've got to give him the ball at the end of big games. That's the only way that he's going to learn how to bring it when the heat is really on. Unfortunately, we're going to have to watch him make mistakes en route.

 

[The Hammer]

Does anyone know where I can hear the postgame interview with Westphaul?

It'll be on this website in a few minutes.

http://tv.kingsconnect.com/

 

[Emma]

I hate this familiar, disgusting aftertaste.


I'm gonna put off the Denver game thread until tomorrow. I think I need to further digest what I just saw.

Some sleep would help with objectivity.

 

[Kings Fan Gerard]

The Kings should be 15-14, man. These losses are really tough. But hey, I expect the Kings to blitzkrieg most other teams that come into Arco now.

 

[kingzallday]

if you want evans to be the man at the end of a big game you've got to give him the ball at the end of big games. That's the only way that he's going to learn how to bring it when the heat is really on. Unfortunately, we're going to have to watch him make mistakes en route.

+1.

 

[PurpleHaze]

Was just looking (again) at poll above for WTF moment of the OT Cavs game. What would choices be for this 2 OT Lakers game? Something about not taking a timeout in the final 13 seconds of first OT?; putting Tyreke back in w/hard fought 7 pt lead only to have it disappear?; Tyreke going one-on-one again at crucial time after dribbling away the clock?

 

[piksi]

Was just looking (again) at poll above for WTF moment of the OT Cavs game. What would choices be for this 2 OT Lakers game? Something about not taking a timeout in the final 13 seconds of first OT?; putting Tyreke back in w/hard fought 7 pt lead only to have it disappear?; Tyreke going one-on-one again at crucial time after dribbling away the clock?

and the no call on Thompson

main problem here is that we REALLY wanted to win this game, just this one so the big picture was set aside.

 

[Luv4Kings]

It'll be on this website in a few minutes.

http://tv.kingsconnect.com/

Thank you! When I lived up there I could just watch it all on TV. But NBA League Pass cuts out all the interviews.

 

[Bricklayer]

It'll be on this website in a few minutes.

http://tv.kingsconnect.com/

Yeah, that really is the way it looked.

Tyreke failed tonight, really for the first time since Kevin went down being a detriment. But from the opening lineup, when Westphal intentionally put Beno back in so Tyreke could guard Kobe, it felt like Coach had a plan here -- he intentionally kept putting Tyreke in those positions. And I assume that he is disappointed in the results. But other thna 1 or 2 plays this wasn't Reke freelancing out of ego. This was a Coach trying to teach him how to be great.

 

[Kings Fan Gerard]

Guys, I'm a member of the Neo-Gaming Age forums (NeoGAF) and one laker fan over there is just making pansy *** excuses about how Lakers aren't really expected to walk all over the kings. His excuses are hilarious.

We're the defending champions off a back to back with injuries to our starting line up playing on the road. We're the best, but we're not gods. We're human.

And the kings are clearly better this year than last year. And guess what? One of those 17 wins last year was against us...

Anyone who thinks this game should have been a blow out or a simple cake walk is delusional. Period.

View the thread here

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

If you want Evans to be The Man at the end of a big game you've got to give him the ball at the end of big games. That's the only way that he's going to learn how to bring it when the heat is really on. Unfortunately, we're going to have to watch him make mistakes en route.

Yes, I agreed that its part of the process. I guess because Reke has been so good that people expected him to not have games like this. But I remember Lebron having games like this where he tried to do too much. Kobe was actually even worse in his early yrs.

It was obvious that all the laker bigs were loading up on which ever side Reke was at. This will be Reke's next adjustment... he'll need to adjust to the fact that teams are going to design their D around him. Thats why I think when Martin comes back, it will help Reke's game. Are you going to help on Reke with 3-4 guys clogging the lane or stay with the 3pt shooters from the Kings.

Right now Reke is thinking too much on some plays. That happens with being a young player. In the last play of regulation, it seemed like he didn't really know what he wanted. He waited too long. He needs to realize that kobe is not really god on D. If he can get by other 6'7" decent perimeter defenders, he can do the same on kobe. The lakers' length on the interior played a part too on reke today. But the game will slow down for Reke at the end of games after he gets more experience like this. I'm proud of the guys improving so much.

 

[Luv4Kings]

Yeah, that really is the way it looked.

Tyreke failed tonight, really for the first time since Kevin went down being a detriment. But from the opening lineup, when Westphal intentionally put Beno back in so Tyreke could guard Kobe, it felt like Coach had a plan here -- he intentionally kept putting Tyreke in those positions. And I assume that he is disappointed in the results. But other thna 1 or 2 plays this wasn't Reke freelancing out of ego. This was a Coach trying to teach him how to be great.

I agree. I like Coach's comment about putting Tyreke against Kobe, and that being fun to watch. It tells Tyreke what's expected of him in the future and setting his confidence.

And folks, let's remember Kobe missed the 3 that would have won the game in regulation.

 

[Luv4Kings]

Guys, I'm a member of the Neo-Gaming Age forums (NeoGAF) and one laker fan over there is just making pansy *** excuses about how Lakers aren't really expected to walk all over the kings. His excuses are hilarious.



View the thread here

That actually sounds like a semi-rational Laker fan. They are just human.

Although I'm not sure losing Artest meant much. We didn't have our top scorer.