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HybridSoldier23 said:
 
jumpman cbt2 said:
What's up with Kobe? It's been frequent that he keeps o taking bad long distance shots...why not cut in closer to attack the rim at mid range? Shooting 31% from the field is hilarous for someone who belongs to the best shooting guards in the NBA. At the moment he is no help for his team sadly.
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Pretty sure he's scared of injuring his shoulder again from contact at the rim.
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kobe aint scurred of nothin'

just cant get to his spots anymore

had me smh when boogie picked him
 
HybridSoldier23 said:
Pretty sure he's scared of injuring his shoulder again from contact at the rim.
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He could just as easily hurt it from shooting too much and long range shots. Julius seems to have the tools just needs to be consistent.
 
Hindsights 20/20, but if mamba retired when the Achilles popped he would have went out without leaving everyone with memories of how bad he is now

I never thought he could shoot any worse than last season, but so far he has

My man can't get a quality shot off so he resorts to launching threes that are nothing but ugly bricks.

He has that old age syndrome where his body can't catch up to what his mind wants to do
 
Lizaker4Lizife said:
Hindsights 20/20, but if mamba retired when the Achilles popped he would have went out without leaving everyone with memories of how bad he is now

I never thought he could shoot any worse than last season, but so far he has

My man can't get a quality shot off so he resorts to launching threes that are nothing but ugly bricks.

He has that old age syndrome where his body can't catch up to what his mind wants to do
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I thought he got shots that he wanted in the pinch post area for the majority of the 1st half of the 1st game but just couldn't hit them. He needs to cut the 3s down to maybe 3's game and take a couple steps in.
 
They're the same shots he's taken for 20 years. He just can't make them as much as he used to.
He doesn't have the threat of blowing past the defender, and doesn't have the lift to rise over them anymore either.
These are the results you can expect.
Simple.

To change them, he'd need to ONLY shoot on open catch and shoot opportunities off actual plays called for him, when Byron is running an iso's for everybody offense and garbage play calls outta timeouts.

Hence, don't expect it to change any time soon.
 
Yo Byron really is a special type of stupid.

Y'all read these Mudiay comments? :rofl: kill him please.
 
Kal-El-8 said:
Yo Byron really is a special type of stupid.

Y'all read these Mudiay comments?
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kill him please.
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What he say?
 
mosk33toe said:
At what point do you think Lakers just have a bucket of talent that might not fit well with one another?

Clarkson, Kobe (I know some of ya'll hesitant to call him talent at this point), Russell, Lou, and Randle all need the ball in their hands.

4 out of those 5 start...

Especially this offense where it doesn't seem anything comes easy, and its mainly one on one, this looks like a recipe for disaster...
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This is very true.

At the start of the summer, I would have preferred they made Clarkson an overqualified sixth man and signed a competent SF, but none were available on the market for an affordable rate.
 
'Really angry' with himself, Kobe Bryant granted practice day off

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- A day after calling himself "the 200th-best player in the league right now" and saying "I freaking suck," a struggling Kobe Bryant was given the day off from Lakers practice Monday because he was "really angry" with himself, Lakers coach Byron Scott said.

"I said, just stay away from the gym today," Scott said after the team's practice at their facility here. "Just spend some time with your kids and family and get basketball off your mind for 24 hours if you can -- which I don't think he can -- and then come in tomorrow fresh and we'll go from there."

Bryant is averaging 17.3 points but on 31.3 percent shooting from the floor, including 20.7 percent shooting from 3-point range.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14039529
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Lakers Coach Byron Scott isn't comparing D'Angelo Russell to the other draftees


Don't ask Byron Scott about Jahlil Okafor or anyone else the Lakers passed up when they drafted D'Angelo Russell.

Scott doesn't want to hear about the 26 points Okafor scored in his NBA debut.

The solid games put together so far by Kristaps Porzingis? Whatever.

To Scott, Emmanuel Mudiay is simply the other point guard drafted in the top 10 a few months ago.

The Lakers coach is concerned about only one highly touted player, the one taken second overall by the Lakers. He doesn't think about the others.

"Why should I?" Scott said Friday, adding he hoped they have great careers and everything, but, "Why should I care about what they do? I care about what our guy does and what our team does. I don't look at Philly, I don't look at Minnesota, I don't look at other teams. It's not my concern."

It's safe to say Russell has been slower than the above players to adapt to the NBA level. It's also safe to say he's played only two games, underscoring Scott's unstated point that Lakers fans need to be patient.

Just wondering, though, how long is Russell's learning curve? He had 13 points on five-for-10 shooting and two assists in the Lakers' 132-114 loss Friday to the Sacramento Kings.

"I think everybody's different," Scott said. "You've got some rookies, it takes them 10 games to really understand what's going on out there. Some of them, it takes a year, some of them it takes half a year, some of them take two years."

In other words, nobody knows. And Russell is only 19.

Russell is hoping for the best, understandably.

"The game in college was the same thing. I struggled the first few games, started to figure it out," he said.

While on the topic of drafting Russell, Scott recapped the Lakers' thinking when they chose him over Okafor (third overall), Porzingis (fourth) and Mudiay (seventh).

The draft was June 25 and the Lakers thought they could sign a big man with immediate impact a week later in free agency.

So they went with Russell's flash and dash at Ohio State over Okafor's impressive post game at Duke.

"Obviously, you guys know that LaMarcus [Aldridge] was one of our targets," Scott said. "If we didn't get him, we still had a number of big guys that we could go after that we felt that we could get, so it made it that much easier in the draft to go after a point guard and D'Angelo was that guy."

Aldridge signed with San Antonio after eliminating the Lakers primarily because their presentation lacked in-depth analytics. Free-agent meetings with centers Greg Monroe and DeAndre Jordan also went nowhere for the Lakers.

The market for point guards was slender: Goran Dragic, who quickly re-signed with Miami, and Rajon Rondo, who went from Boston to Sacramento.

"It was a lot thinner at that position than it was at the big-man position," Scott said.

A fairly important Lakers veteran had some advice for Russell. Kobe Bryant, after all, averaged only 7.6 points and shot only 41% as a rookie.

"Keep playing, keep studying the game," Bryant said recently. "I wish it was something more elaborate but it's really that simple. You watch it, you see what they're giving you and see opportunities to take advantage of."
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http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-lakers-report-20151031-story.html
 
if kobe comes back and shoots over 50% tomorrow will this be byron's first good coaching move in the past decade? 
 
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