2014-15 Lakers Season Thread (21-61) KAT

[essential1]

You can average 5-6 assists and be selfish.

You can, but you can also put up 25 and average 3 assists.

So while Kobe does have some level of selfishness. It certainly is less than he gets blamed for.

 

[kal-el-8]

You can average 5-6 assists and be selfish.

so should he average 10 assits to not be selfish?

 

[VinMillerHearn58]

Randle was last night.

 

[grandtheftbike]

Steve Nash can avg 10 assists and be selfish for not shooting more

 

[youngwolf]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyO4tJ83BII

I hope Scott lets the kid flourish.

 

[pmatic]

You can average 5-6 assists and be selfish.

so should he average 10 assits to not be selfish?

It goes beyond assist averages.

 

[fac3 tak30v312]

Steve Nash can avg 10 assists and be selfish for not shooting more

Yeah, because it would end up messing up the floor spacing, in end of game situations. He would also not have shooting rhythem in those situations too

 

[essential1]

You can average 5-6 assists and be selfish.

so should he average 10 assits to not be selfish?

It goes beyond assist averages.

Most scorers are selfish.

Jordan, Kareem, Shaq, Iverson, Kobe, LeBron, Carmelo etc. etc.


All were selfish in their own ways. Some hog the ball, some terrible teammates, some politic to lessen the role of others. Kobe's selfishness is no different than most of the scorers before him


We can all agree he has some, but he's no where near the team wrecker image those who don't like him paint him to be.

 

[CP1708]

It's open season right now.

They need to lock all the doors and stop talking. The more Byron says, the more Jeanie says, the more Kobe says, the org looks stupid.

The hell is Jeanie walkin around ESPN for? No other owners do that **** cept Cuban.

Only bad can come from this, nothing good. Colin was hammering her with tough(er) questions she shouldn't be answering.

Ugh.

 

[kal-el-8]

 

 

 

You can average 5-6 assists and be selfish.

so should he average 10 assits to not be selfish?

It goes beyond assist averages.

Most scorers are selfish.

Jordan, Kareem, Shaq, Iverson, Kobe, LeBron, Carmelo etc. etc.


All were selfish in their own ways. Some hog the ball, some terrible teammates, some politic to lessen the role of others. Kobe's selfishness is no different than most of the scorers before him


We can all agree he has some, but he's no where near the team wrecker image those who don't like him paint him to be.

what I don't get is people paint jordan like he was some typa saint.

dude PUNCHED another teammate

I just don't get it. 

 

[MVP]

I'm thinking some of this tour stems from that garbage printed by Abbott.

 

[pmatic]

Something like that would apply to Rondo.

 

[grandtheftbike]

Yeah, Rondo too

ONTARIO — A gravity-defying steal that stopped an alley oop lob. A coast-to-coast drive that brought nearly every Lakers fan to their feet, drew a foul and ended in two made free throws. A journey across the court that captures what Julius Randle hopes becomes a lasting impression in his Lakers’ rookie season and beyond.

Randle cemented his best game in training camp. He posted a team-leading 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting and eight rebounds 24 minutes off the bench in the Lakers’ 94-86 victory Wednesday over the Portland Trail Blazers at Citizens Business Bank Arena by seemingly doing everything.

Randle canned mid-range jumpers with ease. He made defensive stops. Randle handled the ball coast-to-coast. He performed all of these tasks with both efficiency and ease, sparking one of the 7,174 fans in attendance to yell something that brought everything in perspective.

“He’s only 19 years old baby!” the fan yelled.

Here’s another thing that should leave the Lakers giddy, particularly Kobe Bryant as he sat out to rest him for the regular season beginning next week. Randle revealed he developed his ball handling that enabled him to drive coast-to-coast by emulating a certain Lakers star growing up and dismissing comparisons to a former adversary.

“People used to tell me I’m going to be the next Shaq,” said Randle, the 6-9, 250 pound forward growing in height and strength at an early age. “I said, ‘I don’t want to be the next Shaq. I want to be the next Kobe.’ I always dribbled the ball everywhere I went.”

So will Randle eventually showcase a patented fadeaway jumper that Bryant has perfected?

“I don’t know,” Randle said, laughing. “I guess. You’ll see.”

For now, Randle can depend on his dribbling, realizing it took him to a lot of places against the Blazers.

After intercepting Will Barton’s lob pass to CJ McCollum, Randle drove coast to coast. He attacked the basket for an open layup until McCollum sprinted back and made physical contact. Then, Randle stepped up to the stripe and made two free throws. Before that instance, Randle ran the offense at the top of the key before making two consecutive left elbow jumpers that went off the glass. After that instance, Randle ran the offense again and canned another mid-range jumper from the same location. Add it all up, and Randle scored 11 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter.

So what has spurred Randle’s improvement?

“Besides the fact that we get on him every single day about little things?” Lakers coach Byron Scott asked with a smirk. “I don’t think the kid has ever had to play hard. He never had to work as hard as he had to this year.”

Scott has sure been on Randle about a lot of things. He has questioned Randle’s conditioning. Scott has questioned his work ethic. He has questioned Randle adjusting to the pace of the NBA game after posting a nation-leading 24 double doubles last year at the University of Kentucky.

“Each game, he seems to be a little bit better,” Scott said of Randle. “We all tend to forget that he’s 19 years old. You have to give him some slack at times even though I don’t. But I should, I guess.”

Randle insists he does not mind the harsh criticisms even if he joked Scott harps on him about “little things, big things and every thing.” Randle even contends he has free reign to handle the ball, saying, “Coach told me I can do it.”

But in a more serious moment, Randle downplayed the theory that Scott is just picking on him because he is a rookie. Or that Scott is trying to show off his credentials as a three-time NBA champion with the Showtime Lakers.

Said Randle: “Coach Scott holds all of his players responsible for everything, good, or bad.”

Randle offered plenty of good, providing a wide range of skills he has only shown flashes of before in other games. He did so with assertiveness. Randle also did not reinvent the wheel, realizing his constant offseason work on his mid-range jumper and better awareness on defensive rotations will pay off.

“It’s the same looks and same thing I’m seeing every game,” said Randle, who entered the game averaging 6.8 points and 4.8 rebounds in 18.9 minutes through five preseason appearances. “It’s just a matter of doing it and taking advantage of the opportunity.”

And now that he has, the Lakers sounded giddier about his ceiling. Hence, why it’s hardly surprising NBA veteran Carlos Boozer interrupted Randle’s walk-off interview by congratulating him and then envisioning in the locker room what awaits him.

“If he can keep that skill level up like the rest of his skills,” Boozer said, “he’s going to be something special.”

Obviously plenty of more challenges await.

Scott still believes the NBA game has proven too fast for Randle. The verdict remains how assertive and effective Randle will remain with Bryant in the lineup. Randle has a full 82-game schedule to prove he can duplicate his blueprint performance consistently.

But as Randle dazzled the Lakers and their fans as he marched up and down the floor, it only validated Scott’s recent conversation he and Bryant recently had with Randle.

“I told him, ‘As long as I’m standing on you or [Kobe's] standing on you, it means that we care about you and love you and want you to do well,” Scott said. “When I stop talking to you, that’s when you should be worried.”

But on Wednesday night, Randle left Portland worried with all the array of skills he displayed all over the court.

http://www.insidesocal.com/lakers/2014/10/22/julius-randle-i-want-to-be-the-next-kobe/

 

[CP1708]

I'm thinking some of this tour stems from that garbage printed by Abbott.

Which is exactly what they wanted. Now they have her on set, and just clowning her and the org. Colin was flat out taunting her.

2nd gen corps fail
Kobe can't play 60 games
24 mil for past prime stars
Brother didn't hire your man
Coaching merry go round

Dude was murking the **** out of her.

 

[kal-el-8]

 

I'm thinking some of this tour stems from that garbage printed by Abbott.

Which is exactly what they wanted. Now they have her on set, and just clowning her and the org. Colin was flat out taunting her.

2nd gen corps fail
Kobe can't play 60 games
24 mil for past prime stars
Brother didn't hire your man
Coaching merry go round

Dude was murking the **** out of her.

Yeah Colin went in.

Makes the Lakers look really really unstable and weak.

I was shaking my damn head in the car every time she opened her mouth.

 

[MVP]

They are unstable and everyone knows it. Players, other GMs, the media, fans, etc. Not helping to feed the reality more. Jeanie should just do a nude laker calendar and just fall back, but Jim confining to be MIA leaves her as the spokesperson.

 

[pmatic]

It's a down period.

Every organization goes through it. Except the Spurs.

 

[kal-el-8]

Those loser comments :x :x

 

[do work son]

Link to the Jeanie audio?

 

[kal-el-8]

Colin bagging on Jordan clarksons name

Jesus Christ

That's horrible. This dude is a supposed to be a professional

 

[lovehateself]

colin is the male beadle

 

[wings90]

You can average 5-6 assists and be selfish.

Case in point, Rajon Rondo.

 

[kingjaffejo]

I use to love Jeanie but this past year has made me realize she has no idea what she is doing when she opens her mouth.

All she can do is smile and spread emotion. Just keep her in the back office and let her crunch numbers. Mitch should be the only one talking.

Who's idea was it for her to do an ESPN run?! Why now?! And why send her?! Ugh so stupid

 

[pmatic]

Link to the Jeanie audio?

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/losangeles/play?id=11750173

 

[kingjaffejo]

Oh and E ...I dig your roster rotations but if you're gonna start Lin you should start Davis with him. Davis plays better with Lin and vice versa. Also it surrounds old *** kobe and boozer with youth. And good mixture to the starting lineup