G16 MIN @ LAL Game Thread+Chat

Someone is ready for the game! :]
Let’s hope your future hubby get some shooting spree tonight at the expense of the Wolves!

Bitter… 🙂

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I was talking about @alaingrvis:disqus lol

i could come in first if i wanted. I’m just too cool ;p

what mcflurry

lol then I’m the rich guy standing in the back like hahahah lol poor people lmao

Lin once told reporter that he sooth the pain of losing with Mcflurry…..12 already..no more tonight

me too!!!!

Let’s go JLin.

missed the 3!!!!…good try

I voted 22/10.. but I don’t mind he gets 38/10 ^.^

Jeremy HITS!!!!!!!!!

Go get those jumpers Jeremy.

Lin is feeding Boozer inside a lot of stuffing 🙂

Lin is not getting his shooting rhythm yet, probably wise to get some layups to get hot first

agree, when he has 1-4

nice…from Hill

nice!!!!

kobe steal

that will pump up Kobe as well

If they let TWOV to hang with them…..lol well…

You make Boozer sound like a seasonal dish.

NYoung being aggressive…nice

Wolves are racking up their TO…good

KObe been hot Q1 with 5-6FG

Stu said it, leave the floor to shoot

dumb pass…

trying to draw a foul but failed, not a good move

No Lin?

Its bench time

yeah…sometimes he thinks he is Kobe…hope they dont giveaway the lead

all year so far

with a TO now .. not good at all

The bench is still far away from playing as a team

Davis early fouls are not good

MIN is a bad team, as I said on last thread this is definitely a winnable game

Take it anytime we can get it.

The Bigs are popping up too many…they should only shoot they the defense falls back and make them pay, else they should take it to the rim

Good time to bring Jeremy in but I says 6 minute mark

lol

T-Wolve have put better effort…

thats really sad

We should thank Price for playing so horrible to make Lin look so great LOL. Looks like Price is going for his 0 points and 0 assist game again!

Price back to his normal self.

Right now sub in Lin now

Usually comes in with 6 minutes left in quarter.

At least he comes back at 7 minute mark

It looks like Scott’s pattern of rotations.. 🙁

Scott beats you by ONE minute…lol

we’re all pleasantly shocked :>

Lin with an acrobatic reverse layup! 😀

Hope he continues getting to the rim

That’s Lin go to move he needs to make more reverse layups so he won’t get blocked.

I like this hahaha:

“Jeremy Lin, Jeremy Lin… show us what you got and take it to the rim”

Stu you’re putting my fandom to shame..

That acrobatic reverse layup by Lin there .. showed how much talent Lin has to score around the basket.
That was just instinct, not premeditated at all :>

Didn’t know stu was Japanese XD.

I want to see 20pt lead the least

Jeremy should always wear that sleeved jersey.Dem sexy!

rainbow Jeremy….

keep it coming

nice layup

nice ball rotation

Lin discussing with Boozer about defending the screen and 3

bad rotation move by Lin, giving room to take the shot

Lavvine looks really good wow

That Rubio contract looks silly

I will let him to shoot if being contested.

No defense no wins

yeah, but lin should not ask Boozer to rotate, when the ZL is about to make his move

new player? never heard of him.. ha

they are

Jeremy 15+ points me thinks

nice insight

yup rookie

Lin should’ve taken that!

Such an undisciplined team

why did davis get those fouls

Wolves been tanking since kg got traded

a little too aggressive

Johnson is little bit of a ball hog

Also if he is a star, he would have only 1 by now

JLin’s reverse layup

lakers defense is crap today on the rookie timberwolves of all teams

that was quick!

if i was scott since davis is in foul trouble i would think of a non davis boozer lineup. probably go small

“That was NIICCEEEE!”

Lead yes…but not a good lead…they really need to step up on defense. Even Lin is slacking a little

Lakers not giving much effort on defense cause they’re underestimating their opponent, happens all the time and the better team loses because that.

It did not matter. Even if Kobe could, that ball was intercepted anyway.

They just gave hime a pick then let him abuse Lin.

Yea Kobe can’t jump like that anymore, Lin should do alley-opp with Johnson, Hill, or Davis.

Who prep the image with Lin? Lakers PR? Just wondering.

Lin to Kobe for the dunk …

You can forget about that, lin is going to keep giving it to kobe until he catches it. How long how you been following lin to know that he won’t give up on a player. Kobe will eventually catch it, not worried.

Kobe steal and layup …

lol, but true

Lets GO second half for a killer

Wow, Jeremy is running and doing those layups… in his black Adidas Flux!

Boozer is horrible

very interesting

Bad def by KObe

Feel like a double-double otw

Why?

9p/7a now.. yeah!

Quiet so far in Q3

Step back my man!

Told Ya! Lin needs to throw Alley-Opps with Wes Johnson!!

alley oop!

Thats the Wes we wanna see!!!

Jeremy making Wes look good…

Bad foul by Lin SMH =/

that was a quite bold one..

Joey Crawford’s smile is weird. LOL

He reminds me of a vampire from Twilight

What a pass!!!!! Spurs like

Kobe man come on

stop feeding kobe lin damnit

Don’t feed the kobrick

it does…suppose to be a walk in the park

Bouncing around teams? Doesn’t sound that great. Although that’s what has been going from now on until now on, I hope he finds a team to settle on next season.

what? Lakers have the same record, the only advantage they have is that they are at home

Harden’s not here…. OH WAIT…

LAL needs Harden to do so :>

I love that “EYYYY!!!” lay up!

Classic Lin move. Haven’t seen that in a while.

WHAT IN THE WORLD!?!?!??!!?!?

This ain’t nba ball

DOUBLE DOUBLE TIME

Lin 13p/9a

who r the generals?

Even from just reading the ESPN score board I could tell how bad lakers defense must be…sign

floater, baby!

yes..stat padding time with no D from both team!

I’ve always had him in my fantasy… photo album

Oh wait, you mean fantasy basketball?Sorry wrong post. lol

Hopefully Timberwolves, but hard to tell at the moment. LOL.

Both team playing bad D or rather no D like preseason games

Kobe wants to prove he’s better but his legs and old body just isn’t responding. Scott should just sit him.

That’s what happens when bad record teams meet.

Lin 15p/9a.
Nice drive for the short midrange J after Lavine made a shot over him.

Then Lavine missed :]

Double Double!! Wot Wooot!

10th ast!!!!

Another wasted fast break by Lin 🙁

Silly

double silly

Davis reminds me of a bigger Landry Fields who fouls too much

Yup 3 ball

Now let’s get a win

Lavine is lucky Lakers has a bad perimeter defense.

should hv made the last 3!!!

Bounce on the rim then get in the basket… too bad

Yes BS finally changing and giving Lin more minutes! Happy Lin got to play the entire 3rd quarter!

Rubio is a lucky guy doesn’t really have a spot with these young gunners

What happened to Rubio?

Hurt I think

yep turn acll i think

he will pass that

Lin with 18p/10a/4stls after 3 quarters!

We need a W now

lets see how bench performs

there goes the lead

common now, lousy bench.

This group needs Jeremy to lead them…

Johnson having the best game of this season!!

with 2 worst mis catch I have seen…But really good overall!

We need to see more of Lin to Johnson Alley-opp and dunks. Johnson really needs to cut to the basket more with his height advantage.

everyone having that type of night

No d but Lakers playing with some hustle.

Whoever can make at least 1-2 stops is going to win the game.

Ugh.. Ed Davis. Lakers should get that Spurs shooting coach who helped Splitter with his FT.

Iggy didn’t look too excited after Swaggy’s 3.

1st bad game relax

she’s like, “is this over yet?”

lin coming back

Okay, put this away.

Ed’s athleticism is being wasted with him not playing with Jeremy. He’s a like a big Landry Fields who can block.

11assists! bam!

YEAHHH.. Great teamwork by the Lakers!

boozer got bench look like his days finishing games are over

Not possible

ok, Lin with 4 steals.
6 more for a triple-double? LOL

Yes!Play like a team.

Why do you have to block me! smh Brent! lol

i want triple

Yes, Black Friday win, baby!!

LOL well….haha TOP teams will not give that passing lane to Kobe at all

You mean no D? If so, they do play like that against top teams…and lose. =)

LOl not possible unless Lin makes 8 rebounds in 5 minutes.

Kobe’s

I see, thanks.

buy 1, get 1 free?

https://twitter.com/calder_h/status/538567087388499968

I was just teasing… But, Lakers offense is usually decent anyway. It’s their defense that gets them killed.

ahhh another miss =/

Lin missing his shots gr……..

Missing shots is fine. Good thing was he took it.

LIn and Kobe both combined for 16/30.

True.

Good job by Lin to call the time out to save the posession

Why is Lin out?

What……

Price needs 20 minutes. It’s all BS math.

Where is Lin?

It’s so sad that it’s true.

What kinda math class is Scott taking? man..

Possessions like that cosh.

Put Lin back in Dammit!!

Scott is desperate. Lin is not the problem.

Worse than Houston

BS head for Price love if Lakers lose this one.

Lakers without their best playmaker and rim protector in the game.
BScott is playing with fire!

OMG….><"

BS put Lin back in!!!!

Lin was subbed out for Ellington…why?

Foolish coaching

He sure isn’t playing w/his brain. smh

Kupchak, you watching this?

Scott is pathetic. He knows he has to win this otherwise things are going to get uglier for him.

Put Jeremy in now but no

PHewww.. Kobe actually made the shot, we will have OT!!

can they get a stop now?!!!!

Kupchak… if you don’t step in, you will lose your best playmaker and rim protector like REAL SOON…

need a D first

I’m afraid of one wide-open 3 by MIN here

Play will be for Lavine or Mo

Did SB think the last moments were the ones to sub Ellington in place of Lin and let Kobe be PG for himself?

yes, either one can make it .. Or Brewer

Why end up this way? Urg! Cannot stand this BS!

Win by 2 pts please

Yep. So, they had to take out Lin first.

What?!!

No this is about Kobe being the hero of the game

Scott deserves to lose

seriously no benefit on Lakers winning this game with Lin out anymore, they’re not makng the playoffs anyway

glad lin got his stats…

Double standard is real folks

Wow haven’t seen a foul called at the last second for a long long long time.

1 is good for me!!!!!!

No OT, its either take it or lose it

Ah well.. as long as Jeremy gets his, next offseason teams will be knocking on his door.

Yes!!!!!!!!

They are a losing team makes no sense

i honest can’t believe how bad the coaching was today

Tell me why BS took JLin out?????

BS made sure kobe gets the ball that’s why he took Jeremy out.

So do I, it’s for the long term benefit to fire Scott.

I hope so. I really don’t want him to stay as a Laker next year. On paper, it should be a good fit. Real life, not so much, thanks to things out of Lin’s control.

You put up strong numbers you deserve to play

Hope that is the end of Byron Scott. SMH

hahahahahahaha exactly as I thought

Soooo.. predictable!

HAHAAHAH winnable game… and Scott lose it! Time to ask for his head on a silver platter

Please fire BS, this is ridiculous!!

I am soooooo happy, karma

scott i honestly. you have to be fired.

There goes the season as well

Can we say no Lin no win?

I’m not even surprised anymore.
This Lakers season is designed to support Kobe’s upcoming documentary.

Hero ball triumphs again….criminy.

No Lin, No Win

You could be right.

Scott needs a break from coaching!

like who takes a guy with 18 points 11 assist out the game what. like really. hahahahaha. its laughable. lin got his point so i don’t care but really

That’s funny.

Coaching like this controls the Jeremy out of control no defense narrative….it impacts how the league sees him

No Lin No Win.

A 10% winning rate to end the documentary.

Stats are good and let’s keep hoping for strong games but wow

kobe played very well didn’t force it at all but scott substitution forces kobe to go iso lol

I dont think its even that high

LA is going for no 1 draft pick, keep on losing. 3-79 definitely helps!!!

LaVine pulled a Curry. Red hot all night.

Wow, Lin played 29:30 min. BS really keeping Lin on a short leash and not even letting him stat pad properly.

Was supp. 2 get a win. (sigh).. I’ll go buy McFlurry 4 the night snack..

I don’t know rather I should be happy or what, I feel sorry for Lin putting in so much hard work for 3 qts, at the last min coach sit him down just to lose the game, seriously lakers could have won many games already if the coach sat Kobe down during the crunch time!

Follow Robin Lundberg‏@robinlundberg
Jeremy Lin has 18 points, 11 assists and 4 steals and got benched down the stretch by Byron Scott.
LOL

this is by far one of the worst coached games I’ve ever seen. this is saying a lot given mchale last year

Really Robin? Putting my Jeremy fandom to shame

Scott just miscalculated. His guys just didn’t execute down the stretch and Kobe missed 2 big FT.

29 not even 30, you’d think Lin was Kobe with limited minutes cause of his old age SMH!

I’m just happy Jeremy got his stats…. teams are watching like hawks…

Scott thinks Lin is 36 and Kobe is 26

I don’t think it’s miscalculation. At this point, it has to be on purpose.

JLin 30min. Like clockwork.

Being an Asian Pg is so hard to accept…reminds me of POTUS

And the the other TOs were fumbled passes and miss communications

He doesn’t trust Lin at all.

Robin likes his game, there is no shame, BS to blame for the loss.

This needs to be tweeted over and over again to LALFO

Oh LOL. >.<

Playing the best ball right now in Purple N Gold….someone should be noticing this

Now I understand why Lin was playing for the whole 3rd q, BS moves Lin’s minutes out of 4th q. So Lin can stay out of Kobe’s way for the last 3 minutes. Great plan! So genius! What a circus team!

How come Nick got Iggy court side tickets but can’t get court side tickets for his parents? Really Jeremy?

Anyone catching what the postgame guys are saying. I only heard Worthy say Lakers haven’t learn how to execute to close games. Anyone asking about Scott’s strategy to take Lin out in crunch time?

I’m surprise BS played Ellington instead of Price, because Ellington has “lin” in it. LOL

BS is just plan horrible crunch time, need defense yet you leaving both JLin and Davis out?

WORD

I don’t get it. They played without THE point guard in the final 4 mins.
How they can get the win without the best play maker on the team.

I think so too but who knows.

I guess if Lin is out, Worthy can’t say Lin should have the ball or set up plays. haha

He dont trust anyone, except Kobe

Well she wasn’t really in there to hog the spotlight, in jeans, Young jersey, and black shirt.

Whose body? Teammates?

Lin should have drawn the last play for Kobe. =P

I agree that it seemed to be planned before the game.

So you’re saying BS is dense AND has hidden agenda?

ya

People act like pg are lock down defenders. Here is a short list of guys who play defense
Conley
Beverly
Rondo
Westbrook

Everyone else gets scores on but Jeremy can’t defend.

It’s not BS’s tanking that worries me. It’s his 4-year contract. I really don’t want Lin to stay in LA with BS for 3 more years.

Well, Iggy did beat out Eminem and Drake to win a major rap award….

RWB plays D? you sure? LOL

BS himself was THE mistake.

When he wants to lol

Doesn’t matter if a pg is a lock down defender. One PnR and it’s negated.

Scott is basically blaming the players ONLY

I think it would been better to just pull up for a midrange jumper anyways,……………..Hill and Boozer are too slow

Westbrook can turn it on and Beverly plays good d foolish but good but my point is Jeremy gets this spotlight on him but 80% of pg play no d every night lol

this site is glitching on me. scott broke this website lol

Lin gonna go home and start beating himself up again =/. really hope he doesn’t play handcuffed from now on . I would rather see that Lin, than the 3/9 5 TO Lin

Nick Young was cold entire game yet he was kept in while Lin was pulled out after his TO and missed shots?

And the big man slacks off and can’t pick up the roller not does the 3 or 4 offer weak side help

Byron Scott is the perfect choice for Mitch since it is a tanking season. No need to worry much, Lin will be fine.

No he will not….this is very different from HOU actually.

It’s clear Mitch wants Lin to get “his” but still lose games and it’s working, BS is a genius!

Scott saying the players forgot instructions, and had to call a timeout to repeat what players were supposed to do during the third quarter as if they were never told what to do

The last 5 minutes play of this game pretty much sum up the Lakers season so far.

C’mon, knock off with the tanking talk. Do you think Scott really wanted to lose this game?

It came down to a really stupid coaching move – to go with no point guards at all down the stretch. Stupid.

I hope he meant defensive instructions

As long as BS is the head coach, I am worried.

Not having Lin and Davis…is one of the mistake.

To me the biggest flaw of the game is…no D from the start!

Watched game with friends. LOL, Scott so smart, Kobe misses 2, missed final with a no-play etch-sketch play. I mean, when has Kobe made an elevated long 3 all season? And, yes, SwagP got hot look at him ineffective in last 2 mins. Really enjoyed that loss not to be snide, but just because I didn’t care as Scott was trying to prove something to me and I thought I was right. You too, I think, right?

Waiving arms alone is NOT good D, stopping opponent scoring is. People blow past Bev at will.

I wonder why I didnt close the game when I had double-double?

we have to fire scott

Scott must truly think that fans are stupid to continue believing his nonsense. The excuses he repeatedly uses gets old & unbelievable after each winnable loss. smh

LOL…oh well…anyway…it was just another loss I guess….

Nah…I kind of wanna know the whole book of “how to lose a game” tho….With Lin it is hard to see..

now do you guys see why I like to see Jlin go to 1)dallas,2)san Antonio 3)any MDA coached team.

if only it was up to us 🙁 Jeanie or Jim please tell Mitch to fire BS!

Agree!

I know. Davis too? What the McHale? Oh wait, it’s BS!

I don’t care if it was Lin or Price, they needed a point guard/facilitator in the offense. To go without one is like playing without a quarterback in football, and making the running back run plays.

Stupid, absolutely stupid.

Checked the boxscore again, Lin had 3 TOs not 4.

lol…we are getting use to it

scott will be fired if thiss continue. anyways lin is here for the year will have his chocies

I honestly don’t think Lin will stay w/Lakers if things don’t change. Winning is in his DNA & the tanking goes against his nature. This constantly losing has to be killing him.

Kobe annoyed and shrugging shoulders.

pretty much so…lol

Very unlikely.

Kobe said boneheaded plays lost the game…on wow…really?

No respect for any team that aims at tanking, even if they eventually win the champion with their lottery draft pick, develop your own players!!!

He said himself or coach?

lol lakers have a worse record than Minn..

Yep. The last three minutes sucked all the joy of Lin’s great game out the window.

disagreed… will be more than likely … next year Jlin is a free agent…. unless bs get fired or the mamba get injured and the lakers had to depend on Jlin.

Worthy saying that if Scott can’t get defense out of the players, then something wrong with the players.

NOT Jim… but Jeanie

Price played 5 minutes less than usual tonight. That was at least an improvement for Scott and his lame substitution patterns.

Kobe called for the alley-oop though,… the 3 on 1 was a miscommunication

i want to apologize. i defended scott all year. thought he had potential as a coach. but i was wrong. first he keeps boozer starting regardless of how he plays defense. supposedly a defensive coach. then he removes lin their best playmaker and second best player and also removes davis their best defender and best blocker. i am sorry. i have seen my ways. my eyes are now open on scotts crappy coaching abilities

In BS mind that’s enough to start him over Lin…smh. I just can’t understand these people, it seems their mind is so narrow.

Nope. No one thinks it’s a big deal that Scott benched Lin and went with a no point guard offense for the last 3 minutes.

It is NOT going to be a big talking point as a reason for the Lakers’ loss.

They are scrambling to produce a narrative/reason right now.

I don’t care.. but if you say Patrick Beverley is a BETTER PLAYER THAN JEREMY, you deserve more than a slap on the wrist.

Why not…ignoring it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. smh

https://twitter.com/FX_Rivera/status/538579410345922560

So far interviews have been Scott, Kobe, Davis now

lol who said that

i think even BS is starting to see how atrocious of an NBA player price is though, thats why he didn’t replace Lin with him…if they had a competent backup…

Bad coaching every game, in the second half in particular

I thought it. Didn’t want to say it.

lakers suck, coaching sucks, this is definitely not a tanking a job…they just suck

BS graduated from the “In-game adjustments are overrated” School of Basketball.

I could see how frustrated they were in the post game interview, so were the fans. Cuz they were able 2 take the win..

Here’s where I would defend Price’s mediocrity. As mediocre he may be as a point guard, he still is a point guard, and the Lakers needed A point guard out there. If Scott was going to bench Lin, he should have put in Price.

who made bonehead plays. lol i don’t even remember the last 4 minutes i was so pissed lin was out can some tell me who made bonehead plays

Hmmmmm I don’t wish that to happen to anyone, at the end it’s just a game right? Hope he stays healthy.

part of the bad coaching – to re-post a comment psalm234 made a few days ago:

“I read Voulgaris (professional gambler) bio on how he used to make money so easily in Vegas off NBA games.
He said he liked BScott since he was so predictable. So expect BScott to be very slow to any changes. He likes predictability (even if it means losing)”

A poster below called BS “stubborn”. Stubborn/predictable…not a guy who can create in the flow of the game.

Price can’t facilitate, he just hands the ball over to Kobe, any position can do that

Team is ok. Give this team to a competent coach who is not afraid to reel in shot hoggers and manage minutes well.

lol my behind got a little burned I’m at thee hospital for a few weeks

I wasn’t sure about the team in the beginning, but now I would agree with that.

It begins the blame game

One has to FORCE Kobe to play ISO? It’d be like having to FORCE Garfield to eat lasagna. LOL

[MIN 112-115]

OK…

As I said below they are lighting that fuse with the Jeremy blame…look for cues “in control” not too fast” “not making the homerun play”

they couldn’t be, happened once or twice the whole game

It’s like saying the two free throws that Lin missed in a previous game cost them the win. Maybe he is satisfied with showing a rookie Wiggins he can still pump fake him into the air to get a foul, cause that is the point of playing in the NBA, to show up your man. Not to win games. (￣ー￣)…now about those McFlurries…

So mad….no other pg goes through this no other

unless a new coach

Young interview – He says they have to stick with one thing… whatever that means.

even worse lol

Toronto next will be another butt kicking … Jeremy needs to go off on Lowry

Not any coach. Need a coach that trust him. Does not have to give him the ball, but has to trust him

Now, I starting to doubt if they can win 20 games!

I just don’t think any professional coach can be this incompetent. So it must be on purpose.

Price can’t playmake, having him on court is like not having a PG, makes no difference what so ever!

Jeremy interview – consistently bring energy and focus is something they can do but what they have not done

I don’t think Nick got Iggy the seats. I think Iggy got Iggy the seats. She’s more famous than him.

Defense and keep on attacking on offense by playing coach Jeremy…

Defense was not there at all!

They might not give him the chance

sadly yes.
Byron Scott turned out to be a disappointment.
Tanking or not, he chose to lose by not playing Lin and Davis at crunch time.

I have one more game to go to on Sun.
I guess it will be bad, too, since Raptors are pretty good this season, right?

Lin just needs to play well…thats all that matters

Lin plays well, everything else doesn’t matter

Toronto is a very good team

I guess they mean that last drawn up play, the 2 missed FTs, Kobe’s earlier missed 1 FT, and if you want to blame JLin for that charge … I thought it was aggressive and right into Hill for the dunk. It’s about as boneheaded as a missed 3.

Lin would have just stood in corner while Kobe took the shots anyway. So, whether Lin was in the game or a fire hydrant was in the game for Kobe to piss on, what’s the difference?

If he keeps putting up numbers someone will take notice

Not gonna happen, like PFV said. A bad clock is correct twice a day.

In the bathroom. He laughed so hard he threw up.

I just meant tonight, no one in the media thinks that it was a big deal that Lin got benched at the end of the game. So, no one is going to question Scott about the move.

He laughed so hard he almost choked on his reheated turkey and pie

Seems like a coaching problem

Ido Amir‏@IdoAmir
I’m going to KEEP ASKING: WHY WAS LIN BENCHED with a DBL DBL in the MONEY TIME? @JamesWorthy42 @coachdavemiller @JeanieBuss @Lakers

I like that Ido tweets to JeanieBuss.

and to think lakers was favored in that game

And that might be the par for the course for Awhile….it will change as Kobe % go down and Jeremy numbers stay up

Turkey warmed up by LaVine’s shooting.

Nah…what rebound? LOL

This game reminds me of how I felt the first season with the Rockets when Lin got benched for Toney Douglas in OT against the Blazers. The Blazers won the game, of course. And ironically, in that game, Lin also had a double-double before getting benched.

Worthy pointed out JLin was on the bench for 9 minutes down the stretch calling out BS to not force feed certain players and leave Lin on the floor more!! Seriously Worthy would make a better coach than BS right now!! Even someone like Kenny Smith would make a great coach for the Lakers!

Worthy spoke. Said Lin distributing and playing well and sat for 9 minutes but got a double double. Said should look to see that Lin is on the floor as he has been playing well. Said that they get out of control when they keep force-feeding certain people.

still don’t make sense

Worthy to listen to

Young says Lakers turned away from what had them winning in 1st half: "Somehow we started playing too fast & it just didn't feel right."— Serena Winters (@SerenaWinters) November 29, 2014

Looks like he’s blaming someone..

too bad he’s not HC

Worthy sees how much of an impact Lin can be. I think he likes Lin’s game while knowing Lin hasn’t reached his potential and will improve in many areas.

Worthy just said Lin was benched 4 9 min. he played VERY VERY well 4 his double-double. Scott’s better gotta take a close look at this.. Like Worthy’s comment.. 🙂

put bigs in like idk davis which slows things down maybe. idk jus saying

Maybe he should talk to Byron. I noticed LIn is playing more aggressively and looking to score as well as distribute for a few games now. I wonder if Worthy talked to Lin. I know Green said he talked to him.

I love how Worthy STILL pointed out the lack of use of Lin. Before it was put the ball in Lin’s hands more and let him set up plays and now it is he should be on the floor more. At least someone said something.

No Lakers were leading 115-112.

Let’s say this. YES….that charge was a bad TOV. Not the worst Lin had tho. But the “solution” was to put out a worse lineup with a worst play of the game? I would rather see Ellington taking that shot.

Not true, I don’t think laker fans are blind to not see how well Lin did in the first 3 qts. People must be smoking something if they think Lin is not important for the team in crunch time especially when he just got double-double!

Yeah, Green said he told him to be aggressive. Seems he became even moreso after Scott said they want Lin to be more of a combo-guard

Lin’s comments post-game …

Showtime was not about ISO tho…LOL

Yes bad TO but didn’t break the back of the team…Kobe does that all by himself

Exactly…and at a higher pace.

Exactly seeing Johnson get that alley brought him back memories

This is true…..

Agreed. Lin is slowly gaining teammates’ trust, while BS is quickly losing it.

Lin had played very well…the foul and the missed 3 with 4-1/2 min still to play and the Lakers still up by 3 isn’t enough to pull him and put NO pg on the floor. I’m not so sure he wasn’t trusting Lin but that he had some other boneheaded idea. Like it’s Kobe time and he can pg himself, plus a poster below thought Ellington for defensive purposes. BS being thick.

Wes Johnson may become the Steve Novak for this team – the scrubby guy elevated by JLin’s playmaking magic.

Yep, I thought he’d at least go for a two-pointer. But, nope…

Sometimes an NBA team is just better off without a coach…

No way…Novak was way smarter.

My long term concern about the benching is if it becomes a trend, and/or it shows Scott’s lack of trust in JLin, something we’ll see throughout the season. We saw this happen with McHale for the past two seasons.

With that said, I don’t get the sense that Scott sees Lin as a liability long term. He just thought Lin was out of control in this particular game.

I hope.

Main comparison is the being elevated part, not the type of play part.

He has not been joyful in postgame interviews at all…and especially when he has a great night, gets pulled in the crunch and they lose by one stupid point. Tiring, deflating. But…he is a WARRIOR.

Here is my speculation. Scott had planned to increase Lin’s PT from 30min to 35min per game, depending on the scores entering the final minutes—-if leading then Lin sits. That’s why Lin played the whole 3rd quarter.

Scott says different things all of the time, though. Mostly, Scott doesn’t seem to have much of a clue on how to run a modern NBA offense.

Matters to Lin, he hates losing yet he’s on a tanking team.

The only thing not predictable about Scott is what comes out of his mouth. All over the place.

True. Simply put.

I agree. It was a desperation move that backfired big time.

You win with Lin, Byron! Don’t you know?

Is this another depressed post-game interview?

Exactly, Kobe can chuck 5 missed shots down the stretch, yet Lin can’t even have one charge foul and 1 wide open missed shot?!!

I didn’t agree with the move. But, I just don’t think it means Scott is turning into McHale. At least not yet.

Increase the chance of winning by playing Lin more in the 3rd quarter, and get more approval from Kobe by feeding him more during the crunch time if the game is winnable.

He is much better than McHale. McHale is just having a better group of players.

More like BS being stupid. 1 bad play and a missed 3 by Lin, instead of calling time out he just pulls Lin for Ellington?!! Not to mention that missed 3 was from great ball movement!

Yup, I agree with that.

Not sure….lol….a distant memory…

I loved the loss because Lin was benched. Same feeling as when HOU lost PO game to Portland to be 1 and out.

Lin seems pretty focused to me tho……IDK…maybe just me….

I did not check…But I bet Kobe shoots less than 20% on a pull up contested 3 from the top of the key. Simply not his shot to take.

I was very angry when Lin had to sit through the final minutes. But after cooling down and reading some insightful comments here, I thought assistant coach Scott might be forced to come up with such a lame plan.

I wasn’t gonna watch until you made this comment, ’cause it really pains me to see him down. Always very happy when he does not blame himself particularly. Do miss his smiles…

Because Lin was obviously one the the players played without focus per Scott

The fact that he increased the pace said that…

BS just needs someone or something to blame for the lose everyone but himself. Of course his boss Kobe can’t be the one was wrong either.

with no merit behind it at all…

yeah, he said that. Sometimes I think PFV says things to smooth out the listener. We don’t need the speed bumps – we can go faster 🙂

no, he was saying Price should have been in instead of Ellington for the shooting, so he concludes it was for Ellington’s length.

That’s like saying that a ball is better than a brick because it’s round.

SOMETIMES A BRICK IS JUST A BRICK NO MATTER HOW ROUND IT IS. LOL

yeah….I guess he should have…

He flipflops.

the guy had a DD. stop tiger-momming Lin! lol.

nope, you can trust me, I’m in your team.

In other words, Lin don’t pass to Kobe on fast breaks when you have 2 other guys.

because Lin sucks…..had 20 TOVs and was not focused

I give you three guesses.

Bcoz Lin likes MCFlurry

It’s still sad to see Lin get great stats yet this team is in shambles ><" How does this team go from playing head to head with the best record, Grizzlies to playing at the worst record level with the TWolves?!

#trollhard

lol Einstein would have no clue

You severely underestimated BS’s ability to will his team to losses.
BS has lost 179 out of 246 games since becoming the head coach of the Cavs.

#IJgonnaIJate!

ok what ever you do don’t drive today

Yes that’s a symptom of brain leakage. Scott definitely has shown his hand that his mind is playing checkers whiles Lin is playing speed chess.

lol…burp

i just realized boozer played 22 minutes today 21 last game. if he is benched he will barely get 16 minutes a game

BS sucks
Defense sucks
BS + Defense suck?

talk about act like you’ve been there before. a lot of his shots was on ronnie and transition. when lin came back he was hot so it didn’t matter what lin did

Yeah not his shot, especially if he havent taken one during the game. But thats Kobe. Stil I dont blame hum solely, game should have won much earlier with better D and better defensive plan from Byron on ZL (shootin at 78%)

You found a silver lining for Scott’s decisions.

Predictability is a symptom of a weak mind. I’m beginning to believe that Scott should be driving a tractor instead of a f-1 racer like a bball team. His mind is just too slow.

ya all sound drunk

I figure he had to live with the consequence of bad-decision.
Bad loss in a winnable game vs the Wolves. Bad execution down the strength repeatedly is the coach’s mistakes for sure.

LaVine was so frustrating to cheer against … sorta looks like KT too.

isn’t he always except for one game

I’d add that Swaggy missed two shots and then fouled with the score tied and only 2 sec left.

Who’s KT? Yea LaVine was on fire and showed his potentiall, hard to root for the Lakers who were playing so bad.

will take 3-4 year to be good

More like so wrong…not so bad. I can cheer for a bad team…no problem

this lost is on scoot would be funnier if it was him. i blame scott for all of this

no more like westbrooke

Yeah, BS thought Kobe would like to play without a PG in the last few minutes of a winnable game, but Kobe disliked losing to nobodies even more, LOL.

There’s a problem with predictability and that’s like telling your opponent you’re playbooks and daring them to stop you. That’s why the New England Patriots had spies try to steal other teams signals and plays. Playing sports is like playing music, there’s a reason it’s call playing and not executing. “Play” is creative! That’s why hi tech companies encourage staff to have play time to juice up their creativity.

The longer that Scott continues on this predictability, the more we must assume that he lacks the creativity to adjust to what the opponents throw at him.

kobe can’t dominate anymore. idk why scott plays kobe as iff he is what he was. he can’t for four minutes win a games in the 4th. he is too old. he can make a clutch shot but kobe isn’t that kobe any more.we have lost 4-7 or so games where we was close the offense was handed to kobe to go nowhere

Well…what ever it was……I guess always Lin’s fault.

hence Kobe’s efficiency tonight. He played well, don’t get me wrong. Just wasn’t going to win it angry.

Yeah, this game has proved that it is still not enough. Kobe should play off the ball even during the last few minutes.

This is tanking BS’ record. Now I can fully understand why Lakers is tanking by ignorant.
https://twitter.com/IdoAmir/status/538598200849235968

By this rate, I will say ONLY win 3 games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No that’s not the solution, Lin needs a willing KOBE to share the ball and take this team to victory.

While it is true that Lin maybe able to win some games by himself and turn a few heads, but it is even more true that Lin needs KOBE’s help to turn the national media into Lin fans.

I am still hopeful that my prediction will come true. KOBE will help lin lead the team when he finally admits that he can achieve his own personal goals as well as ensuring his final positive legacy on the Lakers. In my mind at the beginning of the season, I expected things to be bleeck for the first 20-25 games.

KOBE is someone who can really help Lin fight the prejudice and racial bias he’s faced forever. As much as Lin needs KOBE to change that bias, Kobe needs Lin to save him from himself.

I don’t know which is more for me tonight, crying or laughing? Joyce Ward has been right since day one about BS and Kobe. This is what exactly the same way as how the big 3s LBJ, CBosh and DWade were dealt together but the difference was one for the ring and the other for the points and $$$$$$$.

Kobe said he respected Mr. Scott and Mr. Scott told us he will control and limit Kobe without bs@$%#. Mitch and the Busses bought it and they agree to pay even with so much of skeptical. As the season gone by, everything happened so far was totally opposite. BS and Kobe are the same. They work together to protect their own interest such as Kobe’s legacy and BS big contract even if he’s fired.

Price 0 point and he keeps playing for Lin min. Ed Davis 3 for 3 and 10 rebound but still fighting for his. SMH

There was NOTHING WRONG with Kobe Bryant this game.

He played well and was a team player.

The problem was Scott and his poor handling of Lin.

As I wrote just now, BS does not care whom, he needs someone to replace Lin so Kobe can have 100% of ball controlling in crunch time.

Wow. Generally, teams that defend well, do well. For a coach who everyone says preaches defense to have a record like this, either all of the players he coached didn’t understand, listen and/or lacked focus, or it’s him. Clearly, it’s him.

So much for the hype of BS being a defensive coach! It’s just all talk!

lol it don’t matter to me. lin is still developing so I’m happy

I hope you prepare for the worst, by May and playoff excitement without Lin and the Lakers in it? I hope you like baseball. lol

lol yea . but it is what it is. offseason will be interesting for lin

And for the record. I hate floaters…

I rather he does not read us at all. LOL Just go eat some McFlurrys

Look out for that mcflurry belly soon

All about %age of the type of the shot.

I should be precise. I meant one footed floater.

why is it off balance

%age is too low to justify the use of it. I think it is less than 40% for 3-9ft from the rim. It just looks better.

Nah, he is still under the calories, its burns out fast

#BrentgonnaBrentate

Nick Young: "We should have stayed with what we [were] doing when we [were] winning." http://t.co/Xo4sygHMWM— Serena Winters (@SerenaWinters) November 29, 2014

So Nick Young was the one who messed it up?

I believe he was receiving the 11th assist from Lin for his dunk then another Kobe’s assist before Lin got benched with 3:45 left.

When Lin left, Lakers were winning (115-112)

“Last 3 minutes should have stuck with one thing”

Kobe could not elevate that late in the game lol

he might have kept it up with Lin … anyway glad his efficiency is up and he still got his points. Proof Lin leading is good for LAL. Just not sure if all 5 positions can play well on O and D etc etc.