I need more before I believe we turned the corner. Seems like last night we "lived by the 3", rather than dying by it. So the only thing that really changed was that we got a couple shots to fall.
I wouldn't say that bro. Our points in the paint was pretty solid. Most of dames shots were inside the three. Aldridge was in beast mode down low.
Oh we certainly have not turned the corner. That will be the case only when the offense starts to click again and ball movement returns. But it was a step in the right direction-- better to take these steps in wins rather than losses.
I think Dame was 0-6 from three. That's bad. What's good, is that he abandonned his reliance on the three ball and KILLED from midrange and in the paint. That's how you do it. Get your shot going inside, then move it outside. I'm very anxious to see if last nights performance propels him back to the Dame we know and expect.
Oh, for sure! The team goes the way Dame goes.
Did we watch the same game? LA did almost all of his damage from the outside, except for that one up and under move, and some O boards. Gobert shut him down almost completely -- he's had bad games before, but mostly because he's been cold, not anything defenses have done. Haven't seen any defender take LA out like that since Tyson Chandler a while back.
If he's 0-10 ft from the basket, that's "down low". All of those shots are from the paint. That's what we want from him.
I don't know what's up with Kaman. He looks like a terrible decision-maker out there, Could be injury, could be teams taking away his primary moves but they are forcing him to make decisions other than a jumper or back a guy down. I haven't followed him enough to know if he's always been this turnover-prone when forced to put the ball on the floor or pass. He has really looked bad lately though and dare I say I'd rather have (gulp) Meyers out there?
I've noticed that. It's obviously part of the opposing game plan. He's just not good when he puts the ball on the floor. What freaks me out is the baffling decisions like last night when he was basically alone to make a dunk or lay in and he passed it back out to LMA. ?? There were a few WTF moments.
It's because he reads this forum and doesn't like the "black hole" comments
Kaman definitely played better when he was an unthinking robotic black hole. Now that he's thinking before acting, he's all f'd up.
Ha, ha. I wrote my post before reading this.
