[llperez]

what does phoenix have to do different tonight?

Here are my thoughts.

1-hit 3’s. 5-22 in game one wont cut it. Frye was supposed to draw the laker bigs away from the rim, and he went like 1-7 on threes i believe.

2-Nash and Amare need to step up. Nash had 13 and 13, but he struggled getting by fisher and had some costly turnovers. He needs more like 25-and 13. Amare grabbed 3 rebounds and failed to make a defensive presence around the basket. NOt sure how much he can do in those regards since he is not much of an enforcer, but he has to leave it out there and get more then 3 boards.

3-bench. They got out scored, out rebounded and generally outplayed by the lakers bench. Obviously odom was the biggest reason for that, but even brown and farmar came in and played well. The suns becnch is what many though would be a huge advantage over the lakers, and it needs to be that way if they want to get back in this series.

Im not sure if they should try and double kobe or stay home and make him beat them, but you cant let him get 40 and allow everyone else to get what they want. You have to eliminate one or the other.

[joecheck88Participant]

I don’t think phoenix will shoot as bad as they did the other night. Amare needs 9+ rebounds. They need to guard Odom. They will play better and even though i am an avid Suns fan, they will not win this series but they need to make it more competitive. i say Suns win tonight and game 3 but Lakers win the next 3 to advance.

[llperez]

other then 3’s, the suns actually shot 50% for the game. But they really need those 3’s to drop in order to stay with the lakers and not get behind early.

[rtbtParticipant]

Llperez said, “you cant let him get 40 and allow everyone else to get what they want. You have to eliminate one or the other.”

I think Llperez nailed the key strategy choice when playing the Lakers. Which way do you want to go on defense? For years the most successful strategy was to let Kobe take 25 or 30 shots and shut down the rest of the team.

But with Gasol and Odom playing so well the last 2 years, that’s become harder than ever. Stopping Gasol and/or Odom is next to impossible. I still think the best option is allowing Kobe to go one on one while trying to stop the rest of the team, but I still haven’t figured how how you can do it. You just have to hope Kobe starts missing, but when he’s on, beating the Lakers is next to impossible.

Aside from rtbt
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How many times must we watch Odom go to his left before we see NBA defenders force him to his right hand? Didn’t we learn in high school to force a player to his weak hand?

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