Originally Posted by lapiston

The Laker coaching staff told their team that they just needed to cut down on their turnovers from the first half. They were right. The Lakers were very effective against our half-court offense. They had trouble with Stuckey on the second team. The Lakers fans rightly thought that they had the game won. They outplayed us the entire second half, really, except for that quick spurt by the second team.

Down the stretch we had a poor turnover type lean in shot by Billips, an outside jumper by a hurting Rip and that Sheed 3 ball. Sheed was blocked on a broken play and we did have a Billips layup. Not good sequences against a Bynum-less team.

Yes, Kobe is Kobe but we have stopped him before. What I worry about is not tonight but the pattern of the last two playoffs that seems to pop up here and there again. Do we ever stop up a player when they start to go off on us? Can we? Can we score consistently enough when it really counts...?