Tex on Farmar: "tested about as high as anyone ever has"

RoughneckPS3 · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

2006/2007 point guard rotation.

Smush/Sasha/Farmar

2007/2008 rotation

FARMAR/Smush

I'm good with that. Contrary to most, I still think the Lakers can win 50 games with Smush Parker as our starter this year.
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Great One · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject:

ArrOhBee · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject:

Great One · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject:

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Not surprising... Farmar should be able to pick up the offense fairly well. If he had stayed in school, he would've only stayed one more year anyhow as he was on schedule to graduate in 3 years.

Nice to hear that Winter thinks highly of him.

DocK36 · Franchise Player Joined: 19 Apr 2001 Posts: 19454

I was one of those who hated the pick. I've watched most of the UCLA games and Farmar certainly doesn't look like the player described by Tex. Now I know the Lakers worked him out a couple of times so I'm hoping that he was hampered by the ankles and we're going to see the true Jordan Farmar when summer league starts.
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DancingBarry · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:

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Im convinced that as good as a defensive coach Howland was at UCLA, he was also that bad of an offensive coach.. he wanted the ball in Farmar's hands for 25 of the 35 seconds... Farmar will be better than what we saw last season... I dont know how good that will become, but better.

Also, he was the center of that offense. Im SURE he can hit open jump shots... Remember, when a player is injured, it changes everything.

Two bad ankles = bad release and jump on the shot

Who knows....
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ToughKarl · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:06 am Post subject:

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Ridiculous... Howland's offensive sets are predicated on getting high percentage shots. Look at his last Pitt team. The problem was the bigs Fey and Hollins couldn't catch the ball in the post to save their life. It wasn't until Hollins finally started concentrating a little better did they actually go into the post more, especially in the tournament. It's the same problem the Lakers have with Kwame. It wasn't until Kwame started to pay attention a little better the Lakers were able to score a little more in the post. That said, those three guys still have bad hands.

Plus, it's a little difficult to drive when the defenders don't respect your post players, zones a lot because of it, and your PG has two bad ankles. If you noticed, when Collison was in the game and drove to the basket more than Farmar, the Bruins looked a lot more fluid offensively at times.

Mike@LG · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject:

FredG · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject:

FredG · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject:

angel · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Tex Winter had some very encouraging words about Farmar and Evans. When you add Vlad, Shammond and J.R, the bench is deeper now.
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