Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:06 pm Post subject: 2016 Laker Potentially The Best Passing Team?
You look at their career averages in assists, their passing ability and the way they move the ball. Especially the young heads like D-Lo, Julius and Jordan. This could potentially be the best passing Lakers team since the 2008 Lakers. What do you guys think?
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:11 pm Post subject: Re: 2016 Laker Potentially The Best Passing Team?
Lakerfan 4 Life wrote:
You look at their career averages in assists, their passing ability and the way they move the ball. Especially the young heads like D-Lo, Julius and Jordan. This could potentially be the best passing Lakers team since the 2008 Lakers. What do you guys think?
I definitely agree that the potential is there for what you're saying.
DLo, Huertas, Clarkson, Randle, and Kobe are all excellent playmakers.
Heck, I've even been impressed with some of the passing that Hibbert has displayed.
But it takes more than excellent passers for what you're saying to come into fruition. Though it's certainly a huge help. But you need an offensive system and philosophy that maximizes those skills. The 2008 Lakers had the Triangle Offense and Phil.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:16 am Post subject:
pjiddy wrote:
fiendishoc wrote:
Lakerfan 4 Life wrote:
fiendishoc wrote:
Lakerfan 4 Life wrote:
fiendishoc wrote:
Not with this coach and this system.
The Primceton did well with good passers like Chris Webber, Vlade, Mike Bibby and Jason Williams.
This isn't the Princeton, though it pretends to be. For that matter, Sac didn't run the Princeton either, but something else entirely.
Pete Carril who was an assistant coach and offensive coordinator and inventor of the Princeton Offense for the Kings wasn't running the Princeton?
That is correct. It was Eddie Jordan who eventually decided to go full Princeton.
You never want to go full Princeton.
You don't buy that? Ask Mike Brown, 2012, 5 games in.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:18 am Post subject: Re: 2016 Laker Potentially The Best Passing Team?
Lakerfan 4 Life wrote:
You look at their career averages in assists, their passing ability and the way they move the ball. Especially the young heads like D-Lo, Julius and Jordan. This could potentially be the best passing Lakers team since the 2008 Lakers. What do you guys think?
i don't think Jordan qualifies as a good passer yet.
Marcelo might the best.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:24 am Post subject:
Sorry, nothing beats the 2008 (even though we lost the Finals) and 2009 Laker teams for that.
Kobe (excelled at drive and dish/ dump that year)
Odom (passing to and from anywhere)
Pau (best elbow/ low-post passer during the Phil era)
Luke (ridiculous pass-before-the-assist passer)
Fish (despite many flaws, a solid post-entry passer)
Watching all those guys whip the ball around with defenders' heads swiveling around like they were on office chairs was a thing of beauty. The opening round against Denver in 2008 had ridiculous ball movement.
And the 2009 2nd and 3rd quarter unit of Pau, LO, Luke, Fish, and Kobe (Ariza often closed games for defensive purposes) was arguably the purest execution of triangle ball we ever had.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:56 am Post subject:
nash wrote:
24 wrote:
fiendishoc wrote:
Lakerfan 4 Life wrote:
fiendishoc wrote:
Not with this coach and this system.
The Primceton did well with good passers like Chris Webber, Vlade, Mike Bibby and Jason Williams.
This isn't the Princeton, though it pretends to be. For that matter, Sac didn't run the Princeton either, but something else entirely.
More the corner offense with some Princeton elements.
By the way, I'd like to have Rick Adelman coaching this team
+1
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way back to when the Lakers instead went with Mike Brown.... 
... We'd probably still have Rick now... 
... after all this time.
