Smush: Losses due to bad team chemistry

laker4life · Star Player Joined: 26 Nov 2001 Posts: 7317

Smush has been a pleasant surprise.

Who do you want? Fisher? Are you going to pay him that contract.

The bottom line is that we are a bad team and will be one for the next few years.

Get used to it.

bounty · Star Player Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3946

AirKobe8 · Star Player Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 8586

Laker328 · Starting Rotation Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 137

As I said earlier this year Smush is this years Chucky

And 1 · Star Player Joined: 12 Apr 2001 Posts: 2586

Narziss · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:15 am Post subject:

Lamar Odom would like to extend his thanks to all of you for directing your attention towards someone else for a change. He will be buying dinner for Smush tonight.

AirKobe8 · Star Player Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 8586

bounty · Star Player Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3946

not every night, not even every other night do we ask LO to score more than 20. When his RBs are under 10 and his asst. are "whatever" can he at least step up and give us 22pts. We win last night if he scores that.

We all see Kobes ast. going up. Why? b/c PJ has decided LO is too much of an idiot to dribble the ball up court. So not only doesnt LO score. He no longer facilitates. He is a one trick effen pony. Even that he got us only 8 last night. he is the wrong player at the wrong time

kenkoy · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:22 am Post subject:

Bad chemistry starts with the NY buddies (Lamar and Smush). Their lack of energy, casual demeanor and stupidity is pretty obvious. The Lakers f'ed up big time, by not trading for Artest.

thumpinghead · Star Player Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 5657

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CrimsonLaker · Star Player Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 2268

Did we ever try to trade Shaq for Marion and Amare?

CabinCreek44 · Star Player Joined: 16 Apr 2001 Posts: 3855

This is one Laker fan who is not interested in trying to interpret what was going thru Smush's mind when he made the "team chemistry" remark.

The bottom line is the comment just looks bad, and Phil Jackson ought to punk slap him into next week. The Lakers have done a good job this season not having a bunch of dirty laundry thrown around the media. You can bet your bottom dollar that this knucklehead's comment, whatever he meant, will be bludgeoned to death by the media in due course.

Smush would be well advised to learn what to do with the ball late in close games, where his poor decision-making has cost his team dearly in its last two losses, rather than issuing post-game proclamations to the media following said debacles.

shnjb · Franchise Player Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 13320

Guys, we're totally over-analyzing Smush here.

Just listen to the guy.
He is NOT capable of making subtle jabs and drop ambiguously negative comments.

If he was unhappy with Kobe or something like that, we'd probably hear it in the form of:
"Smush unhappy with Kobe. He bad."
rather than:
"It was bad spacing by the team."

venturalakersfan · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:11 am Post subject:

raffi · LG Contributor Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 9987

I think there's some truth to his statement - they are screaming at each other, shaking their heads, rolling their eyes, not hustling and slumping their shoulders after a turnover, etc. during the course of the game. Even during timeouts there is at least one starter staring into space . . .

They have serious issues.

I think the post-Washington loss meltdown was just a preview.

CabinCreek44 · Star Player Joined: 16 Apr 2001 Posts: 3855

Another thing that might interest Smush would be to improve his horrendous free throw shooting. He is tossing up bricks from the charity stripe at a .649 clip as we speak. That is absolutely PATHETIC. His masonry in the fourth period of the Boston game was particularly galling.

I won't attack his non-defense right now since the entire squad seems to specialize in sucking in that area of the game.

magic_bryant · Franchise Player Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 18179

THE_SHOES · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject:

mike_kb · Starting Rotation Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 384

The quote is taken out of context.

And 1 · Star Player Joined: 12 Apr 2001 Posts: 2586

RedSnapper · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject: Sorry

When I saw that "Team Chemistry ... I don't know how you change it." quote, the first thing I thought of was personnel decisions ala front office/GM/Ownership.

If I was going to try to pin that comment on anyone, I'd think this:

Kwame Brown = Elden Campbell
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wolfpaclaker · Retired Number Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 58336

What a suprise?

And1 twisting a Smush thread into a Lamar hate thread.

Hmm ... Agenda anyone?

:roll: :roll: :roll:

Socks · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject:

It sucks that everyone's jumping on smush here for speaking his mind - what he said isn't detrimental to the team like a sarcastic chucky or a crazy artest. Since when is it healthy to shout down someone who is pointing out something that is clearly wrong. How can you argue that something is wrong when we're losing to the Blazers?

That said, instead of saying he didn't know how to fix things, I wish Smush would have said everyone needs to do a better job with defensive intensity and learning the triangle. It's clear people still don't know where they need to be on a consistent basis. Once they have that down, they'll be able to figure out how/when to get their shots and the "chemistry" issue will be solved. Once they start to bring it more on D, they'll stop losing to the likes of the Blazers. The whole team needs to quit playing the victim and step up and take some responsibility.