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Growing Pains




Wow, I see a bunch of mad people, and I didn’t sleep well either, I literally dreamed of Lonzo shooting the ball with correct form. . Lets ask ourselves why this happened.
We had a great start to the game, BI was playing well, as was Lonzo, Lebron and Javale. Then came in the second unit, without Rondo, and by the time Lebron and Zo go back in we are down pretty big.

First we let them get hot, and they have been playing well, you can’t give bad teams life at home. But the struggles were on pick and roll defense, I found myself thinking about Randle and how well he played the pick and roll last year, Tyson and Javale just can’t do it. We excuse Tyson because he is newish so who do we look to, Luke!
Luke surrounded himself with his buddies and it is starting to show, there is nobody there to challenge him, to make him think. If his coaching struggles continue we need to think about putting a few new assistant coaches around him because he cost us that game yesterday. I still don’t know how we are playing the pick and roll. Can anyone tell me, where is LFR.

Kuz was bad all game, his lack of help defense hurt us all game and he is once again getting backdoored. As I’ve been saying, its KCP time, let Kuz feast on second units maybe he will find his shot. Let kcp chase around the teams best guard and let Lonzo play help side, that young man can play on ball defense and help side d.

OK so we are down 9 at half, and start the half by making a run, so what happened. Well by this point Lonzo had gotten into his own head and his misses went from being super close to airballs, By now Lebron is getting frustrated and stats launching up threes, this is not his game. Speaking of which I have yet to see him posted up as much as I thought he would be. Maybe high post, and with off ball cuts by BI and Kuz. Come one Luke!
At the end of the day BI was good, Lance was good, it was nice to see Svi hit a few threes, and Mo get in the game. I also think Beasley may provide some scoring punch off the bench when we need it. How we do this idk. For the next few weeks I’d like to see Lance, Hart, Kuz, Beasely, and Tyson get some runs together in the second unit. That second unit struggles scoring and adding Kuz and Beez should help. Kuz can bring it up the court some and Lance most the time, and if the ball starts to stick in Lance’s hands we can go with BI instead of Lance, and if Beaz starts getting lost on d we can put BI in his place. Or Svi. idk. its a long season, lets forget this one and look to today in Miami, if we get a win, we can all walk around happy until Wednesday and enjoy this holiday week. BTW we should be getting about a half of an inch of rain on Wednesday and Northern Cali should get 2-3 inches so that will be fun to watch as well. Route for rain and the Lakers this week, oh yeah and eat a lot of turkey!