Quote from: FanEagle on February 02, 2024, 08:38:22 PM

Lakers were missing both AD and Lebron, and they still won. Not that it means Lebron and AD are bad for this team, but the fact that they managed to beat Celtics with this squad is an insane achievement. The only reason for their success was the fact that they played big team ball and that is always good.

When you have stars, everyone else gets cold and then they look like they are missing a lot of shots, but when you shoot once every 7 minutes, it's normal that you would get cold and when you have stars then that happens because stars shoot the ball most and then you get the ball in rotation with everyone else and that turns out to be very few times. They need to start sharing the ball a lot more early on, to get people going at the start of the game, then Lebron or AD could take over if they have to.

You said it right, without proper ball movement and if all the rest of the players are just waiting for the ball from the so-called superstar/s
the chance that the confidence can't be built.

Limit in touching the ball or that kind of doubt to take the shot is something that hard to develop if you are playing with superstar.

Winning against Celtics shows something that Lakers possess that they can't fully utilize, asjustments and proper assessement is what
they need.