STAN van GUNDY:
What they did with Dwight Howard:
On Defense they gonna make it tough for Dwight Howard sometimes D12 was able to get some shots down or even pass it up to the three point shooters who were somehow struggelling with their shooting abiilities caused by defensive intensity from the lakers and there ability to switch the players to get more movement which doesnt allow the magic players to find open players down low or even outside. We tried to make some space for dwight howard but he´s also able to go over the dubble team with his combination of athletisismand strengh . He´s simply not a guy who is turning back frm the dubble team to shoot some fade away shots. He ´s got to get his game rolling those players can´t match up with him just on the athletic point of, if D12 is able to get more fokused which automatically means less foultrouble we will be able to win the next game.
Go out there and seize the day
We got to be smart on offense and able to keep the high level of defensive intensity to the next game
The Lakers have some very good players in the center of the court so they are able to limit D12 from scoring like they did today if they will be able to keep the ball away from the basket down low i dont know if the magic are able to recover on a high level cause we´ve seen the magic runnig through the same kind of play every single game. Which is getting the ball in the post where it all starts with dwight howard who is able to roll to the basket or to get it out to open shooters. as we know basketball is a team sport and this means that the whole team should be fokused defensivelly so they limit the magic from scoring the ball just to get their rythim going.Ff they do let them have some open three point shoots the magic are simply unstoppable but they have to be mentaly there just to be able to make some shots down the stretch to build some confidence. the main to do is givng lewis some open shots
The Lakers do have some players who are able to put some pressure on the opponent but if they are able to defend on that high level which they are forced to do Imasking myself if they are still able to compeat offensivelly with the weapons the magic have from outside.
The Lakers are able to go over many players offensivelly so the magic cannot only be defensivelly focused on one guy this is the problem that there are still many others surrounding Kobe who are able to shoulder the Team offensivelly. The Lakers have the perfekt mixture to win this series with athletisism defensive knowledge and young players who are some big parts in the puzzle which is build arround the Franchise Player Kobe Bryant.
40 points/8reb./8assists/2steals/2blocks
Lamar Odom: 31:39miutes 1 Steal/1 Block/14 rebounds/11 points/3 fouls
Kobe shows us some of his abilities to score basket, allthough the defenders were sometimes all over him, Kobe was able to get down some shots. There were no answers against him with strengh going to the basket with his approved footwork or shooting the ball from outside out of any possible angle
Stan van Gundy knows that he has not done a great job of coaching this kids.
The Big Mans are beaten down Orlando:
That’s one of the reasons many people don’t believe in Magic. If their 3-pointers don’t fall, what else is there? The Magic’s Really Big Three of Howard, Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu came up small and shot a combined 6-for-27.
„They say we live by three,“ Lewis said. „Tonight, we died by it.“Also, what about that stellar Magic defense that neutralized a 66-win Cavaliers’ team? Orlando gave up 56 points in the paint and were crushed on the boards by a 55-to-41.
As if the challenge of beating the Lakers in The Finals wasn’t enough, they Magic added another degree of difficulty by playing Jameer Nelson, their All-Star point guard who had shoulder surgery on Feb. 19. Nelson played 23 minutes and 28 seconds, including all 12 minutes of the second quarter. While he started out well with four points and four assists, Nelson, like the Magic, faded down the stretch.
They cannot life and die by the three point shot if Rashard and Hedo are not playing well and if they are not able to get those shots down which are more than wide open as we have seen from Raefer Alston throughout the game, they are not able to win the series. Missed three point shots brings us to the next point with open rebounds so the lakers are more and more able to start some fastbreaks which results in easy points in the paint. We´ve seen no three point team winning the championship allthough we know that the magic are an elite defensive team as we seen in the cavs magic series but they are simply not fokused and intelligent enough in terms of defensive intensity as they have been through this playoffs. We have seen today that there is still no one who can guard Kobe who is simply too multitalented on the offense and defensive end so the main fokus for the team is to keep the other players around koba away from the basket so that they are limited from scoring. This type of play results that Kobe is more forced to take over the which means he has to take astep back defensivelly, he´s more and more exsausted.It opens up more chances for the opponent caused by this lack of defensive intensity. Kobe is probably more able to take a game over than any other player in the league but if there is no supporting cast arround him he will not be able to win anything. There is no I in Team.
