Live Thread: Lakers @ Cavs
2016-02-10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnHyhCYOgTI
Kobe Bryant and the Lakers are in Cleveland to do battle this evening. Â This is the last time Kobe will be in Quicken Loans Arena.
The Lakers have just 11 wins this season and sit at the bottom of the Western conference. They aren’t hopeless though. Young point guard Jordan Clarkson is putting up 15.2 points a night playing a team high 32.3 minutes a game.
Power Forward Julius Randle has shown the ability to lead fast breaks and has a decent set of post moves. He’s averaging a double-double, 11.2 points and 10 boards a game. D’Angelo Russell is full of promise, but hasn’t been played consistently enough to improve. He’s averaging 3.3 assists a game; however, he turns the ball over 2.4 times a night.
Former Cavalier coach, Byron Scott is the Lakers’ current coach. Scott prefers his veterans to the young guys right now, which is part the of the reason why Kobe Bryant is playing nearly 30 minutes a night, shooting 35% from the floor, and averaging 16.7 shots per game. Kobe leads LA in shots attempted and has the worst field goal percentage (after Ron Artest, but Artest takes just 5.1 attempts per game and he’s Artest) . But hey, KOBE!
This is Cleveland’s last game before the All-Star break. If they could get a win tonight moving the ball, playing sound defense, and trusting each other I would be happy. Going into the All-Star weekend with a two game win streak (even if it is against two bottom tier teams) from playing good game plan based basketball would help everyone, including myself, feel better about the Cavs.
Matthew Dellavedova will miss tonight with a sore hamstring. This is the fifth game he’s missed.
Bonus Story
I work with a Kobe fan. This man told me that Kobe is still an amazing scorer and just as efficient as LeBron. He said those words as I left my job today. I need this Cavs win because I can’t deal with the “Kobe still great” taunts I’ll deal with tomorrow if the Lakers win. And, the Cavs need to shut him down too. This Kobe lover will go off  if Kobe gets 20 points and takes 30 shots to do it.
Finally, take a few minutes to look back at some of Kobe’s highlights. Whether or not you like him or his style of play, you have to appreciate his dedication to winning and the creation of his Black Mamba persona.
Kobe said #Cavs have the pieces to win a championship. One thing he said they lack? Ball movement. — Jason Lloyd
You beat me to it! He’s 100% right. Still too much over dribbling.
If Kobe thinks you’re playing too much ISO, I mean, wow.
Well that is a little disconcerting. They need to buy in completely. Didn’t see the game, but assuming we had a steady diet of iso?
If you just looked at the box score and saw that we had 26 assists without seeing the game, you might get the mistaken impression that we moved the ball and ran some plays.
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Full Kobe post game interview
Anyone see an update on KLove?
Sounds like a stinger, and he’s not expected to miss any time.
Thanks MikeO!
Also… from what I saw on Twitter… D’Angelo Russell may not have any offspring…
Missed the game… but it sounds like somebody broke the Cols…
Missed the game. We allowed 111 pts from the Lakers? Why?
If you review all the Cols posts in this thread, you’ll have a clear picture of what happened…
This wasn’t a serious game. I played Lacrosse in high school and a little bit in college. This game reminded me of a tournament we played at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Anyways, on one of the teams, this player had only one functional arm, and the other was a stub. Anytime this player drove into traffic, he would stick out his “drumstick” and opposing defenses would retreat. It was sad, but also pretty brilliant. Players didn’t want to beat his “drumstick” with the fear or injuring him further. I think players are approaching Kobe in a similar manner. These… Read more »
Okay nobody is serious tonight.
I’m less impressed by Lillard after the pod analysis regarding his really bad defense. Didn’t know he was that bad.
When do we play a real game again?
Wow, we don’t play for a week from tomorrow. I’ll be at that game. Can’t miss Shump bobble head night.
Kobe says he loves showers after the game. He also loves tic-tacs, good scotch, a catcher in the rye, rye bread, wheat breat, white bread, pumpernickel bread, Halloween /s
Kobe is very much calm. Loves that DJ Steph played some Cali tunes before game.
Very earnest answer from Kobe when asked about what he’ll miss about LeBron: his communication skills and his gregarious personality — Dave McMenamin
During the post game chat, LeBron tells Kyrie to have a safe trip, so I’m assuming Kyrie won’t be hanging out in Toronto. And I don’t blame him. I hope we face Toronto in the ECF and burn Toronto down with Kyrie and Love having epic games. Then the GM of Toronto can go off on another expletive rant in front of Toronto fans and get fined by the league AGAIN.
And JR goes off for 12 3s.
Hard to believe that was @kobebryant’s last game vs @cavs at The Q. Thanks for 20 yrs of excellence & setting the bar for competitiveness. — Dan Gilbert
Smokescreen….Cavs are trading for Kobe next week…
Loves injury does not look serious. Sounds like they were just taking precaution, since they were playing the Lakers.
Hopeful that is the case. Watching him walk off to the locker room with his left shoulder and arm dangling like that made me and many sick. All Star Break finally…
To be fair he did that same thing the other day when he got bumped. Just being really cautious
Awesome play by the Cavs.
Gotta go eat some popcorn. Goodnight all.
Cols, how many times have you said good night? I count 3!
It’s so hard to
Say goodbye to CtB.
R&B died with Ray Allens career!
Good. We need him
#Cavs expect Kevin Love (shoulder contusion) to be available for first game out of All-Star break. It’ll be Chicago on Feb. 18 at The Q. – Chris Haynes
That game wasn’t anything more than an exhibition game that counted in the regular season. Lakers are awful! They need to fire Byron. He’s a horrible coach. A nice guy, yes, but a horrible coach. Hope Love is okay. Much needed rest coming and then the great push!
The Lakers are in farewell tour mode. No need to fire Byron. They will have cap to sign a couple maxes next summer.
True… Keep the tank going.
Harden is great.
Semi-official word from Lue: “I heard Love has a shoulder contusion.”
Goodwin and Morris in a shoving match during timeout. Glad we didn’t get that dude.
yet…………………………….
yet? Love has a contusion he’ll get over in 8 days?
They may be interested in him…I wouldn’t b shocked if they traded for him. Surprised, but not shocked.
Cols did you fall asleep on your keyboard?
his bot is broken
The Cols 420 model sometimes gets stuck on one thing.
McCollum with a sweet three.
Howard pounds it down.
Howard with a sweet shot n
They are a team of great resolve.
If Portland can make the rockets play in half court they’ve really got a shot.
wow cols just wow
It may seem hard to believe after tonight, but there was a time when Cols found it difficult to watch a game and comment in the live thread at the same time.
Baby steps! Next he will be joining you on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Harden is pretty great.
Cavs are just awesome.
Love this team. Just so good on offense since Lie took over.
Can we please trade for Kpbe?
Boom. Another sweet play by Cavs.
Great shot by Irving.
Lollards just carrying them.
I don’t think Toronto is a threat unless they make a trade. Same with Boston.
Unless they trade for LeBron, neither of them is remotely a threat.
They are the only team that can beat the Warriors. Lowry is sweet.
When I say threat it doesn’t mean that they would be favored, but that they’d have a decent shot of advancing. I can’t think of any trades that would push them, but if for example, Boston got Boogie, they’d be a threat. Not a big threat, but a threat.
James looking great.
Great step back by James. Need more of those.
Andy looked good on that one.
Nice play by Thompson there.
Irving looking sweet.
Great shot by James b
I like the retirement in advance idea. Then we get to celebrate them.
Cavs looked great. Crowd was great. Kobe was good.
loving this team. They just blew away the Lakers without even sweating. Could probably eat off their uniforms they are so clean.
Sounds like Love is ok.
LeBron is awesome.
LeBron is so good with the press. Just seems like a really smart and real authentic down to earth dude.
The Raptors match up well with GS and are looking awesome this season. Lowry is sweet.
Toronto is no threat.
They are the only team that can beat GS. Get on the train now.
Minnesota has the ball up 3 on Toronto with under a minute to go.
LeBron with 29 points. He’s awesome.
Decent game from Kobe. I will
Miss him. Maybe we can trade for him.
Cavs looking awesome.
So great game by Cavs. As long as Love is OK there’s nothing to complain about here.
Cavs with a sweet win.
So Cavs with another 120 point game. Lue is getting through.
What an awesome crowd.
I love this crowd giving Kobe props.
James and Irving and thompson and smith all looking awesome.
Is every arena doing this for Kobe or is Cleveland full of suckers?
What a great crowd tonight
Kyrie with a high difficulty layup with the left hand
Bye Kobe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kyrie gets the ball to LBJ while Kobe’s on him, LBJ makes in rhythm 3.
LBJ misses easy shot in the post while posting up Kobe
Love Kobe Bryant right there.
James with another sweet three.
Sounds like Love is going to be OK
Irving and James looking awesome.