No. Bynum's good play has nothing to do with Perk playing scared or Perk's "poor" defense.

It has more to do with Perk helping out stopping penetration. It has more to do with the combination of him and Gasol being around. It has to do with Bynum being a more dangerous offensive player than Howard and Shaq at this moment. It has to do with Bymum taking advantage of shorter/thinner defenders when Perk is out of the game. It has to do with poor rotation when Perkins is helping on other players.

Perk would look a lot better if the refs would ever call three seconds on Bynum or Gasol.  The Lakers' big men are literally spending six or seven seconds in the paint without being called for it.

The only thing Perkins has to do to avoid getting his seventh Tech is keep his big trap shut when he gets whistled and don't get into unnecessary shoving matches.

I love Perkins game and what he does for the Celts but he has always talked way too much to the refs after every foul he gets.

He can still play good, hard, clean and physical defensive basketball and just keep his mouth shut and he shouldn't have much to worry about.

He can rake guys arms as they go up and bang people hard with his body, etc. He just can't lay someone out, get into a wrestling match with someone or talk crap to the refs...

So my answer is I don't think so. I think he should be smart enough to know how to play at this time with the amount of techs he has.

Q_FBE > 100% agree with you. TP

I don't know what is up with KG. I live in LA and all the reports about how is old and done out here are really annoying. KG looked anything but old and done against the Cavs and Magic. You don't get old in one week. He's looked very spry, bouncy and like the old KG throughout most of the plyaoffs.

If he hasn't re-injured something or some things ( Knee and shoulder) or something then he has 100% gotten himself so "geeked out" in his mind that he's rmoved himself form the game. 

Perk would look a lot better if the refs would ever call three seconds on Bynum or Gasol.  The Lakers' big men are literally spending six or seven seconds in the paint without being called for it.

Forgot to mention that. I don't know how many times I screamed at home at the top of my lungs for 3 seconds to be called. Seriously, I've never seen such an abuse of that rule as I've seen in the last two games, not even with Howard.

Can I vote for a thread title change though? It hurts me to see "Perkens".

Quote from: Roy Hobbs on June 08, 2010, 10:40:33 AM

Perk would look a lot better if the refs would ever call three seconds on Bynum or Gasol.  The Lakers' big men are literally spending six or seven seconds in the paint without being called for it.

Forgot to mention that. I don't know how many times I screamed at home at the top of my lungs for 3 seconds to be called. Seriously, I've never seen such an abuse of that rule as I've seen in the last two games, not even with Howard.

Can I vote for a thread title change though? It hurts me to see "Perkens".

Perhaps that should be the chant tonight.  Kind of like the old JO counting at the free throw line, we can count every time one of the Lakers big men enter the lane.

Quote from: BudweiserCeltic on June 08, 2010, 02:29:33 PM

Quote from: Roy Hobbs on June 08, 2010, 10:40:33 AM

Perk would look a lot better if the refs would ever call three seconds on Bynum or Gasol.  The Lakers' big men are literally spending six or seven seconds in the paint without being called for it.

Forgot to mention that. I don't know how many times I screamed at home at the top of my lungs for 3 seconds to be called. Seriously, I've never seen such an abuse of that rule as I've seen in the last two games, not even with Howard.

Can I vote for a thread title change though? It hurts me to see "Perkens".

Perhaps that should be the chant tonight.  Kind of like the old JO counting at the free throw line, we can count every time one of the Lakers big men enter the lane.

If I were at the game I would gladly participate! I think it is a great idea!!