Why was Perk not playing in the 4th?

[Frezz]

I was always of the belief that as long as Dwight Howard is in the east, that's reason enough to keep Perk. But other than game one of the Orlando series, he really didn't do much of anything on Dwight. So I'm definitely open to shopping Perk this Summer.

[nickagneta]

Now here is criticism I agree with.

Not the entire fourth but when the C's got it to within 2 points with about 4 minutes left and it was pretty obvious that Jackson was going to stick with Odom and Gasol, Baby needed to be removed.

Simply, if the Lakers went to one of their bigs in the final minutes they went to Baby's side.

The Odom baseline blow by for a layup was against Baby

The Gasol 8-footer from the left side was over a much shorter Baby.

The Fisher scamper up the left sideline for the layup and one was because baby didn't hustle back on defense and become the last line of defense, instead deciding to walk backwards up court until he realized it was too late.

If Perk was in the game instead, I feel confident those things may not have happened.

For that, I blame Doc.

[Spilling Green Dye]

Perk has been playing terribly and really escaping blame for our shortcomings.

Baby was incredible tonight - apart from a couple of unfortunate offensive fouls.

Perk hasn't shown up yet.

Baby was not incredible.  In the 2nd half I really liked his hustle and scoring around the hoop, but he was played too long and stunk in the 1st half.

Davis has a role, and Doc is trying to exceed that, with bad results.  For every good finish around the hoop Davis gave up a basket on the other end (b/c of length, not really his fault) or turned it over.  

Doc should have subbed in someone for Davis with 4-5 minutes left in the 4th.  

[Spilling Green Dye]

Now here is criticism I agree with.

Not the entire fourth but when the C's got it to within 2 points with about 4 minutes left and it was pretty obvious that Jackson was going to stick with Odom and Gasol, Baby needed to be removed.

Simply, if the Lakers went to one of their bigs in the final minutes they went to Baby's side.

The Odom baseline blow by for a layup was against Baby

The Gasol 8-footer from the left side was over a much shorter Baby.

The Fisher scamper up the left sideline for the layup and one was because baby didn't hustle back on defense and become the last line of defense, instead deciding to walk backwards up court until he realized it was too late.

If Perk was in the game instead, I feel confident those things may not have happened.

For that, I blame Doc.

You also forgot the two consecutive Kobe Bryant baskets 4 feet from the hoop and right over Davis.  Had that been Perk at least one of them would have been blocked.  They were point blank jumpers.

I'm not blaming Davis.  He is not a shot blocker, and his defense in those Kobe baskets was his typical "feet planted, arms straight up, maybe I'll draw the charge."  That defense is good for players driving to the hoop hard.  It was not good in this cirumstance.

[Andy Jick]

If Doc did anything wrong, he put BBD on Ga-Soft and that killed us.  Simply put, he's an energy player, but he's too short for Pau's length.  I would have tried to go offense / defense, with BBD in for offensive purposes (setting picks, crashing offensive boards) but used 'Sheed on defense. 

I remember one play where 'Sheed backed off Pau and he stuck a 17 foot jumper in his face and Doc seemed livid...but if I recall, it didn't happen again.  I just don't understand how the coaching staff thinks BBD can guard a guy much longer than him.

Perk just can't provide this team much.  Yeah, he has his moments, but I don't believe in him, and nor do I sense the coaches when it's crunch time.

[wdleehi]

Laker big men were 4-12 when Perk was on the floor.


9-13 when he wasn't. 

[kozlodoev]

He should have played more in the 4th.  Davis did his job great, but at that point, they were not going to him offensively. 


They could have used Perk's length on Gasol allowing KG to defend Odom who was getting off to much.  They needed stops as much as they needed points. 

Thats what I thought while I watched the game. We had scorers in and neede a defesive presence in there. You cannot have Davis guarding Gasol like what happened last night.

We had scorers in -- who couldn't score all night!

Most of the team's offensive production in the fourth quarter cane from Davis cutting to the basket or getting in for offensive boards.

The only mind-boggling thing was why we had Garnett on Odom and not Gasol -- though in all fairness, Gasol only managed to abuse his size advantage once.