so they have lakers next? looks like 1-5, I'll take it!!
Lakers are the worst I ever seen them . Has to be the worst Laker team.....since the horrible team moved from Minnesota to LA.
The only way LA has a chance to win is if Lopez doesn't play ......and then it it is a coin toss or
Remote possibility ......Scott is fired ......and a new coach inspires them to win......I think LA will be better with a new coach . Hopefully can win more than Nets.
There are actually quite a few reasons to favor the Lakers. While the Nets are truly horrible on both ends (2nd worst offense after Philly, 4th worst D), the Lakers are terrible on D (dead last), but quite good offensively (7th best). Thus we could be looking at a repeat of the Bucks game, where the Bucks were absolutely dreadful defensively, but the Nets were incapable of taking advantage because they couldn't hit wide-open 3s. Meanwhile the Bucks were able to take advantage of the Nets awful D thanks to their offensive talent.
Once you break it down to the scouting & match-up level it looks even worse for the Nets. The Lakers biggest problem defensively is their inability to stop the pick and roll with Hibbert so slow, Randle so green and the Laker perimeter squad so weak defensively. But the Nets are one of the very few teams incapable of consistently exploiting this (Jack and Johnson are their primary ball-handlers and both tend to be too slow to explode into the paint). Kobe Bryant has devolved into one of the worst team defenders in the NBA, but he's still okay on man, where Joe Johnson does all of his work.
On the other end of the floor the Lakers have 5 aggressive scorers (5 rotation guys with 18+ points per 36 averages) who can take advantage of bad individual defenders (like Jack, Bogdanovic, Johnson, Larkin, T-Rob and Bargnani) and a slow pick and roll defender like Lopez. Lopez is at particular risk of getting into foul trouble with foul-baiters like Kobe, Randle and Lou Williams (and even Bass) leading the LA attack.
The teams that the Nets look capable of beating right now are Minnesota (no 3-point shooting, lots of green young guys to exploit) and, of course, Philly. Lakers not so much (though it's obviously quite possible).
Topic: Official 2015-16 Brooklyn Nets Season Watch Thread (21-59, 3rd slot as of 4/12) (Read 698897 times)