How awful were the lakers.... I watched both games, Byron Scott ran an offense that is pretty much isolation for Kobe every time. When he dribbles into trouble with less than 5 seconds left on the clock and throw a crazy pass to someone who has to rush a shot. Scott obviously doesn't want to shake things up too much there but he should at least create movement off the ball to give people options. Currently everybody's ball watching. They said Lin can blossom in this setting, but what I see is worse than playing with Harden in Houston. I guess Lin is just one Kobe injury from being the main man.
But generally speaking, I never thought I would see such poor basketball at the NBA level. The coaching has been non-existent, maybe due to the fear of Kobe. Even when Kobe is on the bench, it is just 5 guys taking turns going one on one, there are no plays at all.