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Rebounds, not legacies, the story for Lakers

June, 18, 2010 Jun 182:18AM ETEmail Print Comments103 By John Hollinger

LOS ANGELES – It was fitting that an offensive rebound provided what
proved to be the title-clinching play. And it was equally fitting that
all the basketball gods made a mockery of all our non-stop chatter
about individual legacies when a team-wide Lakers effort that won them
Game 7 in spite of, rather than because of, their best player.

All night long, the Lakers had battled to overcome a mystifying inability
to shoot straight by sheer brute force, grabbing 23 of their own misses
and maintaining possession four other times on balls knocked out of bounds.

So when Kobe Bryant forced a long 3 under duress with 28 seconds left, it
was only natural that Pau Gasol – for the ninth time – came down with it.
Gasol held off Rajon Rondo for the rebound, passed it back to out to Bryant
at the free-throw line, and then Bryant drove the lane to draw a foul.

Had Boston secured the rebound, they would have had the ball with a chance
to tie and send the game to overtime. Instead, Bryant’s free throw put
the Lakers up 81-76, and the Celtics never had the ball with a chance to
tie again.

It all started when the Lakers caught Boston in a bad match-up coming
upcourt. Kevin Garnett ended up guarding Derek Fisher in the left corner,
leaving Rondo frantically trying to switch men with Rasheed Wallace and
Paul Pierce. He ended up on Gasol near the foul line as the Celtics went
to trap Bryant in a pick-and-roll and then, as the shot went up, under the
rim. Rondo had inside position, but being a foot shorter proved problematic.
Gasol reached up with one arm, held Rondo off with the other, and claimed
the rebound near the baseline.

“We were trying to trap and we got caught,” said Rivers. “I thought Rondo
boxed him out. He went over his back, but they’re not going to call that
with the size advantage.”

“I just wanted to go get it,” said Gasol. “ I was able to box him out and
hold him with one arm. I was pretty proud of that play because those little
play, those little thing make a huge different, especially at that point of
the game.”

For the game L.A. kept possession 27 times out of a possible 62 caroms, an
exorbitant Offensive Rebound Rate of 43.5% -- a normal total is barely half
of that. It couldn’t have come at a better time. L.A. shot a horrid 32.5%
from the field and 67.6% from the line, but won by securing 22 possessions
more than Boston between its rebound and turnover advantages.

Of course, rebounding has been an issue the entire Finals – the team with
more rebounds won every game. Even more atypically, the team with more
offensive rebounds won six of the seven. Offensive rebounds typically
correlate with losing, because you can’t get an offensive rebound unless
you miss a shot, and usually the team with more offensive rebounds gained
that distinction by missing a great many more shots.

True to that trend, L.A. missed more shots than Boston tonight, but the
offensive boards allowed them to attempt so many that it didn’t matter.
With Kendrick Perkins absent, L.A.’s size put even more pressure on the
Celtics defensive rebounders, especially on the opening minutes.
Seven-footer Andrew Bynum ganged up with Gasol to regain possession on
the first eight Laker misses before Boston finally claimed a carom –
a missed free throw that Rasheed Wallace rebounded at knee-level.

“I thought the lack of size was the difference,” said Rivers. “Our guys
battled down there, but 23-8 on offensive rebounds, and the 37-17
discrepancy in free throws, that makes it impossible to overcome.”

The rebounding battle became so important because the Lakers couldn’t get
out of their own way on offense. Bryant deserved his Finals MVP award but
Game 7 was a stinker for him, shooting 6-of-24 with just two assists and
committing four turnovers. Instead, it was his teammates who picked him up.

Which leads us to the big takeaway from L.A. boarding its way to the title:
Reminding us that this is a team sport.

The silly “Kobe has five, Michael has six” debates we had all week now seem
more ludicrous than ever after his teammates bailed him out on a night that
would allegedly decide his legacy.

Yes, the ring’s the thing, and even Bryant couldn’t resist noting that he
now has one more of them than Shaquille O’Neal. But this isn’t tennis or
golf – individuals don’t win championships. Teams do.

Bryant helped prove it when he suffered consecutive first-round exits prior
to Gasol’s arrival. As brilliant as Bryant has been at times in these
Finals, it’s noteworthy that his best Finals performance (Game 5) came in
defeat, and his worst in the deciding victory.

Instead it was L.A.’s cavalry that rode to the rescue. Artest, whom Laker
coach Phil Jackson called the team’s MVP tonight, suffocated Paul Pierce on
defense and scored 20 points, including a back-breaking 3 with a minute left.
Derek Fisher hit a difficult 3 to tie the game midway through the fourth,
Gasol owned the glass in the fourth quarter, and Sasha Vujacic stepped out of
the freezer to hit two title-clinching free throws with 11 seconds left.

That’s not a knock on Bryant. That’s just how it’s usually been done …
 far more frequently than most people care to remember. Take Jordan, for
instance. He clinched his first title as a mostly-bystander watching a
monstrous fourth quarter from John Paxson … and the second with five
reserves leading a 16-point comeback against Portland in Game 6 ... and the
third watching Paxson nail the game-winner in Phoenix.

In fact, if a player had his legacy defined tonight it wasn’t Bryant, who
was the third-best player on his own team, but Gasol. Lambasted for his lack
of toughness and fortitude in the 2008 Finals, and earlier in this series, he
dominated the fourth quarter with nine points, six rebounds, two assists and
a blocked shot. Perhaps that’s why he seemed more emotional than usual in
the aftermath.

“He was the one guy I felt really played with good energy," said Lakers
coach Phil Jackson.

As a result, the Lakers are champions, no matter how ugly it might have
looked in stretches -- "It wasn't well done, but it was done," said Jackson.

And in the end, it wasn't done by legacies or superstars, but by the very
basic fact that the Lakers earned so many shots they couldn't help but get at
least a few them to the bottom of the net.

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→ chancewen:籃板多阿，怎樣XD
推 Qedosh:Hollinger整天舔LBJ的LP是有得到什麼好處嗎
→ Qedosh:不過我承認我沒看這篇不知道他在說啥
推 Bigcookie2:科科
推 SoulHsu:他說了些甚麼?懶得看英文XD
→ xsonic:大致上是kobe打很爛 然後斷章取義一下賽後採訪(完)
→ fanrei:就說kobe很爛靠隊友撿子彈才有冠軍，喬神總決賽也常常看
→ fanrei:隊友表演，所以隊友很重要，籃球是打團隊的，LBJ沒戒指不是
→ fanrei:他的錯XD（最後一句是我加的XD）
推 Bigcookie2:科科 通通都不是LBJ的錯 都是別人的錯 尤其是West XDDD
→ animalspell:看完啦，大致上是在講Game7的事情吧
→ animalspell:賽程進行中心理層面上你會覺得某幾場比較重要
→ animalspell:但就統計上，每一勝的比重都一樣
→ animalspell:his best Finals performance (Game 5) came in
→ animalspell:defeat, and his worst in the deciding victory.
→ animalspell:這種論點不就跟那些酸民講的一樣，似乎再說KB表現好
→ animalspell:對勝敗影響不大，關鍵在隊友，尤其是Gasol
→ animalspell:基本上要贏球最好是紅花綠葉都要開放
→ animalspell:也許Hollinger喜歡MJ或LBJ那種一夫當關的英雄
→ animalspell:但很多酸民訐譙KB的不就是他老想嘗試當這種英雄
→ qtzbbztq:他這樣就錶到JORDAN了喔..JORDAN1996年 FINAL最後一場
→ qtzbbztq:表現跟KOBE差不多......
→ animalspell:KB不用暴氣，恆定演出，加上隊友的幫忙就會贏
→ animalspell:可能對Hollinger只有贏的場次才有貢獻吧
→ animalspell:以LAL贏的另三場球，雖然有老漁等等，KB比重還是最大
→ animalspell:也許以後LAL改以Gasol為中心的打法也有可能奪冠
→ animalspell:畢竟在這個系列戰還不是這樣... 雖然未來樂觀其成啦
→ animalspell:要是能跟河流一樣，每場都有不同致勝武器多好
推 benson:而且他應該只看數據不看防守吧
→ benson:大蓋火鍋多一點 抄截多一點 籃板(今年不算)多一點就好
→ animalspell:他說G7是靠籃板贏的，有籃板是因為投籃不進
→ animalspell:所以KB在最後一場抓了15個籃板真對不起他阿
→ animalspell:以BOS的防守水準，就是投籃很難進才更要掌握好籃板
推 benson:真希望未來三年別在Finals看到LBJ
→ animalspell:每波攻擊給自己多一次機會，就算命中率低也還有機會
→ animalspell:這就是Hollinger所謂的how ugly it might have looked
推 JackX:最大的差別在於湖人打贏bos  騎士輸給了bos
推 kobechampmvp:在他們的邏輯裡 KOBE有貢獻=其他人沒貢獻 只要其他人
推 arthurkot:明年的目標就設定成在總冠軍賽打倒lbj好了(菸)
→ kobechampmvp:有一點貢獻 就等於KOBE沒貢獻 or KOBe的貢獻不重要
→ kobechampmvp:要在Finals打敗LBJ 也得要LBJ有能耐站在Finals阿XD
推 zsh:藍球本來就是五個人打 隊友打好隊贏球當然重要
→ zsh:難道這位大球瓶以為NBA FINALS是鬥牛嗎?
推 mr81lakers:這個評論者也是酸民一個
→ AngelNo13:對我而言在主將狀況不佳時有人能跳出來接管 這就是一個
→ AngelNo13:團隊
推 Sephiroth:Hollinger就喜歡推廣他所謂的進階數據嘛 除非在籃板
→ Sephiroth:助攻上的數據能更詳細,不然再怎麼權重去加加減減,意義
→ Sephiroth:都不會多大啦!騎士總管努力了幾年??  陣容不夠好嗎??
推 mucle:總之就是湖人拿冠軍 騎士提早去看世足賽 還要爭什麼?
→ mucle:KOBE還在g7卡位搶籃板球的時候 喇叭已經在家裡看冠軍賽了
→ kbcl:Hollinger不意外 每天只知道捧LBJ的LP
→ Verlander35:看標題就猜是火靈哥了...