SQUEEZE the ORANGE...PLAYBOOK the LAKEshow...what went wrong at the end of last nights game in THUNDER Alley...KOBE didn't get the FINAL TOUCH

The Play the LAKEshow ran out of the timeout with 5.2 seconds left in the game was what I thought with the wrong personnel.  Coach Brown had Kobe, the Spaniard, Blake, Metta World P., and Drew.

The first problem with the whole play is that Kobe went to late with the Thunder having a foul to give. When your on the road in the Logo you always go for the Win unless the play presents itself to tie the game. Kobe should have went with 10 seconds instead of when Thabo fouled him at 5.2.

The next issue was the five that the Lakers had out there. I would have had the Spaniard Gasol out there just because of his passing and ability to shoot on the perimeter. My lineup would have no Drew or Blake though. You need Shooters out there for the Thunder to stay True defensively. My lineup would have been something like this:

Metta World P. taking the Orange out of bounds

Sessions in Blake's place with his ability to get to the rim in case they run him off the Arc

Gasol with his ability outside the paint

Barnes with Money Ball Ability as well as he can get to the rim

Kobe because he still is the Best Closer on GOOGLE Earth

The Play: Metta out of bounds. Sessions opposite Block of Metta. Kobe opposite FT Line extended with Gasol close to Metta coming to Kobe for the Screen. Barnes opposite Corner but moving towards Gasol if Kobe can't get it for the 2nd Screen. If Kobe doesn't get and Barnes is a decoy get it Gasol coming back to Metta.

Meanwhile Kobe has run off Barnes who screens Kobe's guy and Kobe's popping Back out top of the key with Sessions staying in the Corner as Kobe either shoots or drives left. If Kobe drives left with Gasol, Metta, and Barnes right Sideline....Sessions come out of the left corner in case his man runs at Kobe for a Double....Sessions then gets a Open Look if Kobe can not.

They ran the play with the Wrong Personnel and put that one on Mike Brown. If your not going to use Drew Do not have him in. The Thunder saw that and played Ibaka on Drew and he came off Drew and went straight to Kobe.

Now you see Mike Brown isn't the best out of Time Outs and Doc Rivers and Pops of the Spurs are Lethal on Time outs...the best in the Logo.

Two Turnovers, poor clock management, and awful execution for the LAKEshow doomed them in the end.....

The #1 Rule in the Logo...your best player has to get the Orange at any cost at the end of the game and not necessarily to make the Shot but the Play...no excuses. And if he is used as a Decoy you better be 99.9% right on that Play your running to get at least at the rim or the charity stripe.