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Los Angeles Lakers (17x NBA Champions)

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Kobe had an awesome performance, I agree we kinda relaxed at the beginning of the second half, but then turned it back up a notch. Kobe really fed off the crowd and was very obvious in encouraging them and playing to them. Craig Sager tried to make it an issue with Luke Walton that Kobe was scoring so much and Walton was like, "He is the best player in the league, we just enjoy watching him play and helping him kill kids." Sager started to say that Kobe didn't used to trust Walton and Walton was like "I really stepped up my game and Kobe is such a great player that he hits whoever is hot."

Fuck you Craig Sager.
 
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starBUCKS;1158498; said:
Amazing how different the season started and ended. Kobe booed at home the first week of the season... and now as the fans chant MVP, Kobe talks about his love for the fans and many more years of being togehter.
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Yeah... well, let's see what happens when they try to restructure contracts to keep this team together in a couple years.
 
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Must be nice for Kobe with the guys around him opening up the court where he isn't seeing 4-5 guys keying on him at one time...

Gasol, Odom, and Euro's(names to hard to spell :)) are opening up the floor and Jackson is smart enough to figure out ways to get Kobe with great space to operate when he does go to work, or to find him in the post...

Wish the Cavs could sign a couple guys like the Lakers have and get a coach that understand offense...

The Lakers/NO is going to be a great series...Not a shoe in yet, but that is the way it looks as of the moment...
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie;1159953; said:
Carlos Boozer pushes someone in the back on every shot it seems.
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Well, Utah plays very physical, sometimes it bites them in the ass, sometimes it doesn't. We have to adjust and adapt, that type of play doesn't work out well when they are on the road, but at home they just keep going and soon the whistles stop and the refs let them play.

crazybuckfan40;1159958; said:
And Boozer finally showed up...Kobe tried to will the team back...Gasol didn't have his best night either...
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I have a few things to say on this:

First as far as Kobe goes, he probably could have gone nuts, put up 40+ and maybe won the game, but then he deals with "now that he's won his MVP award he's going back to being a ballhog" and when he gets his teammates involved, and they miss shots, well, "he should have taken over" catch 22.

The big killer tonight was really Fishers two quick penalties, once we had to put Farmar on Williams there was no stopping him. The first and third quarters are huge for building a cushion so we can rest our starters, yeah, Gasol had a bad game, and Turiaf hasn't really shown up this series, but you can't let Williams have anything he wants, the guys a beast.

Am I concerned? A little, but I think the guys will pull together, I thought they made a lot of nice adjustments in the second half and finally took this team seriously, Utah is a really tough place to play, but we've shown we can win there, now we just need to take control on Sunday and bring it back home.

The thing that KILLS me about Phil Jackson coached teams is that "let them play through it" mentality, in the second quarter I thought there was a few times he should have called time out, but instead just let the guys dig a deeper and deeper hole for them. They tied the first and third quarters, won the fourth, but the hole dug in the second was just a little too much.
 
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OCBucksFan;1159963; said:
I have a few things to say on this:

First as far as Kobe goes, he probably could have gone nuts, put up 40+ and maybe won the game, but then he deals with "now that he's won his MVP award he's going back to being a ballhog" and when he gets his teammates involved, and they miss shots, well, "he should have taken over" catch 22.
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I disagree here...Kobe will do what he feels best...He isn't going to worry abou the media...If he felt that he coudl of went for 40+ and they would of won then he would of went for it...I am not saying he should of went one way or the other, just saying that his 3rd quarter and 4th quarter was what LA needed to get them back in the game, he just needed a little more help tonight and it wasn't there...

The big killer tonight was really Fishers two quick penalties, once we had to put Farmar on Williams there was no stopping him. The first and third quarters are huge for building a cushion so we can rest our starters, yeah, Gasol had a bad game, and Turiaf hasn't really shown up this series, but you can't let Williams have anything he wants, the guys a beast.

Am I concerned? A little, but I think the guys will pull together, I thought they made a lot of nice adjustments in the second half and finally took this team seriously, Utah is a really tough place to play, but we've shown we can win there, now we just need to take control on Sunday and bring it back home.

The thing that KILLS me about Phil Jackson coached teams is that "let them play through it" mentality, in the second quarter I thought there was a few times he should have called time out, but instead just let the guys dig a deeper and deeper hole for them. They tied the first and third quarters, won the fourth, but the hole dug in the second was just a little too much.
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Not going to disagree with anything you said here, because it is spot on, other than the play thru a bad stretch...He has Kobe on the floor, and a vetran ball club...IMO a team like that doesn't need someone to hold their hand everytime a team goes on a run...This wasn't a vastly important game for the Lakers, so nothing really hurt there, other than some experience of trying to fight out of a hole...They got back in the game, and were within reach down the stretch, so it wasn't like it hurt them that bad...
 
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I know what Phil does is, overall, better for the team, but it just frustrates me to watch, as a fan. As far as the Kobe thing goes, meh, he is what he is, he's matured a lot this season and is trusting his teammates, I guess I can't really expect him to know in the first half "ok, Gasol is off, I need to put up a ton of points" but it's something I have grown used to over the past 3 years. Like I said, there's a lot of positives to take out of this game, this isn't the 2001 team that went 15-1 in the playoffs, this is a different team and the competition in the NBA is a lot better, so there's a part of me that had some concern they would go 8-0 in the first two rounds and walk into a buzz-saw in the western conference finals. Even when the Jazz started to come back in the first two games, I felt the team never really worried, they would just "turn it on" when the game got close and rebuild the lead. Hopefully this will instill that kill instinct they showed during the end of the regular season that gave them that top seed in the west.
 
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The Fast Lane: I GOT CUSSED OUT BY KOBE BRYANT'S WIFE

Last night, I got cussed out by Vanessa Bryant. Seriously. At the Lakers game. In front of her kids. In front of the Lakers locker room. It was awesome. She is mad about an article I wrote where I mentioned her. That means one of two things - she either reads the ESPN blog or she has herself of Google alerts. Both are fantastic.

So as I?m walking out of the Lakers locker room after some post-game interviews with the players, I pass Vanessa, who is sitting outside the locker room as usual with her two girls.

?Laura!? she screams (yes, she apparently knows my name). ?Fuck you! You fucking bitch!?
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Kobe better put her ass in check.
 
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