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Adam Morrison is in....my night is complete.
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right and artest
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If the Lakers could just get half of that production from the bench on a nightly basis, David Stern would have to cancel the season and just hand the Lakers the O’Brien trophy now.
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we ballin. ....
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Results from Monday's MRI showed that Gasol suffered a mild-to-moderate left hamstring strain, the Los Angeles Times reports.
He's listed as doubtful for Tuesday's game against the Rockets and day-to-day after that. The Lakers were patient with Gasol earlier this season, so it wouldn't be surprised to see the same thing this time around.
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Man ahh is lucky my account didn't get approved at sohh. Their Laker thread is much more poppin than this one. Got some old ahh vets over there too.
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Hope we can get more consistent play out of our bench we cant have Kobe playing 40+ minutes
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artest is back in training i don't think we should rush gasol back
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Rough game, but boy did Bynum show up tonight.
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Odom was beastin. We won, we still da best
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Ok boys, time to end the losing streak. Hopefully Gasol will be back for the Spurs game.
I am scared that Jennings will destroy Fisher tonight. -
The Lakers should be at 12-13 losses with the way they barely beating teams.
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? , Lamar Odom has been on some special candy the past few games. Dude has been so hyper Active. Is Khloe that good?
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Man this is a must win; Kobe havin an off nite glad Bynum is doin his thing
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Man this is a must win; Kobe havin an off nite glad Bynum is doin his thing
Boy, he is OFF tonight, 1-14. Ugly 1st half. -
WOW, this has got to be one of the ugliest games EVER.
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WOW, this has got to be one of the ugliest games EVER.
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Kobe Bryant Puts Finger On Shooting Woes
After three terrible shooting games, he said he is going back to using a splint.
By KURT HELIN
Kobe Bryant is in a shooting slump. It was at the heart of two Lakers losses last week, and it continued in a win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday night (his teammates picked up the slack this time).
Kobe made just 4 of 21 against Milwaukee. He was 10 of 30 against the Clippers. He was 14 of 37 against Portland: That is 31.8% over the last three games. And it’s not like he has stopped shooting -- that’s not how Kobe functions, he is too confident to stop trying.
It’s all about the finger he fractured last month.
“I tried to play with the splint off, but it’s going back on,” Kobe said after the Bucks game. “Just trying to get some flexibility back. The finger felt pretty good so we tried to go without the splint, but it isn’t strong enough.”
Kobe suffered an avulsion fracture in his index finger of his right hand on Dec. 11 against Minnesota. For those of you without medical degrees, that is when the tendon comes off from the bone and takes a little piece of the bone with it. It hurts about as much as it sounds like it would.
Since then, Kobe has favored his left hand — he even took an 18-footer with his left hand against Milwaukee that generated laughs from teammates — while trying to find ways to play with the sore shooting hand. That meant at first what Phil Jackson called a “prosthetic” – a splint designed to support the finger. Despite that, the finger was aggravated a couple times and the swelling came back, like after a recent game against Sacramento. Kobe has tried a hard splint, a soft splint and most recently no splint (just a little tape). Kobe said after the game Sunday that no splint gave him the best feel but his finger wasn’t strong enough and shots were just coming up short.
Those short shots — and the volume of them — is why the Lakers had lost two in a row before the Bucks came to town and had a whole team shooting like Kobe for a night. As is the team pattern, when other players are not shooting well Kobe tries to take the team on his back, except that with his finger injury he couldn’t carry them.
But as the Lakers head into their toughest couple weeks of the season — San Antonio and Dallas this week, Orlando and the Celtics in the coming weeks — the Lakers are going to need Kobe and his finger to find their stroke again. Or this modest two-game losing streak will not seem so bad.
Kurt Helin could not type with a broken finger as he runs the NBA/Lakers blog Forum Blue & Gold (which you can also follow in twitter).
Kinda makes sense now. He was having one of his best shooting season in awhile until the last 3 games. -
Man, i hope Kobe's back is ok. I recently had back issues, that ? can be a ? . I think he definitely has to sit now, rest that back, we have bigger fish to fry in April.
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Lakers gonna take that L against the Mavs too...Then next week gotta see the Cavs and Magic...Its gettin', its gettin', its gettin' kinda heavy!!!!!!
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Tonite was a must win and we got it, I still wish we had better bench production they stepped up tonite but if we had the machine back....WOW.
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Tonite was a must win and we got it, I still wish we had better bench production they stepped up tonite but if we had the machine back....WOW.
DUDE, This is our first real statement game win of the season. Very nice! -
The first NBA team to win 3,000 games, Suck on that Celtics.
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bless the child wrote: »Lakers gonna take that L against the Mavs too...Then next week gotta see the Cavs and Magic...Its gettin', its gettin', its gettin' kinda heavy!!!!!!
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