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lol kobe not givin' up on the game?
he's been flamed for givin' up in the game more than any other player thus far
They were still close. Does that mean jack or ?Just because I am not crying about the Spurs losing does not mean I am apologizing. Tim looks bad, everyone looked pretty bad. Does that change the fact Kobe played great and the Spurs were still close with 4 minutes left?
lol kobe not givin' up on the game?
he's been flamed for givin' up in the game more than any other player thus far
lol GOOD WIN BY lAKERS Spurs had been playing well.
Cavs game is huge for teh spurs means nada to the Cavs ...when does Parker get back?
duncan cant have a game like that against the lakers and expect to win... not without tony parker... its hard to blame him... now manu is seeing how it feels like to carry a team.... just like duncan carried this team the first half of the season...
Is Tim sick? hurting? quit on the season?
For whatever reason, he can't play basketball anymore.
The beating the Cavs are gonna lay on us will make tonight look like a win.
Is Tim sick? hurting? quit on the season?
For whatever reason, he can't play basketball anymore.
Haha, need a gif of that.
That was just so ugly near the end, made me rage.
It means what I am saying was realistic. Do you think the Spurs will all always play that bad?
Duncan had a bad night, again (and great d by gasol)~
Lakers' interior D was great in the 2nd half, but they gambled and dared our shooters and we couldnt make wide open shots
Props to manu
Next game.
We'd have two losses in a row if it hadn't been for Mason's 1st half heroics against the thunder.
How soon people forget..
Lets go get that win vs the cavs
Someone's got to think positive here
No, it wasn't. It probably wasn't even in the top 40% of Kobe's games this year. You are hilarious.
Have you see anything to indicate they will show up for even 36 minutes vs an elite team? They can't hold leads consistently (or protect the ball) vs anyone. I'm not happy about it, but they just don't have it. Same song.
I don't think its anything physical, its all mental and being unhappy, its easy to see from his body language both on the court and off.
If I had to guess its because Matt Boner is back in the rotation getting heavy minutes and also playing alot of crucial minutes down the stretch of games w/ Timmy
Pop is determined to make Matt Bonner a clutch 4th quarter player even if it kills Timmy
Well, we will just have to disagree. I will take 11-16 shooting all day with managing the game.
You can add
Hairston = 0 min
Bonner = ass
RJ = ass
Dice=ass
Bogans = ass
Blair=ass
LOL @ this season.
Manu should go elsewhere
Thats sad
Manu scored his average, Hill scored what Tony normally scores. TD was flat, but ultimately the rest of our perimeter shooters are worthless.
Compoundig the problem is that Phil always makes us play the way he wants, that is, having to rely on the Bonners and Masons to have great shooting nights to beat his team.
It's all about pounding the rock and to keep going at it no matter what.
That third quarter was a disaster. So much miscommunication on defense. How many times did we see TWO Spurs running to close out on the same player?
And got damn it RJ, one step forward two steps back. He looked like he was getting it and then he totally s the bed today.
Also how many more games is Mason going to get? Dude looks done, absolutely no confidence and he's bringing nothing to the table. I understand giving shooters time to get out of their slumps but Mason won't be here next year so why waste anymore time on him.
Team Offense goes south as soon as Manu leaves the floor.
Team Defense goes south as soon as TD leaves the floor.
Tonite, Pop took Manu out of the game, we were 2 down. Manu comes back, 12 down in a 1.40 sec sprint late in the 4th.
Game Over.
Pop's fault in my book. His inability to recognize certain game situations this season makes me wonder what the is he thinking.
Nah, RJ just run out of crappy teams to look good on.
Updated.
Bryant’s 24 points pull Lakers over Spurs
By Paul J. Weber
Kobe Bryant kept his shooting hand raised high, smiling while backpedaling to halfcourt after burying the San Antonio Spurs.
A seventh straight win for the Los Angeles Lakers looked that easy.
Bryant scored 24 points and hit a pair of backbreaking 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, helping the Lakers preserve their second-longest winning streak of the season with a 92-83 victory on Wednesday night.
“It was a playoff-type of atmosphere,” Bryant said. “We were down in the first half. We had to battle back. It was a good win for us to start this road trip.”
He means a five-game road trip, the longest left for the Lakers before the playoffs. With just 11 games remaining, the West-leading Lakers have a six-game cushion over Dallas.
The Spurs, meanwhile, are seventh in the West, a half-game ahead of Portland.
San Antonio might have blown a chance to get more breathing room.
Manu Ginobili scored 24 points and George Hill had 21, but the Spurs got little help from anyone else. San Antonio had no other scorers in double figures, and got a dreadful 2-of-11 night from Tim Duncan, who finished with six points and 12 rebounds.
The Spurs led for much of the game, but after Bryant took over in the fourth, San Antonio wilted late against the best in the West. And the worst isn’t behind the Spurs: Next up is LeBron James and East-leading Cleveland on Friday.
“You always want to beat the best teams, but at this point in the season, I just want to beat the team in front of me,” Ginobili said. “If it’s the worst or the best, we just need to win.”
The Spurs shot 31 percent in the fourth quarter. Bryant was 4 of 5 and had 10 points in the period, including his two 3-pointers that put away San Antonio.
Bryant pulled up over Roger Mason Jr. to hit the first one, putting the Lakers up 80-74 with 5:41 left. Two minutes later, another one from the corner stretched the lead to 11.
Lamar Odom had 19 points and 13 rebounds, and Ron Artest scored 16 points. Paul Gasol had 10 points and 12 rebounds.
“I think we understand that we’re at the point of the year where we’re really tuned in and focused about what we have to do out there,” Gasol said. “Defensively, in that good mindset so it carries on to the offensive end.”
The Lakers left for the road trip well-rested. Having played just twice in the previous seven days, Lakers coach Phil Jackson said before the game he expected some lively legs.
Sure enough, the Lakers had all the stamina at the end.
The Lakers ran away from a game in which they mostly trailed. Not until Shannon Brown hit a 3-pointer with 1:30 left in the third quarter did the Lakers take the lead for the first time since the first quarter.
Hill got off to a blazing start and had 20 at halftime, but missed all three of his shots in the second half and mustered just one more point. It blemished what began as another promising game for Hill, who made his 10th start in place of Tony Parker.
“We played him a little better on the screen-and-rolls,” Jackson said. “We were more prepared in the second half.”
The Spurs fell to 6-4 without Parker, who isn’t expected to return from a broken hand until the playoffs.
NOTES: Lakers C Andrew Bynum told the team Thursday that his injured Achilles’ tendon is feeling better, but Jackson said he isn’t counting on Bynum coming back before the road trip ends March 31. Bynum strained the tendon last week and was expected to miss two weeks. … Bryant surpassed Alex English to move into 12th on the NBA’s career scoring list.
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