LAKERS 105 ROCKETS 100
Another nailbiter for our beloved Lakers tonite at the Toyota Center in Houston. Former Laker Von Wafer had a career night scoring a career high of 23 points. Kobe spoiled that with a three with 27 seconds left. Mamba dropped 33 points along with 7 rebs and 4 assists, but he did take 32 shots and only made 13 of them. All that didn't matter because he hit the game winner, as usual. Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol had a tough scoring night only scoring 11 a piece. Yao Ming's length disturbed them a little bit, but their shots just weren't falling down. Lamar Odom is back and contributed well on his first outing since his injury. 10 points with 4 rebs and 4 assists and a block, great to see L.O. back out there. Trevor Ariza couldn't miss a shot tonite. Well, he missed A shot tonite. 6-7 shooting ending with 14 points, 5 rebs, 3 assists, a steal and a blocked shot. He also outjumped Yao on a critical jumpball which gave us momentum to win the game. Vlad Rad did pretty good, but his defense is why PJ took him out. 12 points on 5-6 shooting, 2-2 perfect beyond the arc, and also chipped in 6 rebounds. Vlad should capitalize on his starting role and play hard defense like he did in the beginning of the season. There was a caller on am570 after the game saying if RadMan played defense like Trevor Ariza, he would be an "all-star." I'm not sure about all-star, but I am sure that he needs to play defense.
Lakers end the Texas Two-Step tomorrow against the Spurs. This is the first meeting between the teams since last year's Western Conference Playoffs. I'm sure they have something to prove. We should already know what to expect from this team, they just added Roger Mason and George Hill in the line-up. Other than that, it's the same Spurs from 2,000 years ago. Watch out for a low scoring game, hopefully we jump on them early so we can get Fish some rest. It's pretty tiring chasing Tony Parker around, ask Eva. Bynum and Gasol have another star postman to deal with in Tim Duncan. They need to get their offensive rhythm going again so that Duncan will fatigue on defends and suffer on offense. I can't wait to see the 6th man matchup between Manu Ginobli and Lamar Odom. Will Lamar step up to the challenge? Or will Manu get the best of him? Tip off at 6pm!
Lakers end the Texas Two-Step tomorrow against the Spurs. This is the first meeting between the teams since last year's Western Conference Playoffs. I'm sure they have something to prove. We should already know what to expect from this team, they just added Roger Mason and George Hill in the line-up. Other than that, it's the same Spurs from 2,000 years ago. Watch out for a low scoring game, hopefully we jump on them early so we can get Fish some rest. It's pretty tiring chasing Tony Parker around, ask Eva. Bynum and Gasol have another star postman to deal with in Tim Duncan. They need to get their offensive rhythm going again so that Duncan will fatigue on defends and suffer on offense. I can't wait to see the 6th man matchup between Manu Ginobli and Lamar Odom. Will Lamar step up to the challenge? Or will Manu get the best of him? Tip off at 6pm!
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