If you are interested I could report you every monday what Marc Gasol is doing here in Spain.

By the way, a month ago I met Adam Filipi, director of international scouting of the lakers (he coached me 3 years ago and now we email regularly) and talked about the lakers situation and european prospects.
He said that Rudy Fernandez was the choice for the draft but crittenton was a can’t-pass decession. he also agrees that Rudy will be a steal from Portland and that he’s way way better than Bellinelli.

Utah’s Carlos Boozer said: “He (Bryant) was being unselfish, and other guys stepped up and had a great game.”

If the roster is as deep as it appears, it is best to keep Kobe. However, if Kobes uncertainty continues to not be addressed, then the trade Kobe situation will end worse then it would otherwise at some point. This team cannot be successful for long periods without knowing its superstar is on board. To me, this is Kobes ideal situation. He is the man, the leader, and the young talent may be good enough to take the next step. If he shows his commitment through words, my guess is these guys improve even more even faster.

Maybe its too early and this issue is best dealt with next summer, but for the good of the Lakers, Kobe and the front office need to reach out to each other and resolve this situation.

Jordan Farmar
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“We just try to stay away from that, and let management and Kobe deal with their issues and stay together,” Lakers guard Jordan Farmar said. “We enjoy each other, we really do. We like playing with each other so we want to stay together as much as possible. He’s on board, he’s playing the right way and it’s a lot of fun.”

Andreew Bynum
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“What it is I think is that we bring energy off the bench sometimes,” Bynum said. “It is something (Farmar) along with (Ronny) Turiaf. Sometimes a good amount of energy will change the games outcome.”

Carlos Boozer
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“They over powered us physically,” Boozer said. “Sometimes we just go mixed up a little bit be we have to do a better job of clamping down on them. There team is very good offensively so we have to do a better job defensively in order to slow them down.”

I love that we’ve been playing as well as we have been and I think we will be better than most people predicted but I just don’t think we’ll keep playing at this level. Hopefully Odom’s return will soften the fall.

I think Brian will continue to get about 8 minutes, but I hope that some adjustments can be made.

Marc Gasol got named Mvp of the Week, thats his second time out of 6 weeks this season.

If somebody knows how to translate the below article, will be great.. Thanks in advance.

http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/baloncesto/acb/es/desarrollo/1053833.html

I’ll be glad when Lamar comes back, just so Cook can go back to his rightful place outside of the rotation. He is a ball stopper on offense and a lost matador on defense. The thing about Brian is that he could be much better. It’s obvious that he doesn’t work on his game or his body as hard as he could in the off-season. He came into the league a good spot up three point shooter and now five years later, he still is just a 6’10″ three point shooter. He needs to hit the weights and develop some more aspects of his game. I HATE how he holds the ball when it is passed to him. He stopped the flow of the offense almost every time he touched the ball. It’s one thing if Kobe does that, but this is Brian Cook. He hasn’t come close to earning those stripes. He’s still a good player to have around if the injury bug creeps in again. But with the way everyone else around him is playing much harder, it’s sad to see that he hasn’t been able to hold up his end of the bargain.