Sorry. And yes you’re right, he’s not trying to kill us, his hubris won’t allow him to shut it down or take too much of a back seat.

Farmar and Brown played really well and make a great combination off the bench. Farmar is probably the #1 scorer off the bench (above Odom because he looks for his shots and points first where Odom fills in the stat sheet). I think they make a great team and I agree with Zephid that it would not be good for the bench play if Fisher went to the bench. His contribution today was a bonus for the starting lineup and he played a great first quarter (shooting open jumpers, steals, and even a driving layup- even though it was on vince carter). I hated his decision to drive in the 3rd with kobe trailing behind him… I really thought he would dump it off, but hey, if the lakers were perfect, it would be really boring.

Props to Pau Gasol for bothering Dwight Howard. And thanks to the Magic who apparently didn’t work on their post entry passes.

My brother in law is a magic fan and i watched the game with him today. When the Magic were on their run, he looked at me and said “Don’t worry, Lakers are doing this for the national t.v. ratings. Magic won’t sustain it at all.”

Regarding this road trip – (don’t hate me for saying this guys) – high possibility that the Lakers can start 0-2 on this road trip. Cavs are a toss up of course on thursday night and the Knicks are on Friday. 2nd night of back to backs have not been good to us this year. My prediction is the Lakers go 6-2 on the trip.

From what I could see Pau once again played solid D on Dwight (for those of you who said Pau cant guard him and other big centers you’re wrong he just does it when he feels like doing it).

Also saw Shannon was a damn firecracker off the bench, shot selection wasn’t great but he continually shoots the same shots so it shows he has the confidence to make them. He and Jordan were both solid off the bench and carried an off night shooting for Kobe which was wonderful to see.

Maybe Orlando should take a note that Dwight needs to average more than 9 shots a game?

Finally need to see this type of team effort thursday night in Cleveland or there is no chance in hell of winning.

Gosh, what was Phil thinking, he must be crazy to play that Kobe guy that many minutes.

My criticism wasn’t directed at you, in fact I agree with everything you said except that “Kobe tried to kill us this game”. I don’t think Kobe’s intention is ever to TRY to kill us, although that might occasionally be the result.

Read my comment. Kobe’s bad shooting nights coiencide with the white tape. If you look at tape of the game he couldn’t even tighten his shorts because his hand is so sore and he has no grip with the tape. Get rid of it, it hampers him. He should have done what he did the other night (stop shooting). His and Lamar’s shots took us out of two good runs. We went from a 13 point lead to being up by 2 because of Lamar missing a dagger three and Kobe missing two or three PUJITs. That’s not what we need. We need the Payton Manning build up the lead to a point where they can’t catch us and coast from there. Did you watch Dallas close out Boston. That’s what you want.

Good points Chris J
Bynum was on a role before he got the phantom call on Barnes by that bastard Joey Crawford.

It’s an academic argument, but I wonder how that game plays out if Drew doesn’t get sent to the pine on a Joey Crawford special early on. Drew was playing well before he got into foul trouble, and not all of Dwight’s points came at Drew’s expense.

Its like a teenager screaming and cursing at their parents for serving dry toast for dinner one night, despite the fact that they’ve fed the teenager gourmet 3 course meals almost every night for 14 years.