The Lakers' really played Yao well tonight, despite his nice box score. Loved the Kobe and Artest back and forth jawing, too. Artest was HORRIBLE tonight.
BTW, Fucking Jordan Farmar sucks horse cock. He is god awful. Who was a fan of him here? Moo? nMg? Trench? I don't remember, all I know is I've never liked hog face and am so far being proved right by him and Vujabrick.
lakers played pretty good defense in the 2nd half. did a pretty good job denying yao the ball(though that was at least partially the rockets fault). yao really needed to pass the ball out of double teams faster but it seemed like he was playing really slow tonight. artest blew the game with his 0-8 or whatever it was from 3 and for the period when the game was close and he decided to make it a one on one game with kobe. powell had a nice box score but i didn't think he really did anything special. he just did a decent job finishing what other people gave him(though really that's all that you need or can realistically expect from him).
Dude, if you have seen our bench recently you would realize Powell had a monster game in that context.
Mamba, offensively he was decent in February though. http://www.basketball-reference.com/fc/psplit.cgi?player=farmajo01&year=2009 Surprised even me. Guess it was all the garbage minutes?
Kobe's night: 6-12 vs Battier. 5-7 vs Artest. 3-4 vs others. 14-23 total. 67.5 TS% against some of the best individual defenders.
I really think Powell should be the starter until Drew comes back. With Odom back on the bench, they'll play better.
Artest vs Biological father "It wasn't much of a battle," Bryant said. "I kicked his [butt] tonight. We've had some battles in the past and he's gotten the best of me a few times. Tonight, I got the best of him." http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap;_ylt=Aul0ib5MPXVn78QGrzMDCLW8vLYF?gid=2009031110
