I hope Phil Jackson verbally assaulted this squad after last night's embarrassing loss the the Grizzlies.
Houston is a good team so the lakers will hopefully show up Houston is a different team than we played they lost yao but t-mac is playing very well for the Rockets
He told them to sleep on it and threw the game tape away. Why the hell is everyone making such a big deal about Kobe being the leading salesman of the NBA, so what? Focus on basketball, not fashion.
This game should be slow tempo, that's good for the Lakers. The young fella steals the tip from Mutombo. Smush hits the three right of the bat! Smush vs. Rafer, should be awesome. Alston short, Bynum with the board. Bynum over Mutombo!
McGrady hits the two on the nice screen and roll. Smush hits another three! Another grin on his face! Foul on Kobe, god damnit. He can't pick up early fouls.
Two early team fouls, both tick tack fouls...especially the one on Kobe. McGrady misses, Bynum another board. Smush with the airball in the lane, and Walton turns it over. Fast break Howard, dunk.
Smush misses from three this time. Battier for three. 8-7 L.A. Walton misses the step back horribly. Turnover Alston, miscommunication on the pass. Kobe from inside the FT line.
Howard with the nice jump hook, got the shooting touch. Offensive foul on Kobe, his 2nd foul early. Damnit. Mo Evans subs in for Kobe. Foul on Brian Cook. Howard misses, gets his board, and misses again. Bynum with the board. Smush and 1!
Smush misses the FT, Lakers up 12-9. Tmac misses the two, and Bynum cleans it up. Smush misses the pull up, rimmed in and out. Alston with a beautiful move on Smush, misses, and Mutombo cleans it up. Mo Evans shoots an air ball. Battier spots up for three, Houston up by 2. Luke off the glass, even at 14. We haven't looked inside to Bynum.
Alston misses the three, Walton grabs the rebound. Bynum with the beautiful move on Bynum! Juwan Howard from McGrady. Cookie misses the two. Bynum deflects it out of bounds, timeout.
Out of the timeout, McGrady misses and Mutombo grabs the offensive board. Luther Head is in the game, Alston drives, misses and Bynum grabs the shot. He's got 5 boards. Walton misses, again. Alston hits a DEEP three. Houston up by 3. Jackson is PISSED, calls the timeout.
Walton misses, Bynum grabs the offensive board, misses and the Rockets lose the ball out of bounds. Van Gundy is hilarious. Mo Evans hits the layup on the inbound, nice shot. Alston hits the three. 22-18 Rockets. Mo Evans hits the mid range jumper. Juwan Howard hits the jumper on the pick and roll. Evans misses the jumper. The thing about him, is when he hits a couple of shots, he'll shoot all day. Mcgrady misses. Walton misses the ugly fall away, they should've went to Bynum. Alston misses terribly from three. Bynum iso against Mutombo, a little to hard on the hook.
Howard commits the offensive foul. Bynum with the BEAUTIFUL work inside and gets the lay in. Alston misses the three at the Bynum. At halftime, the score is 24-22 Houston.
Chuck Hayes is in for Houston, Kobe in for the Lakers. Luther Head burns everybody, mainly Kobe, for the easy lay in. Kobe hits the nice jumper from the top of the key. SPACE CADET is in the game. Kobe hits another jumper, he's 3/3. Alston misses another shot and Turiaf cleans it up. Kobe from the top of the key, misses but is fouled. He's going to the line. He's aggressive tonight. He's going to his midrange game and his jumper is falling tonight. Kobe hits both free throws and the Lakers lead 28-26. Battier hits ANOTHER three from the corner. Evans just threw a pass to Howard, that was disgusting.
Howard misses but Chuck Hayes gets the put back. Evans misses from the baseline. The Lakers are down by three. Foul on Jordan Farmar, trying to get the steal. Lucas of the glass. The Rockets are on a 7-0 run. Kobe's fouled on the pass. Timeout.
Kobe gets the steal from Battier. Turiaf is fouled by Battier. Kobe loses the ball out of bounds off his shin. Radman with the steal. Farmar called for the traveling. Juwan Howard hits the shot, the Rockets are up by 7. Farmar misses the three, this is turning ugly. Radman played nice D, forced the bad shot by Howard. Juwan Howard called on the foul, slamming his forearm in Turiaf's chest. Is he an asshole? He looks like one.
