Farmar with the made three after the timeout. Bynum got away with the walk, but made the layup Blocking call on Hayes. THat's his third call. Scola coming in. Brooks already has 14pts...shit..
Loose ball foul on Lamar off the missed free throw. We left Landry open for ANOTHER jumpshot. 3 second call on Lamar. Another fucking turnover. Steal by Andrew, Sasha with the open three! This Rockets lineup has yet to miss. Trevor with a steal! Farmar missed the rushed three. Sasha fouled Scola.
Lamar missed it, Trevor missed the tip, Lamar tipped it in. Brooks finally missed, Andrew with the rebound. Bynum missed an easy lefty hook, Trevor with the putback dunk, but missed it, gets free throws. Trevor split the free throws. Farmar with the steal and dunk! Luther with the layup. Lamar faked the three, passed it to Andrew, and Bynum dunked it down! Timeout by Houston. 45-38. We're down.
Better defense by the boys. This second unit always brings D and energy, and that is whats gonna bring us back.
Trevor with a nice offensive board, he got up over three Rockets, Kobe scored it. Gasol and Landry getting physical. Holding call on Landry, Gasol made both free throws.
My lord, we had a steal by Fish, an offensive board by Andrew, but no score Trevor has poked the last two Rockets possessions away to other Lakers. Trevor missed the reverse on the cut, but Pau scored. Andrew got the ball. Kobe missed the shot on Yao. Yao scored off the Tracy miss. Rafer stole it from Fish, but Pau got the steal. Andrew nearly dunked it on Yao, got fouled. Free throws coming.
Wow what a quarter. Team's finally waking up. I love that Ariza dude, he's so great for us defensively. His hands are faster than the speed of light! :] Let's tie this up or get the lead at the end of the half. C'mon Lakers!!!
Bynum made both free throws. Fish got called on the touch foul. Bynum is to the bench, I don't know why.... Trevor has three steals...but deflected like 7... Lamar got the defensive rebound. Nice step thru by Pau. Artest lost the ball to Kobe and slipped.. Pau got fouled on the break, Tracy rolled his ankle... Pau made both free throws and we are up 3.
Kobe playing some great D on Ron. Fish fucked it up by trying to help and steal the ball, but instead got Ron on the arm. Ron gets two free throws...split them. Trevor is back on the bench, and got an applause, well deserved. Kobe lost the ball...Ron on the break....LAMAR BLOCKED IT! Halftime...We are up 50-48.
Great way to finish up the quarter. Trevor Ariza is my boy. Still cannot believe we got him for Brian Cook... This has been a very exciting game so far. Hopefully we'll come out of the locker room ready to go. No more lazy 3rd quarter starts like last season!
Ron just made a free throw. Kobe switched hands in the air, lefty floater on Yao! Fish nearly stole that ball....out of bounds to the Rockets.
Rafer and Tracy just both missed open shots. Fish missed the shot. Yao dunked it over Pau. Foul on Artest, his third. Kobe missed the fadeaway. Rafer missed another open three...he isn't gonna get off. Vlad made a rainbow three! (I mean...his normal three) Bynum blocked Scola....Pau tried to save the ball, but went to Ron...who made a three. Kobe jumper off the screen. Kobe blocked Tracy, and made a jumper off the spin move over Tracy! Fucking smooth!
Ron made another three. Fish made the jumper after the Kobe off. board. Gasol blocked Tracy on the low block. Loose ball foul on Bynum. Reach on Fish. Yao shooting free throws. He missed both. Gasol on the floater over Scola....his first shot this half....7mins in. Andrew blocked Tracy. Kobe pull up jumper! Pau blocked Scola....Fish with the floater! Yao off. board, miss by Scola. Pau missed the jumper.
