Atkins' at the line, nails 1/2 of his free throws, tied 44-44. Bynum with the nice pass to cook, and he misses the wide open 3 foot jumper. Kobe with the block! Gasol's ugly, haha, I can't get over it. Atkins hits another basket. Atkins has 12 so far, already at his season average. Jesus Christ. Smush Parker draws Atkins' third foul!!! Ew, he came up way short on his first FT attempt but strokes the second one. Lakers down 46-45.
Kobe with the beautiful pass to Cookie for the long two! Kobe puts the moves on Jones, and then dumps it inside for Bynum who converts! Kobe has 14 points and 4 assists. Playing MVP ball. Jones over Bynum. 49-48 Lakers. Timeout, Lakers.
Kobe with the stupid pass, turnover. Bynum with the board, beautiful box out. Mike Miller misses the wide open three. Hakim Warrick called for the goal tend. 51-48. Smush has 9 points. Cookie misses the three, in and out. Cook draws the charge on Miller.
Smush with an ugly layup, he's playing horrid ball despite the 9 points. Miller's wrist is hurting again, and Luke's in a little bit of pain. Nothing major, so don't worry Laker fans. Luke hits two free throw, Lakers up 53-48. Smush misses the tear drop. Cookie misses the three. We're still shooting horrible. We're 2-10 from behind the line and the Grizz are 1-8.
Kobe misses the two, beautiful offensive board by Bynum and the dunk! Bynum fouled Warrick, and he brings the Grizz within 5. Swift with the monster block on Kobe. KOBE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL SPIN AND TOMAHAWK JAM. TAKE THAT STROMILE!.
Brian Cook needs to be benched when he shoots like this. He's already shot the ball 10 times tonight.
Radman with the stupid foul 2 seconds from half time. Damon Stoudamire at the line, hits the free throws and makes the score 57-52. Going into half time the Lakers, lead 57-52.
<div class="quote_poster">Mamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Wow, I've done a lot of posting. Haha, is anybody even reading? Thoughts on the first half?</div> Joel Myers said it best "This sucks!" The Lakers came out flat and allowed the Grizzlies to stay in this game. The defense was even worse in the 2nd quarter, and the Lakers are settling for jumpshots instead of attacking a soft defensive Memphis team. I hope PJax lays into the guys at halftime and makes adjustments with the roster. Brian Cook needs to spend some minutes on the pine after a pathetic 1st half. Bynum needs more touches, and I'd like to see Luke get more involved on offense.
-kobes shot has been ugly today, but i'll give him a pass since he has 2 blocks/steals -brian cook has just been horrible so far, no rotation on defense as well -Smush Parker is overhandling the ball -The 3 isn't falling Go Lakers!
Here we go! Kobe with the steal. Andrew misses after Smush misses. Kobe with another steal. Alexander Johnson ties up Kobe--Johnson wins the ball, but it's off the finger tips of Gay out of bounds. Luke Walton with an idiotic pass. He's playing terrible ball. Gasol scores, 57-54. Bynum with great position and they miss him, but Luke gets it to him later and Bynum dunks it!
Smush with the steal! Great D! Cook and Kobe miss up close. Rudy Gay with the dunk, 59-56 Lakers. Kobe with the three right over Gay!!! Kobe has 19.
Stoudamire answers with a 3 of his own. The Lakers have lost 5 of the last 6 in Memphis. Walton misses another shot. Mike Miller with a fast break dunk. 62-61 L.A. Kobe weaving his way through traffic for the left handed layup, Kobe with 21. Luke throws another terrible pass, way over Smush's head.
Gasol drives, foul on Brian Cook. He's playing terrible, put Turiaf in there. Gasol hits both of the free throws and cuts the lead to two. Cook misses another three. Jesus, pound the post moron. Mike Miller from WAY down town. 66-64 Memphis. Luke mishandled the pass, and then throws a bad pass to Bynum. Miller hits another three and Memphis is up 69-64. Luke and Cook are playing terrible, they need to be benched. Put in Farmar and Turiaf.
This is another case of the Lakers playing down to the level of a bad team. Why do we do this? We should be pounding the pace, controlling the tempo, and have a double digit lead right now.
<div class="quote_poster">Mamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">This is another case of the Lakers playing down to the level of a bad team. Why do we do this? We should be pounding the pace, controlling the tempo, and have a double digit lead right now.</div> Because we are the Lakers. We win against the best team in the league (Dallas) and we lose to the worst team in the league (Memphis has the worst record in the NBA) who should probably be tanking for Greg Oden. It's just ridiculous.
Smush misses the stupid shot, but Kobe gets the steal (or offensive board, not sure what they ruled it) and jammed it home. Kobe's here to play. He's the only reason we're in this game right now. Alexander Johnson with the 3 point play, Memphis is up by 6. Kobe with the assist to Cook! He finally hit one! Cook is 4/13. Ew. Bynum is blocked again by Alexander Johnson. And then Johnson gets two offensive boards and puts it back. Ugh. Bynum doesn't get the roll on the baby hook. Bynum gets the block, but Walton fouls Gasol. Ugh, take him out Phil, he's playing worse by the minute. Smush misses the EASY layup. Jesus. Gasol with the alley oop. 77-68 Memphis. What else is new? Walton misses the three.
