Lakers@Wizards: Game Thread/Preview

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<font color="purple">Los Angeles Lakers 15-11</font> vs <font color="blue">Washington Wizards 11-14</font>

Date: 12/26/05
Time: 7:00 pm
TV: WB50, KCAL, NBALP

<u>Los Angeles Lakers 2005-2006 Statistics</u>

<u>PPG: 96.7</u>
<u>APG: 20.3</u>
<u>RPG: 42.1</u>
<u>BPG: 4.8</u>
<u>SPG: 7.2</u>
<u>FG%: 44.3%</u>

<u>Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach</u>


Phil Jackson

<u>Los Angeles Lakers Starting Lineup</u>


Guard: Smush Parker
PPG: 11.7
RPG: 3.1
APG: 2.8


Guard: Kobe Bryant
PPG: 32.1
RPG: 5.3
APG: 4.5


Forward: Brian Cook
PPG: 6.6
RPG: 3.2
APG: 1.1


Forward: Lamar Odom
PPG: 15.0
RPG: 9.2
APG: 5.2


Center: Chris Mihm
PPG: 9.8
RPG: 6.5
APG: 0.8

<u>Key 6th Man</u>


Forward: Kwame Brown
PPG: 6.1
RPG: 5.9
APG: 0.9

<u>Keys To The Game</u>

<u>Contain Arenas</u>: The Lakers backcourt need to make sure Arenas doesn't light up the board shot after shot which he is capable of and he showed it against Phoenix scoring six 3-pointers with a total of 41 points.

<u>Force Turnovers</u>: Wizards seemed to have trouble going after the loose balls and Lakers can take advantage of this with the fastbreak after the turnover.

<u>Box Out and Grab the Rebound</u>: Lakers have done a good job limiting second chance points and doing so in this game will hurt the Wizards.

<u>Cover The Paint</u>: Smush is doing bad covering Jason Williams as he just driving to the hoop very easily. Arenas is very capable of doing the same, so Smush has got to step up.

<u>Lakers Player Of The Game</u>



Projected Stats: 27 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists

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<u>Washington Wizards 2005-2006 Statistics</u>

<u>PPG: 100.3</u>
<u>RPG: 42.3</u>
<u>APG: 19.1</u>
<u>BPG: 4.3</u>
<u>SPG: 7.7</u>
<u>FG%: 43.9 %</u>

<u>Washington Wizards Head Coach</u>


Eddie Jordan

<u>Washington Wizards Starting Lineup</u>


Guard: Gilbert Arenas
PPG: 28.8
RPG: 3.3
APG: 6.2


Guard: Jared Jeffries
PPG: 5.6
RPG: 4.6
APG: 1.9


Forward: Caron Butler
PPG: 15.3
RPG: 5.00
APG: 2.3


Forward: Antawn Jamison
PPG: 18.1
RPG: 10.9
APG: 1.9


Center: Brendan Haywood
PPG: 9.2
RPG: 6.2
APG: 0.7

<u>Keys To The Game</u>

<u>Arenas</u>: Arenas should have a good game knocking down jumpers all game long and also create plays to lead to other scoring oppurtunites.

<u>Attack Mihm</u>: Chris Mihm is foul proned, so Wizards should feed Haywood the ball and get him into foul trouble early in the game.

<u>Caron Butler</u>: Caron has done well since Eddie Jordan added him to the starting lineup. He's an aggresive player who can make an impact in the game, so Lakers should be looking for him in the game.

<u>The Ming-diction</u>

I am looking forward to see the Arenas/Bryant match-up tomorrow as both are solid scorers, but I think the Wizards are going to win this one because they have a better bench and they will have momentum with home crowd and the 2 game winning streak.

Washington Wins: 94-86</div>

 

No predictions?

 

dang, another close game and loss for my Lakers. It was that 3rd quarter that really hurt us.

 

Arenas on fire again, it's sad how Gil shot 48-49%, taking 23 shots, yet the team all together shot 38%, mainly due to Jamison's 7-21. Jamison has been horribly off lately, I don't know what happened, but nothings been going in for him.