Lamar Odom, who has been mostly awful since arriving to the Dallas Mavericks in a salary-dump deal from the Los Angeles Lakers before the season, admitted that he's "not myself yet" after another miserable performance Wednesday night. Odom's scoring average is half of what it was when he was a Laker, and he's shooting 32.9 percent from the floor through 19 games after going 2-for-14 in Dallas' 105-90 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday. "Listen, we believe in Lamar," Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said Thursday. "This has been a struggle so far, but this guy can play. We're going to keep supporting him and keep believing in him and he's going to get better and better." Last season with the Lakers, Odom averaged 14.4 points and shot a career-best 53 percent from the field and winning NBA Sixth Man of the Year honors. "I just missed shots I normally make," Odom said after the game. He had five shots blocked in the first half and was benched midway through the third quarter. "It's kind of like an exclamation for the start of the season for myself. I'm not myself yet. "All I can do is remain patient. An old friend of mine used to tell me, 'It's not what you're gonna do. It's what can you do. What can you do?' " Read more: http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story...-rock-bottom-dallas-mavericks-says-not-myself
