Basel57

He's already been POTG twice this season! That's more than enough!

I think Radman has it in him to Player of the Game once more this season.

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Plastic Man

I don't care if he's the player of the game agains... if he can hit half of those big threes on multiple occasions when we need him, he'll become one of my favourite Lakers .

Phoenix won again, but they have a brutal schedule left. 10 or 11 road games against the top WC teams.

I've checked ours and we have 5 road (Utah, GSW, Portland, Sacramento, Clippers) and 10 home remaining. And only 2 back to backs (Seattle after utah and the home and home against the Warriors). Interesting note: we've played all 12 second games of the back to back on the road. Amazing!

Yesterday it was a team effort. Kobe did well even after he was pretty much cut from the ball and passed out of the double team. Lamar had big rebounds, Radman hit big shots. Even Ronny was awesome, imo... those blocks were great! We need more of that hustle, bumping bodies play so opponents will get discouraged from having layup drills on us. What would you say to a starting line up of Fish/Bryant/Odom/Ronny/Pau in the playoffs (with Bynum coming of the bench)?

Yay. I'm happy, CDR you were right, man! I hope you've got some magic up your sleeve for the next game... only 3 home defeats and 19 straight home wins for the Jazz. :/

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Dominate24/7

Good game from Vlad! I agree that he could get 1 more POTG. This is why it's nice to have him play more minutes. He can win you games with big shooting nights. I liked that give/go play he had with Turiaf for the slam.

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Wilt_The_Stilt

I only saw the first half, but Turiaf did an excellent job of challenging shots and anchoring the defense.

Kobe played well in the 1st half except for the few times he tried to show up George.

Radman was playing terrible defense... and I hope Farmar doesn't turn into strictly a 3pt shooter.

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Plastic Man

Yeah, agree on the Radman defense part. He seemed completely unmotivated and disinterested in playing defense. Some of our players seriously need to have their adress defensive woes or we'll be in hell come playoff time.

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DaRizzle

Looks like the Lakers are helping add fire between Avery and Cuban...

Stressful times, these.

And not just for players.

The latest example of tension came after the Mavericks' 102-100 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, when owner Mark Cuban and coach Avery Johnson had a heated exchange shortly after the game, according to two sources.

The Mavericks had fallen behind by 21 at halftime and 25 in the third quarter before making a comeback. Afterward, an apparent heat-of-the-moment argument happened in Johnson's office.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...e.2ec3d9f.html
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