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Lakers 114, Phoenix 106
Posted by: Dave on Nov 01, 2006 - 02:02 AM
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 No Kobe? No problem! The Lakers turned a 19-point 2nd quarter deficit into a huge opening night victory, 114-106 (box score). The Suns were simply on fire in the beginning, hitting their first 9 shots in a row. With pretty solid shooting the young Lakers hung in there but eventually the lead stretched out to almost 20. Then the Lakers started to pound the ball inside to Andrew Bynum and he delivered- either by putting the ball in the hole or dishing to a streaking teammate for easy layups. Odom then started to attack the basket relentlessly and the great execution of the triangle offense led to layups after layups for the Lakers. The Suns didn't have an answer defensively, and once they went cold from the outside the Lakers were able to build a comfortable lead in the 3rd quarter and cruised the rest the of way to a scintillating victory.
Lamar Odom was absolutely terrific tonight- 34 points (ties his career high), 13 boards, and 6 assists. He punished the Phoenix "big men" with a variety of shots inside the paint and got them in foul trouble. Andrew Bynum looked liked a man amongst boys at times snatching rebounds and showing great touch on his inside game. Andrew had a couple of great passes to boot and finished with 18-9-5 - pretty good numbers for your supposed 3rd string center. He keeps that up he's going to be the #1 center for a long time for the Lakers. Other honorable mentions go to Mo Evans (17 points on 8-13 shooting, w/ 3 steals), and Smush Parker (9 points, 7 assists, 6 boards, and 3 steals). Overall simply a surprising and great win for the Lakers- let's see if they can keep it up tomorrow night at Golden State against a physical Warriors team.
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Re: Lakers 114, Phoenix 106
by FlagrentFoul (whowantsyoubumsbuggingme.com)
on Nov 01, 2006 - 02:32 AM
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Unbelievable. Even Charles Barkley was impressed with our Lakers. You had to be. Baby Bynum was fabulous. Even when he wasn't scoring, grabbing a board, or making a razor sharp bounce pass, he was just simply IN THE WAY. He made the Suns change directions, change up shots, it was a beautiful thing. And Mo Evans. This is the true athlete coming off our bench we've been lacking. He has that Rambis presence, and he shoots better. Rookie Farmar earned 16 minutes on the floor, putting up 6 points. I'm loving it. Only sad news is Turiaf only got 3 minutes. C'mon, PJ, play my boy. Give us the spark plug. Oh, and take those dreary Mark Heisler comments in the LA Times today and stuff 'em right up... well, you know where.
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Re: Lakers 114, Phoenix 106
by momoivy on Nov 03, 2006 - 03:19 PM
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The Phoenix bigs were not "true bigs". I have always said "what Phoenix" because they are a small fast team, and such teams we will now eat the lunch of. :lol: (bad English)
The teams that I am worrying about are the Chicago's, the Denver's and the like. If we get our 3 "retired" players back, THEN I want to see the Lakers play and win one for the gipper. THEN we are well on our way into the history books!
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