Lakers vs. Nuggets, Game #1 | 4/29/12 | WC Playoffs, Rd 1

Dave McMenamin ‏ @mcten Close
Mike Brown: "To me, the difference in the game is Andrew Bynum. He can control the game w/o taking a single shot if he wants to."

Mike Brown: If Bynum continues being this "monster"? "We'll be playing a long time." #Lakers

trade bynum for Dwight....

hmmm. i wonder where all those lakers fans are at???

Time to give credit to some of the unsung heroes of this game:

Jordan Hill with 10 points, 10 rebounds, and 2 blocks off the bench. The Lakers lost nothing when Bynum was on the bench resting. The Derek Fisher trade is making Mitch Kupchak look more and more brilliant with every game Hill plays.

Blake was great in the 1st quarter and gave the team a major lift with his timely hot shooting.

Sessions had a VERY solid, but quiet 14 points on 6-11 shooting, with 5 assists. Nice stuff in his 1st playoff game as a Laker.

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Lakers are 33-1 in 7-game playoff series after winning Game 1, the lone loss coming in 1993 to Sir Charles & Phoenix.

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Skip Bayless ‏ @RealSkipBayless Close
Bynum-for-DHoward trade remains a possibility - and I STILL wouldn't do it if I were the Lakers.

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George Karl said Bynum played "illegal defense" when asked about his 10 blocked shots. Said only 1 illegal D was called.
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KEVIN DING ‏ @KevinDing Close
Are Lakers better this year than last year? Bynum: "We're more focused this year than last year."

Mike Trudell ‏ @LakersReporter Close
Karl did go on to say that Bynum was phenomenal defensively, & understands that 3 seconds or illegal D won't be called often.

Karl did go on to say that Bynum was phenomenal defensively, & understands that 3 seconds or illegal D won't be called often.

Are Lakers better this year than last year? Bynum: "We're more focused this year than last year."

Drew won't be stopped. He will end with the finals mvp. This is a bad dude.

Extremely rare that neither Gasol nor Bynum take a free throw, but they didn't today. Kobe took 11 of LAL's 15, & DEN took 27.

A Gatorade official just removed the Gatorade bottles from the dais before Kobe's arrival to the podium. #vitaminwater

4/22 OKC : 14 pts 15rebs 3blks
4/26 @SAC : 8pts 8rebs 1blk 3stls
4/29 DEN : 10pts 10rebs 2blks

Hill last 3 games.... took it from the espn. Thank you

Hill has been impressive.

haha, easy there dude, one triple double does not make you an MVP. Let's just see if he can keep up his impressive play.

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Going through game logs, this was the first time all season Bynum or Gasol didn't take a FT, yet LAL won by 15. #defense

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haha, easy there dude, one triple double does not make you an MVP. Let's just see if he can keep up his impressive play.

Bynum "great thing to happen to me especially not having offensive night capable of. Able to focus on defense and got great game."

It's not off this one game. I can just feel that this is his time. He's ready to bring us a title dude. I'm confident as hell to say that.

Yup. Not bad for a backup, huh? BTW, Mitch looks like a genius right now.

It's not off this one game. I can just feel that this is his time. He's ready to bring us a title dude. I'm confident as hell to say that.

ramonashelburne ‏ @ramonashelburne Close
Asked Andrew Bynum why he's not "podium worthy" after a triple-double. He says: "I think we r rotating. Pretty nice when u have 4 guys t ...

Greg Beacham ‏ @gregbeacham Close
Andrew Bynum blocked 11 percent of the Nuggets 90 shot attempts.

Amazing game by Drew. I commend him for his spectacular effort on Defense.

Note to Bynum fans who constantly complained about Bynum not getting enough touches: we dominated a good team in the playoffs with Bynum taking only 7 shots. We dominated by him getting 10 blocks not him scoring 50 points. Hopefully we stick to this game plan because it worked perfectly this game and it will bring us better success if we can continue this throughout the playoffs. If we can we have as good a chance as anyone to win the championship. If he goes back to wanting to score and pouts when he doesn't no way.

Also to all those who constantly complain about Pau being soft or whatever other Bull@hit. I hope you heard what Jeff Van Gundy and Mike Breen was saying during this broadcast: that is just not the kind of player Pau is. What he is is an amazingly skilled big man who is more versatile and brings more to the game than any brute big man can.

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I read this at the ESPN game recap:

"The Lakers handed out white giveaway T-shirts reading "One at a Time," but in a Staples Center tradition, most of the crowd declined to wear them


THIS is what separates Staples Center Lakers fans from OKC fans............ I mean even HEAT fans ALL wore white shirts yesterday......it makes the arena look exciting, the intensity for the road time goes up with so many angry faces sporting their teams playoff tee......... IDK but sometimes I wish Staples would do this......... some might argue that OKC's arena looks like a college game with all the home crowd wearing the same color.....but I think it's cool.....
maybe this is just me..

Kobe on Bynum's 10 blocks: "His timing was impeccable today ... he was meeting them at the exact (right) moment."

Bryant was quick to credit Gasol (2 rebs, 2 asts away from a triple-double) after praising Bynum.

Very curious what that illegal defense was.

Very curious what that illegal defense was.

THIS is what separates Staples Center Lakers fans from OKC fans............ I mean even HEAT fans ALL wore white shirts yesterday......it makes the arena look exciting, the intensity for the road time goes up with so many angry faces sporting their teams playoff tee......... IDK but sometimes I wish Staples would do this......... some might argue that OKC's arena looks like a college game with all the home crowd wearing the same color.....but I think it's cool.....
maybe this is just me..

Kobe was asked about Bynum's declaring Game 1 very important for LAL, being vocal: "I like him being who he is."

^^ Yeah, fans can't be too short sighted and assume the Lakers will win a title if Bynum only averages 10 points and just focuses almost exclusively on defense. The Lakers won't beat the best teams in the league unless Bynum is more of an offensive threat.