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Maybe it’s just us, but are you guys DISSAPOINTED in the Suns? I really wanted them to be taken out in the WCF’s. To bad they are on the verge of being SWEPT out of the post-season; not even a Smush Parker run Lakers’ team had that happen to them.
Good luck and good night Shaq.
We knew Turiaf has been sick, but let’s hope to a fast recovery.
Yahoo.com: Lakers F Ronny Turiaf, who has played just three minutes in the series because of tonsillitis, was slow and lethargic in practice Friday, coach Phil Jackson said.
“I’m actually eating and drinking today. I’ll be ready to go,” said Turiaf, who’s lost 11 pounds while sick.
Lakers star says he’s ‘hungrier’ for a championship than he was in 2000, when he won his first. But team is 13 wins away, and getting even one in Denver won’t be easy.
L.A. Times: It would also mean another step for Bryant in his escalating quest to win a fourth championship. The 10-time All-Star continued to express his feelings in big-picture terms, following up some positive thoughts earlier this week with the revelation that he was “hungrier” for a championship now than he was as a fresh-faced 21-year-old in 2000.
“The first one I was so young, plus I was sharing that pressure with somebody else,” Bryant said, referring to Shaquille O’Neal. “Me and Diesel both had the pressure on us to kind of get it done, he more so than I. Now the pressure’s squarely on my shoulders to try and bring another championship here. It’s something that I accept. I think I’m a little hungrier now than I was the first time.”
Can he handle the hunger?
“It comes with the territory. You can’t be Superman and not deal with the pressure of dropping somebody when you go to rescue them,” Bryant said.
The Denver Nuggets have played good offense at times in the first two games, an they will be hoping to get a boost from the home crowd tonight. Overall, I expect a tighter game that may go down to the wire, but I ultimately can’t see the Lakers dropping this one.
Still, just as it’s up to the Lakers to play defense worthy of winning the series, it’s up to me to revise the match up predictions.
Marquee Matchups -
Point Guard - Derek Fisher and Jordan Farmar vs. Allen Iverson: A.I. has been the better performing of the two Nuggets Superstars, but even he has been settling for jump shots far too often. Farmar needs to increase his drives to the basket during second unit duties.
Advantage: Nuggets.
Continue reading ‘TLN Playoff Preview: Lakers vs. Nuggets [Game 3]‘
This is great… A little worried there Melo? On behalf of all Lakers fans, I beg the Lakers fans to start a MVP chant - or is it simply inevitable?
Rocky Mountain News: Still, Anthony knows there will be fans showing up wearing Kobe Bryant jerseys. He offered a caution.
“I’m just hoping that they won’t be chanting ‘MVP’ here on this home court,” Anthony said. “Things aren’t going right if they start doing that.”
This should make for an interesting pre-season game!
Sport.es: Barca will face Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol next October in Los Angeles in a match scheduled within the partnership agreement between the NBA and the Euroleague, which annually offers a series of clashes between teams from the two continents, both in Europe and the United States.
This year there will be no mourning ‘mixed’ on European soil (New Jersey and Miami will face each other in Paris and London and Washington and New Orleans will do so in Berlin and Barcelona), but in the United States, where three teams that come about playing half a dozen parties.
It’s a great thing we’re a blog. You know why; we get to post all the talking (that’s all it is these days) that the Nuggets players do. Whether it’s complaining about refs, talking about the next game, or saying we don’t care if Kobe is pissed off, we always get to enjoy new content from the Nuggs.
Kenyon Martin: “I don’t give a (bleep) what kobe got man!. Excuse my french man! I don’t care if he got pissed or not! Better to be pissed off than pissed on. So, I don’t care man. It’s one game. People talk trash. It happens, it’s over. Start up again in game 3 and we revisit it. But I’m goin to win a basketball game. I’m not worried about if somebody got pissed off or not. People play basketball to win. People get pissed off at everyday life. That’s irrelevant to me. I don’t care. But we in here to win a basketball game. Now we at home. they did what they had to do. Now it’s our time to win at home.”
Eric Pincus of Hoopsworld.com chimes in with an Ariza update…
HOOPSWORLD has learned that Trevor Ariza of the Los Angeles Lakers was given partial clearance to the floor from his broken foot. A source close to the situation says a CT Scan on Friday showed enough improvement that Ariza has been green lit to participate in basketball drills and non-contact practices.
A follow-up scan in two weeks will determine if Ariza is ready for a full return. While Ariza obviously have preferred to be cleared completely after today’s examination, it would have taken at least a week for the Laker forward to return to the lineup. Assuming he gets a clean scan (around May 9th), he could be able to get back on the court in a matter of days.
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