LA Lakers at Utah

[Real Deal]

TIME: 9:00 PM ET

TV: n/a

[Warren2ThaG]

Hella tough match up with scary signs in the crowd, we need to flex our muscles and bring the house down. Bench will play good.

[The Regime]

Laker bench is getting outscored and outhustled tonight.

Edited November 27, 2010 by Confidence

[*Swish*]

It's going to go down to the wire. Feelin it

[The Regime]

Kobe time!

[magicbalala245]

Kobe Time people. AK47 what were you thinking by putting your whole damn hand out. Kobe just did his patent swing move and now is gonna shoot 3 FT's.

[magicbalala245]

Damn it off Gasol most likely Jazz ball after the refs look at the replay.

[*Swish*]

Kobe is on FKN FIRE!

[magicbalala245]

BEAT LA chants coming out but there is a 1:03 left plenty of time

[The Regime]

We're down 2 and Ron takes the shot.......for real.

[*Swish*]

oh man. I feel Kobe is going to take over

[magicbalala245]

This clock [expletive]ing is causing teams both problems.

[magicbalala245]

Wow the shot clock again. Deron Williams almost got [expletive]ed earlier when he made that 3 cause the ball hit the rim and Artest hit it out and the clock should of reseted but no one saw it and D-Will had to throw it up and it went in.

[*Swish*]

MAN!!!!!!! three missed that wide open fkn three

[magicbalala245]

I don't understand why Kobe didn't take these last 3 shots.

[*Swish*]

Good defense at the end good win for Utah. Bad loss for Lakers.

[Real Deal]

Haha, how does the ball go to ANYONE ELSE but Kobe or Fisher? Gasol, Artest, any of them, all choke? Not surprised.

[Kobe24]

I am in disbelief that kobe didnt take a shot in last 2 minutes there. WTF. Thank god i have like half a pitcher of margaritas in me or i'd be hitting something right now.

[magicbalala245]

Utah celebrating like they won the playoffs series against us will see once May comes by

[The Regime]

And that's what happens when Kobe defers. Giving the ball to Ron in a tight game is a big no no.

[Erick Blasco]

Any team led by Sloan and D-Will will have big time heart, but the Jazz need to start playing better early in games against the Lakers. They spend so much time running their system junk early on, the Lakers scout it to death, and the Jazz have to spend entire games playing catch up. This string of fortune won't last forever.

[*Swish*]

I agree with everyone of you. They should of pass it to Kobe but they were double teaming Kobe all the time in the last 4 minutes so Kobe was obligated to pass it to prevent a turnover. Artest had an open three and that was a good pass by Bryant. Tonight, it wall all Gasol in 1st half and Kobe in 2nd half. Unfortunately, the last 2 minutes of the game, we gave up a lot of rebounds

[magicbalala245]

Bad loss but whatever just gotta take it and move on to the next one

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1RChZk1EU

[Real Deal]

These are just good examples of why I could never, ever get the comments about how Kobe never passes the ball for a last-possession shot. Please. He has many times, and if it doesn't go to Fisher, it's been a failure.

 

Some will point out Gasol's tip-in against the Thunder. Cool. It's an offensive board that nobody else boxed out on. If we ran a play for Gasol late in the game like that, he'd be trying to pop in a 20-footer, as usual. Ron will always, always take either a long and contested three, or a sideways fadeaway contested 20-footer. Odom will brick a right-handed layup with his left hand, or airball a 20-footer with nobody on him.

 

Kobe or Fisher get the ball. You can stick two people on Kobe for all I care (ex. Bell and Diaw), but he's still more capable of hitting a shot over a double than anyone else on this team trying to take one contested or in the paint through traffic.