Game #50 LAkers @ Warriors Tuesday (3-27-12) *7:30 PM*

[Speedlot]

Kobe totally co-signing Drew LMAO

Quote:
Kobe said Bynum reminded him of a young Kobe by trying stuff out on the court, said it was "familiar." Kobe not trippin' about it.

SO much for the Bynum hates kobe guts theory.

[crazy8ights]

JERRY SLOAN NOW C'MON DO IT, Session will turn stocktoness

[crazy8ights]

I feel like we lost the game screw this game I knew it I called this sh#t on page 1

[kblo247]

Mike Trudell ‏ @LakersReporter

Mike Brown, regarding the Bynum benching, kept it simple with: "I just wanted to go in a different direction."

Mike punked out as expected

[GoldenKnight]

Mike Trudell ‏ @LakersReporter

Mike Brown, regarding the Bynum benching, kept it simple with: "I just wanted to go in a different direction."

Mike punked out as expected

My gosh, what a sorry coach we have

[kblo247]

Passive aggressive doesn't even fit

[Bank Shot]

KevinDing: Bynum said message he got was not to take 3's if u r going to miss. "But I'm going to take some more."

IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER

This is incredible.

[The Skyhook]

KEVIN DING
Kobe suggested young Lakers coaches might've overreacted to Bynum's 3-point attempt: "I think he was testing the limits of his game."

Crazy thing is knowing how Kobe thinks its alright to shoot in basically any situation it wouldn't surprise me if Kobe really felt this way. This team is headed in a downward spiral and once it hits the ground it isn't going to be pretty.

[semi-sentient]

The Lakers are a wreck.

There is zero leadership from the coaching staff or team captains. We have no chemistry due to the fact that our most important players (Kobe and Bynum) have gone rogue. Make no mistake, this starts and ends with Kobe. He's been alienating his teammates for two seasons now. Pau has indirectly criticized him on several occassions, and IMO Bynum is acting the way he is because he thinks it's OK to not play within the system (his quote about shooting more 3's says it all).

Now I will say that Mike Brown deserves heavy criticism for being an enabler (just like he was in Cleveland), but Kobe is supposed to be a mature veteran that should know better. Again, where is the leadership from our superstar player? How do you go from being a great leader for several seasons to being a borderline cancerous player? It's crazy.

... and before the "it's all MB's fault" responses, this was a major problem last year under Phil as well. The team was straight up falling apart towards the end of the season, and many of us were criticizing Kobe for the same type of crap.

Anyway, I would not be surprised one bit if we got taken out in the 1st round, and if we get to the 2nd round we're going to get absolutely waxed by the Spurs.

What a f'ing waste of a talented team. The Lakers would be an elite team if they put their minds to it and decided to play as a unit.

[Atmanne]

Bynum is a grown ass man who's been in the league six years. There's absolutely nobody to blame for Andrew Bynum's actions except Andrew Bynum.

[Father Time]

Seems like trading Fish might hurt us more than we thought.

[Gek]

The Lakers are a wreck.

There is zero leadership from the coaching staff or team captains. We have no chemistry due to the fact that our most important players (Kobe and Bynum) have gone rogue. Make no mistake, this starts and ends with Kobe. He's been alienating his teammates for two seasons now. Pau has indirectly criticized him on several occassions, and IMO Bynum is acting the way he is because he thinks it's OK to not play within the system (his quote about shooting more 3's says it all).

Now I will say that Mike Brown deserves heavy criticism for being an enabler (just like he was in Cleveland), but Kobe is supposed to be a mature veteran that should know better. Again, where is the leadership from our superstar player? How do you go from being a great leader for several seasons to being a borderline cancerous player? It's crazy.

... and before the "it's all MB's fault" responses, this was a major problem last year under Phil as well. The team was straight up falling apart towards the end of the season, and many of us were criticizing Kobe for the same type of crap.

Anyway, I would not be surprised one bit if we got taken out in the 1st round, and if we get to the 2nd round we're going to get absolutely waxed by the Spurs.

What a f'ing waste of a talented team. The Lakers would be an elite team if they put their minds to it and decided to play as a unit.

Semi summed it up beautifully.

[crazy8ights]

OAKLAND, Calif. – In the latest episode of the Los Angeles Lakers’ long-running soap opera, suddenly 3-point-happy center Andrew Bynum was sent to the pine for not playing “the right way,” one game after Kobe Bryant was benched.


Andrew Bynum didn't see much action after missing badly on a 3-pointer against the Warriors on Tuesday.
(AP)
Bynum made the first 3-pointer of his seven-year career in seven attempts in a loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday. Feeling suddenly confident in his deep jumper, the All-Star surprisingly tossed up another that didn’t fall as the Lakers held a 56-50 lead with 10:05 left in the third quarter against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. Bynum was sent to the bench shortly after the ill-fated shot and appeared to play uninspired while missing all three field-goal attempts in the fourth quarter before sitting out the final 9:10 of the Lakers’ 104-101 victory.

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“I don’t know what was bench-worthy about the shot, to be honest with you,” said Bynum, who finished with 11 points and five rebounds in 23 minutes. “I made one last [game] and wanted to make another one. I swear that’s it. I guess [coach Mike Brown] took offense to it and he put me on the bench.”

That’s where Bynum sulked. He didn’t join the huddle during timeouts after being sidelined.

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Bynum expects the coach to address the issue with him formally at some point. Brown declined to answer if Bynum’s 3-point attempt was the reason he benched him, but he doesn’t appear afraid of sitting him again if need be.


Mike Brown
“If I feel like I have to take him out the game again, I’ll take him out the game,” Brown told Yahoo! Sports. “If I don’t feel like he’s playing the right way, I’ll take him out the game. I didn’t feel like he was playing the right way. I didn’t feel like we were playing the right way as a club when he was on the floor. That’s why I took him out the game.”

Bynum’s pouting appears to be over his desire to expand his game. He said he has developed a jump shot and different post moves. He won’t be afraid to fire away again from long range.

“I guess don’t take 3’s is the message. But I’m going to take some more,” Bynum said. “I just hope it’s not the same result. I hope that I make it.”

Bynum wanted to have a stronger role offensively after last season. He’s currently the Lakers’ second-leading scorer behind Bryant with 18.2 points per game.

[ Related: Kobe Bryant bounces back from benching with 30 points ]

Lakers forward Pau Gasol said Bynum’s 3-point shooting is “not his game,” and he expects his teammate to do “the right thing.”

“We’ll address it as a team and unit to make sure everybody is on the same page,” Gasol said. “We need Andrew at his best for us to have a chance. That’s the only way we are going to get it down.”

In his younger days, Kobe Bryant often tested the limits of his game with coaches. An older and wiser Bryant wants to see the conflict with Bynum addressed with patience and poise. Bryant chuckled when told Bynum wanted to shoot more 3’s.

[ Yahoo! Sports Radio: Adrian Wojnarowski on Knicks, Lakers’ drama]


Kobe Bryant scored 30 points to lead the Lakers past the Warriors. He found some humor in Andrew Bynum's benching.
(Getty Images)
“It is somewhat amusing to me,” said Bryant, who entered the NBA out of high school in 1996. “In some ways the edginess and chippiness of him makes it very easy for me to relate to him because I had some of that when I was young. It’s easy for me to see where he is coming from.”

Brown benched Bryant during part of the fourth quarter Sunday in a loss to the Grizzlies. While the All-Star and Brown downplayed the incident, the coach acknowledged that anything controversial involving Bryant will always receive big headlines. Bryant responded on the court Tuesday, making two late well-contested, double-teamed jumpers to seal the Lakers’ win while finishing with a game-high 30 points.

“Those are shots that I work on time and time again,” Bryant said. “So it was just about me getting to my spot.”

Through all the drama, the Lakers (31-19) remain in third-place in the Western Conference and appear to be better with newcomer point guard Ramon Sessions. Bryant is “extremely” happy with the roster and even took a shot at his cross-town rival Los Angeles Clippers. “Why does everybody acting like we are in eighth place?” Bryant asked. “You guys [the media] were kissing the Clippers’ ass at the start of the season and now here we are in the third seed and everybody is acting like we suck. I don’t understand.”

SOURCE: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=A ... ing_032812

[Anklebreaker702]

KEVIN DING ‏ @KevinDing
Bynum said message he got was not to take 3's if u r going to miss. "But I'm going to take some more."

KEVIN DING ‏ @KevinDing
Bynum on not joining Brown and team for huddles: "He took me out of the game. So I just sat where he put me."

this kid is ridiculous

He needs his a** kicked

[dd2410]

not a lakers fan myself, but looks like lots of trolls on your board.