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Bynum reports no setbacks after Game 1
April 19th, 2010, 3:37 pm by JANIS CARR, OCREGISTER.COM

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There was a twinge here and something there, but overall Andrew Bynum said he felt great a day after playing his first game in nearly a month.

“My Achilles’ feels fine,” Bynum said after Monday’s practice. “Every now and then, on a couple of movements I feel something, but it’s nothing too serious.”

Bynum missed the final 13 regular-season games because of a left Achilles tendon strain, but looked strong and energetic in his first game back. He scored 13 points and hauled down 12 rebounds in nearly 31 minutes of Game 1 of the Lakers’ first-round playoff series against Oklahoma City.

“He has such a big impact on the game with the energy he can put into the game,” Phil Jackson said. “That’s where we were surprised. Not that the fact he had some dramatic moments out there, but that he could sustain the effort for as long as he did.”
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"The more I keep playing with this aggressive nature, I think I'm going to get better at it and I think my teammates will trust me even more with the basketball and we'll just keep building," Bynum said.

The aggressive nature led to great plays like the Thabo Sefolosha first-quarter shot attempt that Bynum's arms swallowed whole, not giving the ball even a glimmer of a chance of going in. It led to the Thunder's settling for jump shots when Bynum was roaming the lane and ending up just 2-for-16 from 3-point range. But it also led to a shoulder shove to Jeff Green after Bynum thought he got pushed to the floor by him. Jackson might not have a problem with it, ("He wanted to make an issue out of it, that's alright, he's saying, 'I'm not going to stand around and get picked on,'" said Jackson) but the NBA league office might after hearing Bynum's quotes about the incident.

"That was a response because I kind of got taken out on that same play," Bynum said. "I didn't know if [Green] fell into me or he pushed me or what, but I wasn't going to let that happen without retaliating. That's just part of being aggressive, part of letting people know, part of having a presence out there."

dcash4 wrote:durant has all the talent in the world, but i'll say this, he doesn't have "IT". he's mentally soft, or at least not a cold blooded assassin that wants to rip your heart out like kobe.

j-far wrote:I won't go that far but he does have that "deer in the headlights" look that the Magic had last season and we did the season before. Bron had it when he got swept by the Spurs and even Melo had it when we swept them.

He'll be very different next season.

dcash4 wrote:i was going off some of his comments as well. first it was getting phased by phil by some innocent comments, then after the game talking about how it felt like any regular season game.

iki4life wrote:like i said before...blow the game open in the first half

BIG EDDIE wrote:

iki4life wrote:like i said before...blow the game open in the first half

The Thunder just might have something in their hats for you guys tonight. Better be prepared, better watch out, cuz this is going to be a whole different story than Game 1.