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Through three practices the only comment Andrew Bynum has on the stability of his surgically repaired knee is that it’s fine.

“Not even thinking about it. It’s 100% still. I haven’t had any pain or anything like that. The only thing I do have to do is design a better brace because it keeps kind of sliding down. It’s kind of annoying,” said the Lakers big man after today’s morning session. “I don’t have any fear anymore. If feels stronger. It feels better than last year. I don’t have any fear at all.”

Head Coach Phil Jackson characterized Bynum as “tired” during practice, but Andrew views that as Jackson trying to keep him motivated. “He always says that. When has he not said that. I think it’s just a little bit of a motivating factor to kind of keep me going.”

On Josh Powell: “He’s impressed us a lot. He’s coming in playing hard. He’s got a lot of tenacity. He refuses to be boxed out. You’ve got to really put an effort into keeping him off the boards. He’s creating a lot of problems with our big guys, they know they’ve got a tiger down there after the rebound. He seems to have an idea of what we’re trying to do even though he’s only been here for one day. He seems relatively comfortable playing in our offense.”

dcash4 wrote:i love hearing about powell being a force on the rebounding front. lakers really need that off the bench.

dcash4 wrote:i love hearing about powell being a force on the rebounding front. lakers really need that off the bench.

ronnymac2 wrote:Not Powe...Turiaf!! lol If powell can replace some of what turiaf brought to the team, that'd be great. Every championship team needs that hustle guy who goes and grabs rebounds and finishes strong and brings energy and excitement. That was turiaf. We'll miss turiaf because he had actually developed a solid jumper and was a good passer, too, but if powell brings the other things ronny brought, I'll be happy.

ronnymac2 wrote:Not Powe...Turiaf!! lol If powell can replace some of what turiaf brought to the team, that'd be great. Every championship team needs that hustle guy who goes and grabs rebounds and finishes strong and brings energy and excitement. That was turiaf. We'll miss turiaf because he had actually developed a solid jumper and was a good passer, too, but if powell brings the other things ronny brought, I'll be happy.

Danny Darko wrote:

ronnymac2 wrote:Not Powe...Turiaf!! lol If powell can replace some of what turiaf brought to the team, that'd be great. Every championship team needs that hustle guy who goes and grabs rebounds and finishes strong and brings energy and excitement. That was turiaf. We'll miss turiaf because he had actually developed a solid jumper and was a good passer, too, but if powell brings the other things ronny brought, I'll be happy.

Actually we're getting an upgrade in Powell. Ronny was a stiff on the boards despite his hustle.

So I guess no Karl then? I'd rather have him than some of the other useless scrubs out there, but I guess "Trust in Mitch" is the new campaign slogan these days, so I will.

ChocolateThundr wrote:LOL at all of you jumping on the Powell bandwagon. When we signed him less than half of us believes basically he wont even make the team and that we need Turiaf. So far it seems what I and a handful of other ppl believed in was right.

Kno wrote:

ChocolateThundr wrote:LOL at all of you jumping on the Powell bandwagon. When we signed him less than half of us believes basically he wont even make the team and that we need Turiaf. So far it seems what I and a handful of other ppl believed in was right.

lol what?

Hardly anyone said anything negative about the signing. Virtually everyone approved of it.

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