#66. LA Lakers @ Houston Rockets. 12:30. ABC.

Post #1 » by **dockingsched** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:18 am

SUNDAY 12:30
ABC
Houston, Texas

vs.

Los Angeles Lakers
45-20 (Road: 22-12)

derek fisher / kobe bryant / vlad radmanovic / lamar odom / ronny turiaf

key bench players: jordan farmar, sasha vujacic, luke walton

Houston 21's
45-20 (Home: 25-9)

rafer alston / tracy mcgrady / shane battier / luis scola / dikembe mutombo

key bench players: luther head, chuck hayes, carl landry (day to day)

game notes:
best in the west up for grabs.
houston on a 21 game winning streak.
lakers still have mr. bryant

nuf said.

Ace626 · Post #2 » by **Ace626** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:25 am

Kobe goes off for 40+ while shooting in high fg%
Lakers 96 Rockets 89

A.J. · Post #3 » by **A.J.** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:33 am

good luck in the game tomorrow

CITYOFANGELSX3 · Post #4 » by **CITYOFANGELSX3** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:25 am

Grabbed this from the rockets board.

Media interviews with Kobe and Phil, good stuff.

http://www.click2houston.com/video/15607113/index.html

Post #5 » by **milesfides** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:28 am

stickied!

Minhee · Post #6 » by **Minhee** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:12 am

Houston gets #22. This game can be a blowout or very close and we lose in the final 2 minutes as our offense will be unable to make shots. Our crappy defense will show. Kobe will either try to look for his teammates or shoot us out of the game. 0-4 road trip is the most likely result, if we are lucky we might go 1-3. By next Friday, we can very well be in the 5th-6th seed.

Tommy Trojan · Post #7 » by **Tommy Trojan** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:34 am

I wish we had Gasol, it's going to be hard. However, I see lakers coming out with a W at the wnd of the day.

dunleavyjr · Post #8 » by **dunleavyjr** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:03 am

You folks should know that a guy named "Shane Battier" will be
keeping Kobe in check, right?

Shane is like the younger Bruce Bowen, you know.

Rox_Nix_Nox · Post #9 » by **Rox_Nix_Nox** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:08 am

dunleavyjr wrote:You folks should know that a guy named "Shane Battier" will be
keeping Kobe in check, right?

Shane is like the younger Bruce Bowen, you know.

http://www.nba.com/games/20071114/LALHOU/boxscore.html

If you call holding Kobe to 30 points "keeping someone in check" then i don't know what to say.

Get out.

Go Lakers

Post #10 » by **Young_Star11** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:19 am

Good luck to the Lakers fans.

Should be a big game, even without the bigs from BOTH sides.

Kobe will score a lot on Battier, not because Battier is a bad defender, it's just your #24 is too good!

T-Mac's been on a tear of late, hopefully he continues this.

This will be close - in our last two wins, we have played rather poorly and we were lucky we were playing only Atlanta and Charlotte, otherwise we would've lost.

Texas Longhorns · Post #11 » by **Texas Longhorns** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:54 am

Good luck in the game tonight guys.

CITYOFANGELSX3 · Post #12 » by **CITYOFANGELSX3** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:30 am

dunleavyjr wrote:You folks should know that a guy named "Shane Battier" will be
keeping Kobe in check, right?

Shane is like the younger Bruce Bowen, you know.

Ugh, i hate idiotic fans like these.

tagsu · Post #13 » by **tagsu** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:48 am

wooo this is gona be an awesome game i can already feel the excitement :lol:

hope we can play some defense this is a tough athletic squad we're up against and they got the mutombo

Tesla · Post #14 » by **Tesla** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:16 am

dunleavyjr wrote:You folks should know that a guy named "Shane Battier" will be
keeping Kobe in check, right?

Shane is like the younger Bruce Bowen, you know.

Tmac for stretches is actually a better defender on Kobe than Battier is. Battier tries really hard, and nothing wrong with that... but he has never really been able to keep Kobe in check at all. If I recall correctly, I think Kobe has had several monster 40+, 50+ point games (on good shooting) on him in the past few years.

KaZiSaiZ · Post #15 » by **KaZiSaiZ** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:46 am

i wish i could watch this game live.....

anywho should be a great game....the whole country will be watching....
good luck @ an expected great game

Shabi__5 · Post #16 » by **Shabi__5** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:00 am

Tesla wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Tmac for stretches is actually a better defender on Kobe than Battier is. Battier tries really hard, and nothing wrong with that... but he has never really been able to keep Kobe in check at all. If I recall correctly, I think Kobe has had several monster 40+, 50+ point games (on good shooting) on him in the past few years.

Thats true , Battier is avery good defnder against guys like Ray Allen , Peja Stojakovic , or a little bigger and less quicker guys.
Against Kobe he struggles because Kobe has a deadly jumper but Kobe is also quicker than him and can blow by him whenever he wants.
Tracy is a lock down defender when he puts his mind to it.
He has a chance of slowing down Kobe a little if he will guard which is something I doubt because he does everything for us on offense , this might be another 48 min game for T-Mac.

A to Z · Post #17 » by **A to Z** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:02 am

LakersfanAUS · Post #18 » by **LakersfanAUS** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:41 am

Ahh Kobe still saying he doesn't care about the streak. He can wait to try and put an end to it!

LETS GO LAKERS!!!

It's Ronny time!

bobobolas1 · Post #19 » by **bobobolas1** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:08 pm

dunleavyjr wrote:You folks should know that a guy named "Shane Battier" will be
keeping Kobe in check, right?

Shane is like the younger Bruce Bowen, you know.

, he is better than Bruce lee. Bowen sucks, battier can do more things.

Kirk Moon · Post #20 » by **Kirk Moon** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:18 pm

dunleavyjr wrote:You folks should know that a guy named "Shane Battier" will be
keeping Kobe in check, right?

Shane is like the younger Bruce Bowen, you know.