#22 - 12/12: LA Lakers @ Utah Jazz. 6:00pm. KCAL.

[Anklebreaker702]

LMAO at some of the uneducated posters over on the GB, i just read some moron write how bad the Lakers are on the road. Sometimes people need to do some research before they make themselves look like an idiot.

They don't care about that Minhee. On the GB all they care about is bad mouthing the Lakers. As loVg as they can do that, they feel like they got off for the night, light up the cig, then fall asleep

[DEEP3CL]

LMAO at some of the uneducated posters over on the GB, i just read some moron write how bad the Lakers are on the road. Sometimes people need to do some research before they make themselves look like an idiot.

Yeah I checked him on that too, some of those guys are next to being legally (Please Use More Appropriate Word) but don't know it.

[chefy]

if kobe thinks he can play, he'll play. he will adjust, he'll find away to be effective again. just think of how many times he played injured for us. watch him score 40+ next game

[chefy]

sucksss I wasn't able to watch the game

[LAKESHOW]

well, back to reality now. this aint the greatest team ever. and utah is still a tough place to play. the 2 teams that played in the finals last year? both got handled in utah.

[Slava]

well, back to reality now. this aint the greatest team ever.

Exactly. The 3peat Lakers were able to win tough games late in the season with a left-handed Kobe. Those were superior teams to this one.

[Optms]

It's a road loss on a back to back in Utah of all places. I wasn't really optimistic with this one knowing Bryant was going to play with a busted finger and under the weather. All things just pointed to a catastrophic night. I don't know about you guys, but Bryant playing with a busted finger scares me somewhat in the short run of things here. He could not buy a shot after the first quarter. Really in the second half.

[semi-sentient]

Glad I missed the 2nd half of this crap.

Phil should have sat Kobe. From what I saw in the first half, he hurt us on both ends of the floor, and I suspect the 2nd was much of the same. We have a good enough team that we can afford to sit our star players from time to time.

[SApuro_]

Just took a broken finger, back to back, and a road trip to Utah to stop the 11 game win streak. Kobe is one of the toughest players in the league and he has fought threw injuries in the past. Phil gave him the benefit of the doubt and let him work threw it. Utah in the past plays very tough at home so no shame in this lost. The idea of winning 72 games I think is non-sense but lakers and celtics have been flip flopping as the best team in the league.

[DEEP3CL]

Just took a broken finger, back to back, and a road trip to Utah to stop the 11 game win streak. Kobe is one of the toughest players in the league and he has fought threw injuries in the past. Phil gave him the benefit of the doubt and let him work threw it. Utah in the past plays very tough at home so no shame in this lost. The idea of winning 72 games I think is non-sense but lakers and celtics have been flip flopping as the best team in the league.

I said at the beginning of the year that in order for teams to beat us on most nights, things are going to have to line up for them damn near perfectly. Last night was one of those nights for the Jazz, yeah they beat us on the floor but it took uncontrollable circumstances that favored the Jazz. Bottom line is when the Lakers are completely healthy............everybody is toast period.

Secondly no fan of this board is concerned with the team winning 72, so you might as well miss us with that garbage if you think for one second that we're concerned with it. Phil already killed that notion of that in the preseason by saying it wasn't one of the teams goals. Bottom line is it's probably going to take anywhere from 65-68 wins for overall HCA..........that's all we need and all we're concerned with.