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what channel is this on?
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It's funny that these two teams were separated by only 7 wins on the season and yet the Lakers look like such a vastly superior team...
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Another win.
Another game I didn't get to watch.
Another game I didn't get to watch.
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just got back from the game, this was the most fun ive ever had during a blowout it was funny at how pathetic the whiteout attempt was the pa announcer couldntget nuggets fans to put on these wack white t-shirts they handed out to everyone for nothin
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Laker HIGHLIGHTS: http://www.lakersmedia.com/?p=108
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i feel bad for ai. his team doesn't know how to play basketball. GK is an embarrassment to all coaches. After game 4, GK should be fired. ai should opt outand go where ever he wants to.
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Good win by the Lakers, hopefully they sweep and get some rest.
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Man...the way we've been playing these past 2-3 weeks has just been awesome.
Our Offense is just clicking on all cylinders. If our D keeps pace like it did today, Lakers/Spurs should be a great one.
Hopefully, we take care of business in game 4 so we can get some rest coz the next series is gonna be tough regardless of Utah/Houston.
Our Offense is just clicking on all cylinders. If our D keeps pace like it did today, Lakers/Spurs should be a great one.
Hopefully, we take care of business in game 4 so we can get some rest coz the next series is gonna be tough regardless of Utah/Houston.
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denver just plays no type of defense whatsoever...............and they are acting like the old trailblazers who would beef with the officals and lose theircomposure.............i'd personally start taking offers for melo at this point...........he's a guy that wont get it done for you in theplayoffs............
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Originally Posted by 5am6oody72
It's funny that these two teams were separated by only 7 wins on the season and yet the Lakers look like such a vastly superior team...
Without the injuries to Gasol, Bynum and Ariza, the Lakers would have won at least 10 more games.
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From the highlights, it looked like we took care of business on the defensive end.
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He can't opt out can he?
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Originally Posted by KobeKilledIt
Originally Posted by 5am6oody72
It's funny that these two teams were separated by only 7 wins on the season and yet the Lakers look like such a vastly superior team...
Without the injuries to Gasol, Bynum and Ariza, the Lakers would have won at least 10 more games.
Without the injuries to Bynum and Ariza, the Lakers wouldn't have signed Pau Gasol.
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Lakers Take 3-0 Series Lead Over Nuggets
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Posted Apr 26 2008 10:54PM
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[img]http://www.nba.com/media/video/kobe_70_080426.jpg[/img] Kobe Bryant scored 22 points and the Lakers took a 3-0 lead in their first-round series, routing the Nuggets on Saturday.
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Kobe Bryant's line: 22 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, as the Lakers routed the Nuggets Saturday.
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L.A. Lakers 102, Nuggets 84
DENVER, April 26 (AP) -- The Denver Nuggets just can't seem to keep their emotions or Kobe Bryant in check.
Bryant led a balanced offense with 22 points and the Los Angeles Lakers took a 3-0 lead in their first-round series, routing the flustered Nuggets 102-84 onSaturday.
Game 4 is Monday night, and the Nuggets are going to have to get more out of their All-Star duo of Carmelo Anthony and AllenIverson if they hope to take the series back to the Staples Center.
For once, the Nuggets clamped down on defense, but their high-flying offense went AWOL as Anthony and Iverson had their worst performance together since thetwo superstars first teamed up 16 months ago.
"I was getting to the basket, I just wasn't finishing," Iverson said. "And the same thing happened to 'Melo."
Anthony and A.I. shot a combined 10-for-38 and finished with 16 and 15 points, respectively.
No thanks to the Lakers, either, suggested coach Phil Jackson.
"I thought our defense packed it in on them, but they missed some easy shots," Jackson said. "I told the team at halftime, 'They'renot going to shoot like this for the whole game. They missed some close shots, some shots they usually make. We'll have to play better defense in thesecond half.'
"But they never showed up. They never got it going."
Iverson sat out all but 1:11 of the fourth quarter, when Nuggets coach George Karl emptiedhis bench, prompting Anthony to accuse the team of quitting.
"In a game like tonight, on our home court, us giving up as a whole is uncalled for," Anthony fumed. "Yeah. We quit.Everybody. From the coaches to the players, we quit. And I said it.
"I'm not blaming anyone. I'm not pointing the fingers at nobody. I didn't play worth a (expletive) tonight, and I can acceptthat. But as a competitor, there's no way that I should lay down and quit and lay down on my team like we did tonight."
Anthony said the Nuggets surrendered in the third quarter, although Karl didn't empty his bench until the fourth quarter.
"You could just sense it," Anthony said. "I'm saying 'we,' because I'm part of this, too. I'm saying Iquit. We all just gave up."
At least one teammate concurred.
"That's the way it seemed," Kenyon Martin said."Everybody came out of the game. A.I. came out, and he leads the league in minutes. It's frustrating."
"Well, I don't think I quit," Karl retorted. "... In the fourth quarter, I tried to find some answers. ... I don'tthink that's a fair, I think 'Melo's emotional right now, he's frustrated right now, as we all are."
Bryant said he never sensed the Nuggets had given up until the very end.
"Well, they're down 20-something points with two minutes to go," Bryant said. "But not until that point."
Bryant had a placid first half himself (8 points of 3-of-8 shooting) but scored nine quick points in the third quarter to put the Lakers ahead 64-51 andquiet the Pepsi Center crowd that loves to hate him.
Bryant has always played well in Colorado, where fans have persistently heckled him ever since he was charged with sexual assault at a ski resort in theRocky Mountains in 2003, even after the criminal case was dismissed and a civil suit settled.
Anthony drew a technical foul -- Denver's seventh in the series -- after he was stripped on his way to the basket, leading to a breakaway by Bryant thatstretched the Lakers' lead to 78-61 with 2:33 left in the third.
Los Angeles took an 83-64 lead into the fourth quarter and never looked back as Karl sent in the likes of Yakhouba Diawara, ChuckyAtkins and Steven Hunter into the game.
Is that quitting? No way, said Eduardo Najera.
"We can point fingers but at the end of the day we missed shots. Tonight, we just missed a lot of layups, easy, wide-open shots," Najera said.
The Nuggets, who have lost seven straight playoff games, figured they could get to the rim and the foul line more than they had in the first two games inLos Angeles. They got to the rim all right, but the shots didn't fall and the whistles didn't sound.
By Karl's count, Anthony and Iverson were 1-for-20 on layups.
The Nuggets limped to the locker room trailing 53-46 at halftime with 'Melo and A.I. a combined 5-for-21, pretty much negating the boost they got fromforward Linas Kleiza's start despite a hyper-extended elbow. He finished with 15 pointsand nine boards.
"Your spirits have to be broken somewhat if you're the home team after a game like today, but you don't make it to this level if you aren'tresilient," Lakers guard Derek Fisher said. "You always come back the next timefeeling you can do the things better that you didn't do the time before."
Iverson had no answers on this night.
"I've been in a lot of playoff series," he said. "I don't think I've ever been this frustrated."
Neither has Anthony.
"In my five years here, this is the first time I've felt like this," Anthony said. "This one hurt. It hurt bad."
Notes: Luke Walton added 15 points off the bench for Los Angeles, andPau Gasol and Fisher each scored 14. ... Lakers F Ronny Turiaf, who lost 11 pounds and missed Game 2 with tonsillitis, was scoreless in threeminutes. ... Nuggets C Marcus Camby was held scoreless in a playoff game for the first timesince 2000.
At least Melo acknowledged that he was terrible, but damn Denver seems to by dysfunctional right now, perfect thing for the Lakers to take advantage of in Game4.
Oh and I changed my mind, I wouldn't mind AI on the Lakers after all aslong as that means Sasha is gone
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[img]http://www.nba.com/media/homepage/bullet_video.gif[/img] Lakers 102, Nuggets 84
[img]http://www.nba.com/media/video/kobe_70_080426.jpg[/img] Kobe Bryant scored 22 points and the Lakers took a 3-0 lead in their first-round series, routing the Nuggets on Saturday.
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Kobe Bryant's line: 22 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, as the Lakers routed the Nuggets Saturday.
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L.A. Lakers 102, Nuggets 84
DENVER, April 26 (AP) -- The Denver Nuggets just can't seem to keep their emotions or Kobe Bryant in check.
Bryant led a balanced offense with 22 points and the Los Angeles Lakers took a 3-0 lead in their first-round series, routing the flustered Nuggets 102-84 onSaturday.
Game 4 is Monday night, and the Nuggets are going to have to get more out of their All-Star duo of Carmelo Anthony and AllenIverson if they hope to take the series back to the Staples Center.
For once, the Nuggets clamped down on defense, but their high-flying offense went AWOL as Anthony and Iverson had their worst performance together since thetwo superstars first teamed up 16 months ago.
"I was getting to the basket, I just wasn't finishing," Iverson said. "And the same thing happened to 'Melo."
Anthony and A.I. shot a combined 10-for-38 and finished with 16 and 15 points, respectively.
No thanks to the Lakers, either, suggested coach Phil Jackson.
"I thought our defense packed it in on them, but they missed some easy shots," Jackson said. "I told the team at halftime, 'They'renot going to shoot like this for the whole game. They missed some close shots, some shots they usually make. We'll have to play better defense in thesecond half.'
"But they never showed up. They never got it going."
Iverson sat out all but 1:11 of the fourth quarter, when Nuggets coach George Karl emptiedhis bench, prompting Anthony to accuse the team of quitting.
"In a game like tonight, on our home court, us giving up as a whole is uncalled for," Anthony fumed. "Yeah. We quit.Everybody. From the coaches to the players, we quit. And I said it.
"I'm not blaming anyone. I'm not pointing the fingers at nobody. I didn't play worth a (expletive) tonight, and I can acceptthat. But as a competitor, there's no way that I should lay down and quit and lay down on my team like we did tonight."
Anthony said the Nuggets surrendered in the third quarter, although Karl didn't empty his bench until the fourth quarter.
"You could just sense it," Anthony said. "I'm saying 'we,' because I'm part of this, too. I'm saying Iquit. We all just gave up."
At least one teammate concurred.
"That's the way it seemed," Kenyon Martin said."Everybody came out of the game. A.I. came out, and he leads the league in minutes. It's frustrating."
"Well, I don't think I quit," Karl retorted. "... In the fourth quarter, I tried to find some answers. ... I don'tthink that's a fair, I think 'Melo's emotional right now, he's frustrated right now, as we all are."
Bryant said he never sensed the Nuggets had given up until the very end.
"Well, they're down 20-something points with two minutes to go," Bryant said. "But not until that point."
Bryant had a placid first half himself (8 points of 3-of-8 shooting) but scored nine quick points in the third quarter to put the Lakers ahead 64-51 andquiet the Pepsi Center crowd that loves to hate him.
Bryant has always played well in Colorado, where fans have persistently heckled him ever since he was charged with sexual assault at a ski resort in theRocky Mountains in 2003, even after the criminal case was dismissed and a civil suit settled.
Anthony drew a technical foul -- Denver's seventh in the series -- after he was stripped on his way to the basket, leading to a breakaway by Bryant thatstretched the Lakers' lead to 78-61 with 2:33 left in the third.
Los Angeles took an 83-64 lead into the fourth quarter and never looked back as Karl sent in the likes of Yakhouba Diawara, ChuckyAtkins and Steven Hunter into the game.
Is that quitting? No way, said Eduardo Najera.
"We can point fingers but at the end of the day we missed shots. Tonight, we just missed a lot of layups, easy, wide-open shots," Najera said.
The Nuggets, who have lost seven straight playoff games, figured they could get to the rim and the foul line more than they had in the first two games inLos Angeles. They got to the rim all right, but the shots didn't fall and the whistles didn't sound.
By Karl's count, Anthony and Iverson were 1-for-20 on layups.
The Nuggets limped to the locker room trailing 53-46 at halftime with 'Melo and A.I. a combined 5-for-21, pretty much negating the boost they got fromforward Linas Kleiza's start despite a hyper-extended elbow. He finished with 15 pointsand nine boards.
"Your spirits have to be broken somewhat if you're the home team after a game like today, but you don't make it to this level if you aren'tresilient," Lakers guard Derek Fisher said. "You always come back the next timefeeling you can do the things better that you didn't do the time before."
Iverson had no answers on this night.
"I've been in a lot of playoff series," he said. "I don't think I've ever been this frustrated."
Neither has Anthony.
"In my five years here, this is the first time I've felt like this," Anthony said. "This one hurt. It hurt bad."
Notes: Luke Walton added 15 points off the bench for Los Angeles, andPau Gasol and Fisher each scored 14. ... Lakers F Ronny Turiaf, who lost 11 pounds and missed Game 2 with tonsillitis, was scoreless in threeminutes. ... Nuggets C Marcus Camby was held scoreless in a playoff game for the first timesince 2000.
At least Melo acknowledged that he was terrible, but damn Denver seems to by dysfunctional right now, perfect thing for the Lakers to take advantage of in Game4.
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Nuggets are DONE
get them brooms out
get them brooms out
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Good game Lakers
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Wow it seemed kobe shot worse than 9 for 19
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Lets get it done first.
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I was only able to watch the 3rd quarter of this game, but by the looks of it, the Lakers played great on defense, and executed pretty well on offense. Greatwin, and now let's win Game 4 to get more resting time for the starters and the rest of the players. Hopefully, Trevor Ariza and Andrew Bynum can heal upmore in this period of time, and return sometime during the playoffs.
Good win, Lakeshow!
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Another win for the Lakers
I agree with Carmelo's comments about the Nuggets quitting during the game. It seems like the Nuggets are getting ready to accept their inevitable defeat.
I was expecting the Nuggets to win at least one game but it's looking like a sweep. I hope they get this sweep so the team can get some rest.
I agree with Carmelo's comments about the Nuggets quitting during the game. It seems like the Nuggets are getting ready to accept their inevitable defeat.
I was expecting the Nuggets to win at least one game but it's looking like a sweep. I hope they get this sweep so the team can get some rest.