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--Game 1 - POROriginally Posted by Freeze
damn right now we're matched with portland...ughh
Fyi these requests are now illegal here on NT. Don't get sniped.Originally Posted by CPG33
"It's the product of having played a ton of games and being at a championship level for two years and knowing really what the goal is that second season and there's some subliminal part of them that's just still giving in to, 'We have to save it for the best, which is later on, and go from there,'" Jackson said. "At their age, it's understandable."
Kobe Bryant"Last year we didn't know what the hell was going on," Bryant said. "We had a lot of injuries. My knee needed to be operated on. There were a lot of question marks. Here, we don't really have any question marks. … You don't really see anybody here feeling like there's doom and gloom because these are problems that can be corrected and will be corrected.
"Everybody wants to put the nail in the coffin. We've been there before. So, it doesn't bother us."
damn we need barnes tonight.Originally Posted by vtotheinay
Steve Blake out indefinitely with the chicken pox and Matt Barnes is questionable for tonight because of soreness in the knee he had surgery on.
Kobe BryantOriginally Posted by CP1708
Phil Jackson
"It's the product of having played a ton of games and being at a championship level for two years and knowing really what the goal is that second season and there's some subliminal part of them that's just still giving in to, 'We have to save it for the best, which is later on, and go from there,'" Jackson said. "At their age, it's understandable."
"Last year we didn't know what the hell was going on," Bryant said. "We had a lot of injuries. My knee needed to be operated on. There were a lot of question marks. Here, we don't really have any question marks. … You don't really see anybody here feeling like there's doom and gloom because these are problems that can be corrected and will be corrected.
"Everybody wants to put the nail in the coffin. We've been there before. So, it doesn't bother us."
No worries here..
"We have a whole lot of things we do in the playoffs that we don't even do in the regular season," said Jackson.
One of them, presumably, is not turning the ball over, but another is upping the minutes of his stars to maximize the impact of the Lakers' four high-caliber performers and limit the exposure of a struggling second unit.
"I play these guys 40 minutes in the playoffs," said Jackson, "because we have two-minute timeouts, more rest, we have a whole different set-up going on, whereas [regular-season] games click off pretty fast. There's not an amount of rest period for these guys that they can play the heavy minutes you can in the playoffs."
Sounds familiar.