Comments on: Lakers' Bryant now doubtful for tonight

By: Demetria Messey

Demetria Messey — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:49:20 +0000

Your post piqued my interest. Please give us a more indepth post if you get a chance.

By: Hipolito M. Wiseman

Hipolito M. Wiseman — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:04:14 +0000

Hey, absolutlty love the blog and will definatley be coming back in the near future!

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:50:35 +0000

It is good to see the Lakers back at full stength. I also enjoy seeing the others step up when needed in the absense. Kobe was certainly needed in the All-Star Game to close huh?!!!! I say lets work out the weak spots and lets go get another Championship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: John

John — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:49:27 +0000

While the Lakers did seem to play inspired ball in Kobe’s absence, it was only three games, surely too small a sample to draw conclusions. Plus, you have the fact that teams facing a Kobe-less Lakers team probably let down their guard a tad bit. I do agree with your assessment that the other Lakers tend to stand around more often when Kobe is in the game, knowing he’ll take a significant number of shots. I believe Kobe needs to be more keen to this fact and keep his teammates involved more. When the Lakers are on their game, I don’t think any team in the East is going to beat them in a seven game series, notwithstanding what happened in the two games against the Cavaliers.

By: Craig W.

Craig W. — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:03:49 +0000

It would seem counter intuitive that defense would be better without Kobe and Andrew. However, teams often pull together for short periods of time without their stars – usually by banding together and covering for each other; an essential ingredient on defense. This generally can’t last too long as habits resurface and people get tired of the exceptional effort expended. In this case the All-Star Game came at just the right time.
I think the key thing Laker fans can hope for is that Kobe will ‘roam’ a little less on defense – his teammates have proved they can handle their part of the load – and Andrew will realize just how much of the game starts with defense. Fortunately, they have Phil there to remind them of these facts.