Febuary 11th: Preview: Grizzlies vs. Lakers. League takes 'T' back. "Kobe Bryant: Phase 3"

 
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:23 am    Post subject: Febuary 11th: Preview: Grizzlies vs. Lakers. League takes 'T' back. "Kobe Bryant: Phase 3"

Preview: Grizzlies vs. Lakers

February 11, 2006

Staples Center, Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m. CST

TV, radio: Fox Sports Net; WRBO-FM (103.5)

Records: Grizzlies, 26-22; Lakers, 25-24.

Inactive list (due to injury): Grizzlies -- Damon Stoudamire (right knee surgery). Lakers -- Slava Medvedenko (herniated disc, lower back), Aaron McKie (slight tear, left quadriceps tendon).

KEY MATCHUP: Eddie Jones vs. Kobe Bryant

As the Griz try to get their struggling defense back together they'll face perhaps the toughest individual challenge of the season in slowing Bryant. He was averaging 36 points at the end of January, the first time a player has averaged that much through January since Michael Jordan averaged 37.2 in the 1986-87 season. Jordan finished at 37.1. Bryant clearly can score in bunches, particularly at home where he loves to put on a show.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:26 am    Post subject:

Lakers notes: League takes 'T' back
By Ross Siler, Staff Writer

EL SEGUNDO - Score one for the bucket boys of the world.

The NBA on Friday rescinded the technical foul Lakers forward Devean George received in the fourth quarter Tuesday at Dallas, the last in a series of calls that frustrated coach Phil Jackson and touched off his mini-feud with Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

"It didn't give me great joy, but it's nice to know that there's some justice that was paid there a little bit," Jackson said. "We made the complaints during the game about the flagrant fouls and Devean's technical and those things the league reviews and they made a correct call."

George was called for a foul when he and Jerry Stackhouse made contact at midcourt with 1:08 left. If anything, George and Jackson both thought an offensive foul should have been called on Stackhouse with George sliding on defense.

"I didn't say anything. I didn't throw an elbow or nothing," George said. "If anything, it shouldn't have even been a foul on me."

The look of disbelief apparently was enough for George to get called for a technical, the Lakers' third in the game along with two flagrant fouls. Jackson protested silently, taking a delay-of-game technical for not returning his team to the court from a timeout.

After the game, Jackson criticized Cuban for intimidating the referees into being such "nervous Nellies" that George could be called for a technical like that. Dallas also shot twice as many free throws as the Lakers in its 102-87 victory.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:45 am    Post subject:

Memphis (26-23) at LA Lakers (25-24)
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Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are hoping to take advantage of a favorable stretch in the schedule.

Bryant and the Lakers will try to extend their six-game home winning streak when they begin a five-game homestand against the struggling Memphis Grizzlies.

Los Angeles struggled to win just two of seven games on a road trip that ended Wednesday with an 89-78 win over the Houston Rockets.

Bryant averaged 33.0 points on the trip despite facing plenty of defensive game plans designed to force him to give up the ball. That resulted in plenty of problems on offense for the Lakers, who scored fewer than 100 points in five of the games on the road swing.

Bryant said he was surprised he was open so often when he scored 32 points and had nine assists in the win over Houston.

"I started coming off the pick and roll and I was so wide open," Bryant said. "It really threw me off at first. It's been two months since I've been that wide open."
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:50 pm    Post subject:

Grizzlies hope to stop five-game slide in Los Angeles

(Sports Network) - The Memphis Grizzlies try and put the brakes on a five-game losing streak this evening when they continue their six-game road trip against the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center.

On Friday, the Grizzlies found themselves on the wrong end of a 91-87 decision to LA's other team, the Clippers. All-Star Pau Gasol and Shane Battier each netted 16 points for Memphis, which has lost seven of its last eight and 12 of its past 15 overall.

Jake Tsakalidis posted a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds in the loss.

To make matters worse Mike Miller missed the game with a sprained left ankle and he is questionable for tonight's tilt.

Memphis, which will close their trek against Golden State on Monday, has dropped six straight and 10 of its last 11 on the road and is 11-15 away from home this season.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:52 pm    Post subject:

Being home brings hope

By AL BALDERAS
The Orange County Register

EL SEGUNDO – The Lakers had a couple days to digest losing five of seven games on their recent trip.

A rib injury to Lamar Odom and a strained right shoulder to Chris Mihm didn't help matters, but Coach Phil Jackson said Friday that the Lakers didn't play well enough in some of those games.

"I really thought that we could split those games even though it was a seven-game (trip), and it's tough to split seven," Jackson said while momentarily trying to make light of the situation. "Indiana was on real hard times with two starters out, and they were reeling a little bit. Charlotte had lost 13 in a row. New Orleans is really a young team in Oklahoma City.

"You hypothetically say those are games that we can really win. We anticipated that we'd play rather good games with those teams, but we certainly didn't."

A good way to get over a rough trip is to play more games at home. That is just what the Lakers will get. They have eight games left to play this month, and all of them will be at Staples Center. Their lone road game in that stretch will be against the Clippers. The Lakers have 33 games left on their regular-season schedule, and 22 of those will be played in Los Angeles.

"We weathered a big storm the first half of the season, playing so many road games and being a young team." Kobe Bryant said. "I look at the second half of the season, and it's a much better schedule than it was last year."
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:56 pm    Post subject:

Bryant hopes to feed his MVP appetite at home

LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are hoping to take advantage of a favorable stretch in the schedule.

Bryant and the Lakers will try to extend their six-game home winning streak when they begin a five-game homestand against the struggling Memphis Grizzlies.

Los Angeles struggled to win just two of seven games on a road trip that ended Wednesday with an 89-78 win over the Houston Rockets.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:59 pm    Post subject:

Lakers went nowhere on trip

01:18 AM PST on Saturday, February 11, 2006

Broderick Turner

They salvaged the road trip, but that's all the Lakers did.

Make no mistake, it was a disappointing excursion, something Lakers coach Phil Jackson pointed out after his team defeated the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night.

Simply put, the Lakers just didn't get it done because they let the odds against them overwhelm them instead of standing tall in the face of adversity.

The Lakers felt sorry for themselves when injuries beset them. They came unglued when it was time to run the offense. They didn't play defense well enough when they needed to.

Before the Lakers left for a seven-game, 12-day trip, Jackson's goal was to go 4-3 at the worst, 5-2 at the best.

When you look at some of the teams the Lakers played -- even though the games were in hostile environments -- they should have won at least four of those games.

Instead, the Lakers finished 2-5.

Yes, the Lakers did lose Lamar Odom for two games with sprained rib cartilage and center Chris Mihm for the last three with a sprained right shoulder.

But those are excuses, and the Lakers had no right to use them because they played two teams, Indiana and Charlotte, that had a slew of injured players.

"It was a disappointing road trip for us," Jackson said. "We had players injured. We had games that we thought were winnable games that we didn't even compete in. We didn't even have a lead in the game against Charlotte."
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:02 pm    Post subject:

Technical on George Rescinded
By Larry Stewart, Times Staff Writer

The Lakers, in need of good news, got a small dose Friday. They learned a technical foul called against Devean George in the Lakers' 102-87 loss at Dallas on Tuesday night was rescinded by the NBA.

"It didn't give me great joy, but it's nice to know there was some justice paid out there," Coach Phil Jackson said at Laker practice. "The league reviewed it and made the correct call."

Besides the technical on George, Kwame Brown and Andrew Bynum were called for flagrant fouls and Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odom were also called for technicals in the Dallas game.

Afterward, Jackson called it "a really poorly refereed game."

He also said that, because Maverick owner Mark Cuban puts added pressure on the referees, "these guys are nervous Nellies."
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:35 pm    Post subject:


Kobe Bryant: Phase 3

by Jerold Wells, jerold.wellsjr @ gmail.com
published on Feb 11, 2006



MINNESOTA---Mr. Bryant, I presume. Nice to meet you sir, the pleasure’s all mine. You must be the guy everyone’s been raving about for the last 10 years. Glad to have finally met you.



The maturation of Kobe Bryant is now in phase three and it’s proving to be more exciting than the previous two phases combined. This very public growth process is causing every basketball fan to reconsider the Bryant they thought they knew and become familiar with the newest version of the Los Angeles superstar, KB8 version 3.0.



Phase 1: The wide-eyed, tight-lipped rookie with the east coast swagger and the west coast future is long gone. The role player with too much talent to squander sitting on anyone’s bench is a distant memory.



What did his early vocational trials teach Kobe? They taught him that nothing would be given to him in L.A. They taught him that just because he was anointed by General Manager and Laker great Jerry West to be worthy of the mantle Magic Johnson left behind that no one would bestow that mantle upon him without struggle.



They taught him another lesson as well, perhaps more important than the others in his first phase. Kobe Bryant learned that no one in the league could stop him. The realization he could get any shot he wanted against any defender in the NBA, even with the game on the line, was a painful one. Sure he tossed up air balls against the Utah Jazz during the Conference Finals. The resulting losses from those missed shots taught him that if he could improve, he could win games just as easily as he lost them.
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