“We’re all praying for you”, Bryant said. But those of us with a sense of the dramatic know the season doesn’t really start until the sharpshooter rings in at the buzzer. He’s tough physically; he guards people and things like that. “So that was a gutsy performance”. The status for all three remains up in the air when the Magic travel to Washington to take on the Wizards Saturday night. “I’m here, I’m a Laker for life”, said Bryant, following his team’s 104-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center, via Yahoo! Oladipo looked woozy, struggling to run, and he exited the game at the next stoppage in play. “That tells a lot about him”. Also, Harris showed signs of shedding his shooting slump and once again being a do-everything forward for Orlando. Center Nikola Vucevic returned to the starting lineup Friday after coming off the bench in one game and poured in 16 points while grabbing nine rebounds and dishing out five assists.
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After Pachulia’s last free throw, Kobe Bryant and Metta World Peach each missed 3-point shots. Defensively, the Lakers yield 108.3 points per game. That left him searching for answers as to why his shooting dipped to 45 percent. Hayward and Hood top the Jazz in assists, and all have the length and athleticism to get their shots off against most defenders.
He added, “It is unusual, but honestly, if I had to pick, I’d have it that way”.
The three-wing alignment is a big reason the Jazz didn’t trade for a point guard when Exum got hurt playing internationally for Australia. Teams are killing us on the offensive glass.
Also, using the three wings at once alleviates any playing time issues between Burks and Hood.
BRYANT (on opposing fans cheering him): “This may be my last time here, it’s amusing because there’s a lot of Mavs fans that normally heckle the (expletive) out of me, they they (usually) let me have it and tonight they didn’t”. Last year, both were injured at different times, which made them both starters for the bulk of their individual season. Pachulia continues to be one of the steals of the offseason for any team. Kobe, meanwhile, has done little to set the score straight. Fournier had a great game.
For a while Friday night, the Orlando Magic seemed well on their way to a much-needed victory by a blowout.
Meanwhile, the Mavericks are two games behind Southwest Division leaders San Antonio Spurs. Lou Williams, who scored 13 points, air-balled his game-winning attempt, giving the Magic 1.5 seconds with the ball.
Skiles has put a heavy emphasis on Magic players rotating quickly and having “high hands” in order to block views, deflect passes and occasionally swat shots.
The Lakers scored a season-low 82 points on 33 percent shooting. “We’re due for a shot-making barrage one of these days”.
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Now I know what you all are thinking. “Coach is doing a good job of getting us together, we’ve had a few good games now we’ve jjust got to get over the hump”. “If we had come out with more energy, more juice, we could have given ourselves a chance to win at the end”.
