[外電] Lakers Earn Their Share
Lakers Earn Their Share
They beat the Clippers, 100-83, for a split of the season series and
bolster their playoff chances; Bryant scores 38, Odom 23. Dunleavy not
happy.
By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer
April 10, 2006
The roles continue to change, the surprising present-day status on
display Sunday with the Lakers scrapping for a playoff spot and the
Clippers already there.
Indeed, the Clippers came in with the better record and the chance to
take the season series for the first time in 13 years, but the Lakers
wouldn't let them add more sweetener to their season, beating them,
100-83, at Staples Center.
Kobe Bryant had 38 points on 14-for-27 shooting and sat out all of
37 seconds despite a calf injury that had him hobbling at the morning
shoot-around. Lamar Odom had one of his best games against his former
team, scoring 23 points, taking 15 rebounds and skipping over a
stumbling block of sorts.
Along the way, the Lakers remained tied with Sacramento for seventh in
the Western Conference. The Clippers stayed a half-game ahead of
Memphis for fifth.
Odom, set adrift by the Clippers three summers ago, cast away a string
of off games against his former team, scoring on dunks (four), layups
(two) and three-pointers (two) on the way to making nine of 17 shots.
He had averaged only 8.5 points and 31.6% shooting in the last two
games against the Clippers, enough for Laker Coach Phil Jackson to muse
back in February that "there must be some tension there still."
But Odom looked loose and fluid against the Clippers, parting their
defense time and again for easy baskets and creating a 2-2 deadlock in
the season series.
"He's been just like that often against the Clippers. We've often
remarked about that, haven't we as a group?" Jackson said sarcastically.
"You [media] guys were talking down about my boy and then he just comes
out there and plays the game. Lamar was great on the boards. He carried
the attack."
The Clippers haven't won a season series against their city rival since
1992-93, when they won it, 3-2. They tied last season, 2-2, and held a
one-game edge this season, but the fourth quarter, won by the Lakers,
28-14, did them in.
Sam Cassell and Elton Brand each had 24 points, but no other Clipper
scored in double figures.
"The season series doesn't really matter," Clipper Coach Mike Dunleavy
said. "Winning tonight's game was really the issue. They're a team
that's fighting for their playoff lives … and this confirms more to me
that we're just not ready [for the playoffs]. If we go into the
playoffs like that, it's one and done."
The Lakers held a 50-45 halftime lead, but neither team created much
separation until Bryant's three-pointer gave the Lakers an 85-77 lead
with 5:48 to play. Odom followed with a dunk on the next Laker
possession after Kwame Brown kept alive a rebound, and the Clippers
never threatened from there.
The Lakers have four regular-season games left, all at home, and are
three games ahead of Utah and New Orleans, who are tied for ninth.
The Clippers, meanwhile, have lost two consecutive games since winning
at Phoenix, 119-105.
"I'm just sick of this," Clipper guard Cuttino Mobley said. "We're
supposed to be a playoff team and we're playing like that? We've been
talking about this for 15, 20 games. By now, guys are supposed to know
where their shots are coming from, know where they're supposed to be
and know what they're supposed to do. It's ridiculous."
Bryant limped through the shoot-around after getting kicked in the left
calf during the final minute of the Lakers' loss Friday in Phoenix.
"It's tender to the touch," he said. "You can't even breathe on it."
He felt good enough to outscore the Clippers by himself in the fourth
quarter, 17-14, making three of five three-point attempts.
Odom, for his part, insisted it was just another game — "The Clippers
weren't the focus tonight … it was the Lakers against a team we needed
to beat," he said — although he acknowledged an uptick in dunks.
"Usually that's not my forte, but they have shot blockers, so I just
wanted to go into the lane and finish as hard as I can," he said.
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你們認為海南高高在上，位於雲端嗎？他們真的就這麼高不可攀嗎？
他們的成績的確是有目共睹的。以他們過去的戰績來看，我們和海南的確有天壤之別。
但是----
我在睡前，都會想像著有一天......
我每晚都在腦裡描繪我們和海南大學附屬高中參加IH的戰況。
從那一年前起，每晚都如此！
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