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June 11, 2008
LAst Night's Action: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
LA Lakers defeat Boston Celtics 87-81. What an ugly game. Pau Gasol was Ga-soft again. Lamar Odom sat on the bench with foul trouble most of the game. So leave it up to Sasha Vujacic to take up the slack. With 20 points he was the only Laker not named Kobe Bryant to score double-digits. The Lakers were more aggressive as perfectly shown by Jordan Farmar in the second quarter. After getting pushed by 6'11" PJ Brown going after a rebound, 6'2" Farmar got into Brown's face. The Lakers defense also did a good job holding Paul Pierce to only six points. MVP of game two Leon Powe had only one point, and although Kevin Garnett got 13 points he yet again retreated to the perimeter. The Lakers now trail the Celtics two games to one.
LA Dodgers defeat San Diego 7-2. It wasn't pretty, but at least the Dodgers scored some runs. Unfortunately for Clayton Kershaw it wasn't soon enough for him to get the win. The Dodgers blew the game open in the seventh due to some defensive blunders by the Padres. Rightfielder Brian Giles lost a line drive in the lights and Scott Hairston's and Justin Huber's miscommunication let a ball drop in the outfield in what should have been a one-two-three inning. And it's not a good sign when the manager uses four pitchers in an inning.
LA Angels defeat Tampa Bay Rays 6-1. Angel's starter Jered Weaver completely shut down the Ray's going eight innings and giving up only one run - a solo homer to Gabe Gross in the eighth inning. Meanwhile Garrett Anderson and Vladimir Guerrero each hit two-run homers in the first and fifth innings.
Notable News
As Zach reported earlier, the Kings fired head coach Marc Crawford Tuesday. Crawford came to the Kings in 2006 after the Kings cleaned house firing everyone who had a heartbeat. The youth movement that began with his tenure just hasn't taken hold yet. Previously Crawford coached the Colorado Avalanche to the Stanley Cup Championship in 1996 in their first season after their move from Quebec sweeping the Florida Panthers in the Finals.
UCLA guard Josh Shipp withdrew his name from the NBA draft. Shipp averaged 12 points a game this past season for the Bruins and has been part of the last three Bruins teams that have made it to the Final Four. Shipp waited until the final day for underclassmen to enter the draft and did not hire an agent giving him an out to come back to UCLA. With Shipp, Darren Collison and Alfred Aboya returning and the emergence of James Keefe, Chace Stanback and Michael Roll towards the end of the season, UCLA has a good chance of making it to four consecutive Final Fours.
Tonight's Action
LA Dodgers at San Diego Padres. Former teammates Chad Billingsley and Randy Wolf take the mound. 7:05 pm FSN Prime Ticket, AM 790 KABC.
Tampa Bay Rays at LA Angels. Scott Kazmir goes to the hill for the Rays against John Lackey. 12:35 pm FSN West, AM 830 KLAA.
AP Photo by Mark J. Terrill
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You should get one of your sponsors to do a contest where the prize is LAKERS TICKETS because that would be my only chance in hell at being able to go and I wanna go :(
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it wasn't so much that one team defeated the other, it was more like the celtics lost to the lakers. both played so terrible...
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I second that lakers ticket contest, because I won't pay $400 for Section 300s (nosebleed section).
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Maybe it just goes without saying, but with the exception of his uncharacteristically bad free-throw shooting, Kobe was superhuman last night. 12-20 from the field against Boston's defense is no small accomplishment.
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That LA won game three was a small accomplishment. Pierce and KG happened to be very bad on the same night and Boston almost won anyway. If they had been average, it's 3-0 Boston.
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Pierce had a bad game because Kobe guarded him. Lamar Odom had a terrible night, and so did Pau Gasol. If they had been average, the Lakers would have won by 15.
And if "if" was a spliff, we'd all be high. We won.
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Kobe had a great game. I think he was alone at times on the court.
KG/Pierce will usually outdo Odom/Gasol. LA got some Celtics luck last night.
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i agree with the last post...pierce going 2-14 from the floor will not happen in game 4. the lakers better hope that someone not named kobe steps up thursday.