April 5th: Technical Foul on Bryant Is Voided. Lakers have chance to improve position. Kobe eyeing franchise record vs. Nuggets

 
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:50 am    Post subject: April 5th: Technical Foul on Bryant Is Voided. Lakers have chance to improve position. Kobe eyeing franchise record vs. Nuggets

Technical Foul on Bryant Is Voided
By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer
April 5, 2006

A technical foul on Kobe Bryant on Friday against Seattle has been rescinded by the league, leaving him three, not two, away from an automatic one-game suspension.

Bryant was called for the technical after putting the ball in the chest of referee Greg Willard a little too hard for Willard's liking. A league spokesman declined to comment, other than to confirm that the foul had been withdrawn.


Bryant, who now officially has 13 technical fouls, will be suspended without pay for a game if he picks up a 16th technical. Every two technical fouls beyond that (18, 20, 22) will also result in a one-game suspension without pay, as per guidelines of the progressive technical foul rule installed this season by the league.

"He's got to show restraint," Coach Phil Jackson said Tuesday. "His last one was ludicrous. He's kind of like a marked guy now."

Detroit Piston forward Rasheed Wallace was suspended for Tuesday's game against New Orleans after picking up his 16th technical foul in the Pistons' previous game.


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:51 am    Post subject:

Kobe has one less technical
Ross Siler, Staff writer

EL SEGUNDO - The NBA has rescinded the technical foul that Kobe Bryant received in Friday's game against Seattle, reducing the likelihood that the Rasheed Wallace rule will be enforced for anybody but its namesake this season.

Under a new rule, the NBA will suspend players a game if they reach 16 technical fouls in a season. Wallace was called for his league-leading 16th technical Sunday and had to sit out Detroit's game Tuesday against the Hornets.

Bryant was assessed his 14th technical of the season in the second quarter of Friday's game when he shoved the ball at referee Greg Willard after he was called for a charge.

But Bryant said he was talking to coach Phil Jackson and wasn't looking in Willard's direction when he gave him the ball. The league agreed Tuesday, and Bryant took a big step back from a possible suspension with two weeks left in the season.

Be like Mike: With his first point in Sunday's game against Houston, Bryant became the first player since Michael Jordan to score 2,500 points in a season. Jordan last did it with Chicago in the 1992-93 season. Bryant is averaging 34.8 points a game this season and his MVP candidacy has been on the rise with the Lakers winning six of their past seven games and solidifying their playoff position.

"We'll see how it goes," Bryant said. "I'm really just about trying to win. We made some significant strides to get into the playoffs when nobody expected us to even be in the playoffs. For me, that's an important step. The MVP stuff, I mean, that'll come. I don't worry about that."
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:02 am    Post subject:

Lakers have chance to improve position

By KEVIN DING
The Orange County Register

EL SEGUNDO – Lakers playoff tickets go on sale Saturday - 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster locations with a limit of six per buyer - and it is possible for the Lakers to have home-court advantage in the first round.

For that to happen, the Lakers would have to pass Memphis - which holds the tiebreaker over the Lakers - for the sixth spot in the Western Conference. The Lakers also would have to finish with at least as good a record as the projected No.3 seed, Denver (the Lakers hold the tiebreaker over Denver). The other scenario to get to sixth is to pass the Clippers, who are four games ahead of the Lakers.

The Nuggets are 41-34, and the Grizzlies are 43-32; the Lakers are 40-35.

The three division champions get the top three seeds in the playoffs, but the team with the better record gets home-court advantage, regardless of seeding. So if the Grizzlies or Lakers finish sixth with a better record than the Nuggets, Denver would start on the road.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:57 pm    Post subject:

Kobe eyeing franchise record vs. Nuggets
Lakers' guard looks to set mark for 40-point games in a season tonight

Updated: 4:04 p.m. ET April 5, 2006

Kobe Bryant looks to break a 43-year-old franchise record for 40-point games when the surging Los Angeles Lakers visit the struggling Denver Nuggets.

Bryant had 43 points in Los Angeles' 104-88 win over Houston on Sunday, giving him 23 games with at least 40 this season.

That tied Elgin Baylor's record set in 1962-63, when Baylor averaged 34.0 points per game. Bryant is averaging 34.8 per contest, seven points more than last season and four more than his previous career-high of 30.0 in 2002-03.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:26 pm    Post subject:

The Lakers are getting comfortable with Phil Jackson`s sets and schemes.

(AP)
Lakers find defensive chemistry for stretch run

By Brian Covert
Wed, Apr 5, 2006

The seventh sign of the apocalypse may be upon us.

The Los Angeles Lakers, the high-flying franchise once known as Showtime, may slowly gaining a reputation as a defensive juggernaut.

Over their last 10 games, the Lakers are allowing just 92.1 points per game, well below their season average of 96.9 points. Not surprisingly, the Lakers have played under the total in eight of their 10 games.

“This is a team that seems to finally be coming together,” says Covers Expert David Malinsky. “There were a lot of new faces to start the season and a lot of new schemes. At this point in the season it looks like they are finally starting to find some chemistry.”

The funny thing is, other than the Lakers keeping their opponents’ scoring down, there is no real evidence of improved defensive play. Los Angeles is in fact grabbing fewer rebounds and forcing only one more turnover per game.

To explain this Malinsky points to coach Phil Jackson getting the Lakers ready for the playoffs and an improvement in the Lakers’ offense which has taken time assimilating their coach’s complex sets and scheme. Over the same 10-game span, Los Angeles has upped their season average to 21 assists per game and is shooting almost two-percentage points better but is scoring two points less per game.
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