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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:55 am    Post subject: Febuary 5th: Nothing is OK for Lakers in defeat.


Nothing is OK for Lakers in defeat

Hornets jump ahead of Lakers in West
By Ross Siler, Staff Writer


New Orleans Hornets guard Kirk Snyder, left, fouls Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (8) in the first half of Saturday night's NBA basketball game Feb. 4, 2006 in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Ty Russell)
OKLAHOMA CITY - At least the Lakers can't lose a game when they're sitting at a Dallas hotel today watching the Super Bowl.

Their seven-game road trip took another turn for the worse Saturday night as the Lakers suffered their third consecutive double-digit loss, falling 106-90 to the New Orleans Hornets at Ford Center and slipping to eighth in the Western Conference standings.

Even with forward Lamar Odom and center Chris Mihm sidelined by injuries, the Lakers were embarrassed all the same. And it went further than Hornets guard Kirk Snyder sailing over rookie Von Wafer for the dunk of the season in the fourth quarter.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:59 am    Post subject:

Mihm Joins Odom on the Sideline
By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY — Lamar Odom now has company in the I-can't-raise-my-right-arm club.

Twenty-four hours after Odom sat out a game because of torn cartilage in the upper right side of his ribcage, center Chris Mihm joined him in street clothes Saturday at the end of the Laker bench because of a sprained right shoulder.

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Mihm is game-to-game after being fouled by Primoz Brezec toward the end of the Lakers' loss Friday in Charlotte.

"We're trying to do everything we can to get it to calm down but right now I can't raise my arm," Mihm said before Saturday's game against New Orleans/Oklahoma City. "Even kind of walking around right now, if I move it the wrong way, it hurts."

Mihm and Odom were each hooked up to electrical-stimulation devices Saturday, with electrodes driving therapeutic electric currents and anti-inflammatory medicine toward their specific injuries.

Odom is improving — "I slept better [Friday] night, so I'm not as grumpy," he said — but how long his injury will last is unclear. He said he hoped to "gut it out" and play Tuesday against Dallas.

Even with Odom and Mihm out, Laker Coach Phil Jackson said he did not give much thought to starting 18-year-old Andrew Bynum.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:06 am    Post subject:


Mihm can't shoulder load

By Ross Siler, Staff Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY - No matter how bad his back spasms got on the Lakers' six-game trip in December, center Chris Mihm found a way to play through the pain.

But Mihm couldn't find a way to get on the court Saturday after suffering a right shoulder injury in the fourth quarter of the Lakers' loss to Charlotte the night before.

"If I can go, I'm going to go," Mihm said. "I contemplated if it was possible to play left-handed (Saturday). But I can't even lift the arm, so I couldn't guard anybody, couldn't rebound, couldn't do anything. So it's just not realistic."

It was the first game this season Mihm has missed. He joined forward Lamar Odom (rib injury) on the sidelines, with the hope that two days of treatment will enable him to play Tuesday at Dallas.

Mihm jammed his shoulder when he muscled in a shot against Bobcats center Primoz Brezec as part of a three-point play with 2:25 left. The team called it a mild to moderate sprain of the right shoulder.

"It didn't tear through, just separated some of the tendon tissue in there," Mihm said. "Pretty damn painful."
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:08 am    Post subject:

Latest Loss Is a Trail of Two Cities
# Lakers never lead while being routed, 106-90, by New Orleans/Oklahoma City and are 1-4 on trip.

By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Lakers, or whatever might be left of them, chose another city for another bad night, continuing to connect the dots across the country on a road trip going terribly awry.

With Lamar Odom and Chris Mihm watching in street clothes from the end of the bench, the Lakers were drubbed, 106-90, by the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets, who vaulted over them into seventh place in the Western Conference. The Lakers are a game ahead of Utah for eighth.

There were shades of last season, with the Lakers taking 35 three-pointers, one shy of the team record set Dec. 25, 2004 against Miami, and making 13. There were also shades of this season, the Lakers trailing all the way for a second consecutive game, failing to take a lead a day after letting Charlotte go wire-to-wire for the first time in the Bobcats' two-year existence.

Kobe Bryant called for help beforehand, saying some of his teammates needed to "step in and step it up." Only a few were willing to oblige Saturday at Ford Center.

Devean George had 21 points and Brian Cook had 13, but no other Laker had more than seven. Smush Parker had five points on two-for-eight shooting in 39 minutes. Kwame Brown had seven points in 32 minutes.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:11 am    Post subject:

Hornets slow down Bryant, Lakers
Kobe scores 19 in first quarter, but N.O. allows 16 rest of way
Sunday, February 05, 2006
By John Reid
Staff writer

OKLAHOMA CITY -- It's been a rare occurance this season for Los Angeles Lakers' star Kobe Bryant to get upstaged. After all, he had the magnificant 81-point game last month against the Toronto Raptors and scored 62 points against the Dallas Mavericks in December.

In facing the Hornets for the first time season, Bryant came to the Ford Center with specific expectations that he would take command of the show with his scoring ability.

But Bryant's 35 points didn't attract the attention like point guard Chris Paul's sensational crossover moves to often beat the Lakers defenders or Kirk Snyder's dunk in the fourth quarter in which he soared over the head of Lakers backup Von Wafer.

The Hornets also had little difficulty pulling out a 106-90 victory Saturday night to move into the seventh spot in the Western Conference playoff race and improve to 24-22.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:15 am    Post subject:

It's Time to Settle the Score With Points Down
I love this game anyway: It really is more fluid, as David Stern says. It just isn't any faster.

Here's how open it is: The top five in points in the paint last week were Shawn Marion, LeBron James, Tony Parker, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade. That's three guards and no one taller than 6 feet 7.

Players fire from way downtown as never before. Larry Bird took 1.9 three-pointers a game. Ray Allen now takes 8.8.

Unfortunately, enhanced fluidity hasn't reversed the trend toward fewer possessions, shots and points, which is the real problem.

In 1996, scoring fell below 100 to stay. In 1998, it fell below 97.5 to stay. Since then, the league has had all it could do to keep it above 90.

Last season, with referees allowing less contact, scoring rose from 93.4 to 97.2, amid rejoicing. This season it's back down to 96.6, suggesting more should be done.

Such as:

• Get rid of the three-pointer.

Just kidding. It won't happen — and shouldn't because fans like it — so they'll have to work around it.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:20 am    Post subject:

Bryant frustrated with teammates as Lakers drop 3rd game in row
BY KEVIN DING
The Orange County Register

OKLAHOMA CITY - Before the Lakers lost their third consecutive game, 106-90, to the New Orleans Hornets on Saturday night, Kobe Bryant said his favorites in the NBA to watch are LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and the Detroit Pistons "for the way they execute."

It's no wonder, then, Bryant has gotten sick of what surrounds him on this Lakers team. Their young players can't gun like James and Wade and are so imprecise with the mental aspects of the game that Bryant was shouting at just about every teammate at one time or another Saturday night.

"We're not executing well at all," Bryant said. "That's what's frustrating."

Ever since Bryant disguised the Lakers' core problems with his 81-point game for a comeback victory, opponents have been firm in not allowing him to dominate to that extent.

The Hornets became the latest team to send aggressive double-team traps at Bryant from the tipoff, and while he managed 35 points on 13-of-26 shooting, the Lakers never got in sync after most of teammates started out missing shots off Bryant passes.

"We're feeling sorry for ourselves because our shots aren't falling," Devean George said. "But that's going to happen."
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:24 am    Post subject:

West notes: Lakers big men get tutoring with a hook
By David DuPree, USA TODAY
Where, oh where, has the hook shot gone? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who used the legendary sky hook, a shot no one before him or after him, really perfected, to become the NBA's all-time leading scorer with 38,387 points, is teaching a version of it to Los Angeles Lakers centers Chris Mihm and Andrew Bynum.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar watches Lakers center Andrew Bynum practice taking shots. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar watches Lakers center Andrew Bynum practice taking shots.
By Reed Saxon, AP

Abdul-Jabbar was hired as a special assistant to work with the Lakers' big men, and the results are already evident. Mihm is having the best season of his six-year career, averaging 10.5 points, 6.7 rebounds and shooting 51.1% from the field.

"I'm not trying to get Chris to necessarily shoot a sky hook," Abdul-Jabbar says. "He can shoot a hook shot with either hand, in his style. He just didn't know how to use it. I think his coaches tried to give him guard skills, and you can't use those around the basket.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:02 am    Post subject:

Injured Lakers banged around
By Ross Siler Staff Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY - At least the Lakers can't lose a game while they're sitting in a Dallas hotel today watching the Super Bowl.

Their seven-game road trip took another bad turn Saturday night as the Lakers suffered their third consecutive double-digit loss, 106-90 to the Hornets at Ford Center and slipping to eighth in the Western Conference standings.

Even with forward Lamar Odom and center Chris Mihm sidelined by injuries, the Lakers were embarrassed all the same. And it went
farther than Hornets guard Kirk Snyder sailing over rookie Von Wafer for the dunk of the season in the fourth quarter.

The Hornets shot 56.8 percent and the Lakers took 35 3-pointers, one shy of the franchise record. Kobe Bryant finished with 35 points - 19 in the first quarter - but also had seven turnovers in the face of constant double-teams.

They couldn't contain Hornets rookie guard Chris Paul, who was as good as advertised in collecting 19 points, 13 assists and seven rebounds, and couldn't hide their frustration in the locker room afterward.

"Everything is going wrong," forward Devean George said. "We've got injuries. We've got young guys playing. Everybody that's been playing is hurt. We're feeling sorry for ourselves because we're a little banged up."

The Lakers (24-23) now lead Utah by just a game for the conference's eighth and final playoff position.

"They know they deserve a loss," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. "They know they're getting outplayed. We didn't

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play well enough to win a ballgame. We got beat by a better team tonight."
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