I think as long as the Lakers continue to lose, we're going to see many games where Bryant gets into the face of opposing players this way. But I don't think it's all due to frustration. It could be that Bryant is trying to "motivate" his team to get meaner and nastier. Basically, if they cannot win by talent, it's time to do compete by whatever means necessary. Or maybe he's just losing it.
Boozer at this point is really nothing to worry about and his defense shows even more now than he's out of Chicago where he could hide behind their team defense.
Warriors - not impressed Suns - looked solid, that guard rotation is going to kill many team, might sneak into the playoffs. Hornets - impressed with the comeback and Kemba, kemba, kemba Lance looks like he's really trying to fit in and ended with a crazy statline of 13 rebounds, 8 assists and 7 points Bucks - boy do they have some bigs and Jabari is something special! Utah - I like that team, Burke / Burcs was great and Kanter & Favors are very solid. Lakers - lottery, lottery, lottery and Kobe can act tough all he wants, pick a fight every night, he's still going to lose big. Lin is pretty bad..
You missed the point entirely. Kobe and the Lakers were getting their rear's burned but he still managed to get Bledsoe thrown out of the game. Bledsoe blindly took the bait. That's what I meant by ownership. Bledsoe will be thinking more about Kobe than about the win. He's gotta be smarter than that. This isn't the first time Kobe's done this but I can't remember the other player being such a rube and getting tossed.
Damn, 30% shooting for the Kings. Cousins went 4-14 from the field and had 6 TOs, but he got 20 points and 11 boards so I'm sure he's happy.
Missed this: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Kenneth Faried on Pistons' Josh Smith: 'He shot them out of the game.' <a href="http://t.co/qc17ndqS0o">http://t.co/qc17ndqS0o</a> <a href="http://t.co/s7D8vxn0pJ">pic.twitter.com/s7D8vxn0pJ</a></p>— theScore (@theScore) <a href="https://twitter.com/theScore/status/527923817289506816">October 30, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Josh Smith on Faried: "He's a clown, quote me on that." Story coming</p>— Vincent Goodwill (@vgoodwill) <a href="https://twitter.com/vgoodwill/status/527963092756725760">October 30, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Smith also called him a "Twitter gangster."</p>— Vincent Ellis (@Vincent_Ellis56) <a href="https://twitter.com/Vincent_Ellis56/status/527963900936192000">October 30, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>My bad: "Instragram gangsters."</p>— Vincent Ellis (@Vincent_Ellis56) <a href="https://twitter.com/Vincent_Ellis56/status/527964627196727296">October 30, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The Chicago bench looks really good. Aaron Brooks looks like he's got his legs and some of his speed back. I think he could be great as their backup PG.
