Sun. 10/19. vs. Cavs - Results Inside - Postgame comments

Lakers vs. Cavaliers
Bakersfield, CA
Sun. Oct. 19
6:30 p.m.
Recap - http://www.nba.com/games/20031019/CLELAL/recap.html
Box Score - http://www.nba.com/games/20031019/CLELAL/boxscore.html

Lakers - 87
Cavaliers - 102

Shaq's Back, but Lakers Lose
Shaquille O'Neal returned from a three-game absence to net 20 points and six boards, but Los Angeles couldn't stop Cleveland in a 102-87 preseason loss Sunday. The Lakers will host the Clippers on Thursday.

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I think Rush will somehow get on fire in this game... I dunno, I just have this feeling.. After seeing him do well in the last game, I think he'll continue that force... He's improving, and I think Slava will shoot well too. I think we'll win in double digits too.

I no gurl damn slava he impressed me alot he improved so much he looks like he's been playin for ever u can tell he worked hard over tha summer and devean and pargo and kareem devean looks more swol and pargo with his defence his quick and kareem he improved his outside shoot so Hell Yah Lakers are going to win.Hopefully Kobe will be able to play then cavs. would really b dead.

Slava didn't impress me in Friday's game..just that dunk but his jumper was not going...the Suns were playing moderate D and oh welpz...did anyone see Slava attack the basket at the waning seconds of the game? That was hilarious, man,he has offensive instincts 24:7. For this game, I see Rush as being a good man for shooting...6-9 last game, this guy gained 15 lbs. of muscle to outshoot his threes...I see him improving and taking some load off the Kobester this season too.

Lakers 97- Cavs 82

LeBron's bad shooting nights--part 3

I think lebron will have a BETTER game than 4/18 in LA...he will go 7-19 and he'll get to tha line a lil more, and he'll finish with 19 pts 6 rebs and 4 assists...but the Lakers will win, but not by alot...94-86 LAKERS

Any new updates about Kobe possibly playing?

Kobe said he will definetly play the last two games. Not today.

Phil said he will play 5-6 min on Thursday then get more them Sun, the last game.

Bron is gonna have 13 points, 7 assists, and 6 rebounds on 5-15 shooting...

i also do believe that Rush will have a big game today inbetween 15-20 points tonight and Malone will put up some points tonight in the range of 1-15 points. I hope to see Kapono play some minutes for the Cavaliers tonight since he didnt get any last thursday.

hellyea GO RUSH!

Lakers 98
Cavs 90

Lakers 102

Cavs 81


I say Shaq plays and scores 18.

Bron will have 8 pts. and shoot 3-14 from the field and be 2 for 6 from the line.

Lakers 92
Cavs 91

I'm going for a close last second victory here .

Lakers down big-time with Ollie and Bremer killing us like 46-31 last time I checked.


Awful...even with Shaq around...

If it comes to a last second shot who will take it for the Lakers? Would GP or someone else I think he would take it.

Cavs 57- Lakers 33 HALF

Awful

This is preseason.

in real life we would be whooping their <censored> and kicking leBron's butt all day and Kevin Ollie and Bremer would be sore losers in a sore losing team that is just idiotic and Miles and all those guys would just plain suck

OMG...they are down by 24 points....I wish I could see the game but I live in NYC....

It is preseason. The Cavs just looked very well tonight and the Lakers kind of were in LaLa land tonight...

It's just preseason! It's just preseason! ITS JUST PRESEASON!

Damn... Scary eh?

However, Shaq looked VERY GOOD tonight.

sorry guys,

but this was just a matter of "no defense." And no rebounding. And no triangle offense. No nothing, absolutely whatsoever. it was horrendous, passes being intercepted and all those highlight reels...I bet there is one highlight reel that is going to be on ESPN tonight, Ricky Davis's dunk after D. Miles's missed free throw at the buzzer of the half. man, that was vicious, the Lakers were sleeping and they evn played poorly by fouling D. Miles's in 0.2 seconds left. Awful...and they weren't really taking advantage of the offense even if they used it...no assists...Kevin Ollie was killing and even DeSagana Diop was hitting jumpers...Reminded me of the Jerry Stackhouse open dunk at the buzzer somehow....evn LeBron hit the jumpers against us and played well, especially with rebounding...we SO got outrebounded by like 25 boards or something...man, with Malone and Shaq, how come we couldn't get a single one? Idiotic.....no bright spots today, not even with the return of Shaq...I thought the Lakers were proving better than that, even it's just the PRESEASON.

rdyjorker..i feel ur pain

but like everyone else has been sayin...its PRESEASON...basically u should look at what tha score is at tha end of tha 1st quarter..we usually are up by a couple points or down by like 2 or 4...now imagine if we had our stars in tha 2nd quarter throughout + kobe bryant...do u think these teams would go on 24-0 runs? HELL NO

im tryin to control myself cuz it DOES get frustrating seeing ollie and bremer drop dimes on us...but its PRESEASON THANK GOD and we will be ready for tha season when it starts!