Sun. 11/27 vs. Nets - Results Inside - Postgame comments

Lakers vs. Nets
Sunday, Nov. 27
6:30pm
TV: FSN, NBALP
Radio : XTRA 570/ESPN 1330
Recap | Box Score | Photos

Lakers - 96
Nets - 102

Lakers Fall Short Against Nets
Los Angeles never led and trailed by as many as 18 points on Sunday before sending the game to overtime on a Brian Cook buzzer-beater, but took a 102-96 loss against the Nets. Kobe Bryant finished with an NBA season-high 46 points, and Cook added 14.



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My apologies for the late update.

Let's get back on roll and get to .500 this game! I will be at the game too!

i will be at the game too ! by da way can we bring a digital camera ? cauz i juss got one and i wanna take it to staple center.

It's Nets vs Lakers not Lakers vs Nets. Bcuz Lakers are home... anyways, we should win bcuz nets are in a 5 game road trip and have lost all of them so far cuz i bet they'll lose to suns today.

Kobe drops 34pts and Odom scores 19pts, Mihm will get in bad foul trouble on guarding Krstic (I dunno why but I hav a feelin). Vince Carter has an off-night but Jefferson will b on fire

Gameday Preview
New Jersey Nets (5-7, 2nd Atlantic) at Los Angeles Lakers (5-6, 5th Pacific)

New Jersey
Offense 95.0 ppg, 20.5 apg, 42.5 rpg
Defense 96.9 ppg, 20.9 apg, 29.1 rpg

Los Angeles
Offense 94.8 ppg, 19.9 apg, 41.5 rpg
Defense 95.2 ppg, 22.3 apg, 41.6 rpg

TOP 6 Nets
PG Jason Kidd 13.7 pts, 6.5 ast, 7.3 reb
SG Vince Carter 20.9, 3.4, 5.5
SF Richard Jefferson 19.3, 4.1 9.1
PF Nenad Krstic 14.0, 0.8, 5.3
C Jason Collins 4.3, 0.5, 4.5
6th Jeff McInnis 6.3, 2.4, 2.3

TOP 6 Lakers

PG Smush Parker 12.3, 3.3, 3.7
SG Kobe Bryant 33.1, 4.4, 5.1
SF Lamar Odom 14.7, 5.2, 9.6
PF Brian Cook 5.6, 1.0, 2.6
C Chris Mihm 10.6, 1.0, 6.1
*6th Andrew Bynum 0.7, 0.1, 1.7

Key Matchup
Smush Parker vs. Jason Kidd
While Smush has provided some fireworks on offense this season with 3 20-point efforts and some thunderous dunks, his defense has been shaky. Kidd's numbers are down, but he'll hound Parker at the defensive end. If he gets going, he's as dangerous as Kobe, having posted a triple double early in the season and coming off of consecutive double doubles. Smush's ability to slow Kidd in transition will be key.

Featured Peformers
Jason Kidd 15 pts, 7 ast, 7 reb
Kobe Bryant 35 pts, 4 ast, 5 reb

Outlook
These are two banged up teams. Odom and Parker are the only guys in the starting lineup who aren't hurting for the Lakers and Jefferson is the only guy from the Nets not hurting. Nets are just 1-5 on the road this season and LA should be able to get it done in the end. A short-handed LA team (minus Kobe) beat basically the same Nets team last year in OT. Expect more of the same.
Lakers 98
Nets 93

*Tough call here. Bynum may get the start and Walton may not even play. I'd rather vomit than put Sasha as the 6th man for tonight.

just watched the nets @ suns game. we should definetly win this next one. the nets have A LOT of weaknesses. you guys thought we were bad offensively? jeez. no one outside of kidd rj and vince can even make a shot. seriously. their bigs might be worse than ours.

nameant wrote:just watched the nets @ suns game. we should definetly win this next one. the nets have A LOT of weaknesses. you guys thought we were bad offensively? jeez. no one outside of kidd rj and vince can even make a shot. seriously. their bigs might be worse than ours.

Jefferson played HUGE at the beginning of the year but he hasn´t shown much since. Carter is still good but if Kobe can play similar D on him like he did on Allen Carter will be in check and J-Kidd has a nice shooting night against Phoenix but we know he is not a scorer. I hope Smush concentrates on not letting Kidd pass instead of not letting him shoot.

transition defense will need to be sharp.

we need this win to get some sort of confidence, before we play san antonio.


i think we'll get it done and Lamar will have another big game.

lamar will have a great game, I think we win this game but kobe needs to play defense on Carter like he did on Allen.

I saw the Nets vs Suns game, and all they basically did was jack up jumpshots (both teams) except the Nets couldn't make them. They had like 28 points by halftime.

The Nets are 5-7, Second in the Atlantic Division.

Odom should take this team apart with his height advantage. Kobe vs RJ should be interesting & Smush is gonna get tested guarding Kidd. If we don't play some serious D we will get runned over on fast breaks.

it will be a blowout eitherway...if they get out in transition then we are screwed, if we can limit the turnovers and lamar can score like he did against the sonics we kill them

Lakers should win this one

LakerBaller7 wrote:Smush is gonna get tested guarding Kidd.

Yup let's hope he does what he did to Nash. Smush stole the ball like 3 times from Nash. (I think)

let's get a winning streak going

I am really looking forward to this game. Kobe never has that All-NBA defensive mindset unless he is guarding some premier players. And tomorrow he will have to guard either Carter or Jefferson, both who are worthy enough for his attention.

Cook is questionable with flu-like symptoms.

Luke will likely be activated, but Phil isn't sure if he will play him.

So, if Cook doesn't play, what starting lineup will we go with?
Bynum
Mihm
Odom
Kobe
Smush

Mihm
Odom
Profit/Luke
Kobe
Smush

I think the 2nd one is more likely, since we won't have any real big men off the bench, if we start Andrew.

Good news for us...Nets have lost 3 in a row.

jsm0331 wrote:Good news for us...Nets have won 3 in a row.

lost 3 in a row

iWuVkObE8BrYaNT wrote:let's get a winning streak going

we play San Antonio after that game. Won´t be a winning streak anyway

KB8@CL wrote:

iWuVkObE8BrYaNT wrote:let's get a winning streak going

we play San Antonio after that game. Won´t be a winning streak anyway

let's just hope we're on point against San Antonio and they play crap, i mean, Dallas are good, but not 'that' good, we can beat em.

KB8@CL wrote:

iWuVkObE8BrYaNT wrote:let's get a winning streak going

we play San Antonio after that game. Won´t be a winning streak anyway

Why not? We can beat San Antonio, if team will have hot hand. not only one playa.

i can never determine if we will win against elite teams just for the fact that we have kobe bryant , and he can go off anytime!