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Lakers Lose Another in Tight Match
Bryant shakes off arm injury, Lakers fail to close gap


ABOVE: Lamar Odom (7) covered up for
Kobe in the third quarter

18 Oct, Seattle – The Los Angeles Lakers were on the very edge of winning their first game, right up until Kobe Bryant got injured on a hard foul. With the Lakers up by 5 entering the second half, Bryant collided with Ray Allen and went straight to the change rooms for the entire third period.

By the time Bryant returned, it was too late. The Sonics took the chance to outscore LA by 12 points and take a slim lead into the final period. And even Bryant’s spectacular 20 point fourth quarter couldn’t dig his team out of their hole. Bryant finished on a modest 29 points and 6 rebounds as he shot high percentages. Lamar Odom picked up Bryant’s slack as he tried to keep LA in the game with 9 third quarter points. Odom had 27 points and 7 assists but committed 6 turnovers, mainly due to his teammates not looking out for his fast passes.

“Sometimes it’s a pain without Kobe on the court because the other guys aren’t experienced enough to expect those quick passes I make,” Odom noted, “If a man is open, I’ll throw it to them and I always expect them to see.” Aaron Mckie had his best game for the Lakers, playing well in the first half as he racked up 9 points, 4 assists and 2 steals and Kwame Brown grabbed 16 boards.

Ray Allen led the Sonics with 23 points, 7 assists and 2 steals. Seattle’s captain was flanked by Rashard Lewis’ 25 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists and Luke Ridnour’s surprising output of 24 points and 7 assists. “Luke (Ridnour) was great tonight. He dished and drove in and scored well,” Allen said of his teammate, “I can tell that he’s been working over the off-season.”

The Sonics began the game on top and cruised to the end of the first quarter before Odom and Mckie led a Lakers 12-0 run in the second period. Mckie made several flashy passes into Brown who converted most of the time whilst Odom played brilliant defense on Ridnour who was held scoreless for the quarter. However, due to Bryant’s injury, Odom was prevented from defending the point guard spot and moved back to matching up against Lewis.

The Lakers’ defense once again failed them as Seattle repeatedly drove into the paint and found themselves open for the open bucket. “It was better game tonight but we still ahd too many errors,” Phil Jackson said after the game. Kobe Bryant left the arena for the team bus smiling to reporters, “Tommorrow night, we will win.”

Notes

The Lakers play the second leg of the home and away exhibition matches at STAPLES tomorrow night… SG Kobe Bryant has been cleared from injury… F Slava Medvedenko has been taken off the IR list and will replace SF Laron Profit… Preseason Record: 0-4 (0-2, 0-2)…

Box Score



Game Images

With 11:05 left in the third, Bryant suffered a shoulder injury
Aaron Mckie played hard defence
Ray Allen went up for the finger roll
Rashard Lewis hit jumpers from all over the court
Mckie dumps it low for the Kwame Brown jam
Bryant was electrifying in the final quarter

Last edited by Fresh8 on Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:33 pm, edited 3 times in total.

getting better there....you should be ready to step up to Superstar soon

I'd like to see Lamar and Kobe create for guys like Jumaine Jones who should be a nice impact guy off the bench....I'm also looking forward to a breakout season from Laron Profit and see how Von Wafer does in Lakers' colours

awww, tough loss again sit....... anyway it's still pre-season...... cant wait for the season to start.....

man, you can't seem to even buy a win.

Sit have you tried using a smaller line up of
C: Brown
PF: Odom
SF: George
SG: Kobe
PG:McKie
or start Vujacic n put Mckie instead of George so u can have a faster team and can get some easy baskets off of fast breaks

Hey Will nice looking so far, I like that you've kept your style the same as last year.

Finished that favour for ya, ill send it via MSN, jst chat me, i mite be doin some labs tho so may nto be there, but ill come back and check every hour or so.

how come your dynasty gets so many dam responses

Hey Will nice looking so far, I like that you've kept your style the same as last year.

Finished that favour for ya, ill send it via MSN, jst chat me, i mite be doin some labs tho so may nto be there, but ill come back and check every hour or so.

damn, I might have to employ the master for some help too

Hey Will nice looking so far, I like that you've kept your style the same as last year.

Finished that favour for ya, ill send it via MSN, jst chat me, i mite be doin some labs tho so may nto be there, but ill come back and check every hour or so.

damn, I might have to employ the master for some help too

[Lol, in no way would I consider myself a master, im still just a padawan But Id love to help ya out X.

EDIT: Oh yeah when are we gonna see yours X? I thought you said you had the game....

Anyway back to thread topic, I still havent seen you online today Sit, PM me if ya want, cos i know that you wanted this done pretty quick (sorry its late btw )

I'd like to see Lamar and Kobe create for guys like Jumaine Jones who should be a nice impact guy off the bench....I'm also looking forward to a breakout season from Laron Profit and see how Von Wafer does in Lakers' colours

- Jumaine is better than I expected. He can hit the open jumper for me and is dependable on the open court. I will use him more! hmmm.. Laron Profit may be cut soon in case you wanna know and quoting GM Sit, "Von Wafer and Andrew bynum need to prove to me they deserve playing time."

awww, tough loss again sit....... anyway it's still pre-season...... cant wait for the season to start.....

- Man, I am busy for the next 6 weeks at least.. so the season will start after school is done... but theres still a few preseason games to do and I will release the magazine once its done! So Brad Feet... is that your real name?

man, you can't seem to even buy a win.

- Dont worry Xu, the first win is coming soon!

Sit have you tried using a smaller line up of
C: Brown
PF: Odom
SF: George
SG: Kobe
PG:McKie
or start Vujacic n put Mckie instead of George so u can have a faster team and can get some easy baskets off of fast breaks

- Nah man, I'm happy with Mihm/Brown/Odom/Bryant/Mckie... its slowly working! And I dont like fast break basketball lol... i love half court!

Hey Will nice looking so far, I like that you've kept your style the same as last year.

- Thanks Mark... and its not like I can make it fancy or anything! Thanks for the favour once again Mark!

how come your dynasty gets so many dam responses

- So are you a hater or something?

Here is the cover of the first ever issue of Laker Lowdown.

Articles are coming soon to this thread near you!

Props to Mark for the cover!

lowdown? COPYRIGHT!! hehe...just kidding

if its that hard for you to win, what more me...

Tough loss against the Sonics but if Kobe did not get injured, the Lakers could have win the game. I like your Lakers Lowdown cover and I am looking forward to read the articles.

nice mag, some good work by Mark

at Kayne West's pink sweater

So Brad Feet... is that your real name?

lol no...... nice magazine there Sit........

MORE KANYE!!!!
Your obsessed my friend! Obsessed!

To bad on the 24-26 turnovers between Kobe and Odom.

As someone had already suggested get Barbosa! he IS your guy. Hes tyronn lue on speed, with a better jump shot, height and can play D. not to mention will develop into a great player, and can play the 2, which means you dont need a KB8 back up.

anyway, im now gonna read page 3! damn 56k. i have to post on each page, because i forget.

EDIT: ok, done reading page3. that odom screen at the start of the seattle recap, is fucking awesome. nice work. the team is picking up, should see some more wins now man. good luck, and think about barbosa!

Looks like you put on a good show in Seattle and using McKie at PG is looking pretty good too. Nice mag and I'll be wiating on the season.

Damn another loss. Stop turning the ball over for christ sakes. You're playing very well except in that area. Oh well, I hope you're still adjusting your sliders.

Nice magazine too. I can't really think of anything to say because it's in the morning and I'm half awake, so yeah.

love the cover, so kanye's on Kobe's posterized list now? love it, good job.

best dynasty on these boards so far, great screens... i have the same video card

and yeah if ur looking for one of those Converters there are bajillions of them on Ebay, but are hard to find elseware (EB and Harvey Norman dont stock them) i ordered mine from ebay two days ago....gotta wait another 5....at least...

keep up the great work and good luck

Another loss
Great mag

lowdown? COPYRIGHT!! hehe...just kidding

if its that hard for you to win, what more me...

- What do u mean by 'want more me'???

Tough loss against the Sonics but if Kobe did not get injured, the Lakers could have win the game. I like your Lakers Lowdown cover and I am looking forward to read the articles.

- Yeah, if Kobe didn't get hurt, we would have had a better chance! And Mark made the cover, not me!

at Kayne West's pink sweater

- Hey man, its ghetto preppy!

As someone had already suggested get Barbosa! he IS your guy. Hes tyronn lue on speed, with a better jump shot, height and can play D. not to mention will develop into a great player, and can play the 2, which means you dont need a KB8 back up.

- But Barbosa is part of the Suns' future... I cant take him... I'm all about realism!

Looks like you put on a good show in Seattle and using McKie at PG is looking pretty good too. Nice mag and I'll be wiating on the season.

- And I'm waiting for yours too Mafia!

Damn another loss. Stop turning the ball over for christ sakes. You're playing very well except in that area. Oh well, I hope you're still adjusting your sliders.

- Still adjusting. I've got game speed down to 25 for christs sake! lol

love the cover, so kanye's on Kobe's posterized list now? love it, good job.

- Yep, props to Mark once again for the cover. I'm looking forward to ur dynasty starting too mate!

best dynasty on these boards so far, great screens... i have the same video card

- Why thanks man. I hope u enjoy the game too!

Another loss
Great mag

- THanks alot mate. Mag once again is thanks to Mark!

If Barbosa is part of the suns future, they would of played him more!
live 06 suns will sign someone anyway, and nash allways puts up MVP numbers on the games, so he wouldnt get PT anway. give them a big man or a shooter and its all good.

He's just there for the future... after Nashy is too old... They will use him!

But we will see my options.. wats the Suns'depth chart at SG and PG?

Good luck with this one Will
You Know how I "LOVE" the Lakers