"This is a team that’s relatively thin inside," Jackson said of the Bulls after Tuesday’s game. You’d expect Gray to get more time against Oden, who is settling in as a defensive player and rim rocking dunker.
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Oden had 22 points and 10 rebounds Tuesday in easily his best game as a pro through the Trailblazers lost to the Warriors, and it will be another game that tests the Bulls smaller, mostly skinny front line with Portland also playing LaMarcus Aldridge. Now, the Bulls head into Portland Wednesday, and, what do you know, Greg Oden is looking like he can play. Sefolosha didn’t enter Tuesday’s game until 2:29 was left and the Bulls were down 14 and Rose going out, the official end these days of Bulls games. It’s clear Hughes is not in the Bulls long term future, so you figure the Bulls need to get a better idea what Sefolosha can do and how he fits with Rose, if at all. Hughes had six points and almost 19 minutes, and the guard issue that didn’t materialize with Kirk Hinrich and Hughes hurt could be an issue now if it forces Sefolosha to the bench. I also was surprised we didn’t see more of Thabo Sefolosha, who, predictably, has fallen out of the rotation with the return of Larry Hughes. With Rose’s young legs, he may have made Bryant look bad. I was a bit surprised that Bryant didn’t take any defensive turns on Rose to test him out, though Bryant is smart. But Strickland didn’t shoot even as well as Rose does now, and Rose has more the athletic ability of Darrell Griffith or Dwyane Wade going to the basket. They did a tremendous job defensively on us tonight."Ĭhris Webber on the NBA-TV broadcast made a nice comparison with Rose to Rod Strickland, the slippery guard from DePaul who was a wizard in getting to the basket. "They were usually playing good ‘D’ and pressuring the ball. “They got too many easy baskets and took us out of everything we wanted to run offensively by taking away our first option," said Drew Gooden. That made it 73-58 Lakers with the Bulls into a timeout less than three minutes into the second half, and though the Bulls battled back behind some brilliant Rose drives, a nice hesitation floater shortly thereafter and a twisting drive through Bynum and Gasol, the Lakers size and the Bulls’ sloppy and too often fearful play guaranteed a loss. Rose blocked by Bynum, Pau Gasol running layup on a pass from Kobe. Ben Gordon miss, Andrew Bynum dunk after several Lakers’ offensive rebounds.
It went something like this: Luol Deng miss, Kobe jumper. Then Bryant broke open a five-point game coming out after halftime. Bryant played just 31 minutes and had eight of his 21 points in the first half and didn’t score until almost midway through the second quarter. It went awry, but Bryant gathered it in and stepped back to the three-point line and hit the shot.īryant barely played in the fourth quarter, coming in for the first time with under four minutes left as Lakers coach Phil Jackson used primarily reserves down the stretch. Bryant got into the open court ahead of everyone on a turnover and stopped to throw back for a lob to Trevor Ariza. Phil Jackson even yanked Kobe Bryant after a mocking playground type play with the Lakers ahead 79-65 in the third quarter. The Lakers didn’t seem to take Tuesday’s game very seriously. That, worst of all, was the story of Tuesday’s Lakers not-as-close-as-the-final-score 116-109 win over the Bulls in Los Angeles Tuesday. Did you ever see one of those movies where there’s a giant and a little guy and the little guy wants to fight? So the giant puts his open palm against the little guy’s forehead and the little guy starts wind milling punches and doesn’t hit anything because he can’t reach the giant.
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