LOS ANGELES – As Lakers coach Phil Jackson said before Friday night’s game, 3-point shooting comes and it goes. For a team, like the New Orleans Hornets, which relies heavily on that long-range shot, it’s devastating to the opposition when the shot is going in and harmful to the Hornets when the shot isn’t falling. The latter…
LOS ANGELES – The tag-team tandem of Chris Paul and David West proved too much for the Lakers to handle Tuesday night, as New Orleans snapped the Lakers’ six-game winning streak. The Hornets avenged a 100-87 loss to the visiting Lakers, back on Dec. 23, at New Orleans Arena. The Hornets became only the second Western…
After a somewhat dismal few weeks which featured shoddy play and desultory losses that put into question the Lakers claim as a legitimate championship contender they entered the Christmas holidays facing two pivotal games. One to reaffirm their dominance in the West, the other to shed the disappointment of last year’s dominance at the hands…
The Lakers ended the trip about the opposite it started. The Lakers handed the Hornets only their eight loss of the season as they get ready to face the Celtics on Thursday. The Lakers didn’t shoot particularly well, but got it done on defense as the Hornets were held to just 42% shooting. The Lakers…
Whatever the Lakers haven’t been doing as consistently as their supporters would like this season, they certainly can bring it against the New Orleans Hornets. The Lakers rolled through the Hornets for the second time this season at New Orleans Arena, both times using great defense to throttle Chris Paul’s engine in the first half….
Records: Lakers 22-5 (1st in the West) Hornets 16-7 (2nd in the West) Offensive ratings: Lakers 112.3 (3rd in league) Hornets Defensive ratings: Lakers 102.5 (4th in league) Hornets Projected Starting Lineups: Lakers: Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Luke Walton, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum Hornets Chris Paul, Rasual Butler, Peja Stojakovic (a game time decision), David…
L.A. wins in New Orleans, 93-86, to improve to 7-0. Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher score 20 points for Lakers, who led by as many as 23 points in third quarter. Phil Jackson had a message for his team. It wasn’t pretty.
Pretty much the opposite game as last night, but the same result. Instead of a sluggish start and a strong finish, the Lakers decided to melt down in the fourth and get saved by a miraculous Kobe three pointer. The Lakers shot the ball poorly tonight, only 41%, but made up for it with their…
“We sucked the joy out of a good victory.” That was Phil Jackson’s postgame quote about a game that L.A. thoroughly dominated for about 42 minutes before allowing the Hornets to get within three points at 83-80 before Kobe Bryant made a shot so tough that, realistically, few if any other players in the league…
NEW ORLEANS (AP)— The Hornets were primed to pull off an improbable comeback until Kobe Bryant made it impossible. Bryant scored 20 points, highlighted by a tough 3-pointer over James Posey with just over a minute left, and the Los Angeles Lakers improved to 7-0 with a 93-86 victory over New Orleans on Wednesday night….
