Home court? Jack Nicholson's lucky purple shirt? Dustin Hoffman in the stands paying allegiance to our team? Dunno..but we won! Pau Gasol was right where he needed to be so baskets became completed. Kobe Bryant was certainly back in form. Andrew Bynum, even with knee troubles, took command and allowed four points to be added to our total. Ahead at one time by 15! Got behind a few points in 4th quarter, but Utah Jazz just could not catch up. They were missing two of their tall players however, Mehmet Okur and Andrei Kirilenko, so the odds were in our favor and Lakers won 111-103. Carlos Boozer (Utah) and Wesley Matthews seemed to not be a match for our Ron Artest though. It has been mentioned before, but it really is looking as if coach Phil Jackson would like to remain in L.A. with the Laker team. Dr. Buss is still not making a statement to that fact and at the larger payroll numbers of $12 million annually for Phil, perhaps it is one reason that it is being carefully considered for a new contract. The Lakers have been the class of the NBA for the majority of Dr. Buss' 30 years ownership, winning 9 titles & reaching the finals 15 times. Yes, this large amount of money paid out yearly for Phil is huge, but we feel he is worth it guiding our team to 4 NBA titles & 6 appearances in the finals. Seems the last thing we should do is to mess around with that just to save money. Star power and great players have proven to be a winning plan. Hopefully Dr. Buss sees it this way as well. Thanks for reading. Any comments any one of you would care to make here? Babs Wells