Oh yes! Our Lakers won last night at Staples
Center playing once again with the New Orleans
Pelicans. Score? 116-95. Steve Nash has had some
back problems so it will be at least another 2 weeks
before he will be allowed to be back out on the
courts to play. The Starters differed this game too.
Jordan Hill started in place of Chris Kaman to begin
with. Nick Young changed places for a bit as well.
Wesley Johnson was put out there as a surprise starter.
Jodie Meeks got a start at guard with Steve Nash's
back and hamstring issues. The Pelicans trounced
our Lakers, before nearly a week ago, in New Orleans.
Pau Gasol was frustrated by his slow start. He has
gone through the games whereby he has shot below
50 percent. He is such a talented guy and one of the
most skilled men but lately it just has not been going
his way and it is most frustrating to him. We did have
to wince however when Minnesota won last Sunday
with such an overpowering tally at games end.
Minnesota ended their 22 game drought against us.
And then last evening up in the mile high city of Denver,
we lost 111 - 99. Jordan Hill was great, however,
offering up 18 points on 6-of-11 shooting and 15
rebounds in his second consecutive start. It was a
night after temporarily eradicating his shooting
troubles for Gasol. He did continue to struggle by
filling the leadership void stemmed from the two
absences of namely Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash.
Anyway, this instability doesn't seem to be caused
by any lineup changes and we can only hope for
more games to come landing us in the winners' circle.
Babs Wells
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