DEPLETED ROSTER

Difficult for the bench to fill in adequately but

boy, they surely have tried! Nick Young with

his 3's and Jordan Farmar at the line.

Chris Kaman filling in wherever the

Coach asks him to play. Xavier Henry now

sidelined too with a sprain, at least that is

what the MRI shows us. Nothing broken anyway.

The will and determination dominated the

game and we cheer the team on for sure.

Friday's game with the Utah Jazz was a very

close one to call with the ending score:

105-103. Most industrious group of players

we have with our Lakers who are eager to win.

There were 16 ties in that game too, by the

way, and 14 lead changes. Nick Young had 

21 points. He stated he felt somewhat 

disappointed with how the ref's did on a few calls. 

Meeks made a 3 pointer which tied at 99-99.

They then had only 2:47 minutes left to play.

The game tied up once again at: 103-103.

Jordan Farmar had 16 points and 7 assists.

We lost the game but gained respect.

'Tis a shame we lost the following game as

well, to the Philadelphia 76'ers. Another close

one with final score at: 111-104. Xavier Henry 

had to leave the court with his strained right knee. 

We committed 20 turnovers during this game and 

it is too bad that Williams missed a 26 ft. 3-pointer 

which then could have tied up the game with 1

8 seconds left to play. Having Steve Nash out (back), 

Kobe Bryant out (left knee), Steve Blake out (elbow)

and Pau Gasol out temporarily (respiratory),

our roster is hurting..Losing 5 games in a

row is difficult to get around but our teams

efforts certainly do show the desire to be

the very best that we can be with the shots and 

plays that have been instrumented.

Nick Young had 20 points, Jordan Hill 18 points, 

Jodie Meeks 15 points and Shawne Williams 

11 points. This then shows the efforts of the last 

game we played. We now go on to play against 

Milwaukee on Tuesday.

Babs Wells