Granted Kobe's legs are sore and not as they
used to be, He is managing after so many
seasons I suppose as well as he feels he can.
We now have lost 5 consecutive games and
it is difficult to get around that fact.
The bench are doing their job and doing
it well too it appears, Ronnie Price
missed Friday's game against the Utah
Jazz as he was having an aggravated
right elbow and so it was with some
trepidation whether or not he would be
able to join the team for the Arizona trip.
The last time Nick Young made a trip to
play the Phoenix Suns, it did not end
well after being ejected in the second
quarter and thereby earning a one-game
suspension. Young received a
hard foul from Suns center Alex
Len, sending Young to the court
and setting off a heated alter-cation
between Young and several
Suns. Both Young and Len were
ejected. He picked up his 4th.
technical of the season Friday
against Utah. Wesley Johnson has
started 38 games at small forward
over Nick Young because Scott likes
Johnson's defensive versatility and
Young's scoring to bolster the bench.
Yes, Johnson did miss 3 games last
week because of a strained right hip
flexor so Ryan Kelly took that spot.
Score being: 115-100 at AZ. games'
ending was a tough one to handle.
It certainly did look as if we were
going to win this game at first.
The Lakers really could have
used Bryant against Phoenix. Despite
Nick Young's team-leading 24 points on
7-12 shooting keeping the Lakers in
contention, the Suns closed out the
final 2.41 with 11 un-answered
points, and the Lakers dropped their
5th loss and fell in a regular
season sweep to the Suns (25-18)
for the first time since the 2004-05
season. Lakers missed Ronnie Price
for the second consecutive game
because of persisting right elbow
soreness while rookie reserve
center Tarik Black sprained his
right ankle after posting 6 points
in 21 minutes. No, Kobe is not
totally shut down so far but due to
the Lakers being destined to miss
the NBA playoffs, for the second year
and 7th time in franchise history,
we will be watching very closely
just to see how this all plays out with
our star player. Losing Steve Nash
and now the difficulties with Kobe
are really giving us a run for our money.
On Wednesday at 5:00 we play the
Pelicans, at TWCN. Hopeful it
will finally be a winning game for us.
Way back in 1948. the NY Knicks
acquired Ray Lumpp, the 1948
Olympic guard. Born in Brooklyn in
1923, and attending NYU, Ray
just died the paper tells us, at
age 91.He also had played for
the Americans in London where
they went 8-0 en route to the
Gold medal. We are saddened
for his family and hope that
he will be able to R.I.P.
BABS WELLS
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