<< Occasionally you get a blue moon...
Kobe - 4/18
Shaq - untimely foul trouble
LA 3pt % - 3/12, 25%
Outrebounded - 56 vs. 45
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Kobe - 5/14: That was his line the game before on Sunday vs. the Mavs, so this blue moon happened twice in a row 😉 The nice thing about the Mavs is we got 4 defenders we can rotate on Kobe (Griff, Buckner, Newman, Abdul_Wahad) whose sole responsibility is to play defense (got plenty of offense). I think Nellie's plan is to contain Kobe with our defenders, let Shaq get his points offensively but limit him defensively by drawing him away from the paint and closer to the 3 point line (LaFrentz, Nowitzki, Wang), and dare the role players to beat us. Sunday night the role players stepped in and killed us (Horry and Fisher especially) but last night our plan worked.
Now that the Mavs finally have this monkey off our back, I think we stand a chance vs the Lakers in a 7 game series.