The Peace Corp takes the floor to start second and the offense is still there but the defense gets worse. Matt Barnes continues to get left on the wing by Gerald Wallace. Ron Artest can't guard him either. Then to add insult to injury Raymond Felton gets hot and Steve Blake can't keep up. But, they sure do make up for it on offense. Steve looked like CP3 out there! He was throwing dimes!! We were shooting 68%, but we're we're only up by two. The Lakers were givin up too many 2nd chance points. One reason we maintained the lead was because of pure luck. Portland missed soo many layups I lost count. We dodged a ton of bullets! We end the half up by 4. Bynum has 14 points (7-7)and Kobe has 14 as well.
LeMarcus was hot to start the fourth...
.but then again so were all the Blazers. The Lakers true to third quarter form came out flat as a pancake. Their transition defense or lack thereof was making me weep. They couldn't seem to defend without fouling. Matt Barnes went to the bench with his third foul and in comes Ebanks who just gets abused by Gerald Wallace.
Just as hot as the Lakers were the first half is as cold as they were in the third. We were then down by 6..then 8....then 10....it was hard to watch. With that being said newly aquired Jamal Crawford hit what looked like a thirty footer in the face of Steve Blake as the buzzer sounded to end the third. The Lakers went from shooting 68% to going 5-19 in that quarter and down by ten. SMH
The fourth quarter was too much of the same. We scratched and clawed our way back,sometimes cutting the lead to six, but they kept firing shot after shot and we had no answer for them. Gerald Wallace had a game high 31 points and Jamal Crawford single handily out scored our whole bench. We loose by nine. The Lakers have yet to win on the road.
Even though history is against us there is still that feeling in the pit of your stomach that says we just may win tonight...but once again the Blazers said..Not in our house..
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