LAKERS NOTEBOOK: ODOM TIRES UNDER THE LOAD.Byline: Ross Siler Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA - At the end of the third quarter of Friday's 85-81 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, Lamar Odom Lamar Joseph Odom (born November 6 1979, in South Jamaica, Queens, New York) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays power forward (also plays both forward spots and is a "point-forward") for the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers. was carrying the Lakers. With Kwame Brown out, Odom moved to power forward and forced his way inside for three baskets against John Salmons John Rashall Salmons (born December 12 1979, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. High school and college career . The Lakers led 69-62 heading into the fourth quarter but Odom did not take a shot the rest of the night. He finished with 16 points, 12 rebounds and three assists but went scoreless in the fourth quarter as the Lakers collapsed. Odom played all 24 minutes in the second half and 43 overall. He entered Saturday ranked second in the league in minutes per game (42.5) behind only Philadelphia's Allen Iverson <noinclude></noinclude> Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7, 1975, in Hampton, Virginia[1]), nicknamed A.I. and The Answer, is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association. . For the first time, that workload might have caught up with him. ``I thought he tired at the end of the game,'' Lakers coach Phil Jackson
Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson (born September 17, 1945 in Deer Lodge, Montana) is the current coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, an American professional basketball team. said. ``My concern was that it was too long a run for him. It's the first time he's really tired that I've seen.'' Jackson was unable to get Odom out at the end of the third quarter once Brown was called for his fourth foul and needed Odom on the court at the start of the fourth quarter with Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant (born July 23 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. on the bench. The Lakers still gave up a 6-0 run at the start of the quarter with their second team on the court. With the Sixers playing Salmons, a 6-foot-6 guard, instead of center Steven Hunter Steven D. Hunter (born October 31 1981 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professional basketball player currently with the Denver Nuggets. He's listed as a center-forward and has played for the Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns and the Philadelphia 76ers. He's averaged 3. , Jackson said he was ``locked into a rotation I didn't like at all.'' --Injury update: Forward Luke Walton will not play on this four-game trip, with Jackson saying Saturday that Walton suffered a setback in his recovery from a torn left hamstring. The hope is Walton will practice to some degree today in Memphis. Walton is bothered by a strained sartorius muscle sar·to·ri·us muscle n. A muscle with origin from the anterior superior spine of the ilium, with insertion into the medial border of the tuberosity of the tibia, with nerve supply from the femoral nerve, and whose action flexes the thigh and leg and in his upper right leg and is listed as day-to-day. Jackson also clarified that forward Slava Medvedenko injured his back before Wednesday's game against Minnesota, not in the 11 seconds he played at the end of the fourth quarter. But Medvedenko did not tell anyone about the injury until after the game.Brown, meanwhile, took the splint splint, rigid or semiflexible device for the immobilization of displaced or fractured parts of the body. Most commonly employed for fractures of bones, a splint may be a first-aid measure that allows the patient to be moved without displacing the injured part, or it off his injured left thumb in the second half Friday but still struggled to hold onto the ball. Brown said he would go back to playing with the splint until the thumb is healed. --On the road: Jackson set a goal of splitting this four-game trip and the Lakers need a victory Monday against the Grizzlies The name Grizzlies may refer to:
Jackson additionally has seen the Lakers total just 13 points in the fourth quarter at Minnesota and 12 points in the fourth quarter at Philadelphia in consecutive games. ``Hey, this is what home court is all about,'' Jackson said. ``This is what road games are all about. It's new in the season. This team has to find chemistry. They're going to do it. And this is a growth situation for a team like this.'' --Zoned out: The Lakers have struggled in the face of zone defenses the past two games. Forward Devean George twice was forced to take long jumpers with the shot clock expiring in those situations. ``We went over it (Friday) a little bit more,'' Jackson said. ``We've played against each other in a zone, but we haven't really handled zones well enough. We're not exploring it well enough.'' Ross Siler, (818) 713-3610 ross.siler(at)dailynews.com |
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