Feb 02 2011
Lakers take it out Pau, Kobe and friends
Los Angeles Lakers managed to get even the serious setback suffered at last Sunday against their arch rivals Celtics with an important moral victory over Houston Rockets. Although the victory took longer than expected and it took overtime.
Kobe Bryant ignored the criticism, including Pau Gasol, referring to his game too individualistic and became a regular key part of the reigning champions. Kobe went to locker room with 45 minutes played, scored 32 points (13-25) and a total of 11 assists in a much more generous and comprehensive in the loss to Boston.
Was met exactly one year after the defeat of Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals of the Australia Open 2010. In those 365 days, never again miss a Grand Slam meeting, which led him to raise Roland Garros, Wimbledon and U.S. Open. In Australia, Nadal had reached the same round in which Andy Murray was felled with a year earlier.
Forward David West contributed a double-double of 18 points with 10 rebounds helped the Hornets falling due to the Spurs 96-72 in San Antonio and achieved the eighth straight victory.
Coma was the fastest to travel the 555 km of special and got his fifth victory in the Dakar stage ahead of Despres, who was second at 37 seconds of Catalan.
As expected, the Knicks are still a mediocre team as defensive paragraph and before the Champions League they have it very good, there were no arguments to offer in the field to beat an opponent that was higher all aspects of the game.