there is no way that Walton can miss all of these layups!!!
Dunk the ####### BALL

If Doug Collins got more excited about the spurs..he would have a white spot on his blue pants..

WTF.

shut the hell up Dcollins....

Nice board and putback by Luke.

luke's trying real hard to prove his worth,but he helped greatly in losing the big lead to begin with

Nice Kobe.

good finish

Luke is blowing a lot of plays but to his credit he is making plays...

If he could just make all his damn layups we would be good!

thats a great way to finish the half
The Spurs will not give us this game we have to rip their harts out

Give credit where credit is due. Thanks Walton for finally scoring 4 points when probably we should have 6-8 more points with your missed layups.

I take it all back. The idiots on the justintv site are arguing that Bush was responsible for 9/11. At least pfunk hasn't accused phil jackson of terrorism yet.

There really is a higher standard of discussion on this blog. Sadly, that doesn't seem to raise the bar very high.

Fellahs...lakers brothers.

it is all good..we are up 6...

look for us to try to hammer them the first 5 mins...

I've never seen a guy disagree with the courtside guy and say on his pre-halftime interview that, no, in fact I'm not playing that well. It was a Home Run Derby half for Luke. All or nothing.

BK

WTF is going on.....interviewing Luke?

Is there a conspiracy?

I hope Luke plays better but this media is ridiculous.........is there a common thread that binds this all together?

AND WHAT DRUGS ARE MARV ALBERT ON?

SAYING LUKE IS HAVE AN ALL AROUND GREAT PERFORMANCE?

THIS HAS TO BE A BRAINWASH TECHNIQUE ORCHESTRA BY HIS WEAK - RIDING THE BENCH FOR THE CELTICS - DUMB COMMENTARY FATHER BILL!

Guy's LAY OFF LUKE, GEEZE
not every player we have can be an all star, besides he has 9 points at the half, at this rate he could have 15 points this game, not bad for a bench player, every time one of our players miss a shot or two you want to trade them....
HOW ABOUT WE TRADE YOUR A$$ES for not being true Laker fans

I'm glad that Luke knows he's still playing horribly, he's missed like three point blank layups. Still though, at least he's getting good looks and making over half of them. Lakers don't look superb or anything, but they're getting the job done. No one said they were going to easily beat the Spurs in a game 4 like this. If they can just keep it close and give themselves a chance to win it at the end, then we'll be fine.

I have said it before... if the league don't start to penalize this refs about bad calls and poor decisions out there on the court, they will continue to decide who win and who loses.

Posted by: Maxximo | May 27, 2008 at 07:19 PM

YOU ARE SO RIGHT. I'VE BEEN SAYING THAT FOR AWHILE ALSO.

Strong finish to the half. Definitely a welcome display of character for this young Laker team.

Luke haters: Be glad he recovered from a terrible start. He'll never be the most talented player on the floor, but he's nearly always willing to play through his mistakes -- the sign of a playoff-tested veteran.

Had Luke continued to struggle, we would have seen Ariza before the game is over. We still may.

In the second half, the Lakers must be able to defend without fouling. That will take more consistent energy and commitment that we saw in the middle of the second period.

Not going into the half with the lead we wanted, but it gives us a chance if we can outwork the Spurs and come out strong at the top of the third quarter. This is our team. This is our year. Go Lakers!

I have not been this angry since discovering this blogg.
I have not felt the hate for one player like I do for Luke.
One player single-handedly surrender a 14 point lead.
One player single-handedly gave the Spurs hope.
The most important game in the career of the Lakers.
Go up 3 to 1 or face a 6 or 7 game series.
Each close-up on Luke's face suggest stress.
If the Lakers lose this game, Luke will feel like a relief pitcher who gave up a 4 run lead in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs and 2 strikes.
If the Lakers lose this game Luke will never be the same.
His confidence (what little-per Kobe-that he has) will be shot.
30 million for this garbage?

Ref's are raking us over the coals this game.
They need to call it EVEN, they were fouling us as much or more than us and still they have shot twice as many foul shots

PJ, try Trevor Ariza in the 3rd Q to spread the fouls. I think Radman is in the groove, give him some screen and pop. If he misses there are three great rebounders inside Pau, LO and Kobe unless you want to give LO a longer rest and insert Mbenga.

Luke Walton is 4-9 1-3 on fts right now with 9 points. He should be 7-9 (missed layups) and 3-3 on fts for 17 points. That should be his stat line right now with the shots he is getting. So Lakers should be up 14, possbily even 17 since one of his missed layups lead to a transition and 1 fo r Parker.

I am not one to complain bout fouls because for the most part things balances out, but damn, that was some really bad officiating in that first have. Duncan taking for step to get to the rim, tic tac fouls on their end while he have players being tackled with no calls...am i missin something?

FPOR PHRED; TRY THIS LINK

http://www.live-nba.org/

Maybe you didn't notice but Pau is doing a good job on Duncan and he is not able to get boards as easily as before.