The Credits: "Message Sent"

by wondahbap on Mar 1, 2010 8:16 AM PST in Credits

starring Pau Gasol and Phil Jackson, with 4:34 left. Co-starring Ron Artest and Carmelo Anthony.

MUCH MORE after the Jump...

Recaps & Post Games:

LAKERS: Lakers Gameday | 02/28/10 | Nuggets

Lakers 95, Nuggets 89: Diary/Postgame Wrap at Lakers.com BasketBlog

Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers - Recap - February 28, 2010 - ESPN

Lakers put Nuggets in lockdown and earn a key victory - latimes.com

Lakers re-establish swagger against Denver - The Orange County Register

Denver Nuggets Vs Los Angeles Lakers - NBA Game - 02/28/2010 -- NBA FanHouse

Denver vs. Los Angeles - Recap - 28, 2010 - Basketball - NBA - SI.com

Not Quite Gold, But Lakers Prevail | lakers-EDGE

Behind the Box Score, where Suns/Spurs equals pointless/classic - Ball Don't Lie - NBA Blog - Yahoo! Sports
Los Angeles Lakers 95, Denver 89

ESPN:

Ron Artest is the big-game difference for Los Angeles Lakers
Lakers 95, Nuggets 89: One moment... and beyond (postgame analysis and video) - Land 'O Lakers Blog
McMenamin: Lakers silence trash-talking Nuggets with win
John Ireland Blog - Lakers show two sides in comeback win
Daily Dime - ESPN
After the Nuggets fell to the Lakers, J.A. Adande takes a closer look at the Western Conference contenders.

The Los Angeles Times:

The Orange County Register:

Other Lakers Links:

Audio / Video / Photos:

Nuggets -at- Lakers - 2/28 - HD Highlights - LakersMedia.com

LAKERS: Nuggets vs. Lakers Video Highlights

Kobe's very good very bad day: A video breakdown - Land 'O Lakers Blog

"They talk too much. Too much. Way too much." - Land 'O Lakers Blog

LAKERS: Lakers Gameday | 02/28/10 | Nuggets | Photo Gallery

Kobe, Artest Credit Defense - ESPN Los Angeles Video

710 ESPN Los Angeles Live

The Basketball Jones - March 1 - The Announcement

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Pau must be reading my stuff. haha.

From OC Register link: In the face of Nuggets’ trash talk, Gasol shows Lakers’ heart is through their heads

Gasol explained it this way: "We need really to be the aggressor. We need to challenge people. Instead, we’re always being challenged. That is the way I feel about it.

"We are not aggressive enough, and we need to start challenging teams and imposing our will in games because we can. It is unfortunate sometimes that we don’t do it. We’re happy or content at winning games sometimes and not really playing to our potential."

I wrote this 1/25/10:

“The thing is, they typically aren’t the aggressors. This gets confused for being soft. They’re reactive rather than proactive. It has to be brought out of them…

…I know the Lakers aren’t soft. Sometimes I just want them to be hard. I want them to hit first. Especially in their quest to repeat."

I think it’s funny that Pau says this after 3 minutes of sacking up. If he played every game like he did after Phil shamed him, then we wouldn’t have any of these teams thinking “physicality” will work.

Since when did the Nuggets become tough? Besides Chauncey, this is the same team that we walked through 4-0 two seasons ago. What changed was them thinking or knowing they could get tough.

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by wondahbap on Mar 1, 2010 12:32 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

I know this is not conducive to the Lakers or basketball

but it looks like Pau’s consoling a sobbing Kobe Bryant in that photo. Just the way he’s holding him and the way kobe’s mouth’s open like that.

But back to the topic on hand, I would also add that the Nuggets think “acting tough” is trash talking. WE know trash talking doesn’t work on Kobe … and it probably doesn’t work on the rest of the Lakers, which is probably why the Nuggets weren’t able to get pass the Lakers last year.

Still, they were pretty close, but push come to shove, the Lakers really need to be the first ones to push. They did do that against Orlando, but I’d like to see them do that consistently throughout the playoffs. That Rockets series was ugly and the Nuggets series came down to a couple of Trevor Ariza steals. The Lakers didn’t really throw their first punch until Game 6.

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by PeanutButterSpread on Mar 1, 2010 12:51 PM PST up reply actions