http://sportsblogs.org/entries.php?team_id=87&date=2008-07-06&start=0 Sports Blogs :: Los Angeles Lakers Daily Entries en-us For all the talk of a choke, for all the disappointment that Lakers fans must feel, for all the media folks who were on our bandwagon when we were up 3 to 1 and now act as if they expected the come back, I am proud of my Los Angeles Lakers. They told us we weren't going to be in the playoffs. And even if we did sneak in it would be as an eighth seed. We got in as a seventh and were far from http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262211&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 His quote justifying clothesline on another player: "I have no respect for him," Bell said. "I think he's a pompous, arrogant individual." Bell said he had been repeatedly hit in the face by Bryant during the game. "I got a bruised cheek here and I can barely open my jaw on this side," he said, indicating the left side of his face, "and that didn't come from nowhere, and I felt like I'd had http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262212&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 Raja Bell - I never realized how bitchilistic this guy is. He's a flopper Nothing ruins the game of basketball as the so-called defenders who just throw themselves to the floor a la Vlade Divac. Get some cajones and play defense! He's dirty How can you not call someone dirty when they clothesline and proceed to throw down a player? People catch beat downs on anything other than an NBA court http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262213&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 Tonite's game in Phoenix could end what many would have considered an improbable series had you asked them prior to the April 23 start. The seventh seeded Lakers head into Phoenix holding a 3 games to 1 lead over the second seeded Suns. Let's hope that 'one' doesn't come back to haunt us. The first game was within our reach and could have very easily gone our way with a couple of bounces here http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262214&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 As I reread some of my earlier posts from a month or so I ago, I came across a certain post that was filled with the disappointment of losing yet another close game. It was a loss that I blamed almost entirely on Phil Jackson. I still do. However, I would like to retract the statement that he is a mediocre coach. That was more emotion speaking than anything. For the record, I am not a Phil http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262215&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 Anybody notice that the Lakers have scored exactly 99 points in all of our playoff victories... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262216&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 (Photo: Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images) The Suns had it working. The high side moving pick and roll was working to perfection and not being called. They were up five points with 40 ticks left on the clock. But the new and improved Lakers squad of the 2006 Playoffs weren't done yet. Smush knocks down a trey. Then pokes away a steal, followed by Devean George's excellent decision to http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262217&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 It's the most wonderful time of the year! Or second, NFL playoffs are pretty damn exciting as well! We finished pretty strong, 5 straight victories...our longest winning streak of the year. Longest winning streak for two years actually. We play Phoenix Sunday at 3:30. A friend of mine was saying how bad we needed to win game one. I don't think we need to win game one and I'll tell you why http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262218&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 I've recently become a fan of Charley Rosen on foxsports.com. Check this tidbit: the NBA should follow the NCAA's lead and have the Nix and the Eastern Conference's eighth seed play a qualifying game to gain admittance into the playoffs. http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262219&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 Three games to go. Three games from the coveted 6th spot. But hold on just a second, the Lake Show, although not a headliner this year, has played reasonably well against the Suns this season even if they were all L's in the end; two out of three games anyway. Down 8 going into the third the first matchup in November and down just one last week does not sound as bad as the 0'fer for the head http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262220&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09 Let's face it. The Kings, Lakers, Hornets, and Jazz aren't fighting each other for the last two playoff spots. Nope, not one bit. The Hornets and the Jazz are fighting the Kings for the eighth spot while the Lakers should be looking to wrestling that coveted 6th spot away from the Grizzlies, who by the way have lost two in a row. Coveted 6th? Hell to the yeah! Who wouldn't want to meet up http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=1262221&src=rss 2008-07-06T00:04:09