Lakers (120) - Knicks (109)

The Knicks continue to surprise and baffle me.

I must confess that I only caught the 2nd half, and the beginning of the first half, so my apologies if my notes are not as concise as expected.

First of all, kudos to Seth of postingandtoasting.com for giving me the plug, that was real nice of him. Hopefully I got a few clicks over to here.

Anyway, onto the game. Despite what the final score may show you, the Knicks were very much into this game throughout the whole game, even leading by eight points with eight minutes to go in the 4th quarter. So what happened? They collapsed again. Mostly thanks to Sasha Vujacic out of nowhere becoming a three point shooting god, with Kobe Bryant adding some huge shots to rip the game away from us.

Nate Robinson was fantastic, this has to honestly be his best game of the season, probably his career. The man played a great game of basketball out there, collecting 22 points and 9 assists, including HUGE three pointers and field goals to put the Knicks up big in the beginning of the 4th. After he got nailed by Sasha though, and got the T, he oddly enough quieted up.

Another big player today was David Lee. Lee had 21 points an 12 BIG rebounds, including some major offensive boards that gave the Knicks tons of second chance opportunities. The guy worked his butt off tonight, plain and simple, and got huge minutes as a reward (And because Eddy Curry got into heavy foul trouble...)

Randolph played okay, had 16 points and 14 rebounds, but it seems that his missed shots late in the 4th were one of the big reasons why we choked big time. We could've used a lot of the EASY buckets he missed.

Kudos to Balkman for hitting his first three of the season!

Ronny Turiaf had a good game for the Lakers, as well. Turiaf, Bynum, Fisher and Farmar are the only guys on that squad I can even tolerate. Lamar Odom (Ugh,) also had a good game for the Lakers.

Just like in the Golden State game, the Knicks had a chance to steal away a victory in the 4th quarter, but just choked it. After Nate Robinson got T'ed up, it's like the team lost its mojo, everyone played like turnover zombies, Crawford clamped up from the field, Nate couldn't even find a shot to take, Randolph missed EASY buckets, and they all forgot to play defense. It seems as if they just gave up halfway into the fourth. Oh well, either way, I can't be too angry (Except at Sasha...) they really did try out there, and before Robinson got T'ed up, they looked like they were going to win the game. Let's see tomorrow, they have The Jazz. Seeya next time.