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Insider Intel: Role-ing away

By Ric Bucher
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

So far in these playoffs, Los Angeles Lakers swingman Trevor Ariza has displayed a schizophrenia common for a role player -- vital component at home, seemingly unplugged on the road. The standard explanation: Ariza is just the latest in a long line of second-string guys inspired by a frenzied home crowd to perform over his head and, conversely, cowed by a hostile crowd to be a nonfactor on the road. This is a concern for the Lakers, as they no longer have home-court advantage in their current s ...

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