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These Lakers are hard to believe in

By Scoop Jackson
Page 2

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Q: "What have you learned about yourselves as a team?" (Asked during the post-Game 7 Lakers-Rockets press conference) A: "That we're bipolar." (Kobe Bryant) The Lakers came out of Game 1 against the Nuggets, to a man, talking about only two things: guts and effort. Kobe, Phil, Lamar, Pau. All saying the same thing. How their "effort" won the game; how they "gutted it out." It was so far from where they just had come. In their last series against the Rockets, the words "guts" and "effort" see ...

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