Game Thread: Timberwolves @ Lakers, 02/02/2016

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I am watching the Timberwolves at the Lakers and they have Tariq Black playing Center and he is playing damn good D and decent offense. This guy should have been playing all along. B. Scott is an idiot sometimes.

 

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Black has really bulked up. He looks huge!

 

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Bass is playing forward with Russell and Clarkson at guards. The Lakers on a 10-0 run. We are up by one at the end of the first. This offense is just lifeless. There is little purpose to it or so it seems.

 

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Swaggy is the fifth player. Russell is playing more aggressively and getting to the FT line in the process.

 

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Lou Williams is shooting a flat shot. He has lost the arc he once had. Don't know why.

 

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Andre Miller, the oldest player in the league is on the floor.

 

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Lakers are forcing TOs. This is a change.

 

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That is TO number six for the Wolves.

 

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Nice 10 footer by Russell. He has 6 points. Black is still on the floor. He should get these minutes more often as he is causing a lot of TOs. If we trade anybody, it should be Young. His career is just about toast.

 

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Russell blows by the defender in transition and he scores.

 

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Lakers by three at the commercial break.

 

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Garnett is out with a knee injury and is not playing.

 

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Black with another block.

 

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Russell is the first player in double figures in the game. Kobe back in.

 

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Randle has gotten bigger as well.

 

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The Lakers missed badly on the lob pass from Lou Williams to Tariq Black. These players just have not played together long enough to get any sort of rhythm. If they do, Scott changes the line-up.

 

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The Lakers are 9 of 13 from the FT line. We just have not fixed this from the last two years.

 

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What a play by Black. Blocks the shot against three Wolves players and the ball goes the other way and Kobe hits the three. Shazamm! We are up by 8.

 

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Kobe gets fouled and shoots the FTs. He still shoots a pretty decent FT shot.

 

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The lead remains 11 fro the Lakers.