It looks like Andrew Bynum is well missed on the Lakers as Kobe couldn’t scored enough points to save his team from losing 106-98 against the Suns who have won 8 times in 11 games and leads the Western Conference.
It was a night of bad records for both teams as the Lakers turned the ball 22 times and the Suns committed 24 turnovers, both season-highs.
The Suns have being more dominant than the Lakers in the past 4 years or so, as they have come up with the Pacific Division title the last three seasons, thanks to their superiority against Los Angeles to whom they’ve won in 10 out of 12 meetings between the 2004-05 and 2006-07 seasons. This year tough, the story is different as the Lakers won the previous two meetings against Phoenix.
Major scorers for the Suns were Leandro Barbosa with 22 points, Shawn Marion with 20 points and 16 rebounds and Boris Diaw had 19 points while for the Lakers, Kobe Bryant leaded with 30.
With the absence of Bynum, coach Phil Jackson gave Kwame Brown the chance to play, a decision he might have regret it as Brown had a really bad night and was even booed by many Lakers fans at the Staples Center every time he touched the ball, well, they will have to get used to him as he will be starting instead of Bynum until the last one returns in about 8 weeks.
"If they want to do that, they can stay home. He's going to be our guy here for two months. He's going to do fine, he's going to play well the next game.” Said Kobe Bryant referring to the fans.
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