Bryant scores 45 points against Rockets; Lakers still can’t rally win

Although Lakers’ star Kobe Bryant helped his team come back from a 14 point deficit, scoring 18 points in the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s game against the Houston Rockets, the star and his cohorts were not match for the like of Rockets Shane Battier made a 3-pointer with only 2.5 seconds left on the clock, according to an Associated Press article published Oct. 31 on the Lakers official Web site.

Battier and his team were up 77-63 in the fourth and when Bryant was fouled with less than 3 seconds left, he made the first shot, missed the second and then attempted a failed free throw within the last few seconds, giving Houston the 95-93 season-operner victory.”We got our hands on balls and were able to get some quick points and get back into it, it was a hard fought effort on our part,” Bryant said on his team’s performance after the game. Coach Phil Jackson was pleased with the team’s overall effort and despite boos from the audience when Bryant took the floor, felt that the NBA star had a good game in regards to his limitations.”I think he got tired out there obviously, he played forty-two minutes, and he hasn’t practiced at a level of high intensity but Monday,” Jackson said about Bryant. “So I’m sure there is a little drop off, conditioning wise.”

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Posted in General on October 31, 2007

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