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Kobe's Lakers just too good for Jazz to handle
msn.foxsports.com - 5/5/2008
Kobe's Lakers just too good for Jazz to handle
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Just look at the numbers — the Lakers shouldn't have beaten the Jazz. But Kobe and Co. keep finding ways to win, Mark Kriegel says

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Lakers - MVP Kobe Bryant takes game 1 from Utah
NBA Obsessed — ... a significant edge in second-chance points, 26-12. I don’t offer these numbers as mere arithmetic, but as statistical anomalies in evidence of just how good the Lakers really are. The team that controls the boards — especially the offensive boards, especially come playoff time — is almost always the winning team. But these Lakers do so many things so well — a more diversely talented team than any in the game — they can actually overcome an ass-kicking on the glass. source Mehmet Okur had 21 points and 19 rebounds in the losing cause. ...

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