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Lakers vs Magic Game 5 Result
ORLANDO, Florida – As great as Kobe Bryant, a player does not beat the Orlando Magic.
LeBron James has learned the lesson of the last round.
Bryant did not.
He had much help in the NBA finals, with four teams scoring in double figures in Game 5 Sunday night 99-86 victory that gave the Lakers a 15th championship.
Bryant scored 30 points and was MVP of the finals, but it would not be any trophies without lofting the aid received by a solid, but unspectacular, which proved to be the perfect complement for him.
- Pau Gasol, the player who was supposed to go to Superman, he has 14 points and 15 rebounds.
- Lamar Odom, with superstar skills who have voluntarily accepted a sixth man role, had 17 points and 10 boards.
- Derek Fisher, the veteran who was missing his shot just in time for the fall in the number 4 game, scored 13 points.
- Trevor Ariza, a swingman who could not shoot and has developed into a threat from outside the reliability, added 15.
E ‘was last year in Los Angeles “humiliating loss in Game 6 Boston coach Phil Jackson that Bryant had to leave the field more in the first half, with no other Lakers able to get something underway.
This time, everyone but Bryant has been decisive in the second quarter.
Bryant scored only four points during the period, with only a basket Lakers 16-0 during an eruption in the horse’s head.
With the addition of the Lakers 40-36 in the middle of the period, Fisher and Ariza hit 3s, and after a jumper by Bryant, Ariza made another 3 for a 47-40 lead. Fisher followed with another bucket, Ariza hit a free throw and a basket by Odom moved to the lead 52-40.
E ‘is less than two years, frustrated after a second round of elimination, that so little thought of his team Bryant said he wanted to be traded.
Instead, the Lakers have decided to hold itself and the construction of a competitor that surrounds it.
Fisher is back in Los Angeles, so his family can live in a big city with the health care they need to care for her daughter to cancer. The Lakers stole Gasol while was not sure that Jackson was very difficult because a sample in a trade with Memphis before the trade deadline in 2008.
They struggled at times in the postseason. Fisher looks old and slow, and his shot is off. Odom has been shaken for a few games, after a fall on his back in the second phase, when the need seven games to go Lakers Houston.
The Showtime Lakers of the 80s were loaded with star power, and their teams in the league in this decade have been driven by Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal.
Only a superstar in this team, but a lot of help for him.
All that Bryant needed.
