Game Rewind: Taco Tuesday! – Lakers 110, Hornets 99

The Lakers bench once again failed to maintain the big lead they were handed in the fourth quarter but they did do something right tonight…  TACOS!!!!!

The Lord said let there be tacos, and so they came to be.

For those who are unaware, all fans in attendance at a Laker home game in which the Lakers win and hold the opposition to under 100 points get a free taco from Jack in the Box.  This fact was not lost on the Hornet players who took it upon themselves to turn a typical dominant Laker effort into the most tense game the Lakers have played in weeks all because the New Orleans Hornets apparently hate tacos.  Instead of just taking their beating like men, NOLA actually started calling timeouts and even intentionally fouling Laker players all so they could get extra possessions in hopes of breaking the century mark in points.  Their nefarious taco-hating scheme almost worked too save for Shannon Brown’s heroic block on a Darren Collison layup with time expiring.  The tacos were saved!

Far be it from me to question anyone’s motives, but seeing how the Hornets cut the Laker lead from 21 to 11 in about seven minutes when the taco deal seemed imminent, shouldn’t they have played that hard the rest of the game when they were getting their ass kicked?   I know that the Laker bench bums were on the floor, but the Hornets could have at least kept the game close if they had tapped into their anti-taco passion earlier.

And oh yeah, the Lakers starters still dominate and their bench still stinks…. yadda, yadda, yadda.  Tell me something I don’t know.  Now, I am off to get something to eat.  I suddenly having a craving for tacos.

• The Lakers should just mark this game tape as “Offensive Balance.”  Five different players scored in double-digits, four players had three or more assists and no player took more than 11 shots.
• Lamar Odom still didn’t score in double-digits, but his performance off the bench tonight was one of his best of the year as he logged 8 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.  The points will come eventually if he continues to stay that involved in the offense.

Lake Show Outtakes:

• Tonight I saw something I never thought I would see… Kobe missed an easy lay-up.  There was a 3-on-1 break that Kobe led, he took it himself, juked the defender and just plain blew the bunny.  I guess he is human after all, especially the part where he tried to claim he got fouled even though he clearly didn’t.
• Perhaps the Lakers should focus less on the LetShannonDunk.com campaign and spend more time reminding him he is supposed to do other things.  For example, he could try making a jumpshot, something he failed to do on all five attempts tonight.

Tags: bench mob, Game Rewind, Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, New Orleans Hornets, Shannon Brown, tacos