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"I didn't help the guys out at all," Malone said quietly after shooting 2
for 9 and scoring only four points in 44 minutes on the Staples Center
court. "That's unacceptable as a professional athlete."

On the other side of the locker room, Gary Payton's cubicle was empty, its
owner having dressed and departed without comment on his 1-for-4 shooting
and three-point total amid serious foul trouble in his first date with
Lakers destiny.

So it was left to Malone to express how it feels for a pro-basketball
veteran on a championship mission to come all that way for this .

"I'm disappointed for me, for this organization, for my family," Malone
said, sitting at his corner locker with a towel over his lap and those
41-year-old feet in the nightly ice bucket. "I really let a lot of people
down.

"I was getting good looks (at the basket), and I wasn't making them, and I
think I got us out of rhythm and we never recovered.

"I think it starts with me. When I'm doing the right things, I bring energy
that we feed off. I didn't do that tonight.

"I've been doing it all playoffs, but I didn't do it tonight."

Malone blamed himself for failures at both ends of the court.

On the scoring end ...

"Four points is terrible," he said.

On the defending end ...

"I committed too early, and Rasheed (Wallace) got too many good looks."

terraholm

He had his knee drained yesterday and had no lift at all. No wonder he was hesitant to shoot.


'Sheed only took 4 shots, and a couple where he was fouled, and I only
remember 2 with Karl on him counting one made basket and one of the fouls.
That is 4 points too.


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Laurel T
"A tough day at the office is even tougher
when your OFFICE contains spectator seating."
- Nik Posa

agakhan

i think karl blamed himself for letting sheed have that wide open trey
to start the game, and was pouting about it most of the rest of the
game.

pauls2272

Yes, the knee injury has really limited him. I watched Game 6 against
Wolves again the other night (it was on NBA TV). He was actually
limping in the 4th quarter. I had missed that the 1st time I saw the
game.

hol99

Gee, dontcha almost feel sorry for the tailgaitin' thug!?

Dave

agakhan

dave troll #... oh, let's say 50.

hol99

Not trolling, just don't like the big thug. Not since the days when he
scarred Zeke permanently. I'll bet you didn't have your poster of him when
he was with the Jazz either.

Dave

terraholm

Well he should not have. 'Sheed's 3 point average in the playoffs is such
(25%) I would see if he was hitting them before guarding him out on the arc.


--
Laurel T
"Wallace is a riddle wrapped in a mystery,
wrapped in a headband." S.I.

agakhan

no, and i don't have a poster of him now either, but i certainly
didn't shed a tear when he laid out isiah. always hated his guts.

anyway, laimbeer was probably the biggest thug of all time, without
much skill to counterbalance his thuggery.

nate smith

jungle jim loscutoff says hi.


laimbeer could hit the outside shot, grabbed a goodly
amount of boards and could shoot freethrows.....but, yeah,
not enough to counterbalance his, uh, thuggery.


- nate