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Teddy Roosevelt:
--- Quote from: Now_I_Know on October 07, 2007, 12:34:33 PM ---Turiaf=the next Ben Wallace with a better offensive arsenal. ;D
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Still sleeping at 12:34 in the afternoon?
Now_Im_Not_Banned:
^If all Laker fans+everyone within the organization slept like I did, we'd be the deadliest team in the world.
Bay Area Jat:
With Turiaf starting this year theres just no stopping the Lake show in the wigigity west
Now_Im_Not_Banned:
^You damn right.
PG Derek Fisher
SG Kobe Bryant
SF Lamar Odom
PF Ronny Turiaf
C Andrew Bynum?/Kwame Brown?/Chris Mihm?
Now_Im_Not_Banned:
Lakers' Farmar impresses with his solid improvement-
Off-season is marked with a lot of time in the gym, even as Lakers pick up Javaris Crittenton and Derek Fisher. Farmar has been called by some the biggest surprise of training camp.
By Mike Bresnahan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 8, 2007
HONOLULU -- An hour had barely passed after the Lakers drafted Javaris Crittenton when a player unexpectedly walked into the team training facility in El Segundo.
Jordan Farmar showed up for some late-night work, taking shot after shot after the Lakers had taken another point guard in the draft in June.
It wasn't a vote of no-confidence toward Farmar as much as it was a vote of no-position by the Lakers, who were thin at the ball-handling guard spot after free-agent-to-be Smush Parker tailed off badly in his second season with the team.
(Unforeseen events would unfold a few weeks later that would deliver Derek Fisher to the Lakers.)
Farmar's appearance that night at the team facility might have been coincidental -- he played it down when asked about it -- but, just the same, he had an active off-season in the gym and has been called the biggest surprise of the Lakers' training camp by some observers.
Coach Phil Jackson, never one to give a rookie too much praise, was kind toward the second-year guard.
"He's playing really well," he said. "I think his decisions are better. I think his shooting's better right now too."
Farmar did not shoot well while starting all five Lakers playoff games after Parker's meltdown became complete, as he averaged 6.4 points and 1.6 assists, and made only 20% of his three-point attempts against Phoenix.
Farmar's numbers were negligible compared to the Suns' perennial All-Star point guard, Steve Nash, who averaged 16 points and 14 assists in the series.
Farmar, never one to be called insecure, was in over his head against Nash.
"He exuded confidence, but he wasn't making any shots, so there was something there going on that wasn't quite right," Jackson said. "If you have confidence when things are going right, then it's rewarded confidence, but he had nothing to be confident about, so this is a little better. He does believe in himself. That's good."
A year later, with a season's worth of the triangle offense stored up, the former UCLA standout appears to be more settled.
"I don't need to impress the coaching staff," Farmar said. "I'm not trying to make every shot so that they see I can shoot. I'm not trying to show them what I can do, really. My game's just speaking for itself. I'm comfortable. I can rest easier at night. I don't have so much to worry about."
Forward Ronny Turiaf has a sore right knee and will have an MRI exam today. . . . Jackson has never been a fan of exhibition games. Thus, his response to what he hopes to see Tuesday and Thursday against Golden State: "Quick games, no overtimes and a limited amount of timeouts."
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