{"id":243836,"date":"2010-01-28T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=14701"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:33:18","slug":"podcast-building-for-the-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243836","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Building for the Second Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lakers_nyc.jpg\" alt=\"Lakers Team in NYC\" title=\"D070841031.JPG\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14704\" \/>After 41 games, the halfway point of the 2009-10 season, the Lakers led the league with a 32-9 mark (now 35-11) thanks in part to a heavy home schedule and despite various injuries including 17 missed games from All-Star Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant&#8217;s different ailments.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of going through a game-by-game or player-by-player summary (the Lakers measure success in April, May and June, not November and December) &#8211; we enlisted assistant coach Jim Cleamons last week in Toronto to see how the coaching staff hoped to grow the squad from the first half to the second.<\/p>\n<p>Among the topics we covered:<\/p>\n<p>1) The difference of playing with and without Gasol<br \/>\n2) The bench rotation, specifically the emergence of Jordan Farmar and Shannon Brown<br \/>\n3) Ron Artest&#8217;s integration with the team<br \/>\n4) The significance of earning home court advantage, and difference between competing in November and March<br \/>\n5) Playing with a target on their back<br \/>\n6) The impact of Kobe Bryant playing through pain<\/p>\n<p>Just click the play button below to listen:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 41 games, the halfway point of the 2009-10 season, the Lakers led the league with a 32-9 mark (now 35-11) thanks in part to a heavy home schedule and despite various injuries including 17 missed games from All-Star Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant&#8217;s different ailments. Instead of going through a game-by-game or player-by-player summary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}