{"id":248736,"date":"2010-01-29T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=14727"},"modified":"2010-01-29T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:31:21","slug":"lakers-set-for-sixers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248736","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Set for Sixers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/odom_dalembert.jpg\" alt=\"Lamar Odom - Samuel Dalembert\" title=\"D060065027.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14728\" \/>It&#8217;s been a struggle this season for the Philadelphia 76ers, who have lost twice as many games (30) as they&#8217;ve won (15).<\/p>\n<p>Yet Philly remains dangerous due to a mix of young talent and an untraditional style that has helped them earn several quality wins: at Boston (98-97); at Portland (104-93); at Denver (108-105); New Orleans (96-92); and Dallas (92-81).<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Sixers are 6-7, and have made a change to their starting lineup by putting rookie Jrue Holiday and Elton Brand into the mix and sending Louis Williams and Thaddeus Young to the bench. L.A.&#8217;s coaching staff acknowledged that Brand may demand a double team at times, which opens the floor for cuts within coach Eddie Jordan&#8217;s Princeton offense.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers will also be well aware of Andre Iguodala, who leads the team in scoring (17.6), assists (5.7) and steals (1.87), and beat L.A. himself with a buzzer-beating three-pointer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/lakers\/news\/090317_gameday_sixers.html\" >last season at STAPLES Center<\/a>. He finished with 25 points in that game, and the 76ers overcame a 14-point fourth quarter deficit.<\/p>\n<p>But in Philadelphia last December, the Lakers won rather easily (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/lakers\/news\/081203_gameday_sixers.html\" >114-102<\/a>), led by 32 points from Kobe Bryant.<\/p>\n<p>A few other notes heading into the contest:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Philly&#8217;s All-Star starter isn&#8217;t Iguodala, but Allen Iverson, who joined the team after parting ways with the Memphis Grizzlies and has averaged 14.5 points and 4.4 assists in 20 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Offensively, the Lakers will likely look to go inside once again to Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol, who have combined for 86 points in L.A.&#8217;s last two victories at Washington and Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kobe Bryant says he&#8217;s starting to feel better from his various ailments, and the recent numbers are backing up his claim. He made 8-of-15 shots in Washington (53.3 percent) and 10-of-15 in Indiana (66.7 percent) after failing to shoot over 50 percent in 13-of-14 games in which he was bothered by a broken finger (among other things).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tipoff is at 4 p.m. Pacific; we&#8217;ll see you on Lakers.com for full coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a struggle this season for the Philadelphia 76ers, who have lost twice as many games (30) as they&#8217;ve won (15). Yet Philly remains dangerous due to a mix of young talent and an untraditional style that has helped them earn several quality wins: at Boston (98-97); at Portland (104-93); at Denver (108-105); New [&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-248736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248736","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=248736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}