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[Real Deal]

[J-H!zZl3]

Barnes has definitely played better these past few games. He is running the floor well, hustling, defending, andhitting his open shots. I hope he can continue to do this for the rest of the season.

[DeeZee]

Good hustle all around

[kfreud]

He's been my dude the past couple of games. Everything is in rhythm, cutting to the basket, getting out on the break, he was the unsung hero down the stretch of a couple of the closer games. Speaking of which, why can't I find his jersey anywhere online ?

[Hollywood]

best person on our bench or was hes good like his hustle

[JGuez]

I just posted this in the game thread for tonight against the Warriors.

Barnes happens to be having a great game tonight as well which is why I even looked.

Just did the numbers. Since Sessions has joined the Lakers, Barnes has averaged 10.5 points 5.5 rebounds a game.

He's averaging 7.3 and 4.8 for the season.

He is averaging slightly more minutes though, but hey I'm down with that if they're effective/reliable minutes.

Even when Barnes has bad nights, which he has and does, I love the energy he brings us.

[GP1_KB24]

Dude is playing out of his mind since Sessions has come. Great double double tonight and probably the only player always giving 100%.

[DeeZee]

I'm really liking the way he's been playing lately.

[MadSci]

Barnes kicking ass keep it up

[J-H!zZl3]

Barnes is shooting .425 from the 3 point line in the month of March. He is shooting .464 beyond the arc since the Sessions trade. His season 3 point % is .333 and his career % is .329.

[TKainZero]

most underrated laker

He has been the lakers 4th best player all year...

[Draztik]

[Hollywood]

i hope we re sign him hes only making 1.5 or so hopefully its in the budget hes a solid back up

Edited by Hollywood, April 07, 2012 - 07:39 AM.

That's great to see that he feels bad, but it's not his fault. I'd rather see Drew make a post taking the blame himself for getting ejected. That'd be more appropriate.

Yes Matt did blow a lot more layups than even usual yesterday, but I won't fault him too much either cause the one thing about Matt you can always count on, is he's always gonna' play hard, in fact, arguably the hardest worker on the team night in night out. Wish you could say the same about all of the guys, but you can't.

It shows you, though Matt's shot wasn't falling yesterday, he busted his ass on the boards with what? 13 boards I believe off the bench or something like that? That's just awesome AND he hit a clutch 3 late in the game as well.

[J-H!zZl3]

Barnes had 24 points and 10 rebounds on 9/11 shooting.


Matt Barnes:

"Playoffs are coming up soon, so we got to continue to build points up good habits. We know Kobe's down so we got to keep working hard until he comes back."


"It's Playoff time baby, it's time to go, there's no holding back, it's time to win a Championship!"

[Hollywood]

We know Kobe's down so we got to keep working hard until he comes back.

Until he comes back? Oh great, so when he comes back they'll just go back to their old half-assed lazy ways? Smh.

[Hollywood]

great game

[pointguard11]

Until he comes back? Oh great, so when he comes back they'll just go back to their old half-assed lazy ways? Smh.

The other players will keep playing well imo if they keep up moving the ball. If we go back to passing to kobe and watching him go one on one then were screwed. It will require Sessions to really take over the ball and kobe to play off the ball more. It will also require during the game whoever has the advantage on their man they "eat first". We have all seen how good this team is when they move the ball around. Lets hope they keep it up.

[MadSci]

Great game by Barnes!