No script
When the Los Angeles Lakers take the floor tonight at EnergySolutions Arena for Game 6 of their NBA Western Conference semifinal series with the Jazz, they’ll do so with what they suggest is utmost respect for their playoff opponent.
‘That’s a Jerry Sloan team,” NBA MVP Kobe Bryant said after the Lakers took Game 5 and a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. ‘They’re gonna keep coming.”
Lakers reserve guard Jordan Farmar offered specifics.
‘They’re a very tough team,” Farmar said. ‘They come on the road and play well every game, and we just find a way to pull it out.
‘But we have to be better than that,” Farmar added. ‘Going up there (to Utah) is going to be very tough. We have to do a good job eliminating their second chances.”
As for how things will develop, however, ex-Jazz guard Derek Fisher of the Lakers has no idea.
‘There aren’t any scripts for winning playoff games,” Fisher said. ‘You can game-plan, work on things, come out with certain things in mind that you want to do or you want to happen. But until the game starts and things start to unfold, you just have to keep playing.”
It’s what the Lakers did Wednesday. And it’s what the Jazz can only hope they do tonight.


