Coach Eric Musselman has a great blog post today about Missouri having a "man's mentality" on the road, which helped them beat Texas Wednesday night.The Lakers had that same mentality last night (as much as it hurts me to say that) when they defeated the Celtics in Boston 110-109. Lakers center Paul Gasol said:
"I wish we would have come here last year with this kind of attitude. Nobody backed down. We were as physical as anybody."
For now, though, it was the Lakers acting like the heavies when it was least expected, with their physically imposing 21-year-old center watching on TV back home in Los Angeles.
This wasn't 131-92, that's for sure.
"We came in this building and got beat pretty badly," said Kobe Bryant, referring to the Lakers' Game 6 loss to the Celtics last June."I think we kind of took the challenge upon ourselves coming in here and seeing how much we've grown since then."
