MILWAUKEE (AP)—The Milwaukee Bucks already were trying to cope with the recent loss of center Andrew Bogut to an injury. Then they lost Stephen Jackson to a suspension just a few hours before tipoff.
They didn’t need either player to beat Los Angeles on Saturday night— another sign of just how bad the Lakers have been on the road this season.
Drew Gooden scored 23 points and the undermanned, undersized Bucks beat the Lakers 100-89.
“I mean, what are you going to do?” Milwaukee’s Mike Dunleavy said. “Bogut’s not going to come in with a better ankle. We’re not going to get Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. So we know that we’ve got to play these big guys with guys with lesser size, but you do it with hard work and toughness.”
Kobe Bryant scored 27 with nine assists and eight rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to keep the Lakers from falling to 1-7 on the road this season.
Bryant didn’t have an explanation for the Lakers’ road woes, but said he and Lakers coach Mike Brown would meet to try and figure it out.
“We will have to put our heads together,” Bryant said. “Me and Coach Brown will have to sit down and think of what is going on and how we can be a much better road team.”
Ersan Ilyasova and Dunleavy added 15 points each for the Bucks.
With Bogut out, the Lakers tried to take advantage of their pair of 7-footers, Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum. It wasn’t as easy as it seemed going in.
“In the first half, we did a decent job,” Gasol said. “In the second half, there were not many touches. Defensively there was no excuse, (we’ve) got to do better. They were beating us all over the court.”
Bynum scored 15 points with nine rebounds. Gasol had 12 points and 15 rebounds, but shot 6 for 18 from the floor.- http://sports.yahoo.com/n
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