Jackson not care more than home, Lakers home court advantage useful only to the boss

Although the pioneers of home brutally reversed, but the Lakers have already locked up the regular season ahead of the first name of the location of the western region, which also ensure the Lakers in the Western playoffs, no matter what rivals, they will hold the home court advantage.

Many teams are valued playoff home-court advantage, but the Zen Master Jackson seems no home advantage. "It (the home court advantage) does not guarantee anything," coach Phil Jackson said, "it can only guarantee you one more chance for home games. The team owner, this is a very good deal, and this for They are also very important, so we should feel happy. But we can become a Western first name is more pleased with this ranking confirms our strength. "

Count this season, the Lakers had three consecutive seasons dominate the west, the first two seasons, they never lost any round of the playoffs in the West last season, they even beat the Magic in the Finals, won the team history the first 15 championship. For the Lakers, the season their only goal is to defend.

"We still have many tasks to be done," about the summit in the west, the Artest said, "We must move forward. This is a very incredible team, but the end result does not depend on the players How the talent, but on your last performance. so we have a lot of work should be done. "

The Zen Master Jackson, his top priority now is to find a replacement as soon as possible to the Lakers game the feel and the state, to prepare for the upcoming playoffs. Therefore, Bryant missed the last two games, the Master intends to arrange an extra bench time.

Ranking than in the West, the Lakers bench players now hope to get back the state and self-confidence. For example, in the game with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Pau Gasol played just 34 minutes, while Fisher is no even playing in 20 minutes. In contrast, the Fama bench play 28 minutes, Powell played 19 minutes a rare, but has just returned from injury to the Wharton also received 19 minutes of playing time. "The performance of some of them can," in evaluating the performance of replacement, the Zen Master said, "I think in the first half, they played very well, but their second half performance, I am not satisfied."

Although the performance of replacement not make Master satisfactory, but once they set foot on court, or in doing all they could. Little playing time mbunga, in the game with the Minnesota Timberwolves play 14 minutes, 7 vote 5 to get 11 points, also contributed two blocks. After the game, Jackson made against him praise, but also that the future will consider increasing his playing time.