NBA Update: Pacers leading Lakers by the end of 3rd Quarter
The game has covered a duration of 1:37 and a total of 18,997 basketball fans are watching this exciting game at the Staples Center, Los Angeles. CA.
The game between Indiana Pacers and Los Angeles Lakers has covered its 3 quarters. The Pacers are at the lead and they have scored 77 points against 69 scored by the Lakers.
The Pacers have grabbed seven team rebounds whereas the Lakers have grabbed eight.
Indiana Pacers (7-7) score board
Roy Hibbert has scored 17, Danny Granger 16 and Darren Collison has added 14 up till now.
Lakers (13-3) score board
Kobe Bryant has scored 33 points, Lamar Odom 12 and Pau Gasol 11.
None of the teams has committed any technical fouls yet. The lead has changed 13 times and the game has been tied 11 times in the course of these 3 quarters.
Play by play
1st Quarter
The Pacers had the ball in the very start of the game and Hibbert gave away a bad pass in the very beginning of the game for the Pacers. Bryant secured two points for the Lakers with his fade away jump shot. Darren Collison tried for a jump shot but missed
it. Granger made three points with his 3 point shot for the Pacers with 10:40 remaining. Hibbert comitted a foul at 9:58 and Bryant succeeded in controlling the free throw that earned another point for Lakers. Hibbert scored two more points for the Pacers
as he made a dunk shot at 9:45. Odom contributed three points with a three pointer. Artest grabbed a rebound for the Lakers at 8:43 and with Gasol's jump shot they were 12-7.
Derrick Caracter was replaced by Shannon Brown at 6.7 remaining. Don Ford missed a jump shot when 02:08 were left and the Lakers made a team rebound at the end of the 1st quarter.
2nd Quarter
Matt Barnes gave a turnover (a bad pass) at the very beginning. Granger missed a jump shot as he tried to lung forward to throw the ball into the basket. Solomon Jones made a rebound that earned the Pacers two more points. Barnes made a shooting foul and
Jones earned two more points for the Pacers by hitting two free throws right at the mark. Gasol missed a hook shot at 10:11 and Jones secured a rebound for the Pacers at 10:08. Granger gave Pacers the lead by one point as he hit a driving layup shot. The score
was 27-26.
Barnes made a jump shot as Walton gave an assist to edge the Lakers and Pacers at the same score at 30-30 with 7:10 left.
Fisher missed a three point shot at 2:33 and Bryant committed a foul at 2:02 that gave the Pacers an opportunity to earn two more points as Hibbert skillfully played his free throws.
Gasol missed a turnaround hook shot with 29:09 remaining and Collison's floating jump shot sealed four points for the Pacers as they cleared the 2nd quarter with 51-45.
3rd Quarter
The 3rd quarter started with a fade away jumper shot that Bryant missed for the Lakers. Immediately after that though, the Lakers made a team rebound and another one at 11:38.
Collison missed a jump shot at 9:23 and the Pacers made a team rebound at 09:20. Fisher made a driving layup shot and at that point the Lakers were trailing 49-61. At that point Collison earned two points when he played the free throws for the Pacers that
were the result of a foul committed by Fisher. Hibbert committed a foul at 4:37 and Bryant dished out two points with the free throws allotted to the Lakers. Hibbert missed a hook shot at 02:28 and Odom made a rebound at 02:25 remaining.
By the end of the third quarter the Lakers were 66 with the Pacers leading by 77.
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