During yesterday’s practice, Kobe Bryant iterated that tonight’s matchup with the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder (13-14) will be a tough game for the reason that it is a home game. He was right. The Thunder were pretty much in control of the game in the first half leading by 5 after the first quarter and 7 going into halftime 61-54. But the Lakers (23-4) rallied in the third outscoring Oklahoma City by 13 points leading to their league-high 5th win a row in front of a bewildered Staples Center crowd.

KDOC was having technical issues for the majority of the game but for those of us die-hards who refuse to believe the game isn’t showing we got the game finally toward the end of the 2nd period. The first 2 periods were an apparent wash, the Ducks were down 2-0 and a shutout looked imminent but then came the 3rd period. Actually not even that. Then came the last half of the 3rd period and something happened. The Ducks got 1 through…. then they got another one through. In a span lasting less than 8 minutes (7:34 if you want to be precise), the Ducks got 4 goals and absolutely stole the 2 points that were almost certain to go to Colorado.