Shaq played well, but the Suns fell to the Lakers as Kobe had 41

 

Shaq’s debut with the Suns wasn’t as bad as expected, he actually had a good performance yesterday night against the Lakers.

Kobe Bryant helped Los Angeles to take down the Suns just by 6, as the final score was 130-124, and Bryant could perform greatly even though he is still injured on one of its fingers, but if he had taken the choice of getting operated right away, the Lakers could have said goodbye to the championship.

There were some excellent plays by Shaq who is understimated as a passer, he’s starting to show that he can be a great deal of help for Leandro Barbosa who ended up with 17 points and also for Amare Stoudemire, who finished the game with 37 and 15 rebounds, and of course the Real Deal had his moments, specially on the fourth quarter, where he scored 9 of his 15 points of the night.

The Diesel was coming in and out of the court since he is just adjusting to the type of game play delivered by the Suns so he was just making presence, showing some experience and getting better for coming matches, he is also still in a recovery process from the hip injury that took him straight to the operations room and out of the arenas for one month.

I think there will be at least a couple of more games for the Suns to adjust to Shaq and viceversa, but I think many of O’Neal’s critics are giving it a second tought after seeing him performing yesterday.