Don Wilson Sports: Lakers on Game 3

The Lakers are not proud of their recent performance. Kobe and Jackson talk about the Lakers going in to game 3 tonight...

Kobe Bryant might be called upon to put the Los Angeles Lakers on his back in Game 3 against the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night.

"I might just have to run him 48 minutes [in Game 3]," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. "He might just have to find his spots [to rest] on the floor rather than taking him off the court."

Something has to change for the Lakers, whom Jackson described as "depressed and humiliated" on Wednesday.

"It's accurate. I don't know how you wouldn't be after what happened last night," forward Luke Walton said of Jackson's assessment after the Lakers watched the horror show that was Game 2 against the Suns.

Only 11 of 193 teams in NBA history have come back from an 0-2 deficit to win a best-of-seven series.

"We're just playing bad," Bryant said. "We've got to do a better job at the defensive end. The big thing is transition defense."

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