From the locker room

All night you had a feeling this might be coming. One, the Charlotte Bobcats have a recent history of beating the Lakers. And two, the whole building was just dead tonight.

That malaise seemed to be contagious as the Lakers seemed stagnant and distant all night.

``Our energy was probably lagging all game,'' Lamar Odom said.

Said Kobe Bryant:

``There was nothing Ronny Turiaf about tonight.''

Andrew Bynum was a bit more descriptive in assessing what went wrong with the Lakers normally high-powered offense.

``We got kind of locked into one side of the court, and weren't swinging the ball,'' Bynum said.