The Los Angeles Lakers have a tough opponent in the first round with the San Antonio Spurs, and being without guard Kobe Bryant, they must continually feed their bigs Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol.

Former Laker great Magic Johnson stressed before Game 1 on Sunday that Howard and Gasol are the biggest advantages for the Lakers, and according to ESPNLA, Howard agrees.

"As the series goes on, those [San Antonio] bigs will wear down from trying to fight for every possession," Howard said. "We've just got to do a good job, myself and Pau, of not getting offensive fouls, not try to fight back too much, but read the defense. If they front, we have things set up to where we can counter that."

The Lakers failed to use the one-two punch of Howard and Gasol and for Game 2 they must do a more efficient job of spreading the floor to do so.

Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni usually loathes just dumping the ball in the paint, but has recently changed his mindset and plans to have more post-up plays.

"We'll make some adjustments," D'Antoni said. "I was happy with the looks we got. I wasn't happy with the turnovers that we had."

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