Lakers coach Phil Jackson didn’t come down too hard on Andrew Bynum for misreading Jackson’s diagrammed last play in the loss to New Jersey on Sunday night. Jackson said he ran the play “maybe twice last year” and has had only two practices this season where he clarified situational plays such as those.

“It’s not something that would be imprinted in his memory bank where he knows he’s a real special outlet player in that situation,” Jackson said.

Bynum was supposed to come get the ball from inbounder Derek Fisher and give it back to Fisher if he was unguarded – which Fisher was after New Jersey’s Antoine Wright left him to create a double-team denial on Bryant. When Bynum instead tried to set a pick for Vladimir Radmanovic, Fisher had to pass to Radmanovic, who missed a potential winning three-point shot at the buzzer to cap an 0-for-10 shooting night. Fisher was 8-for-10, scoring a season-high 20 points.

“I try not to let them revolve around the fact that the game was lost on a last-second shot,” Jackson said. “It was lost in the third quarter.”

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