Lakers @ Jazz

A word before the game:
Double headers are fun, we get to watch a bit of a game we would have never watched otherwise and make comments on people we don't even know... but then... you get to see (or not see, as it were) Smush Parker NOT with his team due to some parking altercation. What? You read that right. Isn't that just like Smushie? What's a Utonian D. Fish fan to do on a night like tonight... cheer for him or cheer for Utah? We're also really glad the boys aren't going to have on those yellow uniforms tonight- we like Championship Gold well enough but - Forum Blue all the way! It's prettier.
**Doc Rivers is about to smack somebody (the ref - we like her, she's feisty) over a jump ball shoulda been a foul situation.

Tip Off
Kobe, LO, Drew, Ronny and D. Fish who coincidentally has the opening ball and gets boo'ed. Guess that solves that mystery for confused fans. But we get the first basket so eat that!


1st Quarter
10:24 Time out already?

8:16 Oh, Utonians boo everybody and everything - it sounds forced.

Are those energy saving lights overhead?

3:42 Boring quarter so far but our current fave just got up, lets see if Walton rested last night...
(and Radman too for that matter)

2:59 Remind us not to go to Utah anytime ever, they are crybabies. Sorry the call is not getting reversed and we'll just bring in J. Far to piss you off more.

Note to all geeks: Mr. T does not play World of Warcraft in his spare time no matter how much they just paid him to pretend he does.

6.9 Did KB just drop the ball?

30-22 Utah


2nd Quarter
11:16 Hmmm, Walton on the floor, we're pretty sure Basketball is played in the vertical position. We keep going for the basket and they keep blowing whistles.

11:03 Reason #5 we like Stu and Joel better: They can pronounce Farmar.

8:40 Why does Luke's face seem to be saying, "What the heck am I doing in these blue but clearly purple shorts?"

Kirilenko... nothing to say about him, we just wanted to see how easy it'd be to type his name without saying it out loud at the same time.

8:00 Sasha fouled, good thing cause that shot wasn't going in anyway. Hey, Kobe's back!

7:07 We're down a lot, looks like PB&J is ready to start sending in the troops so we can make our end of the half push to get in the game for the first time. Will it work tonight?

6:08 Okay, we'll give Deron Williams a high five for playing like a champ, but we still don't like Utah.

Please visit testing411.org now so we don't have to see that commercial again. When you do you can watch a different and/or extended version of the same commercial - we're not sure, we didn't watch it.

3:25 Apparently as tired of Utah dominating the ball as we are, Bynum slows the game down and we watch big K shoot for free. This just in, it's more exciting when they have to work for it.

1:34 The difference between us and them: they rebound their own missed shots 2-3 times in a row, we apparently don't care about our missed shot balls.

70-51 Jazzy Jeff's

Half Time
PB&J should have a tacit conference in the locker room - they'll get the point. But how about starting Luke? It worked for him last night and we've got 20 points to go before we can be respectable.

Lets see if the boys can come out and make like The Fresh Prince and leave Jeff behind...


3rd Quarter
11:30 Nobody on KB and he takes it home.

8:33 So far our after half time surge hasn't kicked in. There's limited time to pull this off so um, lets get with it?

7:46 Not sure what that shouting is but it sure sounds like "Lakers suck!". Tonight, yes. Here goes the bench with their second try of the night.

Tonight we like Jordan's tattoo.

5:27 Kobe picks it up, tosses it over his shoulder and J.Far grabs it to throw it in while throwing himself out.

4:38 Here's a great idea: Let's keep sending the Jeff's to the free throw line. At least we haven't been Knicked yet =/

2:02 Mihms! It couldn't really get any worse anyway right?

1:02 Go get that Technical Luke!

Ouch, feels like we've turned on the boys, we have not, just remember that even bad press is good press.

102-82 Do I even need to tell you?


4th Quarter
10:12 This is the last chance we've got, pick it up or go sit down boys. Don't turn us into turncoats.

7:48 #4 just snatched it away and nobody saw it coming because he almost literally walked down the court, stopped, hopped up and put the ball inside the hoop while all 5 of the Jazz and the other 4 Lakers stood at the other end of the court puzzled.
To reward this excellence, J.Critt comes in and sends him to the bench for a sit.

5:24 It's not like we aren't trying... A for effort on that one.
Kirilenko is on the verge of of a 5x5. Whatever that is. Sounds impressive.

3:33 Kobe sits down because this game is over with. If you weren't sure, you could find further proof on Derek and Luke's faces.

Poor Ariza, he's the "Hey, this game is over go out there and have fun" guy.

1:something Jordan almost steals it, Utah takes it back, then we get it back and Jordan's still at the other end of the court this thing is moving so fast - so throw it aaaaaaaaaaall the way back to him and he drops it in.

120-96 Utah


Final Comments
Our player of the night: Jordan Farmar. 21 points, and the best hustle for the team make him a clear choice here. Plus he's cute.

Lesson of the night: People like to steal the ball.

It's also kind of awesome how: Bill Walton goes to great lengths to avoid talking about Luke playing basketball. Bill Walton is orange.

** Clearly commentary on another game is a little out of place but that's kinda funny, admit it.