Lakers vs. Nuggets

A word before the game:
Kwame is injured, Karl is a D-Fender, PB&J will be the name of the game for at least 2 more years, and the Knicks just ate Shamrocks for dinner (if by "ate" we mean "Boston was all up in their face and kept them below 60". Shame.

Tip Off
D. Fish, RadMan, Kobe, LO, and Drew kickin' it off tonight.
Denver controls it.

1st Quarter
9:55 Thanks to Kobe the bench gets to sit down after a handful of trips down the court, and those folks that dished a few grand for some seats behind the bench get to see a little more than just championship gold warm up butts.

6:45 Drew throws it down, but Denver is owning this game with their mad steal skills. Steal skills - say that out loud.

5:56 (ish) Drew's first foul - Temper Tantrum level: Slight
Tender Ronny is in for RadMan cause I guess he wasn't rad enough.

I like all the ballers telling us to "Get Tested" and right after Jamie Foxx says something about African Americans they show Luke Walton. Does getting paid by the NBA give you an honorary Brotha card?

2:26 J.Far and Walton off the bench lets see if they can bring it home tonight.

1:54 Hey Kleiza no pushing!

Thought we might have another off night for Luke, but things seem to be shaping up for him, he may have figured out how to pass again. Farmar is picking up fouls at a solid Bynum-rate

33-21 Denver


2nd Quarter
Luke is chasing people around like they stole something from him. You know they wanna flat palm him.

9:33 Uh-oh... we'll hold our breath for now

8:19 Vujacic finally got it done!

7:50 Team rebounding is cute but if all of you are there to rebound you have to have someone to catch it when you tap it. That someone probably shouldn't be suited for the other team.

Be, aggressive, be be aggressive! (That was our cheer for J.Far who just went sliding down the court - we want to see more of the opposing team helping fallen players up off the floor, the more sensitive side of ballin'). And while we're cheering... what rhymes with "Tuck your shirt in Luke Walton"?

5:23 Could D.Fish be any better... looking... um, when he's handling the ball...?

When in doubt shout this out: Go with Fish, he just can't miss!

Almosttheend:ofthehalf We are finally in this game. Luke takes it, gives it to D.Fish, back to Luke, over to KB, back, Drew. Then... Luke to D.Fish for the basket. Then Luke brings it down the court over to LO, KB has it but Carter gets a whistle, so KB gives it to Fish who gives it to Drew and Kareem says cheese for the cameras. Turnover to KB for a no look to LO.

57-55 Denver


Half Time
Suddenly we have a chance? Some last minute rebounds by dear Luke, passing to er'rybody on the court and some balls down the hole. Drew needs a tutu for his spins. Luke is fired up and holy celebrity batman! KB just threw it down! Betcha didn't think he was gonna make that but it's Kobe, common now! Bringin it down to 2. Hey, there's Ariza, he looks comfy in those warm ups.


3rd Quarter
10:10 Denver looks frustrated. They didn't expect the boys in our favorite colors to come out of the locker room ready to take names?

9:39 Luke's back! (Stop licking your hand, you kiss your mother with that mouth?)

8:58 Drew gets his double double. Surprisingly one of those is not for fouls. Don't question it.

Who's in your fave 5? Not the guy in the blue shirt sitting behind Coach Karl. We'll call him Orangejello pronounced ore-on-gel-o. Why so orange?

7:21 Melo just shoved Luke to the ground. Hate the game not the player Melo. Hate the game.

Apparently PB&J held a charge practice, where they practice running into each other and falling. How can we get in on that? Wonder how many times we could run full force into an NBA player before we gave up...

5:45 Still wondering what rhymes with "Tuck your shirt in Luke Walton" but he's playing basketball like he was raised to do it or something, so we'll give him a pass... for now.

1:43 I guess we don't need to guard AI?

81-75 Lakers (even though we were up 14 at one point)


4th Quarter
11:12 We like Sasha's headband

Getting fouled on a 3 you were about to miss anyways is purrrty.

8:47 Luke goes for the wide open em ephin' 3. And it's good. Where's Mase when you need him... "Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back"

6:37 The Bench Mob must have read about themselves in the paper 'cause they came to play tonight.

6:18 Melo just got kicked out of the arena for domestic violence... is it "domestic" when you try to choke the ish out of an opposing player? It's okay, Sash is all smiles now that he's back to breathing normally. Out you go Melo... not melo enough.

We just noticed that we haven't seen many dance offs between Ronny and Ronny yet this season. What gives? But now J.Critt and Ariza - still in need of a nickname - just got up to stretch their legs. And somebody tell me why Mihms got up? Love him to death but he makes us wanna sing "This is why he's not". Sloppy sloppy Christopher. But we swear we're not Mihm haters.

2:17 PB&J is obviously feelin' pretty confident that we've got this one in the bag...

1:40 Spoke too soon on the Turiaf dance off. Welcome that back as well.

1:08 Trev to J.Critt and it's good. Holla!

Are they shouting "We want tacos!" ???? Oh yes, yes they are. And they get 'em.

127 - 99 Forum Blue!

Final Comments
Quote of the night from Basketblog (after the start of the 3rd when Walton went in with the starting line up): That clicking sound is a seat belt that is being installed on Vlad’s seat. That guy shouldn’t see the starting lineup for the rest of the year.

Our player of the night: Luke Walton. He came back on fire tonight, and with the best over average on the team (+25) and 14 points he should remember what a good night feels like and bring that same ish tomorrow.

See ya in Utah!