Lakers @ Nuggets

A word before the game:
We saw the game yesterday, no thanks to the fine broadcasting guidelines for San Diego County mind you, but with the team down and out we felt it unnecessary to comment on such ridiculous things as uniforms (okay not really, we were just lazy) and besides with no Drew how were we supposed to get our drink on?
Speaking of getting our drink on, for the rest of the season we'll be taking shots:
- Every time the game is broadcast on ESPN (make this one a double to get through the announcers).
- When the opposing team controls the tip off or jump ball.
Classy we know, but if people are going to be drinking to Intervention (we would never do that - honest) then we can drink to basketball.

First head shake of the night: Which of these idiots just said "... the Lakers are looking to snap a 3 game losing streak tonight?" Hi, they won last night.


Tip Off
Mihms, LO, KB, D.Fish and Luuuuuuuuuuuuke! Finally we get to see if the speculation is true that Luke is better as a starter. Aaaaaaaaand take a shot!


1st Quarter
9:50 Mihms is contributing!

6:08 IA (Idiot Announcers): Mihm seems to be warming to this team - you mean the one he plays on/with daily?

5:40 There goes dependable D.Fish again. In the whole.

2:49 Walton to Mihm, Mihm for the miss... we're trying here... real hard.

1:40 J.Far! He must have gotten up while we were on the phone planning Christmas decorating.

47.8 Kooooobe... don't push people down. Tisk tisk.

30.0 Bynum comes in, Melo knocks him over and then has a sit down to tie his shoes. Hmmm, that's less obvious that choking at least, right?

15.3 Hey, there's The Trev. Man, good night all around.

2.5 OH SHIT... KOBE GET UP!!

Okay that doesn't look good... looks like he's off to the locker room. How many people are going to end up on the ground tonight? Do we need to start drinking to that?

29-24 Lakers


2nd Quarter
11:28 J.R. Smith thought he was slick going around Luke and it's no good anyway. Just for that Luke threw it down on the other end.

Did you see Drew block that shit?

8:49 Yay, Kobe's okay, like Fish said, he's a warrior, but how cute was that little hand signal to whoever it was to?

7:43 Damn Radman, damn! Maybe he should just stand in that spot all night long?

6:45 Thanks for the shot Drew, we were getting thirsty.

6:31 - 6:06 Kobe with that crazy backward pass, too bad LO ruined the whole thing huh? But then we go after it again, and KB's shot looks a bit off, but no matter, Radman (the space cadet) gets it done! Holla.

5:01 Okay everybody point to your teams side of the court, last hand in the air loses.

4:42 IA: I've got a new name for the Cavaliers, the LeBroniers - are they honest?

4:22 Luke to Fish for the 3 for the miss. Luke to Fish for the 3 for the make. Just like that, they didn't even move their feet.

2:48 Player down!

2:10 Luke said, "I don't think so" for the block. Was that Luke? We were busy looking at our good friend Orangejello, we must find out who he is and ask him why he's so orange.

62-58 Lakers


Halftime
After much debate we've added an optional rule to the Forum Blue Drinking Game. Decide at the beginning of the game if you want to get tanked or just buzzed. If you answer tanked, then put this rule in play:
Pick a team. Each time a player from your team hits the deck, take a shot. If there's a 5-car pile up, drink if a member of your team is involved, double your drink if someone from your team caused the pile up. Can you tell we like to drink?


3rd Quarter
11:22 Kobe with the to-the-bench personal, but WTF? Iverson was just trying to get back at us for getting Melo ejected for his nonsense last week.

10:08 Luke with the to-the-bench foul, who's next? And how odd that this is not Drew we're talking about.

Let's get tattoos on our necks like Kenyon Martin!

7:58 Carmelo "Palmer" Anthony

We just realized there was no shirtwatch tonight, must be the Championship Gold that just can't be contained.

5:16 LO gets the to-the-bench foul. Oooooh, lets see if we can get the whole goddamn team to have this stat in their boxes.

2:02 Way to make the wide open Trev... oh wait...

34.9 Holla atcha boy J.Critt!

88 - that's the score.


4th Quarter
If either Fish, Mihms, or Jordan get another foul, I'll drink this entire bottle in honor of our 4 with 4.

9:13 Does Lamar Odom feel the extreme need to miss so many shots that I can't even notice the ones he makes? Is that a personal goal of his?

5:41 Goddamnit, Luke SHOOT!

5:14 Okay, but when you shoot, make the basket. This is like BBall 101 is it not?

4:24 Time to turn the bottle up... I think I'm gonna be sick :(


Dear Denver Fans,
While we think you are classes above Utah fans, we're sorta wondering why you're pointing to your Nuggets jerseys that you put on to honor the game you're sitting at. We know you like the Nuggets, now sit down.

2:20 Kobe to Drew just like back in the day. Now what?!?

2:05 Radman with the steal and the foul.

1:47 Lamar, shut your mouth, tell him Kobe, please.

Thank god we're not playing with the optional rule tonight, that bottle up drink courtesy of Fisher was ENOUGH! Btw, if Radman manages to get one more foul this game and everyone else keeps the same amount, there'd be a pretty cool column on the box score page. Something like: 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1

1:12 This just in, Kobe on fire, Denver not trained in firefighting.

23.2 Drew is a shot blocking machine tonight isn't he?

15.8 Me thinks that foul on Fish was a bad idea Mr. Nugget.

8.3 Dear J.R. Smith,
This is the NBA, not the NFL, no tackling please and thank you!

AI say: The Lakers end a 3 game losing streak - again with this? Nobody told them the first time they said this that they should probably check the records from last night? Idiots.



Final Comments
Our player of the night: Tough call, everyone was quite good tonight, but we're gonna go with Andrew Bynum. His shot blocking made us jump out of our seats more than once, plus without checking again we think he has the best over average tonight.

The Who Gave Them A Microphone award of the night: Whoever gave those announcers a job. Seriously, if they are going to pronounce names incorrectly and hand out false information on a national broadcast, they may as well let us be the announcers, at least we'll make you laugh.

Back to back wins on the road? So we CAN do it! Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Lets see what 3 days off feels like shall we?