Lakers vs. Jazz

A word before the game
We've done our fair share of internet trolling today to pass the time at work - er, we mean to uh, shit... the boss won't be reading this right? We came across a few things that bring smiles to the faces. This quote, "...and losing track of starting point guard Stephon Marbury for a couple of days in November." about Isaiah (who doesn't even need a last name any more because you know who we're talking about) pretty much makes us want to high five America.
Surely by now everyone has seen "Before The Bigs" the Luke Walton episode, but we felt like watching it anyway (it's all we're gonna see of him tonight anyway)... we almost forgot how much he is his fathers' son. Read that again.
Looks like Kwame gets some play tonight... this ought to be interesting... it's Friday and a holiday weekend so we'll be drinking!


Tip Off
Kobe, Andrew, Derek, Lamar, Trevor we forgot to look at who controlled the tip because Ronny was warming up - for Dance Dance Revolution, not that we mind but shouldn't he have been paying attention to the game?


1st Quarter
10:17 Here's a joke for the evening, "How many Lakers does it take..."

9:23 The Trev may just push his way into our hearts if he keeps it up!

8:06 SHOTS (though we admit Drew has been controlling his foul rate these days)

7:35 Kobe for the em ephin steal and the pass to himself. Who cares if he didn't make it, it was still quite awesome.

5:52 THAT'S FUCKIN' TEAM WORK! Funny how you can use the same joke from earlier and it's awesome this time.

5:28 Oh Andrew!

DWCC (Dwyane Wade Commercial Count) I

Kwame! Makin' a difference right away.

3:13 We weren't going to embarrass the Jazz by bringing up the "class" of their "fans" but since the announcers brought it up... we'd like to point out that we haven't booed them so heinously tonight in retaliation. That, "dear" people of Utah is how class sounds. (Booing at free throws does not count against your class rating).

1:31 That was smooth!

17.6 Kobe this isn't baseball - nobody's measuring the speed of your pass.

Useless stat alert: We just got a season high for points in the first 12 minutes.

38 - 23 Lakers


2nd Quarter
11:09 Ronny might make a name for himself in shot blocking in one game. Dare we say "Got Them Dos!"

8:53 Jordan and Ronny are having a back and forth love fest tonight. Can we join?

6:35 The do-over play for Radman..

6:08 Holla for J.Far. We should mention that we mostly just call him Hero after the end of the Knicks game the other day.

Oh hey, Luke will be getting some air time tonight after all, nice suit. We'll drink to you!

DWCC II

4:52 T for Sloan! Woohoo!!

4:14 I think every single person in Championship Gold touched that one.

We just gave them the T and they missed as well... can we insert a useless stat for this somehow?

1:15 Damn that one would have been sweet...

47.5 MVP MVP MVP

75 -48 Lakers of course.


Half Time
With the team playing so well we haven't gotten our drink on quite as much as we'd like. This concoction of Pumpkin Schnapps and Orange Juice is delightful, we might just have to drink to excellence. We are gonna go work on our "Bang Bang" dance (see Kobe highlights from the first half) and pray to the rain Gods that we keep up the show in the 2nd half.

DWCC III


3rd Quarter
11:10 Over the glass for Kobe. That's hott!

10:42 The Trev needs to work on his free throwing lest we push him to a stat sheet with Geriatric-Diesel.

10:12 It's been 30 seconds since we last commented on the free throwing of The Trev and it still stands...

9:54 He does make up for it quite a bit with his anticipatory skills though. Round of applause for that steal.

8:07 Phew! (That one barely went down)

DWCC IV (We abso-fucking-lutely hate this stupid commercial. Make it stop!)

4:19 Ariza had the smoothness to Fish who missed.

Girls wanna know: Why is every little thing a stat. Seriously? Should we also figure in bounces per game when averaging things? I mean, if you look at the ratio of baskets made vs. # of times the ball was dribbled per game it's gotta further prove the conspiracy theories surrounding the Lakers. I'm not a mathematon so I couldn't do this myself but I know it'll work out in the end.

3:44 What the hell is wrong with Hero's shorts as he's entering the game?

3:14 Time for Drew to calm down and tuck in his shirt.

We're gonna leave the C-note mark in the dust in 3 quarters time.

2:47 Andrew! =(

2:30 Lakers with the "around the world" pass. How many times can we go around the world in 24 seconds?

1:47 Tender Ronny with The Towel.

My god Hero looks short out there.

0.1 Hero for the not even necessary trois at the end of the quarter to make it:

106 - 74 Even though it's pretty early on, we're guessing Taco Chants will be starting very soon, and tacos are looking like a serious reality at this point.


4th Quarter
10:44 Trevor! We really want to vote for you for player of the night... don't fuck this up!

9:28 Dear Radman, What the hell was that?

8:37 Holy shit how many fouls does Kwame have now?

7:44 Don't start falling apart now...

7:17 Nice recovery for Hero.

Looks like the tacos might be going bye-bye?

J.Critt, Criptonite, Javaris in the game

5:59 PB&J has been pretty quiet tonight until now...

33 assists!

3:47 It's hard not to notice how much Ronny likes taking credit for fouling people. We're pretty sure he'd take credit for other people fouling people if he was anywhere near the action. Actually, he'd probably even try to take credit for fouling people if he was still sitting on the bench.

2:42 Take down a jersey number and beat him up 'cause there goes your tacos LA fans.

Ronny with the finger lickin' goodness and there's a pan of the bench... all the starters went on early vacation tonight. And once again "Hey, there's that guy..." Chris Mihm.

This game is so far over FSN has taken down the shot clock, game clock, scoreboard et al on the screen.

57.5 (We can only tell by looking at the in house time clock) They think they can still win this?

123 -109 4 in a row!


Final Comments
Holla atcha boys! We even got a smile from PB&J. We won't bother getting as excited as the Lakers did - oh wait...
We do actually understand the non-victory like attitudes they displayed, they pretty much let it go in the 4th. Good call. We got the W and that's what counts in the end. Anyway on with the awards of the night:

The Thank God He Didn't Choke On His Comeback Game award of the night: Kwame Brown. It's so easy to just go out there and chalk a shitty game up to being rusty and he didn't.

The "Hey there's that guy" award of the night: Defending title holder Chris Mihm. Seriously, Javaris got off the bench and this guy didn't. Yeah we know he played a game or two ago and didn't completely suck but seriously?

The It's Gonna Be A Long Trip Home award: Jerry Sloan & The Utah Jazz who in addition to just getting their shit handed to them in a potpourri bag have to face the Celtics next and it's not gonna be pretty.

Our player of the night: Trevor Ariza. He threw it down. No, it wasn't a spectacularly amazing game tonight for him personally but combine this game with that famous dunk up/posterization on Grant's Hill and he's more than earned this, besides, when isn't it awesome to actually like the newbie?

The "Oh shit did he just say that?" award of the night: PB&J for calling Luke out on his pending Wally Pipp status. Though we're sure he was joking and really, nothing coming from Phil's mouth should be surprising.