Los Lakers vs. Warriors

A word before the game:
Happy Easter! It's Sunday Night Whites, but not just ANY SNW, it's Noche Latino which means Los Lakers! There's still a lot of bracket madness going on so we haven't even been paying attention to the Lakers enough to have any intelligent pregame conversation about them. Pau isn't playing still :(


Tip Off
Radman, Turiaf (we've perfected saying his name the way he does), Bryant, Fisher, L. Odom


1st Quarter
Well the good news is that we have no idea what happened during the first quarter thanks to the DVR crapping out even though we've only had this one for 1 week (7 days as of today) thanks DirecTv. If you're new around here, we HATE DirecTv even more than we hate USC but there really aren't many options so we have to sit idly by and hate them, crossing our fingers hoping that we get to actually watch the TV we pay for whether it works or not.


2nd Quarter
5:59 Oh welcome back to the TV you're paying for!

4:46 Sasha takes a "I have nothing better to do tonight than blow the game" shot. What do you know, he misses, but then he hustles back so are we mad or not?

4:39 Damn, Luke is sweaty.

3:41 Oh there goes DirecTV again. You know what we didn't want to see this game anyway.

Okay so we've gone to a streaming site in order to watch now because this is bullshit!

2:49 & 2:35 Luke passes to Golden Statesmen... there really should be some sort of class they take where they learn the difference between "my team and the other team".

2:33 Please hit yourself in the face with the ball a few more times Mr. Walton, it might help you see colors better.

2:10 Since we're down by so much Kobe decides to beat the shit out of whoever has the ball so they can have some free throws.

1:03 This is where the downfall starts. Sasha gets nothing from the corner, then Lamar gets stripped by Davis and falls on his ass. Warriors get it done then we're back to the Laker's end of the floor where Kobe misses it, then Derek misses is (or did Derek miss it first?), then someone else misses it before the buzzer. Pretty sure the goal of the game is to put the ball inside of the hole. If the NBA was giving away points for hitting the rim we'd have kicked the shit out of the Warriors in this past minute, but they don't.


Half Time
We'd like to see DirecTv get it's act together so we can watch the rest of the game without squinting at the stream on the computer, but that's probably asking for too much isn't it?


3rd Quarter
11:14 Los Ronny needs to make both of his freethrows because his team is losing still.

10:10 Kobe to Ronny for the zip.

9:37 Have these guys had too much Easter ham? Why not let Karl, Newble and the injureds play instead?

9:11 It's going to be a long night for Kobe and the gang.

7:14 We're not even sure how Derek ended up twirling around on the floor but at least Kobe made the shot.

Kobe has put on his "fuck that" face and you can mark our words from here on out he's going to make everyone on the floor hate their own lives.

5:13 Radman with a Walton shot - nowhere near the basket just the way we like it!

3:30 Coach Nellie looks stressed.

3:16 "A couple of poor decisions" doesn't even begin to describe what Luke did in the first half.

2:55 Kinda like how he laid on the floor while the rest of his team ran to the other side.

2:34 Fisher's got HOPS!!! And nobody was there to stop 'em.

Get there Lakers.

Did Luke just block that?

1:27 Fisher with another of his rainbow shots, love the arc on his shots. Love.

48.3 Lamar's pass to Kobe looked like it wasn't going to work but damn if it didn't.

87-81 Warriors


4th Quarter
9:35 If Jordan is going to senselessly foul people can he at least get his hair cut?

Kobe? Wide open? We'll take it!

7:45 Sasha needs to make shots.

6:48 Kobe takes it, runs it, passes to himself behind his back, spins and passes behind someone elses back to Ronny who gets the 2 and 1. AND TIES IT!

We just seriously yelped. When basketball gets exciting...

3:21 Thank god L. Odom was there to tap in Luke's usual non-make. It's anybodies game at this point.

56.4 1 point game?

We didn't foul them because it's more fun to risk losing.

8.1 The Warriors' little celebratory bullshit is really annoying. They kind of remind us of gangsters at a drive by.

115-111 Warriors


Final Comments
I mean... they had a pretty valiant come back, but the better question is, "Why were we in a position to need to come back?" Think about that Los Lakers.

Due to the lack of solid TV service we're not prepared to give out a bunch of awards but we're certainly giving out the
Player of the Night Award: Derek Fisher for his pretty shots that brought us back from the dead in the 3rd Quarter! And because we still aren't able to release our comments from the Utah game and we need to shout him out for "using his daughters' illness as a convenience"