66 Lakers vs. 76ers

We have a good feeling that last night was just what the doctor ordered. But what is a Sixer? We can devise that a Laker is one who is of or works with the Lake, but how do we classify a Sixer or a Seventy-Sixer?

A word before the game
Not a lot to say about this game. The Lakers know what they need to do to get the win. It's not so much that they lost last night (it was gonna happen eventually) but it's how they lost - by refusing to play defense - and who they lost to. Yeah, the Pacers dropped the Celtics this year as well, but um, they're still not very good. Right.

1st Quarter
9:47 Last night taught us little to nothing apparently since protecting the paint doesn't seem to be a priority tonight. Maybe it's not?

5:17 Samuel Dalembert
nothing about him we just like his name.

4:38 Radman's got a hot hand tonight. Let's keep that note handy.

3:45 Welcome Trevor Ariza - it's magic time.

3:06 The first play of his time on the court Trevor takes the ball from the 6ers, unfortunately Pau et al blow the layup at the other end. But it leaves us wondering, do people not read the book on Ariza before he shows up or is he just that good at taking the ball when he wants it?

Uh oh, Lakers Locker, same as yesterday 31 20 5

During a story about Radman's eye we are treated to images of Sasha fixing his hair, where's Sally Hershberger when you need her?

1:37 The extra pass always works. Always. Especially if it's from a turnover created by The Trev.

3.9 Pau waited patiently and nonchalantly swatted the ball away. It was so lazy it was fun to watch.

31-25 Lakers


2nd Quarter
10:14 We vote if you get a 3 second call on you because your teammate (we're talking to you Lamar Odom) is too much of a pansy to shoot the ball and pretends to but then passes instead... you should be allowed to smack them in the face at the next time out.

8:49 Jordan Farmar came to play. That's good.

Just as a note, that commercial where everyone is eating imaginary food. IT'S GETTING REALLY OLD CARLS JR!

6:39 Who said Andrew Bynum couldn't run? Or fly? Or dunk?

6:23 Its weird hearing Elton Brand's name in this game.

Speaking of Elton Brand, he took off on a fast break all alone except for Bynum was on his tail. He purposefully slows down waiting for the foul to come and give him a 3 pointer. Near hysteria erupted here when Andrew completely stopped and Elton was confused. Hysterical.

4:51 Did we just see a 3rd consecutive turn over for the Lakers? For reals?

The Forum Blue unis make Pau Gasol look like Powder.

And if Stu Lantz says the word "dividends" one more time... we're muting him.

39.0 Thank god people are making their free throws tonight! Was that so much to ask?

61-51 Lakers still


Halftime
We booked S a ticket to Indiana (her future home). It's now official!


3rd Quarter
9:30 We just rejoined the game and see everyone on the floor. No clue why, but it's funny.

7:20 The Sixers are in this game, because the Lakers, typically, don't know how to hold on to a lead or anything like that.

4:40 Out of the clusterfuck Andrew ends up with the free throws, Pau checks for blood, Stu states the obvious.

Wow, sometimes it's really difficult to pay attention to the games. It's unexplainable but this entire quarter just slipped away from us.
*Correction, apparently it's not unexplainable... twitter is to blame.

2:00 Kobe chases down the ball, picks it up, studies the hoop, remembers that he forgot to turn off the coffee pot in his hotel room, bites off a hangnail, surveys the crowd then shoots the ball. Nobody felt like coming down to defend that either.

85-69 Lakers


4th Quarter
Trevor Ariza just might be our newest Personal Jesus... maybe.

8:40 Are you serious with that call? No, it's not serious. Losing control of the ball while jumping into someone who is standing still cannot possibly constitute a foul in your favor. What are we watching Pop Warner?

7:45 There's Trevor on the floor after offense. What is this phenomenon?

5:01 Get up Derek Fisher! =(

3:39 Fish tries to take us all to school but then misses the shot. That's not how its supposed to work.

2:34 Kobe always makes the circus shots, the impossible shots, it's the easy ones he misses, so lets stop marveling at this nonsense?

This one is in the bag. Everyone already knew that the Lakers were fired up from their disaster last night and weren't going to let this one slip away right? Lets stick around for the final score...

112-102 or is it 114-102? We're apparently not too sure.

Final Comments
We knew this was going to go down this way. No sense pretending we didn't. Kobe's at "home", and he's finally not getting 100% boos from the crowd, which is why he gets to be
Player of the Night... he's been pretty spectacular, we gotta admit.