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"

Lakers @ Bulls

A word before the game
Sunday was a crazy night at STAPLES right? Were you there? We were. Enough of that. Let's get this under way and see if it was a fluke, or if it was the real thing shall we?


Tip off
1st Quarter
2nd Quarter
Half Time
3rd Quarter
4th Quarter


Final Comments
Quote of the night (from a comment by Mhunt at forumblueandgold.com):

"I realized what it is that Kwame really brings to that first unit besides a big body on defense: a simple, almost childlike adherence to the offense. In a way, he reminds me of a kid in the third-grade, one of the slowest in the class, coming in for a math test furiously reciting the multiplication tables under his breath so he can remember them. Doesn’t matter what the test questions actually are: he’s going to write down his memorized tables and hope for a C- this time instead of a D or F.

When he’s on the floor with the first unit, the ball moves much better because Kwame is only capable of focusing on just one thing: moving where he’s supposed to as hard and fast as he can. He’s not really bright enough to think about anything else at the time. That’s probably a part of why his hands are so rubbery…he’s concentrating so hard on making the right cut, or setting the right pick, and suddenly someone passes him the ball and he’s thinking “What’s this? But I’m supposed to be moving! Not catching! Mongo no move and catch at same time!” Almost like a toddler, actually."

Pretty much sums it up, but you can read it all if you'd like.

Notice how it's all blank in the middle? Here's the thing: I'm here in good old San Diego. The game is on KCAL. KCAL does not exist in San Diego. Now you're thinking "what?". That's okay, there's a solution to this. Pay nearly $200 and get League Pass. Which means you can watch any game you want. Every game will be available in one of the following ways:
Local Broadcast (like KCAL)
National Broadcast (like ESPN)
NBATV (yeah it's the NBA's very own channel)
League Pass Broadband (view it on the internet)

Now, you can only get a game in one of those places. You're not gonna have it on multiple channels, bottom line. I'm fine with that. Really. I'll sit through crappy announcers so I can see the team. Tonight I come home, look up where I'm supposed to watch the game at, find that it's on NBATV and flip to that channel. Being that it's on NBATV it's available to any and everyone who's paid for League Pass on that channel... unless you have KCAL. I know you're still wondering why I didn't see the game. Me too actually.

Aaaaaaaaaaaapparently since the game is being broadcast locally (KCAL) it's blacked out in my area on NBATV. I'm not sure if I mentioned this or not but WE DON'T FUCKING GET KCAL IN SAN DIEGO. Maybe this is a mistake DIRECTV made? It'd be a pretty big mistake - it's like going snowboarding during All Star Break and... woah, off topic - but just maybe. I call them, and of course get the pre-recorded run around, just what I'd hoped for, before finally getting to the bottom of things. Nope, no mistake. I can watch the game on KCAL this lady tells me. I ask if she can look at my account and tell me where I'm at on the planet earth. Yes, for the record the information is right in front of her. I asked if she's ever been to San Diego. Yes, she lives in San Diego. What? No way! I asked when the last time she watched KCAL in San Diego was... shockingly at this point there is silence on the other end of the phone.

There's no resolution to this because DIRECTV is still going to maintain that we San Diegans can just watch it on KCAL and I'm still going to be mad - except that I'm going to get my $200 back, they may not know that yet but I am. Thank god NBA.com doesn't block people from looking up scores of games they could be watching on their local channel because now I can look at the exciting white box and see that we won! That's pretty much all I can look and see. So, thank you DIRECTV for making me pay nearly $200 for some free stuff.