What is being called (for the Clips) The Nightmare at Staples part deux is set to tip off tonight. No since beating a dead horse with a large stick or anything but, here's hoping this one is not as boring as the first one.
A word before the game
Barack's the president (elect, although not officially yet), we're jealous of the first daughters like you wouldn't believe, Andrew's shoulder is just fine, and it's another of the best of the best of L.A. only this time the home crowd will be cheering for the real home team. Oooooh who are we kidding? We're so obsessed with the new presidency that we can't even control oursleves and doubt we have much to say about basketball, but here's hoping. Happy almost birthday Lamar!
Starting Lineup
Kobes, Drew, Fish, Pau, Vlad
1st Quarter
Andrew takes the tip easily - get used to hearing that one this season.
11:21 Kobe starts the game off right!
9:58 You don't take rebounds from Andrew, ever.
9:34 Drew might make himself our hero tonight, keep an eye out.
Can we give Dunleavy a T and move on with the game already?
It's kinda amazing how changing the color of the floor makes it look like a totally different arena (vs. when it was Clippers home floor).
3:04 Okay, I'll totally admit that we're job hunting in Washington D.C. right now, whats say we just meet back here after halftime?
2:42 Wow Vlad, wow... thank god Fish was on it!
1:52 Pau with the turn over =(
1:27 UCLA!
Awwww, Kobe tells Trevor to relax at the line. So adorable!
52.5 "HEY HEY HEY HEY". Uh, guys... Jordan can't inbound the ball if you're all on the other side of the court.
29-27 Clippers?
2nd Quarter
10:09 Ooooooh snap! Can we have a replay on that? So much going on, people on the floor, Trevor slammin it home, what?
Oh yay! Another pointless celebrity audience interview... bahahahahhahaha - Cole Hamels' voice is awful, I can't even breathe, he sounds like he has a gerbil stuck in his throat that mated with a frog... let's talk about nothing important at all while the game is going on and we'd rather be watching that, sounds good!
7:42 Cole's still rambling on... but why don't they give the big men more room to sit down on the bench? They couldn't find larger chairs?
6:06 Omg Sahsa's headband is out of control right now, he needs to keep a hair dresser on the bench with him... we hear Luke is looking for a job.
Kobe's baby white shoes, never seen the light of pavement. Are those indoor shoes only?
5:13 LA! (That's Trevor if you've not been paying attention)
4:45 Someone just made a comment about how they obviously trust Ariza, yeah I'll say just blindly throwing something up and expecting Trev is going to be there to dump it is is trust.
Might as well JUMP! Go ahead and JUMP!
Ooooookay, what is the deal with the NBA election results? Is this supposed to be hilarious.
51-47 Clippers still
Halftime
Reeeeeeeeegroup!
3rd Quarter
Okay, I think we've gotten our job hunting out of our system. Lets focus on the game...
10:51 He was a baller, a shot staller, we call Andreeeeeew.
10:24 Ooooooh snap yo! Derek and Kaman are "having words". Why did Bynum get a T? What are we missing here? Jeeeeesus, he got T'd for coming to the aide of a teammate. Loves it!
9:53 Radman lets the entirety of the Clipper floor run passed him before he sends the ball up to the rim.
Can we stop referring to a player's lenght as some living thing? Please?
7:57 Holla!
6:32 This ain't gymnasties Derek, but nice hustle.
Drew's kinda secretly on fire tonight.
3:28 Even though they're winning right now the Clippers don't look very good out there.
2:22 Vlad you can't sit on the Clippers bench.
I just remembered this from the first half but at one point Lamar was doing some reindeer type of run where he was "running" but taking stunted steps. What the heck?
Uh, not sure what the score was but I'm pretty sure we were leading! Finally!!
4th Quarter
9:49 Farmlife!
Woah, where'd Walton go? Haha, that's like Where's Waldo. I smell a new game developing. Details later... but he was in the game for a sec right?
9:19 Lamar gets the calm down stick. CALM DOWN!
8:19 Guys, we can't let the Clippers win this ok? I don't care if they have a better team than they've ever had, it's still embarassing.
Oh crap we forgot to set our picks for the Lakers Fantasy Game =(
6:38 Irrelevant but Jordan is bright red right now.
6:12 Oh snap, just when we thought we were going to be giving the POTN award to someone else J missed his shot, picks up his own rebound and goes and drops it in. Hmmm, might he be campaigning for a streak?
5:45 It's a litte late to be showing up, but I guess it's better late than never?
4:20 That's fuckin' teamwork!
3:13 OH! LO!
2 minutes. 2 minutes remain in this ball game. But what he really meant was 2 minutes. 2 minutes before the Clippers can go home with another loss.
Oh hey Luke.
41.1 Wow is it empty up in there!
So Lakeshow wins it again. 4-0 Let's see what the scores gonna be...
8.4 Uh.... we can't have Jordan injured so enough of that okay?
106-88 Lake show!
Final Comments
Rick Fox is a broadcasting mess! But we love him even still.
Okay, best thing ever... and if you don't have 24 seconds to watch that video clip... Jordan is doing his post game interview in the locker room and Luke bumps into Jordan on purpose and Jordan comes with comment of the night, "Nice, Walton! Way to play 3 minutes tonight!" Nevermind his back pedal afterwards about him being his homie and all of that garbage, that was the best thing EVER. Good Lord.
Jordan gets to keep his award for that comment alone!
Thank you and Good night =)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
80 (Lakers @ Nuggets)
The first real road game of the season! The question lingering is: Is this a team we who can make a legitimate game of tonight's affair or is this just another "easy win" for the Lakers?
A word before the game
Tonight's game question via text is, "Which was more significant: acquiring Pau Gasol or extending Andrew Bynum?" I'm sitting here yelling at James Worthy on my television because he seems to think that it's absolutely Bynum. Well, here's the thing, I'm not saying that it was not important to retain Andrew (obvi) buuuuuuuut, we wouldn't be here in this giddy position if it weren't for Pau last year. While it would still be fun times at Lakerland with Andrew back this year, it wouldn't be nearly as comfortable (not that it's comfortable... what?) without Pau. So no James Worthy sir, Pau was the more important issue. Thanks for playing.
Starting Lineup
KB, DF, AB, PG, VR
1st Quarter
10:52 I see we're off to a tragic start tonight...
8:35 So 0-7 is a nice way to get underway with this game.
7:15 Pau is awake!
4:20 Sorry, I've been snoozing so far, but nice shot clock violation.
ORANGEJELLO!! Our friend is back. Woohoo, I knew there was a reason to like playing the nuggets.
1:16 A Garbage Pail Kid in the 1st quarter? Though Luke did bail us out last year when Lamar got in foul trouble hella early, more than once.
Wow, lets see if the second q can make me pay attention to the screen?
2nd Quarter
10:36 Machine shoot!
10:17 Machine um, well, what was machine doing again?
How is the game tied? I haven't been watching so it's hard to know if the Nuggets are any good of or we're being awful.
8:26 Pau's arm is okay to go. Phew!
Pretty sure Drew Drew touched that one but shhhhh.
7:12 THE TREV! (would have been better if it went in but the taste Anderson got there was sufficient enough)
5:51 Now we're hustlin'.
Andrew makes Duncan Face and gets a sit down pass to the bench with his 3rd.
4:17 Hmmm, Kobe's 3rd. Well, if anyone in this league can afford to have all of it's starters benched with 3 fouls its us so lets see how our depth chart holds up huh?
2:28 Josh Powell
1:46 D.Fish doesn't like 2's, whats say we only give him the ball when he's beyond the arc?
1:33 Apparently mouth guards don't need to be worn inside of your mouth anymore.
52-46 Nuggets
Half Time
Waaaaay too many fouls right now. The boys need to take a nap, do some yoga (namaste) or whatever they need to do in order to regroup at half time, we may not get a blowout win but they need to handle business. Don't let the sweep in the post season be called a fluke. Beat the drum Phil. Beat the drum.
3rd Quarter
Like 2 seconds into the half or whatever - Foul :(
11:19 Radman picks the ticks off of Drew's head as he gets called for his 4th. WTF y'all.
10:28? Vlad'd better make all 3 of those free ones or he's getting disowned... disowned.
8:54 This is starting to look depressing. I'm going to have to start talking smack in about another minute.
8:12 You won't win your way back into my heart with one shot Vladimir. Nope.
6:12 Sometimes Lamar, sometimes you have to just take the shot and stop sharing the goddamn rock.
4:54 Derek Fisher mopping up the floor - because somebody's got to.
3:58 Hit it Radman!
3:18 D.Fish lost his clutch I guess?
2:15 Pau has to be the second most awkward fast-breaker on the team (Post Up Walton is the first in case you weren't with us last season).
1:44 Ooooh Trevor.
1:37 It's fine Kobe, we don't need you to like make your frees or anything. Don't even worry about it.
0.55 Jordan around the back to Pau with interference and it's good! Where the eph has Jordan been all of this time? Lets get it runnin UCLA style already.
76 All - For cryin' out loud y'all.
4th Quarter
Birdman looks straight up nasty. No further comment.
9:47 Andrew gets to play himself out of the game. Good time to teach lessons Phil.
9:18 Does Stu hear himself when he talks? "They're right where they want to be." Doubtful.
Trevooooooooooor!
8:01 It's like the Lakers finally showed up for the game... make the freethrows Lamar, make them!
6:49 Kobe from doooowntoooown. Obviously ready to take over the game now. Let's go.
How many of those can he drop in a row? Let's count...
3:22 Lamar had no business taking that and he knew it. Good thing Kobes was there to clean it up.
Hahahahaaaaaaabaahabbbbaaa! Was that Joel or Stu that just stat cursed Melo at the charity stripe? Whoever it was, I love you!
1:50 Oh snap! Kobes.
55.3 "Kleiza sending the wrong guy to the line." Joel Myers - Preach.
Oh snap y'all. Holla.
=)
104-97 Lakeshow as it should be.
Final Comments
Okay, so to answer the question above. Denver was a team that could give us a game, but we still manhandled them in the end. Woo! However, with such sloppy play and such foul trouble the "Home Opener Killers" didn't make us or (I'm guessing) Phil very happy. Let's chalk this up to a kinda lucky win and go home and concentrate. Good idea.
Player of the Night: Jordan Farmar, but really just because nobody else could really take it away from him from last game. Nobody was really spectacular tonight.
A word before the game
Tonight's game question via text is, "Which was more significant: acquiring Pau Gasol or extending Andrew Bynum?" I'm sitting here yelling at James Worthy on my television because he seems to think that it's absolutely Bynum. Well, here's the thing, I'm not saying that it was not important to retain Andrew (obvi) buuuuuuuut, we wouldn't be here in this giddy position if it weren't for Pau last year. While it would still be fun times at Lakerland with Andrew back this year, it wouldn't be nearly as comfortable (not that it's comfortable... what?) without Pau. So no James Worthy sir, Pau was the more important issue. Thanks for playing.
Starting Lineup
KB, DF, AB, PG, VR
1st Quarter
10:52 I see we're off to a tragic start tonight...
8:35 So 0-7 is a nice way to get underway with this game.
7:15 Pau is awake!
4:20 Sorry, I've been snoozing so far, but nice shot clock violation.
ORANGEJELLO!! Our friend is back. Woohoo, I knew there was a reason to like playing the nuggets.
1:16 A Garbage Pail Kid in the 1st quarter? Though Luke did bail us out last year when Lamar got in foul trouble hella early, more than once.
Wow, lets see if the second q can make me pay attention to the screen?
2nd Quarter
10:36 Machine shoot!
10:17 Machine um, well, what was machine doing again?
How is the game tied? I haven't been watching so it's hard to know if the Nuggets are any good of or we're being awful.
8:26 Pau's arm is okay to go. Phew!
Pretty sure Drew Drew touched that one but shhhhh.
7:12 THE TREV! (would have been better if it went in but the taste Anderson got there was sufficient enough)
5:51 Now we're hustlin'.
Andrew makes Duncan Face and gets a sit down pass to the bench with his 3rd.
4:17 Hmmm, Kobe's 3rd. Well, if anyone in this league can afford to have all of it's starters benched with 3 fouls its us so lets see how our depth chart holds up huh?
2:28 Josh Powell
1:46 D.Fish doesn't like 2's, whats say we only give him the ball when he's beyond the arc?
1:33 Apparently mouth guards don't need to be worn inside of your mouth anymore.
52-46 Nuggets
Half Time
Waaaaay too many fouls right now. The boys need to take a nap, do some yoga (namaste) or whatever they need to do in order to regroup at half time, we may not get a blowout win but they need to handle business. Don't let the sweep in the post season be called a fluke. Beat the drum Phil. Beat the drum.
3rd Quarter
Like 2 seconds into the half or whatever - Foul :(
11:19 Radman picks the ticks off of Drew's head as he gets called for his 4th. WTF y'all.
10:28? Vlad'd better make all 3 of those free ones or he's getting disowned... disowned.
8:54 This is starting to look depressing. I'm going to have to start talking smack in about another minute.
8:12 You won't win your way back into my heart with one shot Vladimir. Nope.
6:12 Sometimes Lamar, sometimes you have to just take the shot and stop sharing the goddamn rock.
4:54 Derek Fisher mopping up the floor - because somebody's got to.
3:58 Hit it Radman!
3:18 D.Fish lost his clutch I guess?
2:15 Pau has to be the second most awkward fast-breaker on the team (Post Up Walton is the first in case you weren't with us last season).
1:44 Ooooh Trevor.
1:37 It's fine Kobe, we don't need you to like make your frees or anything. Don't even worry about it.
0.55 Jordan around the back to Pau with interference and it's good! Where the eph has Jordan been all of this time? Lets get it runnin UCLA style already.
76 All - For cryin' out loud y'all.
4th Quarter
Birdman looks straight up nasty. No further comment.
9:47 Andrew gets to play himself out of the game. Good time to teach lessons Phil.
9:18 Does Stu hear himself when he talks? "They're right where they want to be." Doubtful.
Trevooooooooooor!
8:01 It's like the Lakers finally showed up for the game... make the freethrows Lamar, make them!
6:49 Kobe from doooowntoooown. Obviously ready to take over the game now. Let's go.
How many of those can he drop in a row? Let's count...
3:22 Lamar had no business taking that and he knew it. Good thing Kobes was there to clean it up.
Hahahahaaaaaaabaahabbbbaaa! Was that Joel or Stu that just stat cursed Melo at the charity stripe? Whoever it was, I love you!
1:50 Oh snap! Kobes.
55.3 "Kleiza sending the wrong guy to the line." Joel Myers - Preach.
Oh snap y'all. Holla.
=)
104-97 Lakeshow as it should be.
Final Comments
Okay, so to answer the question above. Denver was a team that could give us a game, but we still manhandled them in the end. Woo! However, with such sloppy play and such foul trouble the "Home Opener Killers" didn't make us or (I'm guessing) Phil very happy. Let's chalk this up to a kinda lucky win and go home and concentrate. Good idea.
Player of the Night: Jordan Farmar, but really just because nobody else could really take it away from him from last game. Nobody was really spectacular tonight.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
81 (Lakers "@" Clippers)
A tale of just the one city but with 2 teams. Home, but away, but still at home. It's kinda like when you're 30 and you go home to visit your parents. You're home but away from home, but you know... it's still like, home and stuff. Totally. Only in California do you get to play as the away team on your home court (facts not checked thoroughly and probably not at all)!! I looooooove LA - even if Randy Newman was "kidding".
A word before the game
As luck would have it K is busy tonight supporting her new love and I (S) am blessed with the KCAL 9 broadcast!!! I'm ready for this, ready to blog about the game all by myself. Lets see if we can make some freethrows tonight. Not that we were particularly bad at it last night or anything, but THEY'RE FREE. How do you pass up on something that's free? Answer me!
Starting Lineup
Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher, Vladimir Radmanovic, Pau Gasol, and Andrew Bynum - that's my guess anyway.
1st Quarter
Lakers control it (yay) and Pau tips it in for the first bucket of the game. Heeeeeere we go!
11:08 Andrew makes it rain. No pun intended.
Deeeeeelaaaaaay of game. Can we start charging players personally for those? It means we have to sit watching the game longer, we should be getting some money back.
7:47 Ew, someone's beard on the Clippers bench was not cute. If by "not cute" Imean naaasty, who was that?
Oh, it was Skinner. Not dateable.
5:57 Derek Fisher, hot like fiyah! Well, I guess, we'll have to wait and see.
Love Phil standing up looking on disapprovingly. I've missed that so much.
5:12 WHAT? Somoene put a stop to the nonsense on the Clipper bench. Kobe? Fish? Bueller?
4:11 What is everyone pointing at?
The crowd is at full throat tonight, as was expected from the best of L.A. crowd.
3:07 Baron Davis go to the corner. Derek go to the line.
1:44 Wow. Just wow. Why don't we just go home and let the Clippers practice their jumpshots for 3 quarters?
56.3 Now might be a good time for us to excerise some of all of that "depth" we've been bragging about. Phil?
Buzzer: Trevor puts it down, to untie the score finally.
30-27 I think - Lakers
2nd Quarter
Bench mob time. Time to run it and gun it.
9:25 Not the smoothest way to steal a ball but whatever gets it done I suppose.
8:37 Machine camp. Machine shoot.
6:50 UCLA! I guess that makes Jordan "UC" and Trevor "LA"? Love it!
Why does UCLA look so pissed off?
6:22 Ball don't lie y'all. I wasn't paying attention to why those freethrows were awarded but it's been too long since I've been able to say that.
Question on the replay into commercial. Is it easier to rebound sitting down?
4:58 Farmlife!! Swoosh.
I guess nobody cares that Kaman just ran over Trevor?
3:05 Early appearance for one of the garbage pail kids - lets see if Luke can be productive tonight.
1:45 Heres the thing... Yes, Fish made the shot, but... stop pull up jump shooting on fast breaks. STOP IT.
Walton is being productive so far. Let that not be a curse.
36.9 Deeeeeereeeek Fiiiiiisheeeer. Delicious as always. I'm going to build a shrine to his wonderful bald head.
Fumble! Is this Football? Or would you call that a scrum? Soccer?
Okay, I'm not sure if anyone saw this or not but while Kobe was winding down the clock on that second to last posession, he motioned for Luke to head to the corner 3 spot (you know by the bench). His leisurely stroll was one for the ages. This ain't no Sunday afternoon in the park darling. Running will not be penalized. Just sayin'.
59-44 Men of the Lake
Half Time
Quick quiz: Whats the worst fast break you've ever seen?
Answer: Luke Walton to Derek Fisher
I'm trying to get my Barack Obama commercial on during half time, so I really have nothing more to add here, see ya in a bit...
3rd Quarter
Watching D. Fish Sunday Stroll across the mid-court line is getting real old, real fast.
10:32 Good pass (Thornton me thinks)
10:18ish Andrew could probably walk an Olympic beam with those balancing skills.
9:16 Oh now the Clips wanna show up and guard Kobes. Quiet the crowd Kobe, quiet the crowd.
Lakersfunfacts.org: Vladi has a hairy chest.
7:36 Why does Andrew always look like he's going to tell Mom when he gets calls against him?
6:40 I guess we're gonna let the Clips get hot tonight, that's fine I suppose, gotta entertain the home crowd for a bit.
OMG B. Davis' Granmama!
I missed D. Fish's whatever that was, I'm guessing it was a dunk since everyone is up in arms about it.
I'm gonna start charging these guys for over and backs as well. Just cause.
4:13 Well, unless it's because Andrew is blatantly pushing you back over there.
3:20 Kobe steps through a Clipper body window to toss the ball up and in.
I thought the Clippers were better than this this year? If this was going to be the case, why show up? It's only a matter of minutes before Stu starts talking about the fence he needs to paint. Come to think of it, his wife should probably go ahead and hire someone to get that done already.
This ain't 7 seconds or less Trevor, slow it down just a bit.
1:09 MVP! MVP! I mean, what team is the crowd there for?
Quote of the night just now: Do you think it's bothersome to roll up in Staples Center and look up to see the Laker banners hanging and then look down and realize your uniform reads "Clippers"?
85-57 Yeah thats really the score, who do you think is winning?
4th Quarter
Lamar looks hurt? Oh nevermind, that was just an overreaction.
10:47 Look at the Clippers getting points. Heh.
10:28 Jordan Farmar, thats mah boy!
Are we going to have to add a shot rule to the drinking game for "everytime the game clock is missing from the broadcast"? Lets get it together.
9:25 And while we're at it, everytime they silence the broadcast for 5 seconds after we all hear the cuss word from whichever player. Classic.
8:25 Chrissie! I'm not sure who in my life started calling him that, but it made me laugh so hard that I can't call him anything else anymore.
7:53 That would have been an awesome play if it had been completed, the almost play, Sasha to whoever to Trevor. Tastes like an unbaked cookie.
7:35 Sasha with the behind the back to um, oh crap I suck at paying attention, was that Jordan?
Now Lamar's playing with the basketball like it's kid sized. This is a straight up laugh fest at the Clippers expense.
101 -68, when did that become the score? Good god Clippers.
This is what the Lake Show is all about. Hollywood Basketball if you will.
5:58 Garbage Pail Kids!! I'm going to go ahead and say that officially, the GPK is Chrissie, Lukie, and Joshie, with space for DJ and anyone else from the Bench Mob who falls asleep. The starting lineup needs a cutesy nickname.
4:04 Holy shit! Luke to Jordan who apparently got some red bull wings tonight (doesn't he have a cold?). Yeah, holy shit, those were some HOPS.
3:03 GPK is going to work son. Staples is empty.
Heres't the thing about GPK and, I'm sure I already said this yesterday, but... only on the Lakers (and mmmmmaybe on the Celtics) are they going to be the guys on the end of the bench. You find me another team in the league where you'd put Luke, Chris and Josh on the end of the bench and I'll show you a lie. God it's good to be a Laker fan right this moment.
Another random note: Can we get tacos if we're the away team? The score is pretty ridiculous right now. I don't even want to talk about it.
29.0 I know Luke wants the nutmeg (betwixt the legs) to be his signature pass but he needs to make it work a little bit better before we'll just call him Nutmeg instead of Traffic Cone
Okay, I have to admit, Jordan giving interviews after games is really awesome. Who needs to talk to Kobe anymore?
Uhhhhh 117 - 79 (or pretty much nothing)
Final Comments
Things its really too early in the season to be saying outloud but I'm saying them anyway:
- Chrissie is about half a game away from losing his "Hey there's that guy" title.
- An undefeated season in the NBA is actually possible.
- The Garbage Pail Kids are going to kill someone this year.
- Luke isn't going to be a Traffic Cone this year.
Player of the Night - Jordan Farmar because he is a catalyst. If Sarah Palin hadn't ruined it we'd call him a maverick.
Play of the Night - Luke to Jordan for a put down and an around the world tour of the rim before he drops to the ground.
The "Hell Yeah Bitches" award of the night - The Bench mob, because, well... Hell yeah, bitches!
Quote of the night - "Obviously you guys think you can win every single game this season" - Whoever, interviewing Jordan after the game. Damn right.
Sidenote of the night - Warriors were hangin tough with the Hornets tonight, we were both pullin for them to kick through this one... the season is young.
A word before the game
As luck would have it K is busy tonight supporting her new love and I (S) am blessed with the KCAL 9 broadcast!!! I'm ready for this, ready to blog about the game all by myself. Lets see if we can make some freethrows tonight. Not that we were particularly bad at it last night or anything, but THEY'RE FREE. How do you pass up on something that's free? Answer me!
Starting Lineup
Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher, Vladimir Radmanovic, Pau Gasol, and Andrew Bynum - that's my guess anyway.
1st Quarter
Lakers control it (yay) and Pau tips it in for the first bucket of the game. Heeeeeere we go!
11:08 Andrew makes it rain. No pun intended.
Deeeeeelaaaaaay of game. Can we start charging players personally for those? It means we have to sit watching the game longer, we should be getting some money back.
7:47 Ew, someone's beard on the Clippers bench was not cute. If by "not cute" Imean naaasty, who was that?
Oh, it was Skinner. Not dateable.
5:57 Derek Fisher, hot like fiyah! Well, I guess, we'll have to wait and see.
Love Phil standing up looking on disapprovingly. I've missed that so much.
5:12 WHAT? Somoene put a stop to the nonsense on the Clipper bench. Kobe? Fish? Bueller?
4:11 What is everyone pointing at?
The crowd is at full throat tonight, as was expected from the best of L.A. crowd.
3:07 Baron Davis go to the corner. Derek go to the line.
1:44 Wow. Just wow. Why don't we just go home and let the Clippers practice their jumpshots for 3 quarters?
56.3 Now might be a good time for us to excerise some of all of that "depth" we've been bragging about. Phil?
Buzzer: Trevor puts it down, to untie the score finally.
30-27 I think - Lakers
2nd Quarter
Bench mob time. Time to run it and gun it.
9:25 Not the smoothest way to steal a ball but whatever gets it done I suppose.
8:37 Machine camp. Machine shoot.
6:50 UCLA! I guess that makes Jordan "UC" and Trevor "LA"? Love it!
Why does UCLA look so pissed off?
6:22 Ball don't lie y'all. I wasn't paying attention to why those freethrows were awarded but it's been too long since I've been able to say that.
Question on the replay into commercial. Is it easier to rebound sitting down?
4:58 Farmlife!! Swoosh.
I guess nobody cares that Kaman just ran over Trevor?
3:05 Early appearance for one of the garbage pail kids - lets see if Luke can be productive tonight.
1:45 Heres the thing... Yes, Fish made the shot, but... stop pull up jump shooting on fast breaks. STOP IT.
Walton is being productive so far. Let that not be a curse.
36.9 Deeeeeereeeek Fiiiiiisheeeer. Delicious as always. I'm going to build a shrine to his wonderful bald head.
Fumble! Is this Football? Or would you call that a scrum? Soccer?
Okay, I'm not sure if anyone saw this or not but while Kobe was winding down the clock on that second to last posession, he motioned for Luke to head to the corner 3 spot (you know by the bench). His leisurely stroll was one for the ages. This ain't no Sunday afternoon in the park darling. Running will not be penalized. Just sayin'.
59-44 Men of the Lake
Half Time
Quick quiz: Whats the worst fast break you've ever seen?
Answer: Luke Walton to Derek Fisher
I'm trying to get my Barack Obama commercial on during half time, so I really have nothing more to add here, see ya in a bit...
3rd Quarter
Watching D. Fish Sunday Stroll across the mid-court line is getting real old, real fast.
10:32 Good pass (Thornton me thinks)
10:18ish Andrew could probably walk an Olympic beam with those balancing skills.
9:16 Oh now the Clips wanna show up and guard Kobes. Quiet the crowd Kobe, quiet the crowd.
Lakersfunfacts.org: Vladi has a hairy chest.
7:36 Why does Andrew always look like he's going to tell Mom when he gets calls against him?
6:40 I guess we're gonna let the Clips get hot tonight, that's fine I suppose, gotta entertain the home crowd for a bit.
OMG B. Davis' Granmama!
I missed D. Fish's whatever that was, I'm guessing it was a dunk since everyone is up in arms about it.
I'm gonna start charging these guys for over and backs as well. Just cause.
4:13 Well, unless it's because Andrew is blatantly pushing you back over there.
3:20 Kobe steps through a Clipper body window to toss the ball up and in.
I thought the Clippers were better than this this year? If this was going to be the case, why show up? It's only a matter of minutes before Stu starts talking about the fence he needs to paint. Come to think of it, his wife should probably go ahead and hire someone to get that done already.
This ain't 7 seconds or less Trevor, slow it down just a bit.
1:09 MVP! MVP! I mean, what team is the crowd there for?
Quote of the night just now: Do you think it's bothersome to roll up in Staples Center and look up to see the Laker banners hanging and then look down and realize your uniform reads "Clippers"?
85-57 Yeah thats really the score, who do you think is winning?
4th Quarter
Lamar looks hurt? Oh nevermind, that was just an overreaction.
10:47 Look at the Clippers getting points. Heh.
10:28 Jordan Farmar, thats mah boy!
Are we going to have to add a shot rule to the drinking game for "everytime the game clock is missing from the broadcast"? Lets get it together.
9:25 And while we're at it, everytime they silence the broadcast for 5 seconds after we all hear the cuss word from whichever player. Classic.
8:25 Chrissie! I'm not sure who in my life started calling him that, but it made me laugh so hard that I can't call him anything else anymore.
7:53 That would have been an awesome play if it had been completed, the almost play, Sasha to whoever to Trevor. Tastes like an unbaked cookie.
7:35 Sasha with the behind the back to um, oh crap I suck at paying attention, was that Jordan?
Now Lamar's playing with the basketball like it's kid sized. This is a straight up laugh fest at the Clippers expense.
101 -68, when did that become the score? Good god Clippers.
This is what the Lake Show is all about. Hollywood Basketball if you will.
5:58 Garbage Pail Kids!! I'm going to go ahead and say that officially, the GPK is Chrissie, Lukie, and Joshie, with space for DJ and anyone else from the Bench Mob who falls asleep. The starting lineup needs a cutesy nickname.
4:04 Holy shit! Luke to Jordan who apparently got some red bull wings tonight (doesn't he have a cold?). Yeah, holy shit, those were some HOPS.
3:03 GPK is going to work son. Staples is empty.
Heres't the thing about GPK and, I'm sure I already said this yesterday, but... only on the Lakers (and mmmmmaybe on the Celtics) are they going to be the guys on the end of the bench. You find me another team in the league where you'd put Luke, Chris and Josh on the end of the bench and I'll show you a lie. God it's good to be a Laker fan right this moment.
Another random note: Can we get tacos if we're the away team? The score is pretty ridiculous right now. I don't even want to talk about it.
29.0 I know Luke wants the nutmeg (betwixt the legs) to be his signature pass but he needs to make it work a little bit better before we'll just call him Nutmeg instead of Traffic Cone
Okay, I have to admit, Jordan giving interviews after games is really awesome. Who needs to talk to Kobe anymore?
Uhhhhh 117 - 79 (or pretty much nothing)
Final Comments
Things its really too early in the season to be saying outloud but I'm saying them anyway:
- Chrissie is about half a game away from losing his "Hey there's that guy" title.
- An undefeated season in the NBA is actually possible.
- The Garbage Pail Kids are going to kill someone this year.
- Luke isn't going to be a Traffic Cone this year.
Player of the Night - Jordan Farmar because he is a catalyst. If Sarah Palin hadn't ruined it we'd call him a maverick.
Play of the Night - Luke to Jordan for a put down and an around the world tour of the rim before he drops to the ground.
The "Hell Yeah Bitches" award of the night - The Bench mob, because, well... Hell yeah, bitches!
Quote of the night - "Obviously you guys think you can win every single game this season" - Whoever, interviewing Jordan after the game. Damn right.
Sidenote of the night - Warriors were hangin tough with the Hornets tonight, we were both pullin for them to kick through this one... the season is young.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
82 (Lakers vs. Trailblazers)
Like Christmas morning, tonight is going to be the best night of the year! Although that'll probably be said more than a few times this season. Did you hear that? This Season! It's here, it's here, it's here!!!
Okay, enough giddy school girl nonsense, on with the show...
As promised this season's blogging will be different given that the two of us (K & S) live elsewhere now. No longer in the motherland, so sad... but we'll try to get as many games a possible and where necessary we'll sign comments with either a K or an S everyone is not so confused.
K actually follows another team now, we won't talk about that, but she's agreed to give the opening paragraph tonight:
I do not follow another team by choice, circumstances ya know...
A word before the game:
Opening night in the NBA and of course the Celtics are playing, of course we don't care, but big money comes from showing them the first night out. The Lakers are up 2nd on TNT. You know what that means (the game will be delayed by at least 20 minutes). Love for Turner is never-ending here. It also means the comical stylings of Sir Charles are back! You know you missed his nonsense. ADMIT IT.
This season we have a motto for the Lakeshow, Take No Prisoners. That's how they need to attack this thing, after all, you can't take prisoners if you kill them all. Kill and destroy. So exciting to see the boys back in the FB&CG and occasionally the SNW. Look out this season for Jordan to notch himself permanently in our "hero" position, for Mihm to no longer be "that guy", and for a championship parade that we'll be forced to fly in for. Woo-hoo.
Starting Lineup
K to the O to the B to the E, Pow Pau Popozao, D.Fish, Radman, and a finally completely legal Drew
Now lets get it on!
1st Quarter
Its so fun missing tip-off due to TNT double-headers, it's kind of the best. No really.
No clue what the time in the game is because TNT doesn't want to be bothered with posting clocks or anything like that but: D. Fish!
Seriously where are the game clocks???
Pretty sure LO pushed him, but we're okay with the way it shook down.
Drew is back y'all. Nobody gets a body on Andrew, nobody.
LO passes to Sasha... wait... Machine isn't in the game?
"Machine camp, shoot from bench. No matter" - Jeff at Forumblueandgold.com
Pau, please don't start your whining, it's very very early in the season.
Time to start some UCLA plays - right away The Trev for the dunk, and then the wide open 3.
Oh look there's the game clocks. Just in time for the quarter to be over with.
2nd Quarter
Jordan plays well with everyone.
Machine shoot. No good.
Machine shoot. No good.
Machine shoot. Good!
Kobe - Pau, just like old times.
We all know that Oden looks like LeBron, but how is it that he looks a full 10 years older?
Radman! Not that we even needed it or anything, this is kind of depressing to watch, its not even a game at this point.
No more spinny spin for you Mr. Bryant.
Whatever the score is, it's Lakers by a lot.
Half Time
Lets look at replay of Lamar passing to Sasha. Can't wait for the write up on that one from Basketbawful tomorrow.
We spent the halftime break reliving the Machine videos over at Lakers-Fans.com so we have no idea what Charles Barkley was talking about. But, we'll try to put the time stamp on the second half of the game now that we can focus a little bit. Try being the operative word here.
3rd Quarter
9:06 Rough start to the second half, all of a sudden we're only up by 8?
8:33 When in doubt, KB24 will work it out.
MVP shouts, we assume, will continue throughout the entire season. Do we get tacos? We want to hear those chants as well.
Just a random question at the time out... Are the high fives mandatory? I mean, what if you don't want to slap hands with your teammates when they come from the floor or after they make/miss (so really whenever they take) freethrows? Will you be fined? Is that unsportsmanlike?
4:47 Vladi (you'd have to hear us say that outloud... or you could watch his cameo in the Machine videos to hear it).
2:35 Is it that they don't have shot clocks in Portland? Way to blaze that trail guys.
Mic'ing Lamar is odd, it's like listening to Justin Bobby talk. See: Hills, The on MTV.
1:17 Now even the fans are required to slap hands with the players that crash into them.
30.1 Pau needs lessons in finishing shit up. Just sayin'.
Its also really early in the season to start Oden watch again. If by "really early" we mean, it's only the first night.
4th Quarter
11:03 Hmmm, thats not quite how the UCLA plays are supposed to end.
Technical fouls are the bestest, Trevor.
Oh look there's homeless looking Luke Walton on the bench.
Woah, we missed what happened, girl talk interrupted.
8:50 Trevor blocks that with a vengeance. Outta his face!
7:37 More Trevor. Mmmmmmmmmm!
6:22 Farm Life with the almost put back, we love him, yes we do.
3:41 Kobe Bryant taking no prisoners! You thought he was going to have a quiet night?
You can put those thoughts on the permanent "mmm-mmnn" list.
Bloooooooooooowz to be Greg Oden. Blowz.
2:37 Hahahahaha, the lineup, Powell, Walton, Mihm and everybody else. Actually, when those are the guys getting your garbage minutes it has to be a good thing. So we're only laughing because... well, I'm not sure why we're laughing, but its funny okay?
25.1 Mihm with the "hell no" block.
Jordan pads the score but no tacos y'all.
96-76 Laaakers, Takers, Money-makers
Final Comments
Not too much criticism tonight since it's game uno, but this niceness shall soon pass, believe that.
One thing though, this game was wide open enough that the "garbage pail kids" should have gotten a little more playing time, gotta pick those battles while you're able to Phil.
Player of the Night - Kobe just cause
Play of the Night - LO's pass to Sasha on the bench
Quote of the Night - See 1st Quarter (LO's pass)
1 down, 81 to go
Okay, enough giddy school girl nonsense, on with the show...
As promised this season's blogging will be different given that the two of us (K & S) live elsewhere now. No longer in the motherland, so sad... but we'll try to get as many games a possible and where necessary we'll sign comments with either a K or an S everyone is not so confused.
K actually follows another team now, we won't talk about that, but she's agreed to give the opening paragraph tonight:
I do not follow another team by choice, circumstances ya know...
A word before the game:
Opening night in the NBA and of course the Celtics are playing, of course we don't care, but big money comes from showing them the first night out. The Lakers are up 2nd on TNT. You know what that means (the game will be delayed by at least 20 minutes). Love for Turner is never-ending here. It also means the comical stylings of Sir Charles are back! You know you missed his nonsense. ADMIT IT.
This season we have a motto for the Lakeshow, Take No Prisoners. That's how they need to attack this thing, after all, you can't take prisoners if you kill them all. Kill and destroy. So exciting to see the boys back in the FB&CG and occasionally the SNW. Look out this season for Jordan to notch himself permanently in our "hero" position, for Mihm to no longer be "that guy", and for a championship parade that we'll be forced to fly in for. Woo-hoo.
Starting Lineup
K to the O to the B to the E, Pow Pau Popozao, D.Fish, Radman, and a finally completely legal Drew
Now lets get it on!
1st Quarter
Its so fun missing tip-off due to TNT double-headers, it's kind of the best. No really.
No clue what the time in the game is because TNT doesn't want to be bothered with posting clocks or anything like that but: D. Fish!
Seriously where are the game clocks???
Pretty sure LO pushed him, but we're okay with the way it shook down.
Drew is back y'all. Nobody gets a body on Andrew, nobody.
LO passes to Sasha... wait... Machine isn't in the game?
"Machine camp, shoot from bench. No matter" - Jeff at Forumblueandgold.com
Pau, please don't start your whining, it's very very early in the season.
Time to start some UCLA plays - right away The Trev for the dunk, and then the wide open 3.
Oh look there's the game clocks. Just in time for the quarter to be over with.
2nd Quarter
Jordan plays well with everyone.
Machine shoot. No good.
Machine shoot. No good.
Machine shoot. Good!
Kobe - Pau, just like old times.
We all know that Oden looks like LeBron, but how is it that he looks a full 10 years older?
Radman! Not that we even needed it or anything, this is kind of depressing to watch, its not even a game at this point.
No more spinny spin for you Mr. Bryant.
Whatever the score is, it's Lakers by a lot.
Half Time
Lets look at replay of Lamar passing to Sasha. Can't wait for the write up on that one from Basketbawful tomorrow.
We spent the halftime break reliving the Machine videos over at Lakers-Fans.com so we have no idea what Charles Barkley was talking about. But, we'll try to put the time stamp on the second half of the game now that we can focus a little bit. Try being the operative word here.
3rd Quarter
9:06 Rough start to the second half, all of a sudden we're only up by 8?
8:33 When in doubt, KB24 will work it out.
MVP shouts, we assume, will continue throughout the entire season. Do we get tacos? We want to hear those chants as well.
Just a random question at the time out... Are the high fives mandatory? I mean, what if you don't want to slap hands with your teammates when they come from the floor or after they make/miss (so really whenever they take) freethrows? Will you be fined? Is that unsportsmanlike?
4:47 Vladi (you'd have to hear us say that outloud... or you could watch his cameo in the Machine videos to hear it).
2:35 Is it that they don't have shot clocks in Portland? Way to blaze that trail guys.
Mic'ing Lamar is odd, it's like listening to Justin Bobby talk. See: Hills, The on MTV.
1:17 Now even the fans are required to slap hands with the players that crash into them.
30.1 Pau needs lessons in finishing shit up. Just sayin'.
Its also really early in the season to start Oden watch again. If by "really early" we mean, it's only the first night.
4th Quarter
11:03 Hmmm, thats not quite how the UCLA plays are supposed to end.
Technical fouls are the bestest, Trevor.
Oh look there's homeless looking Luke Walton on the bench.
Woah, we missed what happened, girl talk interrupted.
8:50 Trevor blocks that with a vengeance. Outta his face!
7:37 More Trevor. Mmmmmmmmmm!
6:22 Farm Life with the almost put back, we love him, yes we do.
3:41 Kobe Bryant taking no prisoners! You thought he was going to have a quiet night?
You can put those thoughts on the permanent "mmm-mmnn" list.
Bloooooooooooowz to be Greg Oden. Blowz.
2:37 Hahahahaha, the lineup, Powell, Walton, Mihm and everybody else. Actually, when those are the guys getting your garbage minutes it has to be a good thing. So we're only laughing because... well, I'm not sure why we're laughing, but its funny okay?
25.1 Mihm with the "hell no" block.
Jordan pads the score but no tacos y'all.
96-76 Laaakers, Takers, Money-makers
Final Comments
Not too much criticism tonight since it's game uno, but this niceness shall soon pass, believe that.
One thing though, this game was wide open enough that the "garbage pail kids" should have gotten a little more playing time, gotta pick those battles while you're able to Phil.
Player of the Night - Kobe just cause
Play of the Night - LO's pass to Sasha on the bench
Quote of the Night - See 1st Quarter (LO's pass)
1 down, 81 to go
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Lakers vs Kings
Thanks to DirecTV and NBATV for the free preview until the end of the month, we're watching the game on the big screen! Pizza, beer, and channel flipping between the Lakers and the Chargers, what more could a girl ask for?
We were at this very pre-season game last year, Vegas is best done on a Friday night (for future reference y'all). But tonight is the first appearance of the Sunday Night Whites, and we couldn't be happier. Well, we could be happier, if say... we were in Vegas. Oh and if Drew didn't have to wear a brace on the knee, but better safe than sorry.
Oh my god don't fall! (Jordan)
Kobe misses - oddly enough - but then puts it right back in on the next trip down.
In related news the Chargers are doing work on the Patriots, just the way we like it.
Son of George needs to hang onto his spot on the end of the pine, we neeeeeeed Son of George. Need.
Let us tell you this season why it's difficult to be a Lakers fan living in another state. We'll count the ways, you can count on that.
Powell looks pretty good out there, ok, he looks alright out there, but we can't be forced to get used to the newbies until opening day, it's just easier that way. So instead we wanted to join the ranks of everyone in the world talking about how Drew got all swolled up over the summer, and yeah...
Wait, what were we saying? Anyway, Jordan is still our hero and he looks like he's had a good summer. Luke's out but we're holding off on making fun of him in light of stalkerfest 2007-2008. And good god is it good to see The Trev back out there, god! Oh oh, and don't forget Chris, Christopher, Chrissie Mihm. Can he just be productive this season? Is that asking so much?
Ok, maybe we owe Chrissie a little credit... Mihm got hops, how he get that?
TREVOR!
Chargers 30, Patriots 10 (we guess, we stopped watching because whats the point?) Woohoo!
Since it's impossible to concentrate on the game thanks to Charger victory mayhem outside right this moment, let us take a second to talk about how sad and solemn it is without Ronny on the bench :(
DJ's out there hustlin' "Everyday I'm hustlin, hustlin, everyday, everyday, everyday I'm hustlin" If you don't understand that, hit google.
Wooooohooooo, good night for sports. First pre-season, meaningless win of the year!
We were at this very pre-season game last year, Vegas is best done on a Friday night (for future reference y'all). But tonight is the first appearance of the Sunday Night Whites, and we couldn't be happier. Well, we could be happier, if say... we were in Vegas. Oh and if Drew didn't have to wear a brace on the knee, but better safe than sorry.
Oh my god don't fall! (Jordan)
Kobe misses - oddly enough - but then puts it right back in on the next trip down.
In related news the Chargers are doing work on the Patriots, just the way we like it.
Son of George needs to hang onto his spot on the end of the pine, we neeeeeeed Son of George. Need.
Let us tell you this season why it's difficult to be a Lakers fan living in another state. We'll count the ways, you can count on that.
Powell looks pretty good out there, ok, he looks alright out there, but we can't be forced to get used to the newbies until opening day, it's just easier that way. So instead we wanted to join the ranks of everyone in the world talking about how Drew got all swolled up over the summer, and yeah...
Wait, what were we saying? Anyway, Jordan is still our hero and he looks like he's had a good summer. Luke's out but we're holding off on making fun of him in light of stalkerfest 2007-2008. And good god is it good to see The Trev back out there, god! Oh oh, and don't forget Chris, Christopher, Chrissie Mihm. Can he just be productive this season? Is that asking so much?
Ok, maybe we owe Chrissie a little credit... Mihm got hops, how he get that?
TREVOR!
Chargers 30, Patriots 10 (we guess, we stopped watching because whats the point?) Woohoo!
Since it's impossible to concentrate on the game thanks to Charger victory mayhem outside right this moment, let us take a second to talk about how sad and solemn it is without Ronny on the bench :(
DJ's out there hustlin' "Everyday I'm hustlin, hustlin, everyday, everyday, everyday I'm hustlin" If you don't understand that, hit google.
Wooooohooooo, good night for sports. First pre-season, meaningless win of the year!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Ready or not...
Good lordy, if this doesn't make you giddy you probably eat babies for dinner or something
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
MEDIA DAAAAAAAY!!!
It's here, it's finally here!
Media day marks the beginning. Not the official beginning but more like the end of having to think about last season. Yeah yeah, we can spend all summer thinking about whats going to be and who is going to be next season but nothing says "right here, right now" like media day.
Meet the new kids, realize the sadness that is the old kids missing - Ronny :(
But most of all, it's like the first day of school. Everyone is back, packed for Hawaii, ready to ball. Prepare to be attached to the computer waiting for updates, and most of all, there's no more need to read football blogs. Oh lordy, it's finally here!
Seeing the picture of Pau and Andrew sandwiching Kobe brings an overwhelming sense of joy, an irremovable grin, and most of all a "lets get ready to rumble" feeling. Seriously, lets do this boys.
Ed note: This blog will be changing formats this season because... well, because both of us are moving. Writer number 1 will be relocating to Indiana in January which means bad things as far as watching games, unless someone can recommend an excellent place to watch games online ;). Writer 2 moved to Northern California and that pretty much means the same thing for her, but we both still loooooove the Forum Blue and Championship Gold.
Media day marks the beginning. Not the official beginning but more like the end of having to think about last season. Yeah yeah, we can spend all summer thinking about whats going to be and who is going to be next season but nothing says "right here, right now" like media day.
Meet the new kids, realize the sadness that is the old kids missing - Ronny :(
But most of all, it's like the first day of school. Everyone is back, packed for Hawaii, ready to ball. Prepare to be attached to the computer waiting for updates, and most of all, there's no more need to read football blogs. Oh lordy, it's finally here!
Seeing the picture of Pau and Andrew sandwiching Kobe brings an overwhelming sense of joy, an irremovable grin, and most of all a "lets get ready to rumble" feeling. Seriously, lets do this boys.
Ed note: This blog will be changing formats this season because... well, because both of us are moving. Writer number 1 will be relocating to Indiana in January which means bad things as far as watching games, unless someone can recommend an excellent place to watch games online ;). Writer 2 moved to Northern California and that pretty much means the same thing for her, but we both still loooooove the Forum Blue and Championship Gold.
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