Which team is in a faster freefall, the Lakers or Utah? The Lakers have lost five in a row for the first time in 11 years and are desperate not to completely fall out of the playoff picture. Utah has lost nine in a row and the only question remaining is how many ping-pong balls […]
Archives for March 2005
The Last Laker Lottery Party
While Donald Sterling throws one seemingly every year, it’s been 11 years since Jerry Buss had occasion to throw a lottery party. That’s so long ago, many of you may not remember that draft and the season that led up to it. Heck, many of you may not remember 1994 period. (I was living is […]
Site Feed Working
For those of you using feeds through My.Yahoo or Bloglines or a number of other places to follow this humble little site, the bugs have been worked out and you should be getting feeds just fine again. You’ll need to switch to the new URL, but it is working. Thanks again for following me over […]
The Sasha Question
The Lakers are 3.5 games out of a playoff spot with 17 games to play, which in and of itself is not an easy mountain to climb. But, really, it’s worse than that — Memphis has a tough schedule to close out the season and it’s very possible surging Denver will pass Memphis. Looked at […]
On Tap: The Seattle Supersonics
One quick housekeeping note: For those of you who use RSS (and count me in your numbers), I know the feed is not working since the move. I’m trying to correct that, but it likely will be Monday before I have the time to finish it. Now, on with our regularly scheduled programming. Sonics fans […]
Fast Break
Thoughts I had in addition to wishing I’d picked Vermont to beat Syracuse like my wife did in her pool: • 32-33. Below .500. I didn’t expect things to spectacular this year, but I figured we’d be above that line. It is painful to watch. And I’m not sure we can make up 2.5 games. […]
Welcome
When the Lakers moved to Staples, I knew I’d miss the intimacy of the Forum, even though I understood the economic necessity of the move. Well, this move from Blogger’s hosting service to my own URL is sort of like that, except that I plan to keep the intimacy and there were no economic forces […]
On Tap: The Indiana Pacers
Have the Lakers’ luck run out? John Hollinger talks about it on his ESPN Insider column today (his columns are still the best thing about the Insider), so far this season the Lakers are the second luckiest team in the NBA. Their Pythagorean record (based on scoring and defense) so far is 28-35, four games […]
On Tap: The Miami Heat
On all-hype-all-the-time television we’ve been hearing about Shaq vs. Kobe tonight and how Kobe is wearing the black hat for forcing Shaq out. Talk radio guys can’t shut up about how Jerry Buss made the wrong decision and Kobe got what he wanted. Rather than make the retort myself, I turn to Chris Monjoy of […]
NCAA Tournament Predictions.
I posted mine below (I’ll take North Carolina to beat Wake Forest in the finals, with Oklahoma State and Duke rounding out the Final Four). Hoops Analyst now has theirs up, a Final Four of Florida, Illinois, Duke and Louisville, with Duke taking it all. Who does everyone else have in their brackets?