Comments on: Game Live Blog

By: Warren Wee Lim

Warren Wee Lim — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:46:37 +0000

Little Pinky,

There’s one thing I always remember in talking about happy endings. Stanley Goodspeed and Mr. Mason in “the Rock”.

“Losers whine about their best… Winners f*&$ the prom queen!”

By: skigi

skigi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:36:04 +0000

sorry Kurt I didn’t see your new post… I should have posted my comment in the new post

By: skigi

skigi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:34:40 +0000

Hey guys… I was at the game yesterday in some pretty good seats (thanks to some free tickets we got through my brother’s work)… Great game. Here are some quick observations…
-The Lakers started the game out by going to the mismatch every time down the court. The Nuggets started AI on VladRad so the Lakers were trying to post AI every time and it was working pretty well but the Lakers got away from that (which led to the Nugs going from 10 down to almost 10 up)
-The Nuggets do NOT like to pass the ball to each other (except for Iverson). It seemed like every time down the court, anybody other than AI on the Nuggets was just looking out for themselves and their stats. No teamwork, No chemistry. Most of the times that Melo would get the ball, Kleiza would be WIDE WIDE open in the corner for a 3 (which he had been hitting) and Melo would not even look in his direction as he would drive into 3 Lakers and throw up a wild shot.
-Allen Iverson is AMAZING to watch in person. His quickness is unbelievable, he hits the deck once every 2 minutes because he is so small and light, and he can not be rattled… every time the crowd would be amped and super loud, Iverson would make some ridiculous play and quiet everybody. AI was truly amazing yesterday.
-Kleiza looks kinda fat in person but he is way more athletic than you would think. Solid role player.
-Kobe and K-Mart were trash talking the ENTIRE game because K-Mart was trying to guard Kobe and Kobe was telling him that he could not.
-Kevin Love and Derrick Rose were sitting right next to my isle. K-Love was with his dad (real tall) and Rose was with a couple basketball player looking friends and some guy who was looking and acting like an agent (started kissing up to Love and his dad once he saw them). Rose seemed pretty uninterested in the Lakers game, and Love seemed pretty uninterested in all the fans going up to him and asking for his autograph, he kind of seemed like an a-hole.
-Ron Artest was walking around on the court at halftime saying hello to everybody on the Lakers and Nuggets and acting like he would like to be on their team next season.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:25:49 +0000

New post up as we start to break everything down.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:47:03 +0000

It’s really quite simple: the Nuggets are simply overrated. They have a lot of talented individual players, but as a team they’re not that great. Too much overlap of skills and not enough defense.

Look at their two main stars: AI and Melo. They’re both basically the same player. They’re both wing players who depend on dribble penetration to score. They’re ok passers and neither moves well without the ball. On defense, they’re not very good as well. The one difference is that Melo has a post up game, but we rarely see it.

So even though you have these two great talents, they don’t really help each other since they both score in the same way and need the ball to be effective.

Compare that to the Lakers with Kobe and Gasol. They have different offensive skills and one works well with the other.

By: Ryan O

Ryan O — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:48:54 +0000

Hey nomuskles, great job on the live blog–you even got a shout out on Truehoop:

The key play, as told by nomuskles in a post at Forum Blue and Gold: “Kobe was anxious the whole possession. Alley oop to Kobe. It wasn’t the usual backdoor. It was just a blatant mismatch against Carter who had no help behind him and ended up fronting Kobe. Pau got him with the lob over the top. AI decides he wants to check-out what’s on the post-game menu a little early and gets tossed from the game with two quick technicals. Or maybe he had a 3:00pm surfing lesson. Kobe gets to shoot four free throws in a row. Pad his stats time. Despite shooting a horridly, he still got 32 points. 122-107. This one is done and now everyone knows it.”

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-32-88/Lakers-vs–Nuggets-Bullets.html

By: namotuman

namotuman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:21:21 +0000

hopefully we will defend kleiza better, he’s one of those players (others that come to mind: steve blake, udoka, i know i’m missing a handful more) that have games well above what their avg. would indicate when they come up against the lakers……kmart and carmelo killed us on the offensive boards (13 out of their 19). 40% of their rebounds were on the offensive end and that translates to 2nd/3rd chance points……..need to clean that up!

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:19:24 +0000

Looks like the blog entries went bonko again.

Oh well!

For those criticizing Kobe’s performance – I was one of them – it is interesting to read this entry from a Denver paper on how Kobe dominated Denver.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8996318?source=rss

By: jaaason

jaaason — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:23:26 +0000

8 – Good call. Since Pau became a Laker, I’ve heard the term “basketball IQ” more than I had in the last 10 years. Players who are unspectacular, who can pass well and who point alot seem to get the high IQ label. It doesn’t add any information whatsoever to the basketball discussion for me.

By: drrayeye

drrayeye — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:03:50 +0000

9. Kwame, to me, basketball IQ involves knowing how to play a proper limited role within a team concept. Jeremy of Pickaxe and Roll does a good job of describing the week by week frustrations of living with the mindsets of Denver’s players.