[picappgallerysingle id=”8707377″] Can you believe that it was only 10 days ago that the Lakers got thrashed by the Thunder in game 4? While Lakers fans are used to going through some major ups and downs with this team, I think we could all admit that things were not looking good at that point. The […]
Archives for May 2010
Around the World (Wide Web): Utah Continues To Lose In Los Angeles
THE BLOGS From Silver Screen And Roll: As playoff games go, they don’t come more simplistic than that. No, the Lakers didn’t blast the Utah Jazz as was seen in the night’s other contest, but in defeating the Jazz 111-103, the Lakers never lost control of the contest. The Jazz made the same push that […]
Lakers/Jazz Game 2: Lakers Control The Paint, The Game, And Now The Series
[picappgallerysingle id=”8648029″] If it wasn’t clear before the series started, it is now – the Lakers are just a better team than the Jazz. The advantages in size, length, and quickness in the front court and the presence of a rejuvenated Kobe Bryant in the back court once again proved too much for Utah to […]
Lakers/Jazz: Game 2 Preview & Chat
[picappgallerysingle id=”8684317″] We touched on the familiarity between these two teams when we first previewed this series. And we revisited that topic when examining how the Lakers claimed victory in game 1. So, if familiarity is going to be the running theme of the match up versus the Jazz, what comes next might also be familiar, but […]
Around the World (Wide Web): Practice Reports, Injury Reports
PRACTICE REPORTS From NBA.com: While there’s plenty of video from Monday’s practice in this Practice Report (Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Ron Artest, Andrew Bynum and Phil Jackson to your right), we also took a look at why the Spaniard is particularly devastating against Utah, what Jerry Sloan and Deron Williams had to say at Jazz […]
What To Do With Ron Artest
[picappgallerysingle id=”8683828″] A quick programming note: FB&G will be off-line from 10pm to midnight PST this evening (May 3rd) due to a scheduled maintenance on the site’s server. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience. Lebron James. Carmelo Anthony. Paul Pierce. Kevin Durant. Brandon Roy. While this is an amended list, it’s these (types of) players […]
Trading Words With A Jazz Fan
After the Lakers Game 1 win over the Utah Jazz, I shot an e-mail to Clint Peterson, an avid Jazz fan and a fantastic writer. We had the following exchange about Game 1 and some trends we can look forward to seeing as this series goes along. I’ve written before that the Jazz are one […]
Lakers/Jazz Game 1: I Feel Like I’ve Seen This Before
[picappgallerysingle id=”8684071″] In a game that was easier than the final score indicates but more difficult than it probably should have been, the Lakers defeated the Jazz 104-99 to earn that all important game 1 win to go up one game to zero in this western conference semi-final. As a result, the Lakers now get […]
Lakers/Jazz: Game 1 Preview & Chat
[picappgallerysingle id=”8423459″] We covered some of the major keys in yesterdays series preview, so let’s get right to business in breaking down how the Lakers can pull out that all important game 1 win. However, allow another quick update on the condition of Andrew Bynum. At this point, it is unclear if Bynum will play […]
Round 2 Extended Preview: The Utah Jazz
[picappgallerysingle id=”8424124″] Bynum Update: Via the twitter feed of Mike Trudell (Lakers Reporter for Lakers.com) the MRI on Bynum’s knee show a “small tear of the anterior horn of the lateral miniscus” and that “this is something that he will try to play through”. Trudell also says that “last June, Bynum had a very small tear […]