I can’t tell you how excited this matchup makes me, I feel like a kid five days before Christmas. This is going to be a fun series — the two best teams of today, two teams with a long history, two teams with great fan bases. Between now and Thursday we will of course talk […]
Archives for May 2008
Pure
That is the word Reed used in the comments to describe this season and it’s the one I think best describes it. Pure. This was not the Shaq/Kobe era with its expectations — nine months ago we thought this was a seven seed team if things broke right. Maybe the first title of the Magic […]
Lakers/Spurs Game 5 Chat
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. —Dylan Thomas They are not the best team in the Western Conference Finals, but you have to say this about the Spurs: They carry themselves like champions. They fight […]
Game 4 Thoughts
I told you we’d have an exciting game. This is a great day to be a Lakers fan. I think Gatinho captured a key part of what is fun about this post season for Lakers fans: I’d like to reiterate how much more fun it is to root for this team as an “underdog” and […]
Lakers/Spurs Game 4 Live Blog
I’ll be doing an actual live blog tonight. I’ll refresh the post as often as possible so that we can continue to have a good back and forth. We’ll consider this our little joint experiment. I’ll try and pay attention to comments as we go too. Pregame – Sasha is interviewed by Sager and says […]
Lakers/Spurs Game 4 Chat
Tonight could be one of the best and most entertaining games of the playoffs — I just have that feeling. Coming back home, the Spurs opened up the motion in their offense — that got some role players like Brent Barry open looks. They also had a fantastic game from Manu Ginobili, one that must […]
Game Three Wasn’t As Much Fun As Game Two
Manu Ginobili was hot. Even-when-you-were-in-his-face-the-three-would-fall hot. Combine that with a more aggressive Tony Parker (getting into the lane) and Tim Duncan, and the big three accounted for 70% of the Spurs scoring. With those three all going motion returned to the San Antonio offnese, and Brent Barry helped open up the floor. All of that […]
Lakers/Spurs Game 3 Chat
Past results do not insure future success. No, that’s not the fine print from some infomercial stock-picking system. That is the warning for what will come today in game three — you can be sure this will be the best effort, the best game the Spurs will have played in this series so far. If […]
Feeling Sort Of Comfortable
It’s hard, as a Laker fan, not to be in your happy place after last night’s Laker win. The LA offense returned to solid level of efficiency (109 points per 100 possessions) behind 58.8% shooting. And against the very good Spurs defense, those are good numbers. But what was key was the Lakers defense — […]
Lakers/Spurs Game 2 Chat
We can only hope that game two is as entertaining as game one. Notice I didn’t say as close, I said entertaining. I’ve said before one of the things that excites me most about this series is the chess match between two all-time great coaches. Except that we may not get a lot of adjustments […]