THE BLOGS From Silver Screen and Roll: Ready for an impossible question? Who’s riding higher right now, the Los Angeles Lakers or the Phoenix Suns? I certainly have no idea, and it’s going to make for one hell of an interesting series. In analyzing all the possible outcomes, I can’t honestly take anything off the table. […]
Morning Links
Around the World (Wide Web): Lakers Set Sights on Phoenix
THE BLOGS From Silver Screen and Roll: I’m man enough to admit it. I did not see that coming. My thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s ability (or lack thereof) to compete with the Lakers over a 7 game series are well known. Those thoughts have been proven correct. The Jazz lacked the necessary tools to […]
Around the World (Wide Web): Lakers Sweep Jazz
THE BLOGS From Silver Screen and Roll: “All Hope Is Lost“ That was the title of an article run in the Salt Lake Tribune. An article Craig Sager went out of his way to make sure the Jazz heard about. Sure, they said all of the right things, and I’m sure they believed them somewhat. […]
Around The World (Wide Web): Lakers Are Looking For Sweep
THE BLOGS From Silver Screen And Roll: It smells like… *sniff, sniff*… mmm, points. My favorite! All of a sudden, the Phoenix Suns aren’t the only team with extra-large servings of points on the menu, and I think I’ll stop now with the culinary metaphor. The point of it is… well, points are the point. […]
Around the World (Wide Web): Lakers’ Size Gets Much Attention
THE BLOGS From Silver Screen and Roll: First, a quick checklist of players NOT injured at some point in this season: Josh Powell. Adam Morrison. Derek Fisher. Get the point? The Lakers have been plagued by injuries all season long, from Pau’s hammies to Artest’s hangover to Kobe’s whole body. Whilst injuries cannot and must […]
Around The World (Wide Web): Lakers Fans Are Scared Of LBJ
THE BLOGS From Kurt Over At Pro Basketball Talk: At one point in the first round, Kobe Bryant was showing all the leaping ability of Ron Artest. You could hardly tell them apart… well, except for the hair. And the build. And the fluidity of motion. Okay, so it wasn’t that bad. But it wasn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Around the World (Wide Web): Fans, Pundits Down On Lakers
Just links this morning. I’ll have some analysis on how the Thunder are defending the Lakers for tomorrow morning. However, for now, enjoy these links. From Silver Screen and Roll: Damn, that was an ugly loss. Now, let’s examine the reasons: Our bigs are freakin babies who let people 4 inches shorter outrebound them by […]