Today, Jeff from Celtics Blog has been given this space, and I have been granted a little time over at his site. Hello Lakers fans! Kurt was kind enough to lend me a little space on this blog to discuss the Celtics and I am doing the same for him on CelticsBlog.com. To be clear, […]
NBA Playoffs
How Long Until Tip-off?
I am not, by nature, a patient man. It’s a virtue I do not possess. So the seeming interminable wait until these Finals start Thursday night seems mighty, mighty long. Phil probably doesn’t feel that way, it’s more time to plan. The players probably like the time to rest the bumps and bruises. And, we’ve […]
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 […]
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 […]