A few things to think about on game day: • Here is my big picture thought of the series — both of these teams have very efficient and motion-based offenses, no matter what they will hang some points on you, but the team that can play the best defense and force some inefficient offense will […]
NBA Playoffs
Your Jazz/Lakers Comments
First off, here’s the timing update on the second round from the Salt Lake Tribune: “If the Jazz win Friday, the Lakers and Jazz will meet at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday. If the Jazz lose and head back to Houston for Game 7, the second round won’t begin until Tuesday night.†Second, […]
Lakers/Jazz and Other Thoughts
First things first, I still expect the Lakers will meet the Jazz in the next round, but Friday night will be an interesting contest. What little I saw of the Jazz/Rockets game (my DVR skills are apparently worse than Doc Rivers coaching skills) seemed to consist of a desperate and motivated Rockets team against a […]
Savoring and Looking Ahead
You know the best part of the Lakers sweep? Wednesday night we don’t have to sit through any Major Payne promos, or to see how long Holly Hunter’s list is. Kyra Sedgwick, I have a confession for you — I don’t watch your show. Don’t plan to either. Today is a day to enjoy a […]
Lakers/Nuggets Game 4 Chat
At this point I think it’s okay for us fans do a little looking ahead (not the players — they need to keep their eyes on game 4). And do a little scoreboard watching. It almost certainly is Lakers/Utah in the next round, and we’ll get into the matchups more later this week. (Although, in […]
Game Three Thoughts
For the first time this postseason the Lakers won a game on defense. That’s my favorite sentence I’ve typed so far this post-season. The Lakers did a lot of things very well on defense — they forced Iverson into help baseline and didn’t let him slide across the lane for that little fade-away he loves. […]
Live Blog Game 3
Nomuskles only writes game live blogs when his girlfriend isn’t with him. We’re lucky that she is hanging out with the USA national water polo team lately (purely platonic, I’m sure) freeing him up to write more. Here is the game 3 live blog, enjoy. Tomorrow we’ll break all of it down a little and […]
Lakers/Nuggets Game 3 Chat
As we enter game three, I think the cliché fallbacks about effort and focus are appropriate here — the Lakers know how to beat the Nuggets, now they just need to do it in a more hostile environment against what will be a motivated Nuggets team. The Lakers have counted on windows of Nuggets disinterest […]
Game 2 Thoughts
It bothered me in game one when Kobe took the Lakers out of what was working. In game two, he was working. In the first quarter he took the ball to the basket — of his 10 shots in the quarter 4 were dunks or layups. That freed up his midrange game, five more shots […]
Live Blog Game 2
Once again Nomuskles took the time, so here is his live game blog. Pregame: Everything has been said about this game that can possibly be said. Let’s get to it! Oh wait. I almost forgot. I think the Lakers will lose this one, although I hope not. 1st Quarter Denver remains in their powder blues. […]