Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 06:36 PM EST
[BleedLakersPnG]
Lakers VICTORY!
The last time the Lakers met Boston, the result wasn't exactly what I had hoped for. The reigning champs are now the holders of the best record to start a season EVER at 27-2...they are also on a 20 game win streak...pretty impressive.
The Lakers meanwhile have struggled for the last two weeks or so, lost a key reserve to injury in Jordan Farmar and hve lost 3 of their last five games...not the way to come into a showdown with the team wearing the rings...the same team that sent you packing by way of a 40 point victory last time you shared the court. The same nemesis that holds a 10-2 record against you in the Finals. The same team whose head coach is complaining about the world champs having to travel to LA on Christmas. His thinking goes: We're the champs...we BEAT this Lakers team LAST YEAR...WHY are WE the one's on a plane? Shouldn't the LAKERS have to come to OUR arena? He's trying to rile the troops.
...Sounds like he's nervous to me.
The Celts are EXPECTED to win this game...they have the momentum...they have the record to prove it...they have the win streak...they have the self proclaimed best player in the world in Paul Pierce...(they also have the REAL best player in the world in KG...he may not be that guy numbers wise, but the tude he brings with him has spread throughout the Boston landscape and without him, PP wasn't even considered in the argument, but winning has a way of changing things.
So I'm hoping for a Lakers win...you know...to change things.
My latest post "Houston we have a problem" won't allow me or my readers to see the comments section. Comments can be left and are still being counted, but are not able to be viewed.
A 29 point loss is only a problem if your on the losing end.
Another Western Conference team thinking about a victory against the Lakers, another victim brushed aside. If this was a test to gauge Houston and the impact Ron Artest would have, they failed miserably...like I said, Houston we've got a problem. The problem is for the NBA teams to deal with, for Lakers fans to relish, and all others to envy...
Watching the pre-game tonight was like going to a Lakers high school reunion, Kareem, Norm Nixon and Rick Fox were discussing the Lakers...these are the things that separate the Lakers franchise from others...FAMILY. Once you play for the Los Angeles Lakers you become part of a family.
Jerry Buss is the Vito Corleone of the NBA.
Everyone wants to play for the Lakers, and why not? They are ALWAYS relevant, even when they're not winning championships they are the biggest draw in the league. Magic Johnson has partial ownership in the team and attends almost every game (in his customary courtside seat, right next to longtime season ticket holder Dyan Cannon...it seems she's famous strictly for being a Lakers fan these days...I can't recall the last movie role I saw her in) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is Andrew Bynum's personal coach and mentor. James Worthy does the pre-game, halftime and postgame show with Bill MacDonald. Norm Nixon and Rick Fox are also part of the broadcast team. Stu Lantz, who was Chick Hearn's longtime color commentator and still mans that post along with Joel Meyers, was a Lakers player in the 70's. .... Speaking of Joel Meyers, he was the radio play by play man for awhile and now does the television play by play. (hopefully someone within the Lakers organization sees this next comment) I want to suggest that Spero Dedes, who is the current radio guy should switch places with Joel...put Spero on tv...Joel is a moron. Spero is much more adept at calling the game...people outside of L.A. may know Spero from NBA TV, he was employed there before coming to the Lakers.
Mitch Kupchak, Lakers General Manager, former player. Kurt Rambis, assistant coach, former player. Brian Shaw, former player, current assistant coach. Ronnie Lester, assistant General Manager, former player. Jerry West WAS the Lakers...as a player and as an executive. Pat Riley, Randy Pfund, Byron Scott, Michael Cooper, Larry Drew...the list of former Lakers coaching or performing executive duties for other teams is long too. I'd LOVE to see Byron come home and coach the Lakers once Phil decides to scoop Jeanie Buss up and sail off into the sunset. Until that time comes, he will continue to use mental telepathy and Jedi mind tricks to confuse opposing teams.
Tonight's matchup with the Rockets has been a good watch so far, if not predictable. Yao got a shot blocked by Kobe...YET AGAIN...
Get that shit outta here.
It seems like Ming getting swatted by Kobe is turning into an annual rite of passage for poor Herman Mingster...(maybe Grandpa Mingster can cook up some crazy spell for Herman down in the basement before the next Lakers / Rockets game) T-Packed sprained an ankle...what else is new? The back of his jersey should read "McFragile" instead of McGrady. Don't get me wrong, the guy is an awesome basketball player but he gets injured more than my daughter at the skate park...he may be Mr. Glass from that M. Night Shyamalan movie Unbreakable. (if your going to see an M. Night directed movie, see that or the Sixth Sense...the new one starring Marky Mark, The Happening is completely LAME...don't bother) All we need now is a total meltdown by Ron Artest to complete the trifecta...maybe Jack will toss a cold one at him to get the party started. I guarantee the fans in L.A. don't get punked like the fat guy in Detroit did by Jermaine O'Neal. Roy Jones Jr. got punked last night by Joe Calzaghe...how the mighty have fallen.
...damn, he fell off.
Jones Jr. was left bloody and beaten after the fight, it looked like a Rocky movie.
The victor Joe Calzaghe.
How bout LAMAR!...He slapped Artest's lay-up right before halftime like a handball...Ron never saw it coming. Maybe this sixth man role is exactly what Lamar is built for...a purple and gold, 6 foot 11 inch Manu Ginobli. Borat Radmanovic had a Veeeerrry NIIIIIICE alley oop to Gasol for a dunk before the half too. The Lakers defense is looking much better this season, I can only hope being completely embarrassed in the Finals has made them realize that defense is half the game....the USC Trojans can attest to that, their 17-3 victory over Cal this weekend can be attributed to one thing...DEFENSE. With Bynum and Trevor Ariza back at full speed, this season's Lakers are poised to do big things. Bynum's defense on the perimeter led to Ariza's alley oop to Kobe making it 104-80...the very next trip down the floor, he hits a three...this Ariza kid is going to be a player. We may have to change the reserves name from Bench Mob to Mobb Deep. This team is stacked from start to finish. The naysayers all made fun of Lakers fans all over the blogs last year about Bynum and Ariza not being proven or not being that good...but Lakers fans knew better. The future is now and redemption is here for Myself, J-DIZZLE, Tom7, tcbdog, Innocent Bystander (where TF is HE??) , Ubershorty, Nique, underage and SoCalF4N and all the other Lakers LOYALISTS who said as much time after time last year (sorry if I left anyone out). THIS season will validate our claims...with 29 point beatdowns like we saw tonight. A complete TEAM victory over a supposedly legitimate title contender in the Houston Rockets tonight. (I'll have to visit the cesspool (the front pages) tomorrow to rub it in on this clown HOUSportsFan, who's been spouting off about the Rockets lately...I hope he has the stones to show up after his squad was bitchslapped...) .....I stayed front and center after the Lakers lost last June...I HAD TO...I was calling LAKERS IN JUNE all year long and had to man up and take it (Lisa H., Josh Q. Public and fulltilt54 were more than happy to give me a helping of crow, but it's all part of the blog game)
...Payback comes THIS June.
Get used to it...
LAKERS IN JUNE is STILL the battlecry.
Movie Recommendation:
The Boondock Saints
This movie stars Sean Patrick Flannery & Norman Reedus as two Irish brothers in Boston who kill a member of the local mafia and are then released as heroes. They come to believe it as a calling by God and start taking out more bad guys Dirty Harry style. Willem Dafoe plays the lead detective hunting the vigliantes, but as he figures out what's happening, the more he believes the brothers are doing the right thing. VERITAS (truth) and Aequitas (justice) are not only tattooed on the boys,
but are central to the Catholic upbringing and prayer they say to each victim. There is also a few plot twists and lots of dark humor and lots of violence. The world could use a couple of badasses like these.
Until next time, keep blowin smoke...
...Again the overwhelming sound of SILENCE from the Wizards of Fox...
A 29 point loss is only a problem if your on the losing end.
Another Western Conference team thinking about a victory against the Lakers, another victim brushed aside. If this was a test to gauge Houston and the impact Ron Artest would have, they failed miserably...like I said, Houston we've got a problem. The problem is for the NBA teams to deal with, for Lakers fans to relish, and all others to envy...
Watching the pre-game tonight was like going to a Lakers high school reunion, Kareem, Norm Nixon and Rick Fox were discussing the Lakers...these are the things that separate the Lakers franchise from others...FAMILY. Once you play for the Los Angeles Lakers you become part of a family.
Jerry Buss is the Vito Corleone of the NBA.
Everyone wants to play for the Lakers, and why not? They are ALWAYS relevant, even when they're not winning championships they are the biggest draw in the league. Magic Johnson has partial ownership in the team and attends almost every game (in his customary courtside seat, right next to longtime season ticket holder Dyan Cannon...it seems she's famous strictly for being a Lakers fan these days...I can't recall the last movie role I saw her in) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is Andrew Bynum's personal coach and mentor. James Worthy does the pre-game, halftime and postgame show with Bill MacDonald. Norm Nixon and Rick Fox are also part of the broadcast team. Stu Lantz, who was Chick Hearn's longtime color commentator and still mans that post along with Joel Meyers, was a Lakers player in the 70's. .... Speaking of Joel Meyers, he was the radio play by play man for awhile and now does the television play by play. (hopefully someone within the Lakers organization sees this next comment) I want to suggest that Spero Dedes, who is the current radio guy should switch places with Joel...put Spero on tv...Joel is a moron. Spero is much more adept at calling the game...people outside of L.A. may know Spero from NBA TV, he was employed there before coming to the Lakers.
Mitch Kupchak, Lakers General Manager, former player. Kurt Rambis, assistant coach, former player. Brian Shaw, former player, current assistant coach. Ronnie Lester, assistant General Manager, former player. Jerry West WAS the Lakers...as a player and as an executive. Pat Riley, Randy Pfund, Byron Scott, Michael Cooper, Larry Drew...the list of former Lakers coaching or performing executive duties for other teams is long too. I'd LOVE to see Byron come home and coach the Lakers once Phil decides to scoop Jeanie Buss up and sail off into the sunset. Until that time comes, he will continue to use mental telepathy and Jedi mind tricks to confuse opposing teams.
Tonight's matchup with the Rockets has been a good watch so far, if not predictable. Yao got a shot blocked by Kobe...YET AGAIN...
Get that shit outta here.
It seems like Ming getting swatted by Kobe is turning into an annual rite of passage for poor Herman Mingster...(maybe Grandpa Mingster can cook up some crazy spell for Herman down in the basement before the next Lakers / Rockets game) T-Packed sprained an ankle...what else is new? The back of his jersey should read "McFragile" instead of McGrady. Don't get me wrong, the guy is an awesome basketball player but he gets injured more than my daughter at the skate park...he may be Mr. Glass from that M. Night Shyamalan movie Unbreakable. (if your going to see an M. Night directed movie, see that or the Sixth Sense...the new one starring Marky Mark, The Happening is completely LAME...don't bother) All we need now is a total meltdown by Ron Artest to complete the trifecta...maybe Jack will toss a cold one at him to get the party started. I guarantee the fans in L.A. don't get punked like the fat guy in Detroit did by Jermaine O'Neal. Roy Jones Jr. got punked last night by Joe Calzaghe...how the mighty have fallen.
...damn, he fell off.
Jones Jr. was left bloody and beaten after the fight, it looked like a Rocky movie.
So Monday Night Phootball has me wishing the World Series was still going on (since I didn't watch a single second of it) Where's Michael Phelps when you need him? The Phreakin Philadelphia Phillies are doing their best Phreddie Mercury phor the next phew months after stinging the Rays...what phan outside of Philly phukkin cares, right? Certainly not me. Redskins QB Jason Campbell came in to tonights game with no interceptions on the season, but just threw another one to end it. (Barack Obama must be doing back phlips if he read Tiger Vidmar's post about the Redskins the other day) My man JOKERSWILD laid it out in his How to get Blog Comments 101, and I actually paid attention. (an accomplishment in itself, according to my wife). So I'm stealing a page from the blog king, I decided to have a Purple and Gold version of create a comment.
You know the drill, be creative, be funny - and most importantly..............Don't SUCK!
Saturday, November 1, 2008, 07:15 PM EST
[General]
Thank God for grantin me this moment of clarity This moment of honesty The world'll feel my truths Through my Hard Knock Life time My Gift and The Curse I gave you volume after volume of my work So you can feel my truths
- Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z
As my latest avatar shows, I'm frustrated. This is a last ditch effort to clear my (screen)name with the blog police around here.
A Moment of Clarity is an awakening...a realization if you will. Although I am a Renegade by nature and I want to Takeover the blogs, I got 99 Problems, What More Can I Say?...How about: Excuse Me Miss, I Just Wanna Love You so Beware, all I want are Dead Presidents and a shot at mass appeal. I saw that I sometimes went too far...my first blog addressed this issue, I explained how nba is the worst opened my eyes to my shortcomings. I made the change and all I got for my repentance was a trip to the dunce's corner...My first two blogs and screenames were deleted due to my own button pushing, I can accept that. My blog was removed from board eligibility and has never been reinstated despite my reducing myself to practically begging in an open letter to the powers that be. I have yet to hear a peep in response despite several attempts at contact on my part...I might as well be at the DMV.
Whatever...what can I do? Clone myself?....hey, wait a minute...that's not a bad idea...it worked out well for Prince and Garth Brooks right?...We'll see what happens.
A Moment of Clarity is what the Lakers got force fed loud and clear in game 6 of last years NBA Finals. The final score of the game was 131-92....clear enough for you? If that trouncing wasn't motivation enough for the Lakers, nothing ever will be. When a team is thoroughly dismantled, outclassed and embarrassed in such a public manner...the ONLY road to redemption is to come back and prove that that's not everything this team had to give. Los Angeles has been here before, many times. Boston treated them like a one legged - red headed stepchild throughout the 60's. Elgin Baylor and Jerry West knew NOTHING but heartache in the finals and for all their accomplishments and accolades, a title was the one missing piece. Imagine the pain endured by these two year after year in being repeatedly beaten and tortured by Bill Russell, Bob Cousey and Red Auerbach...they were like John McCain in that Vietnam prison camp. And, like him, they eventually recovered and were able to compete another day. Elgin retired early in the 1972 Lakers Championship season, so he never got to feel the joy of redemption in victory that West did. After so much faliure, winning couldn't have tasted any sweeter for Mr. Clutch unless it could have been the nemisis Celtics on the losing side of that series instead of the New York Knicks. Magic Johnson and the Showtime Lakers won five titles in the 80's...but lost a few along the way too...including losing to Larry and the rival Celtics.
Michael Jordan had the Pistons, then later the Knicks. Magic and Larry had each other, Kobe had Shaq, now the Celtics, but more importantly himself. He has been his own worst enemy in his legacy. Between his arrogance upon his entry to the NBA, his unwillingness to pass or pass up a shot early on, his feud with Shaq, his feud with Phil, his feud with fidelity and his perceived personal selfishness, his biggest demons have been self created UNTIL NOW. Now, the sleeping giant has been awakened and last June, punked Kobe and the purple and gold brigade like Ashton Kutcher. The jolly green Celtics led by insta-legend Kevin Garnett and Paul "wheelchair" Pierce, Kobe finally has that challenge...a legitimate, worthy opponent (other than himself) An adversary that pulled a Buster Douglas on his overconfident ass. Now I'm not saying they took the Celts lightly last year, but everyone from the Vegas odds makers to your Mama thought the Lakeshow would win last year. After their domination of the Western Conference Playoffs and the Celtics struggles in the East, it was to be merely a formality to even play the games....well, it didn't quite follow the script...the green monster flipped the script in fact by bitchslapping the Lakes like Ike did Tina. In the end, Tina got her due though..What's Love Got to do With It?....
EVERYTHING.
Love is what keeps basketball junkies like Kobe in the gym hours after practice is over. Love is what pushes Jordan Farmar to work on his game over the summer to the point that he looks like a starter now. Love is what a small criticism by the Zenmaster about Tervor Ariza's outside shooting keeps him in the gym an extra three hours a day to expand his range. Love is a career starter like Lamar accepting his bench role for the good of the team and still claiming he wants to be a Laker for life. Love is Andrew Bynum signing a 4 year 58 million dollar extension to stay with the team that believed in him as a teenager, even though he could probably get more money by waiting for the year to play out. Love is an organization believing in an unproven, barely out of his teens center to be the missing piece to a possible dynasty and locking him up despite the risk. Winning, greatness and glory are a combination of risks, dedication, blood sweat and tears and Moments of Clarity.
The Takeover: I believe the future starts now. Andrew Bynum is poised to become THE dominant big man in the NBA as soon as this season. Although this Lakers squad is dripping with talent, the league MVP isn't the key to the success that Los Angeles fans are drooling over these days. Bynum is the answer. Kobe will be Kobe regardless. He became the league MVP by showing the willingness to involve his teammates. Lamar is passive and defers by nature. Pau shows an extremely high basketball I.Q. and seems more than willing to feed Bynum the ball. The beauty of it all is that this team doesn't need Drew to be the man on offense, but I think it would be a stronger team if he does become an offensive beast. The elements that were so glaringly obvious in the finals were dedication to defense and protecting the rim. Bynum can solve the rim issue and the other issue seems to be #1 on Colonel Zanders to do list...defensive intensity. The players are saying all the things I wanted to hear after the smack down last June. Actually carrying it out and delivering on the promise of the defensive gospel being voiced by these guys is paramount to getting back to the mountaintop and reclaim the throne once again. Moments of Clarity and relecting on past mistakes are essential components of keeping the focus needed to accomplish great things.
The first REAL test for the Lakers comes when they face the re-fueled Houston Rockets. (I thought the opening game would be a test, but the Portland Trailblazers showed their age and unworthiness) Tonight's contest vs. the Enver (no D) Thuggets should be a rollover game before the big matchup in Houston. I don't see the cornrow twinz and wild card JR Smith as true threats. The following game is vs. the Clippers and they are always the Clippers so you tell me. Lots of "ifs" with this Rockets squad. They had a nice 22 game win streak last year and were one of the best defensive teams in the league BEFORE adding lockdown defender Ron Artest. The IFS are in no particular order:
IF Tracy "Crooked letter - crooked letter EYE" Marty McFeldman can stay on the court for a full season and be healthy come playoff time.
IF Yao "The Thing" McMing can do the same...although without the Red Chinese government hovering over him to play in the Olympics, he should be less inclined to sit it out this years playoffs.
IF RonRon "Wingnut" Artest can retain some semblance of reason, logic and decency and keep his focus on basketball instead of perceived slights and "disses" about him or his posse.
IF Rafer "Skip to my Lou" Alston can and spread the ball around enough to keep the big three happy.
IF Carl Landry, Shane Battier, Carl Landry and the rest of the Rockets bench can continue to play like their in the midst of a 22 game win streak all year and into the playoffs.
I still say LAKERS IN JUNE.
Meanwhile my USC Trojans are currently up 42-0, so all is well on that front...
I watched the latest Hulk movie this weekend with Edward Norton...not great, but didn't suck either. Another movie I watched this week was Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. It was an abomination and should have never been made...aliens? Sorry Indy...you lost me there. The movie that takes the crown this week is....
Movie Recommendation: FELON
This movie stars Stephen Dorff (who you may remember from the 90's Aerosmith videos and many other things) as a man convicted of murder for doing something I think he should get an award for...protecting his family. An intruder breaks into his house and Dorff tees off on his dome with a Louisville Slugger, killing the criminal. He then gets sent to prison and has to assimilate to a brutal environment and carve out a niche for himself through fighting and gangs. Val Kilmer co-stars as the veteran inmate who takes him under his wing. Though hard to watch at times due to violence, the story is well crafted and realistic enough to draw you in emotionally -especially when it comes to the dynamic between Dorff and his wife. I had never heard of this movie until spotting it at the rental store (after perusing the porn section first of course) and being a big Val Kilmer fan, I took a chance and ended up really liking it.
Hopefully MY Moment of Clarity is enough to get me back on the boards...the ball is in Fox's corner. But I hope my butt kissing last blog was enough to get them to at least place me on parole.
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Get that shit outta here.
...damn, he fell off. 
The victor Joe Calzaghe.
This movie stars Stephen Dorff (who you may remember from the 90's Aerosmith videos and many other things) as a man convicted of murder for doing something I think he should get an award for...protecting his family. An intruder breaks into his house and Dorff tees off on his dome with a Louisville Slugger, killing the criminal. He then gets sent to prison and has to assimilate to a brutal environment and carve out a niche for himself through fighting and gangs. Val Kilmer co-stars as the veteran inmate who takes him under his wing. Though hard to watch at times due to violence, the story is well crafted and realistic enough to draw you in emotionally -especially when it comes to the dynamic between Dorff and his wife. I had never heard of this movie until spotting it at the rental store (after perusing the porn section first of course) and being a big Val Kilmer fan, I took a chance and ended up really liking it.
