We Love (UC)LA: Lakers Open Thread (Game 1 v. Boston)
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 5:31 PM PDT
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Los Angeles Lakers at Boston Celtics, Jun 5, 2008 6:00 PM PDT
We have talked about it all week. Now it's go time.
Here is to Jordan and his team mates bringing another championship in LA.
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Photo sources: interbasket & nw122105 (flick)
The game is being broadcast on ABC starting at 6:00 pm PST. You can track all the actio via WWL here .
I will reiterate what I wrote this am. This thread is open to not just the Laker fans on BN but every member of this community. If you are watching the game tonight and want to comment, cheer, vent, whatever with fellow Bruins, as always this will be your online bar.
The best part of watching this game (at least for me) is that I am not going to experience the same anxiety and stress when I watch a UCLA basketball game. I am just going to enjoy the action and hope the Lakers can bring it home.
Anyway, enough from me. You know what to do. Thread away.
GO LAKERS & GO BRUINS.
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I'm excited!!!
Hope Jordan and Trevor play significant roles in bringing another title to L.A.
Go Bruins, Go Lakers!!
by PasadenaBruin on Jun 5, 2008 5:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Before I focus on tonight's game
I’m going to have a mini-vent on today’s MLB Draft:
WHAT THE HELL! Every current Bruin or Bruin commit has gone higher than expected (except for two who went where expected) and not only is their draft position high but they’re going to teams that are willing to pay. I don’t think today’s draft could have gone any worse.
Okay…on to basketball. LETS GO LAKERS!!!!!
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jun 5, 2008 5:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I don't feel the same way as I do for the Bruins
That’s just the nature of pro sports. Nevertheless, I back this team through thick and thin. All things considered, I feel that the Lakers are playing with house money and that their best years (unbelievably) are still to come, and that’s with a great shot at a championship in the here and now.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 5:54 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Laker fans in LA
LA fans get such a bad rap out in the East Coast. But the truth of the matter is LA fans stick with their team through thick and thin. That’s why Dodgers draw record crowds even during mediocre years while the Laker fans filled up Staples during the post Shaq funk. Its all good.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Celtics fans have no room to talk
The Garden was as empty as the Galen Center last year.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Only redeeming thing about Boston fans
they hate Pete Carroll.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not a bad first Q
for the Lakers on the road.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 6:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Kobe is ice cold
2 for 8 I think, and Lakers are still only down 2.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 6:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I still don't understand why Martians are allowed to play in the NBA
Ship Cassell’s alien ass back to his homeworld. Didn’t we learn anything from “Space Jam”?
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 6:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Turiaf
Man, from open heart surgery to the NBA Finals – must be a surreal feeling. Love that guy…
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 6:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Fisher's got the idea
Get in there and create some contact.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 6:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Paul Pierce
Local kid who should have gone to UCLA but instead opted for KU.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Gotta love Boston fans
They’re a polite bunch aren’t they?
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
But they don't have a special name
Like “Massholes”
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The composure of this team
for as young and inexperienced as they are, has been amazing throughout the playoffs. I don’t know if I’ve seen anything like it.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I have been more amazed
the seamless integration of Gasol into Jackson’s triange.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pau is a very smart player and he can pass
in that regard, he is the PERFECT Phil Jackson player.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm going to need to see better hedging on screens
from Gasol before he qualifies to play for Ben Howland.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Their strategy ...
guess they are just going to try to keep pounding inside.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
When your point guard
is Smush Parker or Sucky Atkins, you realize how much you miss a bulldog like Fisher. 0.4 is a permanent fixture in Laker Lore.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Great first half
And Kobe hasn’t gotten it going. Let’s keep it going Lakers.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Kobe
Considering he has only 8 points on 3-10 shooting, I fell pretty good about this game. 2nd half is KOBE TIME!
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Man
I love this 9 pm EST starts. Would have been awesome if Pac-10 had entered a TV K allowing UCLA to show case all over the country starting around 9:30 pm EST. But oh wait … we are in the Pac-10 conference … managed by bunch of dolts.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That was AWESOME
Did everyone see that Magic/Bird commercial? Very cool…
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Has he been like that?
Most of the season?
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Kobe gonna come on
In the second half
by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 7:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Time for
Kobe to take the game into his hands
by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 7:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Unfortunately
I’m at law school right now. It sucks. No TV in Crim Pro. class lecture
by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 7:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I baredly started using my email account
in my 2L year. lol and you are in class following a hoops game. Geez.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
What really sucks
Is that I have to take summer school…Man, I’m so sick of this
by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 7:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hear you
Not summer school per se, but BarBri. So looking forward to that Bar Exam next month =(
by bruinhoo on Jun 5, 2008 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Besides
Did you care by 3L is the question?
by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When I was in law school, we didn't have copy machines
we used carbon paper.
Computers? Stepping from a manual to an electric typewriter was hi-tech.
sjh
by Class of 66 on Jun 5, 2008 7:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
How the heck did you guys do your outlines?
It is scary to think you had to handwrite those monsters.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Long hand or Typed with carbon paper for study groups
One of my study team had a father in a downtown firm that had a copy machine. We were in heaven.
Think about doing all of your research with books. Shepardizing cases by hand.
No computers in class for taking notes. The kids with money taped the lectures.
2 pencils a staple of lifesjh
by Class of 66 on Jun 5, 2008 8:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
In some law schools that where their was no camaraderie
amongst students, the gunners would take razor blades and cut the pages out of key books—or would hide the books so we couldn’t use them to prepare
sjh
by Class of 66 on Jun 5, 2008 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
amazing (ly bad) to hear
I have certainly heard stories about the degree of zero-sum like competition at certain law schools, but that takes it. Shocking compared to the 3 years spent at my (now former :( ) law school.
by bruinhoo on Jun 5, 2008 8:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
dear god, hurts just to hear that
Although laptops in class really are a mixed blessing, I believe.
by bruinhoo on Jun 5, 2008 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We had one of those high-tech copy machines which would
reduce. So when we had a Con Law open book midterm, but limited to two pages per question, my great idea was to do it on 14×18 paper, then reduce it and turn it in with a magnifying glass. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a typewriter that would take that kind of paper, Naturally, we all used pica or elite (whichever was smallest) typewriters, used no margins, and at the bottom of the page, we started counting spaces, rewriting drafts, really conserving on space to make sure all our thoughts got laid out. (Remember, no memory things – this was just typing.) The Con Law teacher realized he had made a mistake and issued some clearer rules – one inch margin, double spacing, etc.
And for my first five years in practice, my boss was let’s say “frugal.” He would go through files to find photocopies of things, Onion skin carbon copies was what we had. And if you had a report to a client that had to be delivered on Monday morning, then you had to do the typing, put in the carbons, do all the erasing on each copy, and all that. It was not quite the same as now, but it’s what we all did, and it was no big thing at the time.
I sure remember when I went out with the senior partner to try to find one of those new-fangled “fax” machines to send a document to the client in Philadelphia. When we got to the front of the line at the phone company (the only place in LA we could find a fax, I had to go out and put five bucks in quarters into a pay phone to tell the client he needed to go over to the phone company n Philly to get the document.
I’m sure I’m not the only guy to have had a depo reported by a guy with a fountain pen doing shorthand, and I’m not the only guy who had a hearing transcribed by a guy whispering what everyone said into some sort of dictating machine. He looked like he had an oxygen mask on, and although it was way before “Get Smart,” it was sort of foreshadowing of the famous “cone of silence.”
OK, end of the nostalgia.
by Fox 71 on Jun 5, 2008 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn!
So you used manual typewriters to type of memos? Dude, I can’t imagine that
by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 8:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Paul Pierce
That sucks. Hope he is allright.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
oh no
That is not what I want to see. I want this series have both sides healthy. wow – hope he is ok…
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:54 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yuck
I am sensing an emotional shift towards the Cs.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I don't like the showboating
skipping around after he had to be carried off the court. No drama queens please.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
For those following at Law School
63-62 Boston
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I am starting to think..
the wheelchair may have been a wee bit dramatic. He came back out fine in 5 minutes.
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
He also did a little extra acting
when getting “fouled” by Kobe
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe
when we go back to Staples we need to send a couple players to the locker room for 3 minutes to come back and ignite the crowd! :)
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
This is insane
There is a discrepancy of what goes for contact underneath the basket and what goes outside the paint.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 8:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
What a battle
This is a GREAT game. I already feel a rivalry that may last years again…
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
and I am starting to have same feeling
towards Pierce as I had towards Ainge.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I feel bad
but I am starting to wish Pierce would have stayed out just a LITTLE longer…
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Oh come one
these Celtics are acting like South American soccer teams. This is a joke.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Did someone sneak some Pac 10 Refs in here?
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 8:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Nestor said that earlier
and I am starting to believe it!
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quick OT/bushgate
I’m about to post/fan shot this, but Yahoo sports has new news regarding Bu$h, confirming the earlier reported settlement w/one of the new era sports guys, but with the implication (as framed by Lloyd Lake + his attorney) that Bush did, in fact, take $$$ from new era.
by bruinhoo on Jun 5, 2008 8:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Hey hoo
If there are lot of juicy parts in that article put it up as a fanpost … blockquoting all the key grafs.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's funny
how before this series started I was like “oh they are ok – nothing like the celts of old” After only 3 quarers now I am starting to despise them. That’s what makes it fun, I suppose…
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Its because of Boston fans
are almost as bad as you know who…
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wait, you mean 2 feet inbounds
isn’t out of bounds? Like when Gasol got called for a backcourt violation? I guess when it’s KG it’s okay.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 8:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
plenty of time
you are right – on the road it’s just tougher and they need to get started now. It’s time for KOBE!
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Comeon guys
Just stick with Kobe, Fisher and Gasol … drive inside … get contact … get on the line.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Pushing a BIT???
PJ Brown totally pushed Luke
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
has there been a worse announcing team in finals history?
van gundy and jackson are driving me crazy!
"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"
by silverlakebruin on Jun 5, 2008 8:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
OMG
This is RIDICULOUS. Brown was totally holding Gasol!
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I thought I wouldn't care too much for this game
But I am getting very annoyed.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
From Forum Blue And Gold
It’s not just us:
Wow. Pierce reacts to the slightest breeze.
and
i’m surprised Pierce isn’t European
and
Its past Dick Bavettas bed time he really shouldnt be reffing this game
Sickening.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Well
now I guess I’m off to watch “So You Think You Can Dance”. Yeah, I know, I’m such a girl. :-)
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
well that was it
Nice game thread everyone. That’s all for me. See you all tomorrow am.
by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
They're really playing up this Pierce thing
He was out for like 5 minutes and came skipping back out onto the court.
BIG. FUCKING. DEAL.
Yeah, sounds like he was SO hurt to me.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 8:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
THANK YOU!
I am starting to think it was all a home court ploy. I was feeling sick to my stomach for him. I mean, come on, when is the last time you saw a basketbal player go off in a wheelchair? Sometimes a couple people help you off, but a WHEELCHAIR? Whatever…
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Refs fucked us in the third quarter
But man, that fourth quarter was ALL us not making wide open shots. Some of our guys weren’t that wide open the entire series against the Spurs and still couldn’t hit.
by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 8:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Not bad
Kobe shot 9/26, the team was 3/14 from 4 and we shot 25% in the 4th quarter. Despite all this, we were in the game.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jun 5, 2008 9:02 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
WOW
Not only should Paul “benedict arnold” Pierce never show his face in LA again, but he’s now thrown any respect i had for KU out the window, I hope that beefy piece of garbage had a nice snack in the locker room after his “knee injury”
Excuse while i watch a sure dodgers loss, and then look for any thing that reminds me of boston so i can burn it
O.A.
by Ollie on Jun 5, 2008 9:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Should be a video...
Is it no longer possible to embed videos in the comments?
by SuperBruinMan on Jun 5, 2008 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and yes
paul did ride to the locker room in a wheel chair…man im infuriated right now
O.A.
by Ollie on Jun 5, 2008 9:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I would've though
they’d have waited until at least game 6 to pull those kind of theatrics.
by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 9:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Farmar picture?
That UCLA picture of Famar shows him wearing a #11jersey. I remember him as wearing #1. Did he also wear #11?
by wizardofoc on Jun 6, 2008 9:05 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
His Freshman year
I believe Dijon Thompson was #1 that year. I also think Shipp wore #12 that year because #3 was Brian Morrison. I’m far less certain about the second one.
by Tydides on Jun 6, 2008 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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