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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PrintLos 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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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!!
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!!!!!
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.
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.
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”?
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.
I'm going to need to see better hedging on screens
from Gasol before he qualifies to play for Ben Howland.
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.
Kobe
Considering he has only 8 points on 3-10 shooting, I fell pretty good about this game. 2nd half is KOBE TIME!
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.
Time for
Kobe to take the game into his hands
Unfortunately
I’m at law school right now. It sucks. No TV in Crim Pro. class lecture
I baredly started using my email account
in my 2L year. lol and you are in class following a hoops game. Geez.
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
Besides
Did you care by 3L is the question?
by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions
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
How the heck did you guys do your outlines?
It is scary to think you had to handwrite those monsters.
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
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
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.
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.
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
chumps :P
I watched the entire UCLA-UW pac-10 tourney game on my laptop in class (I was also drinking a beer at the time. Oh how I will miss the Thursday keg here)
oh no
That is not what I want to see. I want this series have both sides healthy. wow – hope he is ok…
I don't like the showboating
skipping around after he had to be carried off the court. No drama queens please.
I am starting to think..
the wheelchair may have been a wee bit dramatic. He came back out fine in 5 minutes.
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! :)
This is insane
There is a discrepancy of what goes for contact underneath the basket and what goes outside the paint.
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.
Hey hoo
If there are lot of juicy parts in that article put it up as a fanpost … blockquoting all the key grafs.
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…
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.
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!
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?"
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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
Farmar picture?
That UCLA picture of Famar shows him wearing a #11jersey. I remember him as wearing #1. Did he also wear #11?
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.
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