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We Love (UC)LA: Lakers Open Thread (Game 1 v. Boston)

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Los Angeles Lakers @ Boston


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.

Jf
Jf

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   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 ryebreadraz on Jun 5, 2008 5:43 PM PDT   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   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   0 recs

FARMAR

Nice floater!

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 6:35 PM PDT   0 recs

Both teams

look a little tight.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 6:36 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yes

You are so right. NBA finals’ll do that to ya! Plus the biggest tradional rivalry in basketball. GO LAKERS!!!

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 6:38 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Not a bad first Q

for the Lakers on the road.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 6:38 PM PDT   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   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   0 recs

Old

I think he played HS ball with Bill Russel. LOL! He is really 38.

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 6:52 PM PDT to parent up   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   0 recs

Fisher's got the idea

Get in there and create some contact.

by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 6:56 PM PDT   0 recs

Gasol

playing tough inside. That was a block.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 6:57 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

WOW

What a HORRIBLE call.

by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 6:57 PM PDT   0 recs

Right

What a GREAT block…

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 6:58 PM PDT to parent up   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   0 recs

GASOL!!!

Nice play…

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:05 PM PDT   0 recs

Gotta love Boston fans

They’re a polite bunch aren’t they?

by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:06 PM PDT   0 recs

True

That is humor – I hadn’t heard that before. I’ll have to start calling the utah fans “Jazzholes” :-)

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:12 PM PDT to parent up   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   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   0 recs

or

a Ben Ball warrior!

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:20 PM PDT to parent up   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 to parent up   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   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 to parent up   0 recs

Smush

Don’t get me started. Gave me flashbacks of Ryan Walcott.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:19 PM PDT to parent up   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   0 recs

Fisher

is BALLING

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:17 PM PDT   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   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   0 recs

That was AWESOME

Did everyone see that Magic/Bird commercial? Very cool…

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:29 PM PDT   0 recs

Damn

I missed it.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Space Cadet

strikes again.

by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:40 PM PDT   0 recs

Kobe

is heating up

by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 7:43 PM PDT   0 recs

Kobe gonna come on

In the second half

by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 7:45 PM PDT   0 recs

Time for

Kobe to take the game into his hands

by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 5, 2008 7:48 PM PDT   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   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   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 life

sjh

by Class of 66 on Jun 5, 2008 8:03 PM PDT to parent up   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   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 to parent up   0 recs

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)

by bruinhoo on Jun 5, 2008 8:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Paul Pierce

That sucks. Hope he is allright.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:52 PM PDT   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   0 recs

Yuck

I am sensing an emotional shift towards the Cs.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:56 PM PDT   0 recs

Right

Paul is gonna pump them up BIG time. Glad he is ok, but CRAP!

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 7:58 PM PDT to parent up   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 to parent up   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   0 recs

He also did a little extra acting

when getting “fouled” by Kobe

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:03 PM PDT to parent up   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   0 recs

WOW

WHAT A LOB FOR KOBE

by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 8:05 PM PDT   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   0 recs

Kobe

is starting to GO OFF!!!

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:06 PM PDT   0 recs