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

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.

Jf
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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

FARMAR

Nice floater!

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

Both teams

look a little tight.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions   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 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

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 up 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

Gasol

playing tough inside. That was a block.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 6:57 PM PDT up 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

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 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

or

a Ben Ball warrior!

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:20 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

Smush

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

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:19 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

Damn

I missed it.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 7:30 PM PDT up 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

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 life

sjh

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

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 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

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 up 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

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

WOW

WHAT A LOB FOR KOBE

by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 8:05 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

Kobe

is starting to GO OFF!!!

by uclafan11 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

ME TOO

Pierce it starting to irritate me too. Dang the Lakers need another run!

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:11 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

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

Nope

Its like watching UCLA taking on UDub in Seattle.

by Nestor 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

sure

I just glanced at it a few minutes ago, going to go back over it while watching the 4th quarter and put something up.

by bruinhoo on Jun 5, 2008 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

ooh

thanks for the update. Man, is $c gonna finally go down for this?? PLEASE???

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Argh

Giving up too many off boards.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:17 PM PDT 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

Comeon guys

Settle down. Lot of time.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:21 PM PDT 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

aww

he’s not lame! He’s hit a couple tonight. :)

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Although

he has fallen down about 7 times tonight!

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Arrrrrrrrrgh

Another offensive rebound.

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:34 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

I know

I miss Chick every game.

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Seriously

where was the foul?!!!

by Nestor on Jun 5, 2008 8:35 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Make up call

and I’ll take it!

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:38 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 know

I thought that too but I’m really irritated. This is so lame. Lakers MUST win game 2.

by uclafan11 on Jun 5, 2008 8:46 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

25%

I’m surprised it was that high.

When you don’t make your open shots, you don’t deserve to win.

by Tydides on Jun 5, 2008 9:11 PM PDT up 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

Oh

and dick bavetta is blind

O.A.

by Ollie on Jun 5, 2008 9:06 PM PDT up 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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