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We Love (UC)LA: Lakers Open Thread (Game 2 v. Celtics)

Los Angeles Lakers @ Boston


Going into game 2 Lakers are not in any kind of panic mode.

According to Big Fella the key for game 2 is to make sure the Lakers hold on their own around the rim, not give up easy offensive rebounds, and maintain their focus on offense. So with that in mind here is a little blast from past:

Kareem
Kareem

Photo Sources:  Vedia & JFJFJF (via flickr)

The tip off for game 2 is scheduled for 6 pm PST. It is on ABC and I am sure you can keep track online via WWL.

So let's get it started.

GO LAKERS & GO BRUINS.

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Lakers off to a good start

Gasol comes out smoking. 15-12 good guys.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:19 PM PDT   0 recs

I was upset last game

I didn’t follow my own rule for NBA games. Always have beer handy.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 6:25 PM PDT   0 recs

Pac-10 refs

Looks like they are back again. Ticky tack foul on Kobe. 19-18 Lakeshow.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:26 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

That is a terrible call

I honestly don’t know what they’re thinking. That’s not even close to being justifiable.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 6:28 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

And that was the second one ...

The first one on him was a joke too.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:28 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

No beer here,

have to settle for Mojitos.

But considering how hot the Mid-Atlantic has been the past few days (99 degrees, heat index of 105 today), a mojito sounds rather refreshing right now.

by bruinhoo on Jun 8, 2008 6:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

107 here w/ heat index

ridiculous … and no relief in next 2 days.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

He is so confident

22-20 Lakers at the end of 1st q.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:36 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

One thing you have to admire about Phil

is that his method of coaching can really instill confidence in his players. It’s no coincidence that Jackson coached teams hurt you with the usual suspects AND the unusual suspects..

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 6:38 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

5 bench players on the floor

Ariza for the first time this series is in (I think).

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:41 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Wooooooooooooooooot

Jordan for threeeeeeeeeeee.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:35 PM PDT   0 recs

No consistancy at all

Kobe gets called for brushing Allen’s arm away, but Alien can rack Ariza’s arms and nothing.

This is a disgusting display of officiating.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 6:41 PM PDT   0 recs

Well

Looks like refs are intent on making this series 2-0.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:46 PM PDT   0 recs

Yeah

BTW … fwiw … trying out SBN’s new “game thread” post feature. If you click on the “Los Angeles @ Boston” link above, it gives you the updated score. Kind of cool. We will have that for the football/hoops game in 08-09.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:48 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

This is fucking bullshit....

just let the players play and let’s see who wins, not this ticky tack shit that decides it all.

by Nakatomi Plaza on Jun 8, 2008 6:50 PM PDT   0 recs

Uhmmm

Didn’t Kobe just get fouled there? Are you kidding me?

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:51 PM PDT   0 recs

Replay shows it was a good call

One of the few they’ve made tonight

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 6:51 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Kobe

Let’s GO.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 6:54 PM PDT   0 recs

This is unfuckingbelievable

Mug Gasol and no foul. They aren’t even trying to disguise their bullshit calls anymore.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 7:09 PM PDT   0 recs

You couldn't have fixed this game any better

It’s Dodger game time. At least when they’re down it’s not because they’re getting fucked by the officials.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 7:17 PM PDT   0 recs

This game is reminding me

Why I haven’t been watching as much NBA as I used to. What a freaking sham this is.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 7:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well, this is sad

Donaghee(?) is locked up, right?

by bruinhoo on Jun 8, 2008 7:18 PM PDT   0 recs

Aaaaaaah

See how close attention I have been paying to this league. lol

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 7:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'd say they have a couple more to weed out

Donaghy wasn’t blatant about it, which is how he got away with it all these years. These three assclowns on the floor are amateur game fixers.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 7:26 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm embarassed to be watching this game

Lakers shoot one free throw in the first half as the result of a personal foul. (The other FT was b/c of the tech foul on Garnett.)

Celtics are outplaying LA, but still, this is ridiculous…..

by insomniacslounge on Jun 8, 2008 7:19 PM PDT   0 recs

Agree

They are def. hustling more … but the calls are atrocious, something that hasn’t been lost even on worthless commentators such as Van Gundy and Jackson.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 7:20 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

If the score was based purely on effort

I’d say the C’s would still be up by 3 or 4. This double digit lead is built on BS calls.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 7:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

David Stern

giving the game to the Celtics

by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 8, 2008 7:21 PM PDT   0 recs

These half time annoucers/analysts

Total east coast homers clowns.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 7:23 PM PDT   0 recs

Can't stand JVG

He bugs me. Okay … I really got to log off now.

Have fun Insom. et al!

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 7:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Look at the discrepancy in the calls

That is not the final foul count, the Lakers did not have to start fouling at the end… When you see that, you know there is BS going down.

by Bruins102NCAA on Jun 8, 2008 7:25 PM PDT   0 recs

I will try what I do during late night Ben Ball threads

when things are little gloomy. I am gonna step out of this game thread for the night … and take it offline. See if the isolation play works. :)

Have fun guys. Here is to a better second half.

by Nestor on Jun 8, 2008 7:26 PM PDT   0 recs

19 FTs to 2

And we’ve been going inside plenty so you can’t use the “aggressiveness” excuse to explain it away.

As I said, it’s time for the Dodger game.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 7:28 PM PDT   0 recs

Dodger game isn't going much better

3-1 Chi in the 8th.

And Chan Ho Park is pitching so the deficit could certainly grow…

by insomniacslounge on Jun 8, 2008 7:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

But as I said earlier

When they’re losing, it’s not because they’re getting fucked over.

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 7:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well, you would hope

that the Lakers get the same type of bullshit calls at home. The problem is that they don’t have 4 games at home. LA’s getting outplayed, but the refs are allowing such a discrepancy, it’s embarrassing…. not the way you want to start either…

by Nakatomi Plaza on Jun 8, 2008 7:38 PM PDT   0 recs

I guess staying out of the thread

Doesn’t change our fortunes

by Tydides on Jun 8, 2008 8:20 PM PDT   0 recs

Man

I just came home from a local bar. There were so many fair weather celt fans that came out of the woodwork I couldn’t take any more. I really hope we get all the home calls like they are getting – ridiculous.

by uclafan11 on Jun 8, 2008 8:30 PM PDT   0 recs

Totally

but we are being outplayed and outreffed. killin me. The good thing is that the celts have not played well on the road, so let’s hope the Lakers can capitalize on that….

by uclafan11 on Jun 8, 2008 8:40 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Quite a run now

considering the refs have totally swallowed their whistles

by Give me a B... on Jun 8, 2008 8:43 PM PDT   0 recs

HOLY WHAT???

I turned it off!

by uclafan11 on Jun 8, 2008 8:45 PM PDT   0 recs

Damn!

great come back, let ‘em off the hook

by Give me a B... on Jun 8, 2008 8:51 PM PDT   0 recs

GIVE THE BALL TO KOBE!

Let Kobe, the best finisher in the game, have the ball in his hands every possession in the last minute

by lil eg not cs on Jun 8, 2008 8:52 PM PDT   0 recs

That game left me feeling pretty sick to my stomach

I guess to my good fortune, i didnt see most of the first half because I was at the dodger game. From what i’ve heard the refereeing was absolutely atrocious so im glad I didn’t witness all of ti or there may be some broken glass in the bar at dodger stadium.

All in all disappointing though, dodger loss aside, I was considering tonight a must win for the lake show...im not sure if we can win three straight at home in the finals...but I know we'll need fair officiating if we hope to do it...i guess all we can do now is hope for the best.

O.A.

by Ollie on Jun 8, 2008 10:24 PM PDT   0 recs

i have no idea what i accidentally hit

to put my second mini paragraph in that text..

O.A.

by Ollie on Jun 8, 2008 10:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It's the way the ball bounces...

If we all remember, all season long we picked ourselves off the floor and made the key shots. We could have lost 6 to 8 games and not gotten a #1 seed. But, in the Memphis game, the same clutch shots that seem to fall all year went in and out. There went our season, but we were there with only 3 others.
Lakers, remember SA blowing a 20 point lead, Utah coming up one shot short, SA missing a 3 and there was a foul, well these are the breaks that make a season. Boston won 9 more games than we did and beat us 2 out of 2, so what’s happening is not a fluke. The foul total was 28 to 21, so what happened is that we fouled when they were shooting and they fouled before the shot. Remember Boston was out of fouls with 7 minutes to go in the game and rather than drive to the bucket, we kept shooting outside, so no advantage. We’ve got 3 games at home, they held serve, so if things hold, we go back to Boston up 3-2. Leon Powe, Pac 10 guy from Cal, operations on both knees at Cal, touching special on ABC halftime, lost his mother during high school, a grinder, how can anyone not support this kid? I saw him play at Oakland Tech and it’s ghetto, so the background story makes sense.

by whittier71 on Jun 9, 2008 10:52 AM PDT   0 recs

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