Random Sunday NBA Hoops Live Blogathon I (Game 2)

January 28, 2007 in Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, NBA Live Blogging, NBA Talky, San Antonio Spurs

Alright hopefully I won’t miss too much as I run in the cold to get back. Check back in a bit for Spurs vs. Lakers!

Quarter Oscar Robertson (1) or what’s left of it:

— what..*gasp* what..*inhales* did…I miss…? 17-11 Spurs up with under 3. So.. I missed nothing.

— oh my, the picture I have here is totally hogging the page and making the formatting look like trash

— I better add a couple more points to manually fix it

— Hopefully this does it

— YES! Okay, back to the action: It’s nice to see Odom back. He’s getting into form with 3-4 shooting and already 7pts

— Howeva, the purple calf tights/brace? is kinda fugly. Damnit Purple should just die in sports already

Quarter Mitch Richmond (2)

— movie star sighting: Tobey McGuire… you’re killing me here Mike Breen

— the Triangle is like poetry when it’s run right: Farmer to high post Turiaf and in a split second bounce pass to the baseline cutter Bryant for the easy jam.

— Here’s my Ronny Turiaf connection as he’s on the line for 2 after a missed dunk from sick a no look pass from KB24: I went to a junior college with one baller Pierre Marie Altidor-Cespedes. A year later he got recruited to play with Turiaf at Gonzaga (still there). Boy even got ink on ish edit: 64 76  (p.150, if you really care) of SLAM (I remember cuz I was the only one to run right to him giggling “OMGOMGOMG” while no else remotely cared or knew)

— that picture of Duncans is REAL

— I’m more and more impressed with young Bynum’s game, going at Duncan and not passing out when he sees an opportunity: 7pts so far.

— 28-26 Spurs up. Too bad the ASG voting’s over, because Tony Parker’s “underground movement” had something going on there

— Lakers lead by 5 after a couple back to back 3s (from Odom) 36-31 with just under 4 to go

— holy shit Darren’s right, Odom can get a triple double in this quarter! 11, 6, 5

— Kobe, doing that weird thing called being unselfish and passing to a wide open Vlad gives them the edge by 9 with a minute left in the half

— 42-36 for the hot shooting Lakers (57% from 3-land) here at the half. Time to find that thing I’m trying to find…

Quarter Dennis Johnson (3)

— Spurs can’t hit anything in 4 possessions. Parker smartly goes head first into Bynum’s body to get some easier points

— gotta love Spurs’ grindin’ mentality: Duncan hits a low post shot; Parker gets a breakaway (missed) but put back by Duncan; Duncan’s defense stopped Bynum, who gets called for a tech, JUST LIKE THAT they’re within 4, 49-45, scoring 7 straight

— ah yea, forgot to mention that Mike Breen’s been (woah) relocated here with Marc Jackson. My assessment of this duo… satisfactory as Jackson’s improved quite a lot since last year… no more endless “YOU’RE better than that!” and just better jokes ie:

Mike Breen: that wasn’t an offensive foul Mark
Marc Jackson: I know it wasn’t Mike. (in a calm voice)
Mike Breen: Don’t yell at me!

… um.. you gotta be there I guess..

— Physical play on both ends of the floor but Lakers are able to hold off the Spurs on the defensive end for a couple of possessions and an Odom 3 puts them up 61-52

— verrry physical, Duncan got away with a blantant push off to get an offensive board and Horry just air humped Bynum

— Spurs continue their inability to remember what “basketball” is with their sub 30% shooting to end the 3rd down 57-67

Quarter Josh Howard – McGrady (5 – 1 = 4)

— Here we go in a slugfest… btw Pop not wearing a tie is just cool

— As bad of a shooting afternoon as the Spurs, they aren’t even close to being out of it. They just nailed 2 back to back buckets to cut it to 5 led by Mr. Longoria

— Lakers aren’t “putting a nail in the coffin”, “closing the lid”, etc etc as it’s 75-66 with neither team getting looks down the stretch

— fuck you Ginobli for making that last statement null, 3pter from him is 75-69

— one of those games where it’s not decided until the last minute because both teams can’t execute (a combo of good defense and not being able to hit open shots)

— big block on Bynum from Horry I think, this time sans-humpage..uggh, this game just won’t end

— 2 point game with 2 mins to go…. c’mon [team name] !

— odd call: Odom jumps BACKWARDS into Duncan and flips a shot behind his head and gets the call. 77-76

— BIG play by Timmeh, touch pass right to a wiiiiiide open Bowen, NAILED IT. 79-77 with 0:40 left

— oh….shit.. Radamonichiviviaicih saw light past that forest of a mullet to tie it 80-80… ah, the game may go on to overtime but this liveblogg will not

— Horry (of course) takes the 3, but misses—duh, it’s not the playoffs. Laker ball with 2 seconds… HMMM, I wonder who gets it.. and he missed. But he didn’t miss bitchslapping Ginobli for good measure. Okay I take back not livebloggin the rest…

OT (can’t think of a player with #OT)

— Kobe opens things up with 2 great assists to Vlad and Bynum for dunks but Spurs answers back

— 88-84 Smush wanting to join the “big kidz” table

— Parker keeping his side up with a 3 point play and a jumper 89-90 Lakers. Now Manu goes to the line to perhaps take the lead

— this Kobe guy, he’s like, good or something, making a difficult shot 92-91. END THIS TRAVESTY already

— the Robot analyses the situation; calculates the schematics; recalibrates for “clutchness” and gets a shot to get his team ahead

— was that a replay? Kobe just made the exact same shot with 7 seconds left, which, in NBA time is like 12 years

— oh my sheed. Finley hits a dagger 3, 96-94 wit 1.3 seconds (3 years)… Jesus? please don’t make this doubleOT

— *sigh* finally, Vlad wasn’t able to even catch rim… c’est finit! thanks for reading peeps and thanks Ms. G for sticking around. *hugs and kisses*