GAME THREAD: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Utah Jazz

[NUMBERICA]

Also, ESPN coverage is a ****ing retarded **** fest. "Check out these Lakers highlights and these bad calls against the Lakers! Jazz win, I mean Lakers lose."

 

[Revolution 9]

Earl is a pleasure to watch. Please extend him for 2 more years. I want him here for awhile.
He's like Dee Brown with talent.

 

[BabyPeterzz]

Favors was plain awful. I was pissed when he failed to do something under the rim, Lakers got the ball, Gasol was down on the floor in the corner. Lakers moved the ball to Utah's halfcourt as well as TV camera and in 4 seconds you see Gasol jogging and 6 foot after him Favors. Simply pathetic.

12pts, 8 rbs, 1 blk, 22 minutes.

He beasted in the post and played good defense.

wat?

 

[Stoked]

Kanter D already > Big Al D

By far.

 

[Stoked]

Also, ESPN coverage is a ****ing retarded **** fest. "Check out these Lakers highlights and these bad calls against the Lakers! Jazz win, I mean Lakers lose."

After the game I looked and when I did the only reference to the game was one of their writers twiter prediciton on what damage Bynum would do to utah.

 

[zman1527]

I can't fault Corbin for keeping Bell in the court tonight. I do like to see Burks get time but I thought Bell played tough against Kobe and I'm not sure if Burks would have done that.

Sure, Raja played "tough", he always plays tough. Effectively, now that is another thing. Lets see, in the 4th he gave Kobe two 3s, then fouled him on the next 3, then let him get by him to get good looks for the 3 other guys. Tough, but ineffective.

The other thing about have R Bell guard anyone is that they get a vacation on the other end of the court. Why would you guard Raja? You want him to shoot.

 

[zbone]

12pts, 8 rbs, 1 blk, 22 minutes.

He beasted in the post and played good defense.

wat?

Sigh.
He got these stats against white LA softies. I'm talking about his attitude here, not numbers.

 

[The Norm]

Sure, Raja played "tough", he always plays tough. Effectively, now that is another thing. Lets see, in the 4th he gave Kobe two 3s, then fouled him on the next 3, then let him get by him to get good looks for the 3 other guys. Tough, but ineffective.

The other thing about have R Bell guard anyone is that they get a vacation on the other end of the court. Why would you guard Raja? You want him to shoot.

The first two threes by Kobe were over Howard. Bell was on the bench.

 

[Grandpa Jazz]

This is what ESPN has to say about the game

ESPN controls the minds of most "sports" fans via "back,Back,back" home run calls, endless re-runs of slam dunks by superstar players etc. They set the tone for what is acceptable, cool and what's irrelevant in sports in America. The Utah Jazz are irrelevant. If they win an NBA championship some day, they will still be irrelevant. Its about money.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The first two threes by Kobe were over Howard. Bell was on the bench.

You can also only stop Kobe to a certain extent. The point to guarding Kobe is too make everything as hard as possible and force him into bad/difficult shots. I think everyone did a good job guarding him. He is going to make shots.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Per Grandpa, ESPN is about hype and bluster to a large media audience. Utah sports are too small and too rational compared to the daily soap opera that is the Knicks, Lakers and Clippers.

Teams that should be getting covered are OKC, Indy, Phily, Denver, etc., not just the Jazz.

It also helps if your team has a big personality on it, but the Jazz don't go out of their way to draft those fortunately.

 

[Deleted member 365]

It was so nice to send all those errr Lakers fans home crying.