Since a few readers were calling for a joke to lighten the dark mood
June 9, 2008 | 12:11
pm
I thought this might qualify. From the folks over at The Sports Hernia Blog. The photo's caption reads "Paul Pierce bravely shows up to play in Game 2."
Probably works better than the one I had about a priest, rabbi and Rajon Rondo walking into a bar.
AK
To My Family,
There were 3 pro basketball players, one each from Utah, San Antonio and Boston standing on a burning roof in Los Angeles.
The fire department came with a blanket and yelled to the Utah player to jump. He jumped and they moved it to the right. He hit the sidewalk with a splat.
They then called to the San Antonio player to jump. He said that he wouldn't jump. They said they liked San Antonio better than Utah. So he jumped and the fire department moved the blanket to the left.
The San Antonio player hit with a splat on the sidewalk. Then they called to the Boston player to jump. He said that he wouldn't jump.
The fire department said they hated Utah and San Antonio. He yelled back and said, "Lay the blanket down, and then I'll jump!"
Posted by: Charles | June 09, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Is it true we had more points in the paint than the celts???
Posted by: ajax | June 09, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Let's see - the lakers have to beat the best team in the NBA (outside the PHX SUNS, of course) 4 out of the next 5 games?
The lakers will be responsible for a 9th banner in the Boston arena.
Is it just me, or does kobee not belong on the same court with Ray Allen? Or Leon Powe or Paul Pierce for that matter?
Doc Rivers is making a fool of Phil Jackson, just like MIKE D'ANTONI has been doing for years!
Carry on, Boston. We the NBA public are enjoying this immensely. Simply because the lakers do not deserve to win a title this year. Getting Ga-Shawl was too easy for the lakers, and despite everyone predicting a lakers sweep, the truth is there are no free lunches in the NBA. The Celtics are teaching the lakers that you have to work for a title, not have it handed to you.
Posted by: BUTLER | June 09, 2008 at 12:18 PM
kobee needs SHACK in order to get a title.
SHACK would play physical, would get rebounds, would provide the necessary intelligent leadership that kobee lacks.
kobee simply does not have what it takes to lead a team to a title. Too self centered. SHACK made D-Wade a champion and is going to make Steve GNASH a champion too.
kobee needs SHACK in order to get a title.
Posted by: BUTLER | June 09, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Lakers need to go 4-1 vs. a team that they have gone 0-4 to so far this year.
Maybe it's time to bag the parade plans?
Posted by: BUTLER | June 09, 2008 at 12:21 PM
AK,
Whats the joke? the pic of pierce or the ref?
It's gotta be the ref, right
Posted by: Fire32 | June 09, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Fire 32,
It's a multi-layered joke. Like an onion. haha
AK
Posted by: Andrew Kamenetzky | June 09, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Those referee's last night were a joke. That was the most biased ref'd game that I have ever seen in my life. It was like playing in Utah times 5. They treated Leon Powe like he was an all star or something. Just terrible! What about those ticky tack calls on Kobe? The NBA should be ashamed of itself for the mockery of a basketball game they put on last night. Unbelievable!
I'm not one for excuses, but if this is the way the games are going to be called we don't have a chance. On the other hand, if the referee's and the NBA decide that they want to officiate these games in a fair manner, we'll win. Bottom line.
Go Lakers!
Celtics suck!
Posted by: Rocky | June 09, 2008 at 12:25 PM
The lakers need to bench Odom! Because, you can't have a finesse PF and C! We need to start mbenga to match up with Perkins! He's the kind of big men we need in this series to body up with boston big men!
Posted by: JERMAINE THE KOBE FAN | June 09, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Haha, thanks guys, good stuff.
-bozz-
Posted by: bozz | June 09, 2008 at 12:36 PM
How do you get a one armed Celtic Troll down from a tree?
Posted by: Charles | June 09, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Last night showed why kobee's name doesn't mean anything in the Finals:
The game goes to the aggressors. The lakers have been passive and scared the entire series.
Leon Powe took over and became the man. He got the calls and the uncontested dunks as a result.
Posted by: BUTLER | June 09, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Hey Lakers Fans,
CRY US A RIVER!!! OUR TEAM DIDN'T GET ANY CALLS WAA WAAA WAAA. Its like dealing with a bunch of 4 year olds. No wonder the rest of the NBA is cheering for the best team in the NBA. Yeah thats right, THE BOSTON CELTICS! Its our turn now!!!
Posted by: WAAAAA | June 09, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Butler=broken record
Posted by: drew | June 09, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Lakers in 7
Posted by: Violator | June 09, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Can someone please call the commisioner david stern and please complain about the referees! Lakers need to forfit the finals if the games are going to be that biased...
Posted by: jd | June 09, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Can the Kobe haters at least wait until we lose the series to start talking smack?
Posted by: Xodus | June 09, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Xodus
Glad to have you back. Hope the honeymoon went well!
Posted by: Charles | June 09, 2008 at 01:02 PM
It's got a lot to do with the home crowd and their approval. If that exact game was played in LA, there would have been a riot.
Posted by: ajax | June 09, 2008 at 01:02 PM
ajax,
That's what I read. We had more points in the paint.
Makes the whole foul dispairity that much more ridiculous.
Seriously, East Coast bookies picked the Celts to win last night. This is what people told me who had personally put down illegal bets on the game.
With what happened with that last referee who's now cooperating with authorities, is it beyond the realm of possibilities? I think not.
GO LAKERS!
Posted by: Jon K. | June 09, 2008 at 01:04 PM
Charles,
You're jokes are fantastic.
GO LAKERS!
Posted by: Jon K. | June 09, 2008 at 01:05 PM
Go Lakers!
Posted by: Laker Fan 24 | June 09, 2008 at 01:07 PM
Charles - How? Do you just leaf him up there?
Posted by: justanothermambafan | June 09, 2008 at 01:09 PM
X - welcome back & congrats!
Posted by: justanothermambafan | June 09, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Hey AK,
does GAsol ever work with Kareem on low post moves, jump hooks and sky hooks.
He looks like the perfect student for a superior finesse game.
Posted by: Lakerbake | June 09, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Xodus,
1. Trolls have no sense of dignity or timing. No direct appeal to them will ever work.
2. We're not going to lose this series.
GO LAKERS!
Posted by: Jon K. | June 09, 2008 at 01:11 PM
BY THE WAY I HAVE FOUND WHERE BUTLER WORKS SO I AM COMPILING ALL HIS POST AND WILL BE SENDING TO HIS WORK TO LET THEM KNOW HOW BUTLER IS SPENDING VALUABLE WORK TIME.
Sorry Butler and hope yuo don't mind me sending all your posts to your Human Resource team.
Cheers,
HR
Posted by: HR | June 09, 2008 at 01:12 PM
I don't agree with TJ Simers ever, but I have some agreement in his assesment of KOBE.
It's time to be the real MVP and not go out like Dirk Nowitzki.
Kobe looks so much like a Euro player who just fires from the outside.
Paul Pierce looks like the tough American.
KOBE's ring and greatness is sitting right on the back of the RIM.
If he wants it he needs to utilize his superior dribbling, jumping, driving, and creativity skills and go to the RIM to get his ring and restore happy order in the LAKERNATION.
Or he can wait on Andrew Bynum to save him????
Big KOBE fan but I gotta keep it real
It's as simple as that.
Posted by: Lakerbake | June 09, 2008 at 01:12 PM
Phil Jackson and Tex Winter's Triangle System is being exposed!!
The Celtics are ALL UP IN the Lakers offense wreaking havoc and Phil Jackson has no answers.
What will Phil do to create more space for Kobe? I mean that is the job of the coach......isn't it?
When you see Ray Allen get looks in the Celtics offense he usually is off the ball and runs his man through two maybe three picks to create space for his shot.
Why don't the Lakers EVER do that for Kobe??
Why is it the best shooter and player on the Lakers is the one counted on to create shots for his teammates?
What sense does that make?
It would seem to me that his teammates job would be to create shots for him!!
Idle thoughts:
Phil Jackson brings in Trevor Ariza for maybe 5 minutes then removes him.......saying that he didn't like the way the offense was going. Phil's spokesperson (Times writer Mike Bresnahan) said Trevor was a "detriment"?
Enter Luke Walton to the rescue? Did that make things better or worse?
A Good follow up question for Phil would have been.......Hey Phil, What SPECIFICALLY does Walton add to the offense that Ariza didn't?
We already know that Walton can't spread the floor because he can't shoot the ball. Thus enabling Paul Pierce to sag off Walton into Gasol's lap or to sneak off and cheat on Kobe or to shoot the passing lanes because Walton isn't a threat on offense.
Well.......Maybe it is Walton's high basketball IQ? This myth has been circulated so often by the media that people actually believe it's true.
I guess that is why Walton tossed an alley-oop to..........Jordan Farmar (which almost went in the basket......the closest Luke came to scoring a basket)
Phil initially said that the reason Ariza wasn't playing was because he wasn't in game shape.........now it is because he didn't like the way the offense was running.....but he wasn't specific. These sound like excuses not reasons.
There is no logical basketball reasoning that should justify Luke Walton playing for one minute against Boston..........yet Phil has this clown out there........it is getting embarrassing and bordering on psychotic behavior.
What is Phil's psychosis?? I think Phil suffers from the Delusional belief that Luke Walton is a NBA player.
I believe Phil NEEDS this to be true.......feeding some sick pathology that continues to drive his mindless behavior..........Maybe Tex suffers from it too?
Phil to some extent is like the Buffalo Bill character from the movie "Silence of the Lambs"
Dr. Lector asked Clarice "What does this man do that you seek?
Clarice gave the obvious answer........"he kills people"!
Dr. Lector answered......No, that is incidental. Actuallly Buffalo Bill was feeding a pathology that developed long ago with the result being he could make a dress out of skin from women who wore size 14 dresses.
I know this sounds crazy.......but just plug in winning games for a finished dress and Luke Walton for "skin"
.......and in the process he's killing any chance the Lakers have to win a championship.
Phil is a sick man!
Posted by: pfunk36 | June 09, 2008 at 01:13 PM
Lakers in 6. I promise.
Buddah is a Laker fan.
Posted by: B-ret | June 09, 2008 at 01:18 PM
Laker>Celtics
Kobe>Any of the big 3
Los Angeles>>>>>>>>>>Boston
Laker fans>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"Boston Nation"
GO LAKERS
Posted by: mrbarneydangles | June 09, 2008 at 01:24 PM
AK,
"Like an onion."
Ooh, ooh, I know ... the walrus is Paul!!!
Posted by: exhelodrvr | June 09, 2008 at 01:33 PM
Everything points towards the Lakers winning game 3. All the Lakers need to do to get the momentum is win one game. We win game 3, games 4 and fall into place. We go up 3-2, and all the pressure is on the Celts.
Here's how I see this going...
Game 3. The Lakers know the Celts can't beat them 5 in a row. The Lakers take out their frustration on the Celts. Everybody goes off. Pierce has a horrible game. Lakers kill the Celts by 20+.
Game 4. The Celts make adjustments. Garnett has a high scoring game, along with Allen. Pierce has a so-so game. Kobe and Lamar have big games, but this one goes to overtime. Lakers win it on a heroic shot by Fisher or Sasha.
Game 5. The Lakers are flat. The Celts go up early. Once they get a 18 point lane, the blog loses it. Kobe has a bad game...until late in the 3rd. A flurry of 3 pointers by him motivates his team mates. The Lakers have one of their comebacks. They beat the Celts by 3.
Game 6. Motivated, loose, and with no pressure on them anymore, the Lakers get out to a strong start. Pierce leads a historic comeback. Garnet has a great game, but it's Allen or Rondo that his the key shot. The game is tied to the very last second, where....
Pau Gasol gets fouled and hits one of 2. With second left, Garnet gets a final good shot off, and misses.
Lakers win the series 4-2.
Posted by: troy | June 09, 2008 at 01:34 PM
Jon K
One love brother!
Posted by: Charles | June 09, 2008 at 01:35 PM
B-ret,
Of course Buddha is a Lakers fan, we practice Zen.
GO LAKERS!
Posted by: Jon K. | June 09, 2008 at 01:35 PM
Charles, justanothermambafan,
Thanks! The honeymoon was great. The only bad thing was watching the Lakers lose at the hotel bar-with a bartender that's a huge Celtic fan.
Posted by: Xodus | June 09, 2008 at 01:36 PM
Friggin' GreenBastards !!!!!!!!!
Posted by: MiloRambaldi | June 09, 2008 at 01:36 PM
Q: How do you get a one armed Celtic Troll down from a tree?
A: Wave at him...
One Love justanothermambafromanothamotha!
Posted by: Charles | June 09, 2008 at 01:37 PM
Charles -- that's a good one --
What's the over under on seeing that wheelchair image on a poster tomorrow at Staples?
Posted by: HmrHed | June 09, 2008 at 01:42 PM
What's the over under number of years before the Suns are irrelevant? I say 1 year. Next year is the last year for a while that he Suns will make the playoffs.
Laker fans would be completely taking over the Suns blog right now, if the Suns mattered at all -- the reason my butler is here is because the Suns blog is a wasteland --
Posted by: HmrHed | June 09, 2008 at 01:46 PM
The Lakers offense will wake up when they get some stops on defense and push the ball, transition is where we will beat the Celtics defense. But we can't do it if they're getting to the foul line every time, that slows the tempo down to a half court game. When we get back to Staples you will see the Lakers move the ball, get long rebounds, and outscore Boston in that mode.
Posted by: DS | June 09, 2008 at 01:56 PM
AK
ok..that was kinda funny. I chuckled for a minute. But the reality still remains..The Refs Beat Us!..I demand a gimme game in LA..oh..and AK and BK if we lose one in LA you have to committee a full day in a wheel chair in honor of Paul "Prostetics" Peirce
Posted by: lakeraholic | June 09, 2008 at 01:58 PM
Just from NBA.com's video clips, I captured four incorrect plays that went in favor of Boston. You can see it on my Tumblr page (the four latest posts).
http://stevenloi.tumblr.com
The game changed when they benched Kobe with 2 fouls. Then the 3 minutes of the start of the 2nd quarter, every time LA went inside, they get no calls. Boston went to the line every trip. That 3 minutes took about 15 minutes of actual time.
Posted by: Steven Loi | June 09, 2008 at 01:59 PM
phunk36
Phil is a smart coach , he realizes what in order to win you need all players to contribute , this is why KB creates the shots for his teammates in the first half so the opponent team keeps them in mind and spread out , leaving more space for Kobe to operate.
Its not an instant offense , this is you should recall Bill Paxon and Steve Kerr making critical baskets during the Bulls run.
This is Ron Harper , Robert Horry and DFish made critical baskets with Lakers durinh their run.
The triangle offense is very complicated and works only in the hands of crafty , veteran coach.
The problem is the Lakers are intimidated by Boston , its kids against men right now.
I kinda saw it coming all along , Boston is a way stronger team and its imposing its will.
But , dont rush for quick judgement , its not over.
Boston is not proven , they might start feeling the heat of the victory being so close , they might start shaking.
They have to serve for the match now and the racquet might fell 10 pounds heavier.
So far , the just held the home court , loosing one in this format is very bad.
Lakers just need to beat them one time and who knows , the whole thing might turn around.
I fully realize the fact that Lakers are 0-4 on the year and its going to be very hard to come back , but Boston is not without the fault themselves , look at their performance in the first 2 series.
Thanks
Posted by: novolakers | June 09, 2008 at 02:08 PM
This is going to be an even more boring series than last year.
Atlanta gave Boston more of a fight than these lakers. Ouch!
Posted by: BUTLER | June 09, 2008 at 02:09 PM
Fellow Lakers Fans,
There's this theory in physics that if you believe something will happen, having no doubts whatsoever that it will, it becomes reality. It's very theoretical because it is almost impossible to wholeheartedly believe something that we have pre-conceived doubts about. Well, yesterday I was watching the game yesterday, and at the start of the fourth quarter I remembered this whole theoritical thing. So I started trying to completely believe that the Lakers would win the game. And by by the time the comeback was in full force, I wasn't surprised at all because I believed the Lakers would win the game. Then when the Lakers were only down by two, I sort of started to get nervous and think: "Damn is this really happening?" That's when my complete believe ended. My point is, though, that if every Laker fan in the world believes that Lakers will win the series, and I mean truly believe (at first it will be tough, but I think it is conceivable), the Lakers will win.
Posted by: laker hopeful | June 09, 2008 at 02:10 PM
troy
i hope your correct.
Posted by: Charles | June 09, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Awww, Butler. They take the sleeves off our poor kid during the day so that he can type. Who loves you, kid? Your mom and I, that's who. Now come give your uncle a kiss. That's right, Daddy still loves you.
Posted by: Butler's Uncle | June 09, 2008 at 02:14 PM
mrbarneydangles,
You got it almost right,
Kobe>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"Big Three" combined
and you forgot another one,
Lakers' ability to get to the line should be >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> than Leon Powe's
Posted by: laker hopeful | June 09, 2008 at 02:16 PM
I have no idea what's been up with this blog for the last couple weeks.
A worthless Troll named Butler slithers onto the blog and he gets more responses than any other blogger.
The guy's a fricken Troll and a moron.
Come on, Laker Nation! Time to be adults!
Ignore the guy.
Starve the Troll.
Jeez.
GO LAKERS!
Posted by: Jon K. | June 09, 2008 at 02:18 PM