Welcome to the wonderful world of Joey. This my first post of many and look forward to hearing all of your comments.
I wanted to start things off by commenting on my beloved Los Angeles Lakers. As you will all come to realize I have a strong passion (obsession) with the LA Lakers. For those of you who know me, you definitely know what I mean. I wont get into the details about it YET, but I would like to comment on Game 5 and my overall feeling with this series. So here we go....
Going into game 5 my first thought was no way we lose this game, we will bounce back and dominate. After listening to the so called "pundits" proclaim the Lakers have "no heart" or "Lakers are in trouble", it got me thinking; for the first time this post season I am actually wavering for a moment. I was a nervous wreck for the last 3 hours of work. I must have watched 10-15 YouTube clips of Laker highlights the rest of the day. It especially doesn't help when my colleagues are walking by my desk whispering Aaron Brooks every time they walk by or see me. The day FINALLY ended and I can go home and regroup for this huge game. My stress relief and confidant Ken (my brother) came over and I could then calm down. He's a great optimist and can ease the nerves with his wit and humor.
The Game starts and Houston scores on their first possessions and we fell behind 7 points. At this point I have become numb to the Lakers lack luster play at times and just thought to myself no way we lose this game, and kept running that thought over and over again. Then all of a sudden we woke up! I mean we WOKE UP. The ball was moving, players cutting vigorously and with a sense of purpose and the shots were going down. What I noticed most was how active our bigs hands and feet were. Pau was getting his hands on every ball that came his way and for the first time all series I saw a sense of purpose with his rotations on defense. Weird Pau, you work hard and look how good you can be defensively. As usual my other confidant Dave was thinking the same thing. The constant texting of "Damn Pau came to play tonight" really couldn't have been said enough. I commented before the game that Bynum is a much better starter than as a bench player. As Bill Simmons says "Some players just can't come off the bench" and I believe Bynum and Farmar are 2 of these players. For whatever reason their game does not translate as well off the bench. Either way you look at it, we forced turnovers, rotated on defense and knocked down open shots. Sounds pretty easy and really with that much talent it should be that easy.
We don't need to go over the rest of the game because we won by freaking 40 points! I honestly needed that, I had to stay away from all media outlets for the last 2 days. I respect what Houston did in Game 4, but come on. Many media members were questioning if Houston was better without Yao and had a complete 2 day love fest with the Houston Rockets. They are a team with a lot of heart, but no way better without Yao. And the Lakers may be a better team with Bynum starting, only time will tell.
I wanted to start things off by commenting on my beloved Los Angeles Lakers. As you will all come to realize I have a strong passion (obsession) with the LA Lakers. For those of you who know me, you definitely know what I mean. I wont get into the details about it YET, but I would like to comment on Game 5 and my overall feeling with this series. So here we go....
Going into game 5 my first thought was no way we lose this game, we will bounce back and dominate. After listening to the so called "pundits" proclaim the Lakers have "no heart" or "Lakers are in trouble", it got me thinking; for the first time this post season I am actually wavering for a moment. I was a nervous wreck for the last 3 hours of work. I must have watched 10-15 YouTube clips of Laker highlights the rest of the day. It especially doesn't help when my colleagues are walking by my desk whispering Aaron Brooks every time they walk by or see me. The day FINALLY ended and I can go home and regroup for this huge game. My stress relief and confidant Ken (my brother) came over and I could then calm down. He's a great optimist and can ease the nerves with his wit and humor.
The Game starts and Houston scores on their first possessions and we fell behind 7 points. At this point I have become numb to the Lakers lack luster play at times and just thought to myself no way we lose this game, and kept running that thought over and over again. Then all of a sudden we woke up! I mean we WOKE UP. The ball was moving, players cutting vigorously and with a sense of purpose and the shots were going down. What I noticed most was how active our bigs hands and feet were. Pau was getting his hands on every ball that came his way and for the first time all series I saw a sense of purpose with his rotations on defense. Weird Pau, you work hard and look how good you can be defensively. As usual my other confidant Dave was thinking the same thing. The constant texting of "Damn Pau came to play tonight" really couldn't have been said enough. I commented before the game that Bynum is a much better starter than as a bench player. As Bill Simmons says "Some players just can't come off the bench" and I believe Bynum and Farmar are 2 of these players. For whatever reason their game does not translate as well off the bench. Either way you look at it, we forced turnovers, rotated on defense and knocked down open shots. Sounds pretty easy and really with that much talent it should be that easy.
We don't need to go over the rest of the game because we won by freaking 40 points! I honestly needed that, I had to stay away from all media outlets for the last 2 days. I respect what Houston did in Game 4, but come on. Many media members were questioning if Houston was better without Yao and had a complete 2 day love fest with the Houston Rockets. They are a team with a lot of heart, but no way better without Yao. And the Lakers may be a better team with Bynum starting, only time will tell.
3 comments:
Dude I told you... the lakers only one because anti-Laker superstar Brandon put the game on when you were down 3. Your welcome
The Doc
i know you are right, ill give you props
lawrence cant spell won
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