Game Blog: Lakers v. Pacers
Here's my hackneyed attempt at a game blog of tonight's Lakers game. I'm just feeling spunky because I finished my Children & the Law outline for Thursday's final a few days early and want to try something new.
First Quarter
- Kwame Brown flat out dominated Jermaine O'Neal, on offense and defense. Maybe it was Bynum taking a few starts away from him that pumped him up, but Kwame is playing excellent ball, making quick moves in the post and playing tough position defense, using his size to keep guys out of their comfortable spots on the box. O'Neal didn't get anything going in the first quarter and got into foul trouble quickly.
I don't care for Jermaine O'Neal. Heavy favorite
to win the Chris Webber Tries to Look Tough But
Has a Loser Face Award.
- What helped Kwame is that the team has much improved its entry passes, which helped cut down on turnovers. Kobe had some fantastic assist passes to go with his usual acrobatic prowess going to the rim. Throw in his lock-down defense on Stephen Jackson and you'd think you were watching Kobe of 2002 out there.
Second Quarter
- Pacers get back into the game running pick and roll with Jasikevicius (from here on out, SJ) and some guy named Baston. It worked well because SJ is much taller than Jordan and is a deadly perimeter shooter. This worked 3 times in a row, but then Carlisle stopped going to this play for some reason.
- Bynum had an awful quarter, picking up two offensive fouls trying to get into position in the paint and regularly failing to stop or alter any shots after the Pacers penetrated into the paint.
- Lamar should have taken a bigger offensive role with Kobe and Luke on the bench, but in fairness to him, the Bynum/Farmar/Radmanovich/Evans crew is pretty inexperienced.
- Reggie Miller is in the stands with a Bruins cap on. Graphic says he's 12th all time on the scoring list? Who knew. He's not just a starter on my all-time ugly team. The guy's a bonafide hall-of-fame ugly squader.
- Farmar with a couple nice defensive plays, including a nice steal + fast break. He's still a pretty solid finisher like he was at UCLA, even if he sometimes makes dumb midair passes to the other team.
- Lamar is fantastic at getting rebounds in traffic, especially by tipping them to himself. The guy is downright unstoppable driving to the rack with his left.
- Team goes on a 16-2 run when the starters go back in and the team is up 20+ at halftime. The eastern conference really is terrible.
So terrible that I think I'm just going to go ahead and not blog the second half of this game. I'd rather just fire up the wii, whose review is still forthcoming. It probably goes without saying, but if you sell 600,000+ in 8 days, the reviews are probably going to be good.
First Quarter
- Kwame Brown flat out dominated Jermaine O'Neal, on offense and defense. Maybe it was Bynum taking a few starts away from him that pumped him up, but Kwame is playing excellent ball, making quick moves in the post and playing tough position defense, using his size to keep guys out of their comfortable spots on the box. O'Neal didn't get anything going in the first quarter and got into foul trouble quickly.
I don't care for Jermaine O'Neal. Heavy favorite
to win the Chris Webber Tries to Look Tough But
Has a Loser Face Award.
- What helped Kwame is that the team has much improved its entry passes, which helped cut down on turnovers. Kobe had some fantastic assist passes to go with his usual acrobatic prowess going to the rim. Throw in his lock-down defense on Stephen Jackson and you'd think you were watching Kobe of 2002 out there.
Second Quarter
- Pacers get back into the game running pick and roll with Jasikevicius (from here on out, SJ) and some guy named Baston. It worked well because SJ is much taller than Jordan and is a deadly perimeter shooter. This worked 3 times in a row, but then Carlisle stopped going to this play for some reason.
- Bynum had an awful quarter, picking up two offensive fouls trying to get into position in the paint and regularly failing to stop or alter any shots after the Pacers penetrated into the paint.
- Lamar should have taken a bigger offensive role with Kobe and Luke on the bench, but in fairness to him, the Bynum/Farmar/Radmanovich/Evans crew is pretty inexperienced.
- Reggie Miller is in the stands with a Bruins cap on. Graphic says he's 12th all time on the scoring list? Who knew. He's not just a starter on my all-time ugly team. The guy's a bonafide hall-of-fame ugly squader.
- Farmar with a couple nice defensive plays, including a nice steal + fast break. He's still a pretty solid finisher like he was at UCLA, even if he sometimes makes dumb midair passes to the other team.
- Lamar is fantastic at getting rebounds in traffic, especially by tipping them to himself. The guy is downright unstoppable driving to the rack with his left.
- Team goes on a 16-2 run when the starters go back in and the team is up 20+ at halftime. The eastern conference really is terrible.
So terrible that I think I'm just going to go ahead and not blog the second half of this game. I'd rather just fire up the wii, whose review is still forthcoming. It probably goes without saying, but if you sell 600,000+ in 8 days, the reviews are probably going to be good.
Labels: lakers, pro basketball
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Monday, December 04, 2006.
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