Staples Reconquered from Heathen Barbarians

i cant double rec.

Lakers punish clippers for crimes against basketball and restore order to the galaxy.

i think its the right time to get hot

everybodys back from injurys. lukes going to be beastin soon changin games.

You are right and this is the perfect time to be getting in rhythm. We have some tough games coming up. That rematch of the Finals should be interesting.

If the Lakers are indeed hitting their stride, they’ve picked a good time to do it.

If it is true part of the reason is PJ.

…let’s get some against Cleveland. They owe us big time for ruining our collective Christmases.

Let’s not go crazy until we do the same thing against Orlando. They are not what they were (still searching for an identity) but a big win against them will mean that we are hitting a stride. PJ knows what he doing. He sat Lamar for most of the game trying to get the big boys comfortable with eachother. He wasn’t needed in the second half, but again we see that Powell is strickly an end of the bench player. He posed again after a three point shot but got lucky this time that he wasn’t beat down the court. Will he ever understand? I thought he would after PJ benched him for doing the same thing against Dallas but I guess not.

Particularly liked our coverage on Baron, holding him to 5-12 shooting. This was one of the rare games where Pau and Drew meshed well together, though both could have gone after some more boards, particularly towards the beginning of the game. Kobe had a typical Kobe game, taking 20 shots and getting 30 points out of it. With Bynum’s level of efficiency in converting his baskets I really do wish we dump it down some more.

The strange trend of limiting Artest’s minutes more than any core player not named Fisher continued – 26 minutes today. Not that he played too well, but even last game he only played 28, and had he played some more today Kobe wouldn’t have had so many minutes at SF (he had 37 total minutes, no need for that in a 40-piecing).

Kobe 6-8 from the line – his finger is affecting his free throw stroke, not by much, but it’s kept it consistently 10 percentage points lower than average or so.

Excellent turnover differential – Clips had 19 (19 points off) compared to our 7 (9 points off).

:O Dex how could you NOT mention Fisher’s new bid for the rebounding title? Fuck Dwight, Joakim and Gerald, Derek put up 19.2 rebounds per 48 minutes tonight! I haven’t checked his season numbers, but it’s safe to assume it would be similar to that. How is he not in DPoY or All-Star consideration!?

Pau’s return was nice. Nothing like his last return, but his ability to make free throws has proven to be unaffected by his hamstring. Thank God.

Kobe was +41. Also in breaking news, Kobe’s name is Kobe Bryant.

Sasha showed excellent hustle and defense, in all seriousness, whilst the rest of the Lakers were kinda messing around by about the time we got up by 40. The man is obviously our MVP.

Baron Davis had a block. Whomever he blocked should promptly retire. 6 Blocks from our starting frontline, though, very nice.

Orlando next. They’re flailing around right now, it’s a great opportunity for us to have a real sort of statement game and 20-piece them. That, of course, would be a warm up. Revenge, anyone? If we 20-piece Orlando, we 40-piece Orlando. Any little shots at Mo, we make sure he doesn’t get back up this time. We run our offense, we make THEIR crowd start booing them. We shut them down, using that same defense that held Utah to 6 points in the fourth quarter. We. Fucking. Dominate. Them. Annihilation is a must. We manhandle Shaq and give him hard fouls like he did to us, let’s see him try and make free throws. We show them, us, and the world, why we won last year.

In other news, the Clippers commited a great travesty against the Basketball Gods tonight. In garbage time, when we were up by roughly 44, Shannon Brown elevated on a semi-fast-break and was going up for one of his patented slamma-mamma-jammas; and he was fouled and could not finish. This is precisely why the Clippers are so terrible, they don’t read the Basketball 101 rulebook! It clearly states that “Rule 1: If thou see’st the mythical ‘Cannon Brown’ elevating into the air to complete a dunking motion, thou must: a) stand in place, and allow the dunker to posterise you, the dunkee; or b) kindly get the hell out of the good sir’s way.” Simple.

I really should proofread…

“If fans liked what they saw (and I can’t imagine any dissatisfaction), be sure to send Kobe Bryant a thank you note, because he went out of his way to light a fire under the kid.

“I made it a point before the the game to tell Andrew, I don’t want you being passive,” said Kobe. “You gotta be aggressive. You can’t go back to thinking about stepping on toes. Pau’s a phenomenal player, and he’ll figure his way through it, as I will, too. But you as a player, as an individual, you have to play your game.” "

From the K Brothers’ recap. It’s very good, on ESPN Los Angeles here: http://ow.ly/16lQaB

Was great to see the Lakers functioning well at full strength. Take this game for what it is, though: A Clipper blowout.

the title is hilarious

Due to working nights and living in the wilds of Southern Oregon with only the most basicy of basic cable, I don’t get to see many games live. When I get to watch, I get The Cavs Who Ruined Christmas, I get The Great Clipper Insurgency. When I can’t watch, we get the Dallas road win, we get….this. C’mon, Mitch, put me on the payroll—I promise to never watch another game (the ultimate sacrifice) and we’ll go undefeated the rest of the season to finish 73-9 and bring the season record back home.

Good stuff lol

that would be a 10000000000x better

so i heard shannon brown will be at the slam dunk contest. who else will be competing?