Kobe may still have a sore groin, but he can still take over a game late when he has to!
Good job Brian Hill by the way, for getting Smush mad. The Magic coach made a comment previously that “We can’t let the Smush Parkers of the world beat us.” So Smush went and scored a career high 26 points.
Good: The Lakers are still the #5 seed and in position to take home court advantage in the first round against #4 San Antonio or Dallas.
Bad: Lost both games of this road back to back, falling two back in the loss column from SA and Utah. plus falling into a tie with Houston.
Ugly: Kobe apparently strained his groin last night. Come back Lamar!
Haven’t done my walks for almost a month now, thanks to the two, three, I don’t now how many colds I had in the last few weeks. But, I got it done today. Back on track.
The colds made it tough to sleep sometimes, plus made me tired, so I’d been sleeping oddly toward the end. So much so that I was tired the last couple days just trying to get back on track. Got up at 3:30 today though, close enough. So I watched the game on tape, had something to eat, and got out the door.
Speaking of the game, ugh…
What happened? The Lakers were doing the job, but then suddenly the Grizzlies went into a zone in the third quarter, and the game fell apart.
Looks like Memphis is fairly happy under its new coach, I’ll say that. When you let pros be pros, instead of trying to micromanage them like college players, good things should follow.
Mark McGwire didn’t get voted into the Hall of Fame this year. What a joke. He’s not even a cheater by any standard. If I recall correctly, Selig and Fehr didn’t see fit to ban steroids until after Big Mac retired.
Congratulations, BBWAA. You’ve just slighted every HOF member by diminishing the utility of the honor.
Just to elaborate: if the rules of the game aren’t what determine what’s cheating and what isn’t, then we’ve taken a black-and-white, right-and-wrong objective measure of honesty, and turned into a subjective quagmire of shifting standards.
Looks like I’m just about over my cold, only a week later. While getting over it, I spent some time playing Crossfire again. I’ve played it before, at least twice, each time throwing it away in frustration.
A lot has changed since last time, but the basic problems with the game haven’t: the game map is a mish-mash with no organization and coherency, and the game design makes it painfully vulnerable to network lag spikes, which its volunteer servers seem to have far too much.
I don’t expect to try it again.
Sasha Vujacic! Suddenly he’s shooting in games the way we’re told he’s always shot in practices and shootarounds!
The win keeps the Lakers even with the 4th seeded Spurs in the loss column, in he race for the best second place team. Not that the division races are over, mind you, with the Lakers only three back of the Suns there. But my sights are lower until Odom and Brown get back.
I’ve been saying for some time that the conservative focus on earmarked pork has been badly misplaced. So now when Democrats talk about attacking earmarks, I think they’re playing politics.
If they restrict earmarks, but then over the next two years do their best to increase spending, they’ll still be able to go to the voters and say “After years of massive increases in earmarked spending by corrupt Republicans, which even other Republicans hated, the Democratic Congress did what they couldn’t, and reduced earmarks by 50% in one year. We are the true fiscal conservatives.”
Keep your eye on the ball, guys.
It turns out Caltech hadn’t won a game in NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball game since my freshman year, 1996. But the Beavers broke that 207 game losing streak yesterday with a 29 point win over the Bard College Raptors. Amazing.
This also broke apparently an 80 or so game losing streak overall, including non-NCAA opponents. It does not, however, end a 22 year drought within the SCIAC, Caltech’s conference. But a win’s a win, heh.
Lots of two-handed dunks for Bynum, 9 assists for Kobe in the runaway first quarter. We’ll see if Kwame Brown earns his start back a second one.