Ep. 325: Officially Offensive
The Basketball Jones — NBA Finals, Game 2 — Episode 325 (.mp3)
On today’s show, Skeets and I breakdown Game 2 of the Lakers-Celtics NBA Finals. We discuss, among other things, if officiating was the reason LA lost, the Leon Powe conspiracy, if Kobe’s fouls were warranted, player of the game, Leonardo DiCaprio’s lovely lady friend, and much, much more. I still love this game! Enjoy!
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Skeets: “Anything you want to share with the listers?”
Tas: “Nope.”
Nice, ambassador Tas! =)
Tas, great self-correction on your mention of Magic Johnson’s height…You guys are brutal to those emailers. Geeze!
Why the Mark Jackson hate?
“Mama there goes that man.”
That’s a pretty good line, no?
Skeets, I’m reading Pistol Pete too. Correction - not autobiography, which apparently came out before he died. Anyway, what a story - I always wondered what the real story was. The drama-bio film didn’t really get into any of the negative stuff. Lots of interesting dimensions to the bio, e.g. racial attitudes, mental illness, etc.
@ Ryne:
That was just Skeets’ passive-aggressive attempt to get Tas to share his M&M’s.
WOAH, LEO’S LADY FRIEND IS SMOKIN HOT!!!!!!!!!
Totally unrelated to anything: what the heck is a “lithuanian gold star”, and why does Caroline only give you 3 out of 5?
First time in my life watching the Finals (1999-) that I’ve never seen the complete game start to finish.
Skywalker got “Rondo-ed”.
Cool Kids are hotness. Nice, JDeebles.
@goat: They suck. Terrible group. They’re worse than The Pack. Calling the Cool Kids hot is like saying Rajon Rondo’s shot-to-pass ratio is 1-379 instead of his usual 2-78213.
VanillaBlue: One less Lithuanian star than Tyrone Nesby’s rap album.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l119/saifullah21/cassell.gif
@Sailor Moon: Sweet Jesus. Consider my mindscape scorched.
I believe in The Machine.
Two Rock Band songs AND the Cool Kids. Well played, J-Dizzler.
As for the free throw disparity, the funny thing is Boston was called for the same number of fouls in Game 1 & 2 — 22.
Certainly, the first two fouls on Kobe were suspect, but you know another reason they didn’t shoot as many FTs? James Posey didn’t hardly play, and he’s about the biggest hack suiting up in this entire series.
Jones fans might care about this.
http://drunkenaudible.com/post/37790478/bill-simmons-the-nba-product-and-you
According to CB4, Sasha got that nickname from Paris Hilton (See: Chris Bosh on Jay Leno). Page 2’s Headline on ESPN today: Page 2: Where we just got called for a foul on Leon Powe.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/080609
WTF is so cool about the Kids? They suck!
My favorite Mark Jackson line, from a Lakers-Jazz game when they were going to a break on a replay of a Kobe three:
Mark: Girl, get in the hole!
JVG: Girl?
Mark: Thats how we say it in the hood.
Mike: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I have to disagree with you, Skeets, about the officiating. It was typically bad, but no unfair.
Remember how many times Derek Fisher, Gasol, or Odom went into the air on a head-fake and fouled the back of a Celtic player? Compare that to the Celtics players smart restrain…the Celts are just that much better defensively.
Until the Lakers learn to box out and play strong interior D (length doesn’t bother me if I’m stronger) they don’t deserve to win a single game.
Skeets, I’m more with KD on the officiating issue than with you. There were a few genuinely bad calls, but IMO a huge part of the FT differential was an actual difference in attacking the basket and playing smart D.
siukong… a few bad calls? the ft differential was an actual difference in attacking the basket?
the lakers shot more shots in the paint then the celtics did.
Fun Fact o’the Day:
The Lakers are the 30th team to go down 2-0 in the NBA Finals. Of the previous 29, only three have come back to win the series. The Celtics did it against the Lakers back in 1969, Bill Walton’s Blazers did it in ‘77 and the Heat did it against the Mavericks just two years ago.
The Heat are the only ones to do it with the 2-3-2 format.