Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 9:01 am  |  358 responses

Post Up: Lakers/Rox Ruckus

And Ron/Fish/Wafer get a little crazy.

by Holly MacKenzie / @stackmack

Okay. I’m home. In Nova Scotia. It is 2:13 am and we’ve got half of a fourth quarter to play, five technicals, D. Fish tossed out, Ron Artest tossed out, Von Wafer tossed out (courtesy of Coach Adelman), Kobe’s elbow connecting with Ron’s neck. Technicals for Luis Scola, Lamar Odom, Luke Walton and Kobe Bryant.

This game is insane.

NBA Playoffs is where crazy happens.

My goodness.

I’m beyond making sense right now and yet I cannot imagine sleeping because this game was so damn nuts. Wasn’t planning on writing today, but needed to because we need to discuss. Everything. Anything. All of it.

I missed the C’s and Magic because I was on the plane and we didn’t have the game on the channels I had access to. I’m still not believing this night. Game 3 is going to be psycho and perhaps we could have some players missing?

I hope Ron is good and the media doesn’t go to crazy on him, assuming he’s going to go crazy. He took an elbow to the throat and overreacted a bit. Let’s leave him be.

Fisher threw Scola like he was a ragdoll.

Kobe had 40. 3 more points to pass Larry Bird for playoff scoring.

Brian Cook on the STAPLES Center court in the final seconds of a loss for the Rockets made me feel badly for him.

Everyone is talking about the Nuggets/Mavericks series and how Denver is going to out-tough Dallas. How Kenyon’s foul against Dirk (and the fine), affected Game 1, etc., etc. This series just took over as the most intense one going. Wow. And, now we go into Houston tied.

This thing is over. Tied 1-1. I knew about 20 people at this game and I’m beyond jealous of each and every one of them.

So, who gets suspended for Game 3? Rafer? Kobe? Ron? House? Fish?

And most importantly, will Adelman allow Von Wafer to step foot into the Toyota Center?

Okay, perhaps even more importantly, Boston and LA have each tied things at 1 game apiece.

I love this game.

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  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    I can’t believe I spelt MJ’s surname incorrectly… I think I need Derek Fisher to try and break through my screen at the top of the key…before I even get there, and have RonRon breathing his minty breath into my face.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    Anton Posted: May.7 at 10:59 pm
    Andrew Bynum had the same number of points as me last game. Does that mean the Lakers need me to get over the hump?
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    Yeah, if you were an injured 7′ footer, You’d be sitting in a chair also….
    not like Phil Jackson’s ‘HIGH LEATHER CHAIR OF ULTIMATE AUTHORITY’ though… Hows that chair for sending a message?

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    frank Posted: May.7 at 5:49 pm
    YEAH!!!!! the words Nova Scotia were mentioned in a SLAM article…. Is there any other nova scotians on SLAM that I am not aware of?
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    where?

  • http://idunkonthem.blogspot.com/ albie1kenobi

    i love how everyone has their own interpretations of the incidents happened in the rockets/lakers game, even though we are all watching the same game and same replays. people project what they want to see on the actual actions, even to irrational extremes. this goes for both sides on the comment section here. i suppose SLAM is loving the extra traffic.

  • http://idunkonthem.blogspot.com/ albie1kenobi

    @Allenp: good find on the article. i was thinking someone HAS to validate that awesome artest story. one thing though, the kid who died was FROM Queens, but the incident happened at Niagara Falls Boys and Girls Club. Last I checked, Niagara Falls is about 6-7 hours away from NYC and i don’t think that’s exactly “the hood”.

  • http://sportzin.com Joey E.

    did you guys see the reverse angle of kobe/ron?
    http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4149491
    go to the 20 second mark. artest over did it lmao.

    here’s a still: http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0507/nba_vid_kobeelbow_300.jpg

  • jumpman3224

    In anticipation for tonight’s game, I’ve been reviewing some of the comments on here again. Some contributors have been pointing to Kobe’s poor shooting in game one…he shot over 45 %. That’s not setting the world on fire, but it’s not horrible by any standards (higher than billups entire post-season percentage for example). Would like to see him get to the line more though. Should be interesting though.

  • frank

    @ dacre: nova scotia is a small province in eastern canada.its right above maine. its also probably the coolest place ever.

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