FUN FACT
If you enter a game, but no time goes off the clock, you didn’t really play.
TOUGH BREAK
Brian Cook. It was nice to see you though.
HOW ABOUT
That Lakers / Rockets game? It feels like the Rockets could be the lead for every Morning Bell this season. Watching them is like watching a very important science experiment.
PARTICULARS
The Ariza sequence at the end of regulation was big time coolness. Chuck Hayes is probably the baddest mammajamma in the NBA right now (name someone who is a more bad mammajamma). Kobe Bryant is still good at basketballing. The Rockets uniforms make everybody on their team look smaller than they really are, which is small to begin with. Ron Artest’s hair must grow fast if he can get a new design in it after a week.
IT APPEARS
That the Lakers are the masters of having exciting games end with anticlimactic finishes.
OR AS REGGIE MILLER WOULD PUT IT
Anticlimatic.
OTHER THINGS HAPPENED
Like DeShawn Stevenson proving his continued irrelevance by missing two freethrows that would have given the Wizards the lead, and then having Dwade (rhymes with “Quaid”) hit a jumper in his beard. Killer neck tattoos though.
APPARENTLY
Gilbert Arenas isn’t fully back. It’s hard to imagine two worse end-of-game possessions than throwing the ball off your leg out of bounds and meekly missing a floater with your team down by three.
ACTUAL DOMINIQUE WILKINS QUOTE
“The ball swung from one side of the court to the other without touching the floor. The only guy who dribbled it was Mike Bibby.”
BIG UP YOURSELF
Kobe Bryant (41/6/4). Chris Paul (39/5/7). Dwyane Wade (40/4/5). Kevin Martin (29/11/2). Andrea Bargnani (22/12/2).
CHILL OUT
Jason Thompson, with your missing bunches of layups in a close game. DeShawn Stevenson, with your entire steez. Juwan Howard.
