Rip and Tayshaun returning to The Palace.

I think the fans will welcome them back with open arms.

Pistons by DQ, is my bet.

I'm guessing they battle to a 7th round draw. The judges couldn't decide either way. The Pistons played hard, but the Lakers had a superstar that Stern was pushing on the judges.

If this game was 2 weeks ago when the Lakers still had Bynum & Ariza (Steve Kerr's favorite player), than I'd say the Lakers would win...but now I'm not so sure...

Although it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see the Pistons drop this one...


How come this game isn't on TNT???

I'll go ape shit if the Heat are on TNT tomorrow...

Tomorrow's TNT games are Mavs-Celtics and Spurs-Suns.

Reasonable.

My two teams going at it. I can't make up my mind. =(

I can't even watch the damn game because I'm living in KY now. =(

Lakers have no post O or D, injured players, on the road. This will be oogly.

but the Lakers had a superstar that Stern was pushing on the judges.

The obsession this board has with David Stern is almost sickening.

Then again, what else do you expect from Zekyl?

Lakers have no post O or D, injured players, on the road. This will be oogly.
This would be a big problem if the Pistons played in the post at all. May give Max a chance at a great game if Flip goes to him.

And the Stern thing was just for lol's, I don't really think that.

And the Stern thing was just for lol's, I don't really think that.
Dont worry about Archie, he's touchy about alot of things, especially Kobe. Though i guess now its Stern that he's touchy about.

Maybe its because the Stern talk was about Kobe...

Dont worry about Archie, he's touchy about alot of things, especially Kobe. Though i guess now its Stern that he's touchy about.
Dude should visit a Pacer board. They're "Branch Davidian" like against Stern.

Well that would cause severe tracy McGrady Pouting no?

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Quit hatin' on Kobes.


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Still the greatest quote ever.

I can't wait to see/feed the Jordan Farmar...

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any of you guys old/young enough to remember Babar?

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I'm in my 20's and don't know what Babar is.

I'm in my 20's and don't know what Babar is.
As you can see he's a rich off conflict diamonds and a South African Dictator.

He was one of Fletch's aliases too.

Get one jew in the league and you guys are all over it.

I'm in my 20's and I remember Babar.

Luke Walton sounds like such a stoner.

And Kobe struggles against us. 19 points in the first game (which we threw away), I'm thinking 17 tonight.

Luke Walton sounds like such a stoner.
Hmmm, I wonder why.

lol

Bill's mad cool though. I chilled wit him once.

lol

Bill's mad cool though. I chilled wit him once.
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Ugh, I forgot we had a 6 point lead in game 2 with 40 seconds left or whatever it was.

Always cool to see clips of the Finals though...one of the better times of my life.

Nice 10-0 run after the to.

correct me if im wrong, but it sounded like flp just implied 64 wns> championship.

AARON!!!!! Afflalo!

Holy shit, Amir in like 3 straight games.

And he's fucking up. Poor kid. Cut him some slack though.

And Sheezy is just rapin' Kwame.

DUNK APPRECIATION!!

Stuckey..got damn!

I'd like to see Rip and Kobe in the 3 point contest this year.

Would be fucking way more interesting than the pointless fucking Dunk Contest.

How was Stuckey's dunk? I didn't see it.

How was Stuckey's dunk? I didn't see it.

Fast, fluid, undefended, you might have pulled it off.

It was totally unexpected, which made it good.

Fast, fluid, undefended, you might have pulled it off.

Maybe back in the day. . . my 5'9'' body doesn't have that kind of hops anymore.

Man, FUCK Jack Nies! You Shit!! Your son's a fag, fucker!!!

This is lame. I hope the Lakers win.

Afflalo me to victory!

Arron is playing great.

I DON'T want to get swept by LA.

Stuck has made some good plays tonight too.

Thatta boy Stockey!

Where the fuck has Maxiell gone?

AJ with some good D on Kobe

Has turned into a really good game.

Needs to stay under 197 total points though.

I really wish I were watching this one, rather than listening on Audio League Pass. Maybe I'll get to watch it recorded tomorrow.

It sounds like the youth movement is working pretty well in this game.

Glenn may be eating more crow again, this time about Stuckey.

Is sure seems that way Atti...re:Youth.

jesus christ, Kobe is killing us.

What is this, the Lakers' 50th fucking FT?

Pistons tie it, Kobe will hit the GW layup.

TAY

TAYSHAUN!!!!!!

KSTAT, DID YOU SEE THAT?

Tayshaun Prince is blossoming at the right time.

Fucking great win. take that, LA!

Kobe was looking at his teammates like they were a bunch of punks at the end.

This team is still clutch.

Tay, clutch two nights in a row! fuck a kobe

Man, FUCK Jack Nies! You Shit!! Your son's a fag, fucker!!!

I LIKE THIS GUY.

This is lame. I hope the Lakers win.

I was just kidding btw!

I was SCREAMING when I saw Sheed get it for the 3. He NEVER makes 3s in those situations.

I was SCREAMING when I saw Sheed get it for the 3. He NEVER makes 3s in those situations.

1 TIME IN ABOUT 22 ATTEMPTS.

Tayshaun says "we got a lead then hit a wall. *making a look like wall was a metaphor for something else* And it bothered us."

stuckey's lone miss also was an easy put back by the only guy anywhere near position to grab stuck's miss. savy play.

im telling you, give stuckey some rope and he will be a player. if we shit on him every time he makes a mistake, he will hurt us in the playoffs.

oK, anyone want to answer my question?

Where the fuck did Maxiell go?

Looking for Shergar

He ate Sugar. :(

Tayshaun says "we got a lead then hit a wall. *making a look like wall was a metaphor for something else* And it bothered us."

Furthermore
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Furthermore
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Foul.

Win of the year.

^ Yeah, if by year you mean 2008. Either way, it showed we can still get it done in these situations.

Kobe was just destroying us, so i thought we'd just take it like a bitch.

Triple Double for Kobe, 39 pts, 10 reb, 11 turnovers...

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for Mailman and Arch :)

Seriously though, good game by the young guys, wasnt feeling the fouls, but like a championship team we won regardless and didnt let it us completely take us out.

Ya know, I used to love Rasheed and his shit talking ways. Then I gradually got sick of it after he'd have a huge game, talk all kinds of shit, and then disappear for the next 5 or so games.

^ Yep.

And Codename, not cool man.



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I'm sorry...is Kobe in that pic?

Biggest three wins this season:

@ Boston
@ Golden State
Tonight vs. LA

Don't think anyone can argue.

I'd put the Bucks on New Years Eve ahead of this LA game, but only by a little.

Actually I agree w/ Mailman, the Golden State win was awesome, we didn't have Chauncey or Dyess I think for that game, and we were getting destroyed for 3 quarters, than we flat out kicked ass in the 4th for a sweet ass win on the road...

Yeah, I think I remember EVERYONE burying the Pistons in the OGT thread for that game.

9 rebounds in 15 mins of play? Fuck yeah Amir!

Were they Ben Wallace or Jeff Foster type rebounds? Amir will probably get a DNP the next game anywho. :(

This is a great win just because of how well the youth played. I get so excited when I see Amir Stuckey and Afflalo out there on the court. The mistakes they make are rookie mistakes, and should go away as we get closer to the playoffs.

Only got to see the fourth and was very excited to see the rookies bring the team back. Very fun game.

BTW, have you seen the Lakers website? Click on Team/Rosters. Its pretty pimp.

I approve of Tayshaun Prince.

Nice to hear the young guys got some run and did something with it. If they keep this up, we may actually see Flip Saunders play them in some crucial minutes.
Not really, he's too stuck in his ways.

:mccosky:


Postgame, Lakers
Rasheed Wallace, of all people, was the only one who understood what was going on Thursday and he was the only one to back off. Referee Jack Nies has a short fuse on most nights, and he has virtually no fuse when it comes to the Pistons. So Wallace was smart enough to step back and not provoke him -- at least not as much as he would almost any other official.

Sadly, Richard Hamilton didn't follow suit. Hamilton argued with Nies after he got kicked in the hip by Lamar Odom and earned the foul. Rip's parting shot was, "You are still blind." With that, Nies T'd him up and the Pistons didn't get another favorable call from Nies until the fourth quarter. The Lakers had 22 free throw attempts to the Pistons' two in the first half and it completely turned the game around.

The Pistons should know better. There are a bunch of officials they know have little or no patience with them -- Nies, Steve Javie, Bill Kennedy, Marc Davis, just to name a few. They need to tread a little lighter when those guys are working games. It's a battle they will never win.

I saw something Thursday that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. The Palace did an in-game promotion for a concert at Joe Louis Arena. What's next, dogs and cats getting along? Peace in the Middle East? If you don't know, there has been no love lost between Palace Entertainment and the Ilitch operations downtown over the years. But there was Kid Rock and Reverand Run sitting along one baseline and Peter Wolf, the former J. Giles front man, sitting behind the Lakers bench. My buddy Pete Skorich put Wubba-Grubba Wolf on camera, gave him a microphone and let him both pump up the crowd, which he did, and shill for his show with Rock at JLA -- which he darn-sure did. It was a beautiful moment -- especially for this unabashed fan of Peter Wolf -- almost brought tears to these old eyes.

Last note -- now do you see why everybody was so excited about Rodney Stuckey? The kid can do things that no other Piston can do. He has the ability to fracture a defense off the dribble and he is extremely strong at the basket. He's going to go through more struggles, more growing pains, but he's going to be a special player. That said, it's a good thing Flip Saunders reconsidered and put Chauncey Billups back in to finish the game. Saunders said he contemplated letting Stuckey finish, leaving Mr. Big Shot on the bench. That would have been a disaster. Not so much that the Pistons couldn't have won the game with Stuckey closing, but you don't do that to the captain of your team, especially on a night when he was playing well. That would have gone over poorly with the other veterans. Saunders would have had a huge mess to clean up had he not went back to Billups.

Jack Nies works for gambling racket mobsters.

Last note -- now do you see why everybody was so excited about Rodney Stuckey? The kid can do things that no other Piston can do. He has the ability to fracture a defense off the dribble and he is extremely strong at the basket. He's going to go through more struggles, more growing pains, but he's going to be a special player. That said, it's a good thing Flip Saunders reconsidered and put Chauncey Billups back in to finish the game. Saunders said he contemplated letting Stuckey finish, leaving Mr. Big Shot on the bench. That would have been a disaster. Not so much that the Pistons couldn't have won the game with Stuckey closing, but you don't do that to the captain of your team, especially on a night when he was playing well. That would have gone over poorly with the other veterans. Saunders would have had a huge mess to clean up had he not went back to Billups.

Yessir!

F yea! stuckey is awesome. i could be excited into saying he has the most god given gifts on the team only behind sheed (and maybe amir).

McCosky says it and it becomes official?

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McCosky says it and it becomes official?

Just when he is right...which pretty much means when he says something I agree with.