Get Up Eight Times

Did this at the Play in CA here, saving it here to make sure I remember doing it.

As college basketball wrapped up last night, I’m impressed by how tense the game was from start to finish. It was crisp, it was quick, it was fast. But it also reminded me flawed the NBA game is right now, and I think it’s a good time to present some of the issues.
Let’s look at [...]

Continuing from the 3rd quarter.
Cut shot to Phil Jackson wearing Jordan Nikes. Sweet.
Speed lineup in for the Pistons, with Thomas, Salley and Rodman and Laimbeer all in. MJ driving to the hole guarded by Rodman…ends up getting blocked out by Salley. Here are the Bad Boys.
Pippen with a nice block, but no one’s boxing out [...]

Continued from the 2nd quarter.
Horace Grant picks up his 4th. More Dave Corzine baby, who closeup looks like an athletic version of Alex Trebek.
Four team fouls picked up by Chicago. This third quarter’s going to be a dandy to watch if this keeps up.
Paxson with an excellent strip of Isiah. I can’t believe I’ve gone [...]

Continuing on from the first quarter…
Corzine and Davis get two more layups, followed by Isiah going into triple coverage and then travelling. Did I accidentally key up the 1991 Conference Finals? It’s 39-17. They’re making Dave Corzine look like Tim Duncan.
With John Salley and Dennis Rodman now on the floor, immediately you see blocking, cutting [...]

We’re going into the vault for some old school basketball. Jordan v. Bad Boys, 1989.
Brent Musburger (Musburger looks happy that Jordan here) and Bill Raftery commentate. This is going to be awesome. Lesley Visser looks like a darling here.
Starting lineups:
Pippen, Grant, Cartwright, Jordan, Hodges (HODGES?)
Aguirre, Laimbeer, Mahorn, Thomas, Dumars
Mahorn on an offensive rebound, 2-0.
MJ takes [...]

We start from the third, Lakers up by 12.
Jack Nicholson is bald here. This is more horrifying than Jason Williams’s box out abilities.
Lawrence Funderburke and Tony Delk are running the offense for Sacramento right now. Interestingly, the Kings bench seemed to always step up when needed (Pollard, Delk, Bobby Jackson)…because they actually played hard on [...]

Continuing where we left off from the first half, the Lakers are slowly putting the Kings to sleep.
Vlade has actually played Shaq well here; he’s kept him away from the easy dunks (only two or three so far), and he’s forced him to the hook shot. 17 shots for 20 points. That’s exactly what you [...]

Continued from the first quarter yesterday.
Jon Barry pulls up and clangs a three on a 2 on 1 fastbreak. And this is why his brother ended up with the rings.
Who the hell is this Ron Harper? He didn’t even get this many offensive boards in Chicago, and now he’s pushing Scott Pollard to the ground.
Of [...]

Everyone remembers the 2002 series, but few remember that the Lakers run to glory also started in another winner take all series, one that went the full five games of the first round in 2000.
Starting lineups: Corliss Williamson (in his prime, which means he scored in the double digits), Chris Webber (just into his peak [...]