Running Diary of Fourth Quarter Game 1, Lakers-Denver WCF 2009

 
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:17 am    Post subject: Running Diary of Fourth Quarter Game 1, Lakers-Denver WCF 2009

I hope you saw last night’s Game 1 Western Conference Finals game between the Lakers and the Nuggets. If you missed it, not to worry, as an instant classic it will be running all week on NBA TV and ESPN Classic and into the next century. This was a game of epic proportions for both teams. Granted every game in the WCF should be considered as such, but as the game went on, the intensity of this game evolved into a Game 7-like battle of will, mostly due to extenuating circumstances surrounding and leading up to the game. I was so amped up from this game that I nearly lost my voice rooting for the Lakers and screaming out expletives at the Thuggets. In fact, when it was all over I still had so much adrenaline pumping through my veins that I had to make a late night run to the gym just to get it out of my system. Now that I’m back, I still can’t stop replaying it in my head, so I’m playing back the TiVo recording and putting together a retrospective running diary of the fourth quarter for your reading pleasure (inspired by Bill Simmons, who would never do one of these for the Lakers).

Start of Fourth Quarter - Denver 76 Lakers 74

Key Comparison:
Carmelo Anthony 30 points on 11-15 shooting
Kobe Bryant 22 points on 9-23 shooting

It looks like the critics were right. Carmelo is clearly the better player. Kobe just doesn’t have it anymore. I’m picking LeBron’s Vitamin Water as I type this.

As we come back to the game, Doris Burke interviews Phil Jackson, and he basically admits that Kobe deserved his 3rd quarter technical because he got “too emotional.” Normally that might be true, but if you watch the replay, Kobe just slammed the ball with the intention to catch it on the ricochet, but he whiffs and the ball goes careening into the stands. The rule is that if you slam the ball and it goes above your head, it’s a technical foul. As usual, Jeff Van Gundy gets it right and questions the logic behind penalizing a player with a “T” if he misses the ball when we ignore the exact same incident as long the player catches the ball. Lucky for us Mike Breen is in the booth to provide living, breathing proof of why irrational rules like this exist and continually get approved by the league’s incompetent board members. In all of his incompetence, Breen is incapable of seeing the hypocrisy of ignoring the whole thing as long a player catches the ball. What he doesn’t realize is that these incidents occur 2-3 times per game during the regular season, and only about 1 in 20 times does the ball actually carom above a player’s head, either because a) the player slams the ball so hard that is it is clear he didn’t intend to catch the carom or b) the player accidently misses the carom, as was the case with Kobe’s technical. As it stands, it brings Kobe to a whopping 5 technicals in the playoffs.

Of note, Phil somehow goes with Vujacic to start the fourth quarter. Ariza’s in foul trouble with four, but it’s not like Walton and Farmar aren’t sitting there on the bench. With the way Vujacic’s been playing these days, you could probably throw Adam Morrison out there and get better production.

11:28 Lamar Odom throws a terrible pass to no one in particular, and in the process Kobe re-dislocates his finger and knocks the wind out of Kenyon “Fugazy” Martin (credit Tim Thomas with giving Kenyon the “Fugazy” nickname). Congratulations Lamar, you will go down as history as the guy who threw such a terrible pass that it led to two players getting injured on the same play.

10:50 Signs of life from Odom, who scores what will be his last points of the game off of a great pass from Kobe, cutting the Denver lead to 78-76. Kobe of course drew two defenders on the play. But you can just ignore that sequence because we all know that Kobe doesn’t make his teammates better.

10:35 Chauncey Billups blows by Shannon Brown and sets up Chris “Birdman” Anderson for a slashing layup-and-1. On cue, Jordan Farmar comes in for Brown, who has strangely regressed on defense ever since the Utah series. This play he lets arms hang by his side and squares his feet too directly with Billups' toes. On Birdman’s made free throw, Denver goes back up by 5, 81-76.

10:11 Kobe lulls JR Smith to sleep and knocks down a three. Kobe got Smith to back up just enough by looking down to Pau, who might as well be back in Spain “running with the bulls” with the way Nene is bodying him up. On the 3, the Lakers pull closer to 81-79.

9:50 JR Smith responds by taking a fadeaway three that he has no business shooting. Of course, he has made a career of taking shots he has no business shooting. And who else but Sasha Vujacic was beat trying to fight through a pick on the play. Phil doesn’t even send anyone to the scorer’s table, and the Nuggets go back up 6, 84-79.

9:36 The next play down, Anthony Carter leaves Farmar to double Pau, who alertly flips it out to Farmar. Jordan is left all alone on the right wing. Literally all alone, as nobody is even within 5 feet of closing out on him… you better make that, and he does, bringing the score to 84-82, Nuggets lead.

9:22 Smith nearly turns it over by trying to do too much, but Carter somehow saves the ball to Anthony, who swing it back to Smith. Smith sets his feet and misses an open three. This was a shot you just knew he was going to sink after hitting the crazy fallaway shot just minutes ago…only he bricks this open shot badly. Of course, the Lakers despicably forget to box out the Birdman, who flies in for a crazy board. How do you not remember to box out the pale white guy with a Mohawk and tattoos, whose one skill is jumping high? Anyhow, the Birdman ends up getting fouled but only makes one of two to push the Denver lead to 3, 85-82.

8:54 Kobe gets double teamed and swings the ball to Vujacic, who drives past ‘Melo. ‘Melo somehow gets beat to the hole despite being in a sagging position on defense. Luckily for Melo, the Birdman is there to erase Vujacic’s layup. This reminds Laker fans to complain about the fact that Sasha is still in the game. Odom can’t finish the putback because the Birdman doesn’t give up on the play. Birdman is giving the Nuggz some impact minutes.

8:34 Melo absolutely “beasts” Kobe to gain the offensive rebound. He makes the putback to top it off. He had no business getting that rebound, but Melo is getting his grown man on out there, which seems impressive until you realize he has 3 inches and somewhere around 30lbs on Kobe. He should be doing this every play. Which brings up an important point. People don’t realize that Kobe’s body really isn’t that otherwordly compared to other NBA athletes. If Kobe had Melo’s body, let alone LeBron’s, he might break the 150 point mark in a game.

Another great developing storyline is the fact that Kobe’s versatility as a defender allows the Lakers to use him to shut down Billups for 3 quarters, and he could have continued except Melo was burning the Lakers so badly that they had no choice but to take Kobe off of Billups and use him to slow down Melo. How many other players in the league could legitimately take on both of those assignments, and succeed, all while carrying the offense? After the game Coach Jackson said that Kobe made the switch onto ‘Melo. Not many guys want that kind of pressure, but once again Kobe accepted or rather called for the challenge.

8:16 A horrible Lakers possession thanks to Sasha. After only two passes, Vujacic jacks a terrible 3 point shot from the corner. Luckily for the Lakers, JR Smith takes an equally bad 3 pointer on the other end, and then compounds it by fouling Farmar on the drive. Can someone remind Denver that they’re up by 5?

The announcers didn’t comment on Smith’s foul, but it was a dirty foul, at least in a sneaky way. Smith grabbed the lower leg area of Farmar and sent him headfirst into the hardwood. That was the second nasty foul by Smith this game. He also got away with grabbing Kobe’s wrist and throwing him down in the 3rd quarter, which was the play subsequent to Kobe’s frustrated ball slam technical.

7:52 Odom blows a right handed layup, but he had to go right because the Birdman knows that Odom literally has only one arm. Good scouting report work by the Nuggets. Which reminds me, Coby Karl, the son of Denver coach George Karl, played with the Lakers all of last season and was the last man cut in training camp this season. As it turns out, this past week he actually provided insider information to the Nuggets. In hindsight the Lakers should’ve kept him over someone like Sun Yue just to prevent this from happening. But then again, who thought the Nuggets would ever land Billups and become a legitimate threat?

7:33
ESPN’s Star Comparison graphic pops up as we return from commercial:
Anthony: 32 points on 12-16 shooting from the field
Kobe: 25 points on 10-25 shooting from the field

I wonder if this trend will continue. Quick answer: Melo throws it in from the sideline, cuts around a double pick from Nene and a clueless Andrew Bynum (yes, he set a pick on his own teammate), and gets an easy slam. This puts the Nuggets up 89-82, which Breen informs us is the biggest lead of the second half.

7:10 Farmar makes a pass to Vujacic, who fires up another brick. At this point I’m convinced that Vujacic has naked photos of Phil Jackson, as there’s really no reason why he should be in the game.

After the Nuggets rebound, somehow the Lakers leave Anthony wide open in transition, but they dodge a MAJOR bullet as he misses a point blank three. Laker fans everywhere exhale, as that would have been an absolute dagger.

6:48 In transition, the Birdman and Smith pick up Kobe on a double team, but he wheels around and makes a no-he-didn’t left handed touch-shot-and-1 over the high-flying Birdman, all while being shoved by Nene. Kobe sinks the free throw to pull the Lakers within 4, and the door remains open for a comeback.

6:33 Van Gundy mentions that Karl plays Anthony Carter if they’re protecting a lead, but if they’re behind he plays JR Smith instead. Dear George Karl, Thank you for playing Anthony Carter. Sincerely, Laker Fans Everywhere.

If he helps you get back into the game, why not just go with Smith all the time and add-on to leads? He is clearly the superior player. Carter was never that great to begin with, but at this point in his career, he should only be in to give guys a short breather. You could argue Carter brings intangibles though, like excellent inbound passing (okay, I apologize, that’s just a low blow to Nuggets fans right now).

Back to the action, Kenyon Martin makes an impossible flip shot for the third time this game, and the Nuggets go back up by 6.

6:16 The Kobe-Carter defensive matchup rears its ugly head for Nuggets fans. I have a feeling this will happen often during the next week or so. Kobe draws a foul against the overmatched Carter and sinks both free throws. Karl inexcusably leaves Carter in. Right on cue, Carter blows a layup the next time down, but somehow Bynum and Odom bobble the rebound out of hands. I haven’t seen stone hands like that since Kwame Brown donned the purple and gold.

5:57 ’Melo “beasts” Kobe again and only a hard foul by Bynum prevents another Anthony field goal. ’Melo sinks both free throws to push the Nuggets lead back up to 6.

5:47 Bryant faces up against Carter on the right elbow, sweeps through and blows right past the smaller Carter. Two help defenders rotate to cut off the drive, so Kobe rises up and hits an impossible fadeway that bounces up off of the front, right side of the rim and somehow falls in. The ghost of George Mikan tipped that one in for the Lakers. Seriously though, great touch by #24. The score is now 93-89 Nuggets.

On the next play down, Kobe locks down ’Melo, who forces up a shot that Odom swats into the out of bounds area, only Fisher hustles to make an incredible save. Kobe pushes the ball to Odom, who starts to make a move towards the basket but is denied by Martin. If there was ever a point at which the wheels seemed like they were going to fall off in the Lakers’ comeback attempt, this feels like it’s going to be it.

5:08 After jostling for position against Kobe, Melo draws the Lakers’ 5th team foul and heads to the line. The refs cause a lengthy delay because they somehow forgot the number of Lakers team fouls, and after the discussion ’Melo misses the first free throw. He still should’ve been able to hit it, but nonetheless it worked out as a break for the Lakers. He hits the second to make it a 5 point Nuggets lead.

4:42 Odom misses a horribly off-balance running jumper. Again, he was forced to his right, which lowers his odds of scoring somewhere around 99.99%. Pau Gasol can’t get the putback to go, but luckily for the Lakers, Billups comes down and jacks a three with Odom right in his face. Pau pulls down a tough rebound in traffic over the Birdman. Again, someone needs to remind the Nuggets of the score. Billups, you’ve been here before, and don’t you know that you’re up 5!! Why are you shooting contested threes with 16 seconds on the shot clock?! I am waiting for the Mark Jackson specialty, “Chauncey, you’re better than that,” but MJ does not deliver his patented line.

4:19 Kobe gets doubled again and bounces it to Gasol, who gets swarmed but finds a way to kick it out to Ariza, who coolly knocks down a three with no one in the general vicinity. Huge momentum boost and the Lakers pull within 2, 94-92. But again, dismiss Kobe’s passing ability because we all know that Kobe doesn’t set up others at all.

3:25 The Lakers get a stop, so Kobe brings it up and splits two defenders, but Carter makes a good play on the ball and strips him from behind. Carter tries to capitalize on a wide-open 16 footer, only his shot hits the back rim and bounces straight up. And who else but ’Melo rebounds the ball and gets a putback underneath the basket. That was embarrassing for Ariza, he just got abused on this play. Hey Trevor, regardless of what happens the rest of the way, your offseason plans must include the weight room after that play.

3:16 We see the GameTrack as we return from the break: the Lakers trail 96-92. ’Melo has 39 points now and Kobe has 32, but Kobe’s shooting is up to 12-26. He’s 3-3 so far in the quarter.

As action resumes, Fisher hands it off to Kobe, who makes his signature heavily contested 17 foot jump shot right in Nene’s face. This pulls the Lakers within 2.

2:56 Nene gets a great pass from Billups, and it looks like Nene’s going to score yet again, only Gasol makes a great CONTROLLED block rather than swatting it into the third row. Unlike the Birdman, Nene and KMart, Pau actually corrals his own block to retain possession. He may be a little soft, but the man makes smart basketball plays.

2:33 Kobe escapes another hard double out on the perimeter by tossing it to Ariza, who hesitates rather than firing up a three. He gives it right back to Kobe, who nearly loses it but then recovers at around half court. Kobe penetrates and draws 2 defenders, so he looks and finds who else but Derek Fisher camping out in the corner for a three. I scream “Little Rock” as Fisher hits the three for the lead, 97-96. But just ignore this whole sequence because it’s a well-known fact that Kobe doesn’t make his teammates better.

2:07 Billups feeds ’Melo on the block, and ’Melo spins off of Kobe and then bowls over Gasol. Clearly a charge, and luckily momentum is on the Lakers side so the refs don’t mess up the call. It’s sad that NBA refereeing has sunk to such a low that you have to consider who has the momentum just to hope for the correct calls.

1:53 Martin just hacks Gasol as Pau begins to make his move on the block. “Fugazy” Martin then compounds it by clinging to Pau after the whistle. How could anyone root for the “Fugazy” and the Thuggets?

Unfortunately, Gasol doesn’t make “Fugazy” pay for his actions. He misses both, which looks like a huge choke job by Pau.

1:38 The next possession for the Nuggets, Big Shot Billups comes down and off of the pick nails an impossible high-arcing rainbow three over the loooonnnnggg, outstretched left arm of Gasol. It was a great closeout by Gasol, but an even better shot by Mr. Big Shot himself. That was one of those shots that as a shooter, there’s no way you can actually see the rim, so you just trust your mechanics and your sense of where the basket is, and throw some extra arc on it in order to get it off. Only the great ones make that shot, especially in that situation. Billups can’t help but smile to himself as runs down the floor. His sheepish grin is his way of admitting that even he knows that it should be impossible to make a shot like that. But the great shooters always do. The three pointers puts the Nuggets back up 99-97, and even though it feels like the wind is sucked out of the arena, the game is far from over.

1:17 Fisher jacks up a spastic shot from three point land with 4 on the shot clock that doesn’t even hit the rim, but before the Laker fans have a chance to groan, somehow the ball takes a fortuitous ricochet off of the backboard right into Pau’s arms. You can call this a lucky break, but it’s only fair since the refs somehow ignore Nene’s full bear hug on Gasol during the flight of Fisher’s chuck. Only at the last second does Nene release his Full Nelson, which is right at the moment when the ball conveniently lands into Pau’s paws for the putback attempt. Pau misses the putback as Nene is whistled for a foul. Nene is out of the game! The familiar “Hit the Road Jack” plays over the loudspeakers and it feels like the Lakers have a little momentum boost. When Pau swishes both free throws to tie the game up at 99-99, it becomes a big momentum boost. It should be pointed out that not many guys could come back and knock down two free throws with the game on the line after having missed two a short while before. This shows great poise and concentration on behalf of Pau.

1:01 After a Birdman miss, the refs allow Kenyon Martin to clobber Ariza as Trevor attempts to corral an “all-backboard, no rim” brick by Birdman. In the melee, Birdman and Odom end up on the floor tied up with the loose ball, and a jump ball is called with 57 seconds to play and the game all tied up at 99-99. Vince McMahon couldn’t script a better game than this.

Odom inexplicably wins the tip against the taller Birdman, who jumps so high that he was once in a dunk contest. I would say, “See kids, let that be a lesson as to why you shouldn’t do drugs,” but we all know Odom was (is?) a major pothead…

As the Lakers gain possession, they head down on offense and Kobe takes his patented heavily contest 17 footer, but this time he misses. Billups swings and taps the ball out of bounds. The refs made a great call here as at first glance it looked like it was Pau who knocked it out. Upon replay review, it was definitely Billups.

So with 35 seconds left, the Lakers get a second crack at taking the lead, and if they take a shot within the next 7 seconds or so, they will end up with the last shot in the game. Oh, and they still have a guy named Kobe Bryant on their side. Laker fans have to be feeling pretty good about their team's chances right now.

30.5 seconds: Kobe probes the defense, and Kenyon “Fugazy” Martin commits a bad foul, smacking Kobe across his body. In Martin’s defense, they’ve allowed him and his cronies to wack the Lakers all game without calling much of anything.

That certainly wasn’t the hardest foul in the game. In fact, plenty of harder hits were no-calls. The refs did the right thing though because Martin clearly made contact with Kobe’s chest, and the hit would have caused him to lose the ball, so they had to call it.

Kobe calmly sinks a pair of enormously clutch free throws, which confirms what we already knew about him and about the type of foul that was. Even if he misses one or both, it was a horrible foul on a number of levels: 1) you put the most clutch player in the game on the line 2) and in the process, doing so relieves the pressure on the Lakers to score from the field and 3) Even if you score the next time down, fouling with 30 seconds left sets the Lakers up for the last shot. With all of this in mind, the scoreboard has the Lakers up two, 101-99.

30.5 seconds: Denver ball with a chance to tie. Make that Lakers ball. Carter throws up a weak lob to Billups and Ariza glides in at the last second, tapping the ball to himself along the sideline. Just an absolute ball-hawking play by Ariza. He may need to add muscle and improve his man defense, but his athleticism, length and anticipation make him the best in the game at jumping into passing lanes.

By the way, that was a horrendous coaching decision by Karl to have Carter inbound the ball. Carter is about 6 feet tall, and he had to contend with the 6’10” Odom defending the inbounds pass. Odom’s length made it nearly impossible for Carter to get off a good pass. Besides, Carter isn’t exactly Steve Nash. It's one thing to put a little guy in that spot who's known for being a great passer, but Carter’s not known for neither great vision nor passing ability. Why put him in that spot? As it stands, the ball ends up in Kobe’s hands, and he is fouled with 10 seconds left. He ices the game with two more free throws, and the Lakers seemingly wrap up the victory with a 103-99 lead. But there is more drama to come.

10 seconds: Between Billups and Melo, you just know they have one last three ball in them. Sure enough, Billups delivers from the left corner despite having the much taller Ariza draped all over him. Of course, he did step out of bounds, but the refs somehow missed it. Figures.

5.8 seconds: Denver inexplicably allows Kobe to catch the inbounds pass, so they have no choice but to foul him. He sinks two more free throws, making him 9-9 from the line in the fourth quarter, including 6-6 in the last 30 seconds of the game. Yeah, you might say he’s the most clutch player in the game. His two free throws here put the Lakers back up 3, 105-102, and yet the game is far from over.

Van Gundy openly lobbies for Jackson to instruct the Lakers to foul to prevent the three point attempt, and Jackson surprisingly obliges. Fisher smartly fouls Smith near half court, preventing a three point attempt.

3.2 seconds: Smith makes the first free throw and purposely misses the second in an attempt to tie the game on the rebound. As bodies fly everywhere, who else grabs the rebound but Kobe Bryant. A fitting way to end a game that he absolutely dominated. Bryant ended up scoring 18 of his 40 points in the pivotal fourth quarter. He ended up 13-28 from the field, nearly 50%. He wanted it more and stepped his game up to the next level when the Lakers needed it most.

How important was this game? This game was a huge game for both teams. If the Lakers lose this game, they don’t make it to the finals. Period. There’s no way that the Lakers recover from losing Game 1 for the second straight series—that would be asking too much, even from Kobe. With that in mind, they somehow found themselves trailing headed into the fourth quarter and in real danger of making geniuses out of those in the media who made disparaging proclamations about the Lakers’ supposed inferiority to Denver.

On the other hand, Denver had to win this game for multiple purposes. Headed into this series, if you’re Denver, you know that realistically your only shot to win this series is to steal one of the first two games at Staples. Having seen the Rockets do so, they already had the confidence that they too could steal homecourt, and in the process wipe out whatever was left of the Lakers’ and Kobe’s respective statuses as the premiere force in the West. So the Thuggets came out fired up in game and swung hard and often, and despite throwing what looked like their best punch, they still lost. A loss is a loss, but to lose like this? This has to hurt the Nuggets players’ collective psyche after they did everything in their power to beat LA short of feeding Kobe a poisonous cheeseburger…and yet Kobe and the Lakers still won.
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:35 am    Post subject:

shameless bump
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:00 pm    Post subject:

sweet post. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks!
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:08 pm    Post subject:

gonna sticky just because you asked nicely G
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:15 pm    Post subject:

pretty nice. Thanks. at the shameless bump
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:19 pm    Post subject:

Awesome write up man serious, need more of this , keep it up if you can
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:27 pm    Post subject:

^you're just saying that because he's a Dawg


j/p, just read it... great stuff
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:27 pm    Post subject:

Loved the running diary! Thanks, dawg.
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:30 pm    Post subject:

Alpha wrote:
^you're just saying that because he's a Dawg


j/p, just read it... great stuff


Gotta support my boys

See, he even got the sticky, that's what I'm talking about.
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:41 pm    Post subject:

Fantastic post. Almost as much fun to read as to watch the action it describes. Bravo.

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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:07 pm    Post subject:

I missed the last 4 minutes of the game. Very good read, thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:46 pm    Post subject:

Thank you all for the positive feedback! I just may do it again the next time a great game strikes.

Big ups to Alpha for stickying, you guys here at LG have always been the best.
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:56 pm    Post subject:

Great read. Thanks
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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:00 pm    Post subject:

ChefLinda wrote:
Loved the running diary! Thanks, dawg.


woof woof (loosely translated, that means "thanks dawg")
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 7:31 am    Post subject:

nice, thanks
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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:48 am    Post subject:

Good job man, I really enjoyed the commentary.
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