tip-off

the NBA is underway. I'm watching my first Lakers game with the big tV. lakers versus Nuggets. I'm in my new place, watching the Nuggets cut the laker lead to one at the end of the third quarter. So far, Lamar Odom hasn't dazzled. he's bringing the ball up now, and so far I've watched one one quarter and he's got two traveling calls. We have a new pointguard named smush parker.. a streetballer from NY. He's impressed me a lot more than Odom who is shooting 2-10. I haven't seen any of Kwame, though I was listening on AM radio as he scored his first bucket as a Laker. we have a funny sounding lineup this year. kobe smush kwame lamar and chris. Sure ain't the same as Shaq Kobe Fisher Fox and Horry. Chris Mihm sure ain't shaq. we'll see how he does with Phil and the triangle. I'm hoping we see a lot of rookie Andrew bynum. Cook is on the last year of his rookie contract. So is Luke Walton, who's out hurt for this game. His Dad, Bill Walton, is calling the game. devean George is back and playing well. kwame is missing wide open shots. Lamar is on the wrong end of a few alley-oops. What a frontcourt. It ain't malone and O'neal. three minutes left and we're down by three. one thirteen we're down by four smuch hits a clutch three in rhythm. The triangle was rotating. 34 seconds left denver turns it over. our ball 32 seconds,down by one. Kobe drives, passes to mihm, he gets fouled by camby. 20 seconds left, mihm misses the first, makes the second. Denver's timeout gives them a chance to show smush parker's sweet three again. with 20 seconds, they just take the last shot. We get the ball back as melo forces a wild shot. we get the ball with nine seconds left. smush came around to help on D. We have a chance to win. Let's see how they go to Kobe. he gets it, puts up a shot at the buzzer. We're off to overtime. five more minutes... 1:10 left and we're up by three 37 seconds left and the crowd chants Kobe Sucks. of course he hits both. it's tied up again with 22.1 seconds left. the ball will go to Kobe again. melo and camby have fouled out. I was wrong. they passed the ball around in the triangle. kwame posts up, he misses but he gets the rebound. kobe takes it and makes it with .6 left lenard's have at the buzzer misses so we're undefeated.