Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

was it them or usc? or did he coach there?

anyway, bibby was a thorn in our side during his prime, and he was another sg in a pg's body. i posted the stats a while back because slick insisted murray was better (he's not).

 

Henry Bibby played in the first 47 of the 88 straight wins UCLA had under Wooden. He was a starter on 3 NCAA championship teams for UCLA. Then he went on to have a decent 10 yr. career in the NBA: Knicks, New Orleans Jazz, 76ers, 1980-81 Clippers. I watched all of it. (Not every game, but I was there as a Laker fan.) And when we played a Henry Bibby team, I recalled being a very young child-fan of basketball and the name "Bibby" just struck me as funny, in a James Joycean way, like a recurrent gag in the very hippie-ish "Laugh-In" show, when they said, "You bet your sweet bippy!"

Then Henry retires. Then his son - also an NCAA champ - 1997 Arizona, under Lute Olson - got drafted by the Vancouver Grizzlies, played a long NBA career, retired. And somehow I'm still alive? Even though I still smoke weed and drink and cavort with the ladies?

Henry divorced Mike's mom and Mike publicly disowned him, but they later reconciled as Father-Son. Mike has a son who played hoops for Appalachian State in 2017, never made the NBA. Which just would've added to my Methuselah vibes.

 

yeah, i just remembered him as a coach (knew he was a player before, but not for whom). and he did coach USC for nine years, apparently.

 

Just finished the game.
Two things:
Mikey Malone is an overrated coach: all he had to do was double Austin all night and they would have won by 30, easily.
Joker is very good, but he gets so many phantom calls, it’s ridiculous- way more than any big man I have watched over the past 40 years.

 

yeah, when he ascended the mountain, the refs decided to just pour it on. he's plenty good enough without that extra advantage.

and he does get hit a lot (look at all the scratches on him every game), but he dishes more punishment than he receives, imo. and he rarely gets called for offensive fouls, which he commits VERY regularly. many of them are off ball, though, and refs don't seem to care about that for whatever reason.

 

The box score for Lakers @ DEN on Pi day is Exhibit A for all the jagoffs who assert the refs favor the Lakers. Without Luka or Lebron, we shot 16 FTs. Joker alone shot 17: you HAVE to foul lethal players like that. You had to foul AD. You have to foul Luka and Lebron.

DEN shot 38 FTs, 22 more than us.

But call "bank" and just wait for the haters to revert to the Lakers conspiracy theory with the refs/NBA/Voldemort or whatever when Lebron and Luka are back playing and "healthy."