Last Basketball post...for awhile.
I found this on ESPN's NBA page:
"How eerie do you find it that the Lakers' season continues to play out like the movie 'Teen Wolf?' Kobe plays like the Wolf all season only to show up for the playoffs in human form. You can just imagine him telling everyone before the series, 'I think we can take these guys. We don't NEED the Wolf.' Now everyone is making shots and playing so much good team ball that Mark Safan is probably calling Jerry Buss every day trying to talk him into scheduling a performance of 'Win in the End' at the Staples Center. You even have the coach who looks disinterested most of the time and is very philosophical (I remember reading that the original title of Phil's book was, 'Never Play Cards With a Guy Who Has the Same First Name as a City'). Has there ever been a movie more synchronized to [a] real sports story line?"
This is very true. Before this series I laughed at this comic:
See, Kobe, named himself the Black Mamba before the season. He is the best player in the league but prior to the last few weeks of the season, played incredibly selfishly--all his teammates would just stand around and watch him shoot over triple teams. After he won the scoring title he started passing to his teammates...and the Lakers looked pretty good. Everyone thought once the playoffs came he would go back to his selfish ways and score 62 or even 81 points in a playoff game. Instead...he re-enacted Teenwolf.
Oh yeah, not only is he probably a rapist, his teammate just got busted for sexual assault. Go Lakers!
"How eerie do you find it that the Lakers' season continues to play out like the movie 'Teen Wolf?' Kobe plays like the Wolf all season only to show up for the playoffs in human form. You can just imagine him telling everyone before the series, 'I think we can take these guys. We don't NEED the Wolf.' Now everyone is making shots and playing so much good team ball that Mark Safan is probably calling Jerry Buss every day trying to talk him into scheduling a performance of 'Win in the End' at the Staples Center. You even have the coach who looks disinterested most of the time and is very philosophical (I remember reading that the original title of Phil's book was, 'Never Play Cards With a Guy Who Has the Same First Name as a City'). Has there ever been a movie more synchronized to [a] real sports story line?"
This is very true. Before this series I laughed at this comic:
See, Kobe, named himself the Black Mamba before the season. He is the best player in the league but prior to the last few weeks of the season, played incredibly selfishly--all his teammates would just stand around and watch him shoot over triple teams. After he won the scoring title he started passing to his teammates...and the Lakers looked pretty good. Everyone thought once the playoffs came he would go back to his selfish ways and score 62 or even 81 points in a playoff game. Instead...he re-enacted Teenwolf.
Oh yeah, not only is he probably a rapist, his teammate just got busted for sexual assault. Go Lakers!
posted by Old Stallion at 10:40 PM
1 Comments:
and yesterday's achewood was about air wolf. oh, team wolf, you are dancing on the tripping point of the cultural zeitgeistything.
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