There was something missing from today's game 1 in Phoenix. At first glance, it seemed to have all of the elements of the 2007 Lakers:
- Kobe playing brilliantly yet selfishly before tiring out after receiving little help from his teammates with the exception of Lamar Odom.
- Phil Jackson glowering on the sidelines, trying to prod his team with that bizzaro two-fingered whistle thing he does.
- Kwame Brown playing hot potato instead of the game of basketball. Somebody needs to tell Kwame the goal is to catch the ball when it is passed to him. And after the game, Kwame had the nerve to say they should have gone inside more. Well Kwame, I think the team might have lost a little confidence in your work after about the tenth or eleventh time you fumbled the ball away. The corpse of Wilt Chamberlain would have been more effective out there. True story.
But the one thing this game didn't have - it could not be found...on KCAL 9. And therefore the viewing audience was robbed of the dulcet tones of Stu Lantz, the most insightful basketball analyst of this or any other generation.
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