*whistle*

So lately I have been cramming for stupid tests. It's so hard because after being out of school for a while now I have to do shit like cram for finals and deal with stupid study groups. I must say that I hate it a lot especially when I have other things to take care of, like finish fixing my damn house. ARGH!! Well my house is getting close to finished (at least the upstairs) and I hope to be in it by the 18th but I am not sure. I haven't done much lately besides study and watch laker games (4 game winning streak, BOO YEAH GRANDMA) and upon reading Bender's article that guy is obviously another sports writer who doesn't keep up with the laker's other than watching espn or nba tv. Sure he's right about a lot of things, but let us get one thing clear... the lakers aren't as weak as you may think them. The team is way to inconsistent compared to previous years but at the same time it's got a core of guys who are hanging in there in the west. Kobe is Kobe, Odom is a solid double double and almost triple double, and the rest of the guys alternate hot nights. Watching the past couple of games has shown something that may prove to be the difference for this club. Walton and Cook, both young guys who came into the league 2 years ago and 2 guys who should be ready to contribute now. Cook has shown he has the shot, and Walton has the basketball IQ but a bit short on the talent. Watching them play lately has been great, walton passes like odom SHOULD, and cook shoots like kobe should. Call me crazy but I think Kwame Brown being hurt helped this team out. It shows that the lakers give up on their youth too quickly. But Jackson coming to LA is something different than his other campaigns. This time he's going to build from the ground up, with Kobe there to lead and the young guys to step up, the X-factor won't be Odom, or Brown... but Bynum, Walton and Cook and hopefully if we can get him back Turiaf. Hopefully we didn't draft the wrong personnel the past couple of years. I don't care about those stats on ESPN or RealGm, I watch the games (ask jenn she will give you a long speech about how I focus too much on my boys) and I can tell you what's going on because unlike sports writers, i watch 82 laker games including preseason. It's not just the Jordan's and Duncan's who win championship's, in fact it's not them at all it's the guys who have NO stats... the guys who don't get remembered at all that make the win. The guy's who deflect passes, the guys who take the charge, those are the guys the Lakers lack, not scorers but those ass busting motherfuckers. We had them in fisher, fox, horry... hopefully the new bunch we have can bring that.

Well enough of my laker mumblings... sorry if they are boring and off topic but my team has been with me my whole life so it's pretty much all I have done besides study and hang out with jenn. But I'm going to try and avoid putting my adventures with jenn up here to preserve that whole privacy thing (unless it's a good story)

Joe out, and happy about this road trip that the purple and gold have got going so far.