Jan. 30: LA’s No Church For A Monk

Human beings in a mob. What’s a mob to a king? What’s a king to a God?

Antonio Losada
HeadFake Hoops
4 min readJan 31, 2022

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Young are the boys who GRACE Westland. Young are the boys who DIM bright lights. Young are the boys who TOP the charts. Monks be called to SAVE our SOULS. Monks be called, Monks be called.

Trae dumped 36 pops on the Lake Show, which was more of a SH*TSHOW than a GREATSHOW on a random Sunday night around the NBA. It is what it is. You let Trae shoot the rock 22 times from the field and half of those times (11, for those lost) from the charity stripe, and you’re basically calling for trouble and cooking your own demise. Because the WORLD BELONGS to the Young, and the Young are our ONLY HOPE.

That’s why Monks stay PRAYING. Praying for the GREATER GOOD. Praying for a STABLE CONTINUUM. I don’t remember one single prophet named Malik. Nor AD, nor Russ, nor LBJ. In the drought of solutions ramming off the Lakers, only a Monk could find peace. Peace in the BUCKET, peace in the THREE, peace in the REBOUND, peace in the DISH, peace what is it?

Monks ain’t for late-night affairs, perhaps that’s why Malik needed the LIGHT OF THE DAY and only then THRIVED AGAIN. 33–10–5 with 8 treys won’t suffice. Not when AD+Russ build not even 50, not even 15, not even 20 single-box marks, let alone a bulky LONGFORM LINE. There is NO CHURCH IN THE WILD.

  • Luka with the GEM and Dallas losing to Orlando because there is this thing called BALANCE that I assume the World needs to properly function? No other explanation out there for whatever took place. 34–12–11 with a steal to spare and a marvelous 59% accuracy from the field on a healthy 22 attempts. Even the DON realized so he turned the ball over 6 times to compensate!
  • The Jazz suck, and the worst is still to come. It’s been FIVE losses in a row. Joe Ingles’ KNEE DANCED to a piece of very bad music and whatever Salt Lake City do next might define the day. DOOM day… or RESPITE Day. Come back on Feb. 10!
  • History in the making for Cade who was good for a trip-dub (19–10–10 with three steals and a block on top of that) while shooting a stupid 28% from the floor on 21 hoisted shots. That’s insane. This kid’s a rook. A ROOK. And yall letting him shoot the rock like that in Motown!? YOU DO YOU. Also, you done beating the Cavs, which isn’t that bad.
  • Jokic is TOO BORING. ALMOST another trip-dub in just 28 minutes of playing time against the Reigning Champs. How you like that? Not a lot because it’s become the norm. Russ knows.
  • There is this guy called Marquese CHRISS NOT CHRIST. Everybody HATES Chriss.
  • No Rudy Gobert playing on the day, but Chris Paul himself made up for the absence as he was the GAWD putting up the 20–19. There is a CADRE OF RESEARCHERS pouring time and effort in DECYPHERING this man, only they can’t unlock the CP3 CODEX.
  • Shout out LOWLY TWIN MARTIN. So humble he played 40 minutes only to finish with a full single-digit line against the Clippers. Because Cody knows THE TRUTH and wants THE GOOD LA to be the one ENLIGHTENED at the end of the day.
  • If you play DFS games then you know by now Dorian Finney-Smith didn’t quite have his absolute BEST day.

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Antonio Losada
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