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everyone realised this was going to be the game sometime last week.
LA/BOS
G-bos
SG-la
F-bos
F-la
C-bos (with bynums knee)
Bench- bos
Boston wins thanks to rhondo, shooting, post defense(lakers dont have not faced a front line better than them and with bynum hurt they are better. garnet, davis, perk, and wallace play great post D)
I thought this was a thread about Kurt Rambis...
There are two big factors this time around opposed to 2008 for the Lakers.
In '08 Bynum was out with an injury and so was Trevor Ariza. Now Ariza is gone, but we have Artest. Both players main job is to play defense on the opposing team's best player. Artest will get the job of guarding Pierce in this series.
With Bynum back, he'll get his 20-25 minutes inside, freeing up Gasol to guard (i would assume) Garnett.
On the Boston side, Rondo is a much better player than he was in the '08 series. That helps them out. I'm not sure if Rondo can play any better than Steve Nash did in the LA/PHX series though.
I'm a Lakers fan. I think the Lakers take this one in 6 this time around.
kobe is going to get his on ray allen and rhondo is going to get his on fisher farmar and brown. . . in 08 garnett dominated gasol, this time i think the tables will turn with garnett getting older and gasol will win that battle. . . perice not having to focus any defenseive energy really on arnest i think he will still have solid games.
If Boston is playing like they have, they'll win in 6 easily, they took down the 1st and 2nd best teams in the league...no reason they couldn't take the 3rd. That's still a big IF to me, I don't know if they can keep it up.
Thought this was interesting, that Lakers have to get paid extra to play D. lmao
'Thin-chested' Lakers get $50 a charge - Ball Don't Lie - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
Lakers make a statement by beating up the Celtics in Game 1.:cool:
1 down 3 to go.
Lakers take 2 charges and made the hustle plays on the boards
Win game 1 by 13
The Celtics looked old and out of sync.
The officiating in that game was horrible for both teams. 28 fouls called in the first half, most of the ticky-tack variety. Never could get a rhythm going in the game. Hope game 2 is better. But fortunately, the Lakers prevailed!
Uh-oh. ;)