Game 6

Statalyzer

Statalyzer

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My thoughts and the penny or two they are worth:

It's about time for Kobe to have one those nights where he just can't miss even when taking an 18-foot fadeaway with a defender or two in his face and ends up with 35-40 points and demoralizes the opponents in the 4th quarter, so LA is definitely capable of taking this to game 7. They are going to have to play a lot better defense than last game though - Boston was uncharacteristically (besides Pearce) off on offense and still nearly hit 100 on the road. Kobe could score 45 and if Pearce and Allen/KG each get 30-35 themselves, Boston still wins.

KG has got to realize he's a post player. Not that they don't want him taking those midrange jumpers he's so good at, but part of the reason for the game 5 loss was Boston having essentially no post presence on offense at all, while Odom and Gasol were both threats, giving LA an inside-outside game that was harder to stop than Boston's outside-outside game. The problem for LA is that in most road games it seems like one of either Odom or Gasol disappears on offense - and in Gasol's case, on the boards too.

I'll go on a limb and predict LA takes Game 6 107-104 before Boston clinches the series 95-80 - LA won't have anything left. I just hope the NBA isn't actively trying to send the series to a 7th game.
 
Kobe needs to have 40+ for LA to win in Boston and even so, chances are slim since everybody else disappears.

Boston exerts it's brute force tonight and wins comfortably.

I was thinking about this...who is the toughest Laker? Almost all are uber soft and the answer may be Derek Fisher! The shortest guy on the team (?). Next toughest is Turiaf. Bynam would have helped a ton in this series.

Vujavic, Gasol, Odom, Mihm, even Kobe...all soft. OTOH, almost every Celtic is built and street thuggish. Now we see how they dominated the West this year.

random thought about Gasol - runs like a girl, very unathletic and weak. A true 7'1" Laker Euro Center? VLADE DIVAC!!! Man, Vlade had major talent and would have been so much better than Gasol in this series.
 
That one handed falling down bank shot by Garnett while being fouled was sick and punctuated the 2nd quarter beat down.
 
the Garnett flip bucket will be statue-fied outside the Celtic stadium and will be the symbol of the NBA after Jerry West dies.
 
The Celtics are such a way better team. Their defense and rebounding plus the Big 3 offense can't be matched. In the West the Spurs probably were the best defensive team but didn't have the offensive firepower to match the Lakers.

I love watching Garnett rebound and my appreciation for Pierce is much higher than ever before...he is a warrior. And, he should be MVP.

Hook'em!!!
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How come the Celtics can do this to LA & Detroit but not Atlanta and Cleveland?

And that was not a flagrant foul - you call the action, not the result. When guys are flying through the air even a small bump on the shoulder from behind can result in landing sideways.

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That's twice in the 4th quarter that Boston went down the floor and nobody on the Lakers even bothered to pick up Ray Allen.
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So this means its now officially football season?

Good riddance. What a piece of crap finals. Won't watch ESPN for the next week b/c they will be 'celebrating' this east coast title.
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MIght as well of had the Karl Malone Jazz in the finals. This one was as boring as one can get. Wish the Olympics startee now. Living in Arlington, we learned to tune out MLB a long time ago.
 
NBA was great this year, can't knock it.

How many of the Celts return?

East has won 3 of the last 5 with only the Spurs saving the honor of the West (twice).

nice year for Paul Pierce with Kansas winning it 2 months ago as well. Scott Pollard too....
 
I don't think I've ever seen a more collective effort to win a championship. If it was possible, they should have just divided the MVP trophy into 2 or 3. Each of those guys had a few games they dominated, and KG made it impossible for the Lakers to get anything inside all series long.

That said, I fully expect the Lakers to be back in the Finals for the next 2 or 3 years...with some added muscle. They certainly need it.
 
Rockets, if healthy, match up nicely with LA. Problem for Houston are other teams in the West like Utah. Spurs, Suns and Mavs are in decline. We could have LA Boston next year
 
Spurs in decline. Now when did I last hear this? Come to think of it, I heard it in-between the 2005 and 2007 Finals, and before that it was in-between the 2003 and 2005 Finals, and before that it was in-between the 1999 and 2003 Finals...
 
Congrats to KG. The post game with him was awesome. My two favorite parts:

"ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!"

and


"I'm CERTIFIED....what can you say now?"
 
I realize it is about more than the 3 main guys, but the age of the main three for Spurs:

Duncan- 32
Ginobili- 30
Parker- 26

for Celtics:

Garnett- 32
Pierce- 30
Allen- 32

for Lakers:

Bryant- 29
Gasol- 27
Odom- 27
(Bynum- 20)

So Lakers' main people are younger, but Celtics at the top are not younger than the Spurs. The current Lakers have not shown they can win and Kobe was more of a pretender than contender in this last series.

For Spurs' haters, I realize that the Lakers won the series against the Spurs, but maybe it was a different series if Ginobili is not hobbling or the previous series against the Hornets was not a hard one.

There are a lot of good teams at the top, especially in the West, so counting on a Celtics-Lakers rematch is very premature. Who would have thought that the finals' teams from 3 years ago (Mavericks and Heat) would have dropped so much?
 
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