They do, his name is Kobe Bryant, but Ray Allen caught the Wind of God at his back during the first half, and that created all sorts of chaos with the Lakers' back-court.

They have an answer for him, but Rondo can still get going at anytime. If anything, this game backs up my statement that he is the catalyst of the C's offense, and when he gets going, and others are hitting their shots... the Celtics can beat anybody.

Slow Rondo and you will beat the Celtics. Ray Allen had the best 3-point shooting half in the history of the NBA. I don't think he'll repeat that performance. Also, some calls that went the Celtics way down the stretch....

Since Game 4 and Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals, the Lakers have always won their "must win games", the Game 5's, the Game 6 close outs on the road, even the Game 7 against Houston last year.

I'd say Game 3 is pretty must win. Should make for a good game. Boston didn't fundamentally beat the Lakers like the Lakers did to Boston in Game 1. Game 1 has much bigger chance of being repeated than Game 2, IMO.

LOL. You're still confused Sage...maybe someday you'll see the light.

But I'm outta this bitch, been a pleasure posting with all of you.

Thank God, the national nightmare is over.

Sage;382066 wrote:They do, his name is Kobe Bryant, but Ray Allen caught the Wind of God at his back during the first half, and that created all sorts of chaos with the Lakers' back-court.

They have an answer for him, but Rondo can still get going at anytime. If anything, this game backs up my statement that he is the catalyst of the C's offense, and when he gets going, and others are hitting their shots... the Celtics can beat anybody.

Slow Rondo and you will beat the Celtics. Ray Allen had the best 3-point shooting half in the history of the NBA. I don't think he'll repeat that performance. Also, some calls that went the Celtics way down the stretch....

Since Game 4 and Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals, the Lakers have always won their "must win games", the Game 5's, the Game 6 close outs on the road, even the Game 7 against Houston last year.

I'd say Game 3 is pretty must win. Should make for a good game. Boston didn't fundamentally beat the Lakers like the Lakers did to Boston in Game 1. Game 1 has much bigger chance of being repeated than Game 2, IMO.

shut the hell up about the calls. The Lakers always get calls.

youre right, we always get calls, which is why we got the calls down the stretch of game 2. lol.

LA had the free throw advantage 41-26. Garnett, Perkins, Wallace, and Davis all were in foul trouble. LA got the calls. It's not the refs fault that Kobe decided to no show in the last 5 minutes.

yes, it had nothing to do with the refs refusing to overturn a ball that had blatantly been hit out of bounds by KG

Not to mention the charge called on Kobe, and the "push" called on Bryant when Rondo fell out of bounds.

one bad call doesn't make a game. The Lakers got away with a lot of crap. Two bullshit fouls called on Boston, when they clearly got all ball. Odom basically running from the 3 point line to the paint, without putting the ball down.

Not saying there weren't bad calls both ways, just saying, when the chips came down, the Lakers didn't get a single break. I forgot about Kobe "pushing" Rondo out. That was atrocious.

It's not the refs fault, that the Lakers didn't take advantage of Boston's foul troubles. They couldv'e got Garnett and Perkins out of the game in minutes. The Lakers forced up horrible shots (mainly Kobe). Their defense was horrible. Its pathetic when Gasol and Bynum get schooled on some easy rebounds by Rondo. Plus the Lakers bench is down right shit, including Odom.

Was that Nate Robinson or Mike Hart running with the ball?

I didn't even see Robinson play at all. I turned the channel to watch the hockey game during the game. I probably missed about 15 minutes total of the game.

Robinson gets up with the ball, does a nice spin move and then Artest is called for a reach.


Oh, but Robinson didn't dribble once.

The and-one that Kobe got when it was pretty obvious that no one touched him. They replayed it and had I recorded it, I would have put the freeze frames up. It was horrible.


http://deadspin.com/5557203/tim-donaghy-on-the-refs-in-game-2-what-star-treatment?skyline=true&s=i

Some that he didnt cover for both teams that I thought were blown too.