I truly believe that if the c’s can keep the game close entering the 4th, they will win. odom and artest will hide in a whole making it 5 against 3.lol
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
This’ll work![/quote]
I’m assuming I am Kobe
V[/quote]
You are a mangy mutt!! There is only 1 black mamba. For you to compare your flea ridden ass to him is blasphemy! You’re going to basketball hell!
[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
This’ll work![/quote]
I’m assuming I am Kobe
V[/quote]
You are a mangy mutt!! There is only 1 black mamba. For you to compare your flea ridden ass to him is blasphemy! You’re going to basketball hell![/quote]
Please, I’d post Kobe up so hard he would shit himself.
V
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
[quote]randman wrote:
What im worried as a guy who doesnt think the lakers deserve to win the championship is that Garnett will let Gasol establish a rhythm.
What?!? The Lakers don’t deserve to win the championship?!?!
And I don’t what game you saw tonight. This was Kobe’s most complete game of the series. He was extremely efficient , got his teammates involved, scored nearly 50% from the field, scored 26 points on 19 shots, had double digit rebounds, and 4 steals. Your critcism of him is baffling. Are you kiddng me?!? He dominated this game much more than his game 5 38 point outburst.
If you haven’t noticed since last game Kobe has now figured out how to play, score and dominate the Celtics defense. You haven’t been paying much attention.[/quote]
Kobe can fucken score 50 points or score a triple double, what i saw was a Celtics offense that would be ranked 25th in the league. if they want to contain him they can, the biggest threat to the celtics is pau gasol because when hes on, everyone plays well. Havnt you noticed that or do you still have a Kobe erection, geez. [/quote]
Yes, I still have a Kobe erection but I actually agree with you at the same time. There’s no way Kobe can single-handedly beat the Cs himself. Pau Gasol is the key. I was bitching at Pau through the TV during games 4 and 5 yelling at him "You think Scottie Pippen disappeared and abandoned his partner MJ in big games?!?!?
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
^^hahahahah He should totally get a huge sign that says “I am Randman!” and go crazy in the stands like a super fan until they are forced to show him on tv! that’d be awesome!
.greg.[/quote]
Randman, you have been called out.
All thats left is to simply do it.
DO IT NOW!!![/quote]
On it!
[quote]gregron wrote:
take pics and post them on here in the off chance that the camera people dont see you 
.greg.[/quote]
Will do. I’ll be posting them up here for sure!
[quote]nomorewar wrote:
celtics have history on their side.They have never lost a game 7 of the nba finals. They are 7-0 in game 7 of the nba finals and 5 of those victories were against the lakers,last one being in 1984.
The reffs are gonna let both teams duke it out and that will play into the c’s advantage. C’s win tomorrow 106-98. [/quote]
No freaking way. You’re high.
[quote]randman wrote:
[quote]nomorewar wrote:
celtics have history on their side.They have never lost a game 7 of the nba finals. They are 7-0 in game 7 of the nba finals and 5 of those victories were against the lakers,last one being in 1984.
The reffs are gonna let both teams duke it out and that will play into the c’s advantage. C’s win tomorrow 106-98. [/quote]
No freaking way. You’re high.[/quote]
not high but a lil under the weather.
you’re high if you think the C’s can score damn near 40 more points in game 7 than they did in game 6 lol… spirits are high in laker land
.greg.
[quote]randman wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
^^hahahahah He should totally get a huge sign that says “I am Randman!” and go crazy in the stands like a super fan until they are forced to show him on tv! that’d be awesome!
.greg.[/quote]
Randman, you have been called out.
All thats left is to simply do it.
DO IT NOW!!![/quote]
On it![/quote]
Dudes, I’m going to game 7 of a Lakers-Celtics finals for the championship. It’s really hitting me.
This is how it should be.
It’s what the NBA needs, what the fans deserve.
Game 7 of the NBA Finals, the Lakers against the Boston Celtics.
Does anything more really need to be said?
“This is definitely a treat for the NBA,” Boston’s Ray Allen said. “Just knowing we are going to a Game 7, that these are the Finals and it’s the Lakers-Celtics.”
It is sports at its best, the pinnacle of competition on the professional level.
This is the Yankees and Dodgers going to a seventh game of the World Series, Sandy Koufax on the hill for the Dodgers and Whitey Ford dealing for the Yankees.
It’s Ali against Frazier, take three. Two battered and bruised fighters going to the 15th round and tied on points, battling just as much for pride as for the title.
“It’s definitely not just another game,” the Lakers’ Pau Gasol said.
Anything less would not have sufficed. For a series of this magnitude, domination by one team would not do. It had to go the distance, the entire seven games.
A Lakers or Boston sweep would have been a fun little series for either fan base, another banner to hang, but little by way of history.
Two decades from now it would have been just another NBA Finals to look back on, but hardly anything worth remembering.
Great champions are challenged, pushed to the brink by equal competition.
Winners are crowned in sweeps, but heroes aren’t made.
No matter what happens Thursday in Game 7 at Staples Center, the world will look back on these Finals in appreciation, perhaps in a bit of awe while remembering the year the two most storied franchises in the NBA took things to the edge of history to determine the championship.
And for the Lakers, it’s a chance to permanently bury two of the most painful moments in franchise history - losing Game 7 at home to the Celtics in 1969, then succumbing once again to Boston in the seventh game in the 1984 Finals.
In both series, the Lakers had the better team on paper, only to blow chance after chance to prove it.
That they ultimately lost in seven games both times only exasperated their failures and opened wounds that never quite healed, no matter how many years have passed.
The Celtics’ ownership of the Lakers in seventh games through the years has been used as evidence against them by the historians, proof that Boston is the grittier, more mentally strong franchise, with the Lakers all flash but no substance.
If you’re a Lakers fan, it’s all just stereotypical nonsense - you don’t win 15 NBA titles over the years by being “soft” or “weak” - but you’d be less than honest if you at least didn’t think about it, maybe even worry about it.
Are the Celtics just tougher than the Lakers?
We’re going to find out Thursday, and how sweet would it be to emphatically and eternally dispel the myth that the Celtics are the tougher team than by beating them in Game 7?
“It’s a game we’ve got to win, simple as that,” the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant said.
Of course, to get to a seventh game, the Lakers first had to win the sixth, and they did so in resounding fashion Tuesday by thrashing the Celtics 89-67 in front of one of the loudest-ever crowds at Staples Center.
The Lakers were intent on making sure their season would not end Tuesday, delivering their most convincing performance of the postseason, dominating the Celtics in every phase and throttling them at every turn.
The world champions stuck a foot on the Celtics’ throat from the outset, never once letting up, and toyed with their hated nemesis throughout.
It was dominance like we have not seen in this series, a methodical, overpowering victory chilling in its ferocity and stunning in its magnificence.
“We executed, we executed extremely well,” Bryant said. “And on top of that we had a lot of effort behind the execution.”
This was not the world champions we saw the last two games in Boston, the team that played tentative, overly cautious.
In Games 4 and 5 in Boston, the Lakers seemed satisfied with winning Game 3 to make sure the final say in this series occurred in Los Angeles.
In doing so, they fell into a 3-2 hole, necessitating they win the last two games at home in order to claim the championship.
But the complacency in Boston was replaced by passion Tuesday in Los Angeles, the Lakers challenging shots, fighting for rebounds, crashing to the floor for loose balls and driving to the basket with authority.
It was Bryant playing masterfully and measured in scoring 26 points and grabbing 11 rebounds.
Bryant left the game for good late in the fourth quarter to a thunderous applause, the fans chanting “MVP, MVP, MVP” with each step he took toward the bench.
It was Ron Artest, Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom shredding the images of getting outplayed by the Celtics’ role players in Boston, each contributing to the cause and rising to the challenge.
And it was bench players Jordan Farmar, Sasha Vujacic and Shannon Brown delivering key minutes in reserve, Vujacic playing good defense on Ray Allen and hitting two 3-pointers, Farmar dunking forcefully over the outstretched arm of Kevin Garnett, and Brown ferociously throwing down two dunks to send the crowd into a frenzy.
The Lakers established early in the game that they simply weren’t going to lose Tuesday.
It was obvious in their swagger, confirmed by their passion and carried out with a determination not yet seen this season or in these playoffs.
The Lakers wanted a seventh game.
Anything less would have been unacceptable for them and inadequate for everyone else.
For strategic purposes, I think it’s pretty unlikely for BOS to announce Perkins is OUT for Game 7. In fact, prob the only thing more unlikely would be to actually see Perkins on the court tomorrow.
So even though it was sure starting to look like a true toss-up in this series, you get the feeling that it’s now ‘advantage LAL’ once again. And right on time…
[quote]chillain wrote:
For strategic purposes, I think it’s pretty unlikely for BOS to announce Perkins is OUT for Game 7. In fact, prob the only thing more unlikely would be to actually see Perkins on the court tomorrow.
So even though it was sure starting to look like a true toss-up in this series, you get the feeling that it’s now ‘advantage LAL’ once again. And right on time…
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IMO the advantage was LA’s all along. No one can convince me otherwise. The Lakers have completely dominated the celtics twice in this series and the Celtics despite playing great ball were barely able to come out with victories even when the Lakers were playing at their worse. Without a healthy Bynum it made the series a little more even, but I still think the Lakers had the advantage all along.
Agreed. I think a banged-up Bynum was required in order for BOS to give us those 2008 deja-vu flashes. In other words, BOS “needed” to be at full-strength for the series to go either way.
And just seeing that Randman is a Pats and Sox fan?!!
You’ve done a great job holdin it down for LAL no doubt, but that aint right, it just aint right!!
[quote]chillain wrote:
For strategic purposes, I think it’s pretty unlikely for BOS to announce Perkins is OUT for Game 7…
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they announced it today. Sprained knee. Doc River said hes “not gonna go” and a team doctor said “he’s done”… big blow for the C’s. I wish Jackson would had Mbenga double T with sheed then this game would all but be a lock
.greg.
wow, i havent even been listening to or reading the news today! I’m really upset about the Celtics losing Perkins now!! Dammit! I wanted to see a real battle in game 7, even though I was predicting an easy win for the Lakers. This doesn’t seal the Celtics fate, but it does give the Lakers an even greater edge. Thats a shame. I doubt this Celtics starting roster will have another chance at a Championship. The other starters better step it up, and Wallace better come with his A game if they want to even compete with the Lakers now.
I can’t even listen to Rand absolutely disgusting.
Drewh, did you see the thread I made for our bet??
It’s called “Tnation Bet”. You should poke your head in there, seeing as how you’ll be deleting your account tomorrow.
[quote]drewh wrote:
I can’t even listen to Rand absolutely disgusting.[/quote]
Good. With all of the crap that’s come out of your mouth on this thread (and the Part 1 thread) be prepared cuz it’s going to get a lot worse. I’ll be rubbing it in your face personally more than anyone else here when the Lakers win it tomorrow night and I’m there to see it.
Kobe and the Lakers will be your Daddy come tomorrow night. ;0
you wont be rubbing it in his face Rand cause he has to delete his account after the Lakers win tomorrow. You’ll have to rub it in his new accounts face
.greg.