The officiating is terrible no question but its part of the game. No excuses. The c’s have all the momentum right now. They have just beaten the lakers in their homecourt(lakers first home playoff loss) and the boston garden(as radman calls it) will be rocking tuesday night. The c’s have to get a big game from k.g at some point and I think tuesday will be the night. If the c’s win, they will put the pressure on the lakers in game 5 and they may fold and lose the game aswell. Ths c’s are looking good right now. [/quote]
I don’t believe in momentum carrying over from 1 game to the next. I think that’s a farce. Each game is its on entity and has so many factors to it that makes each one unique.
The officiating is terrible no question but its part of the game. No excuses. The c’s have all the momentum right now. They have just beaten the lakers in their homecourt(lakers first home playoff loss) and the boston garden(as radman calls it) will be rocking tuesday night. The c’s have to get a big game from k.g at some point and I think tuesday will be the night. If the c’s win, they will put the pressure on the lakers in game 5 and they may fold and lose the game aswell. Ths c’s are looking good right now. [/quote]
I don’t believe in momentum carrying over from 1 game to the next. I think that’s a farce. Each game is its on entity and has so many factors to it that makes each one unique.
ok fair enough… but their is no question that the c’s feel pretty good being the only team that has beaten l.a at home in the playoffs.
Kobe still had 21 points and was plagued with bullshit fouls, I don’t consider that being shut down. He did appear to be off, even when he beat Allen off the dribble, his drives just didn’t look the same. But Allen did play GREAT defense, he was glued to him, but thats nothing new. Kobe still gets his points even with great defense, so don’t expect Allen to “shut him down” the next game.
GREAT fkn game tho, when it was tied with 3 min left I thought to myself, “damn I wish I was Radman, this game would be killer to be at”. Even with the loss, you can’t beat a hard fought game like this as your first Laker game.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Not that this has anything to do with anything, but Doc Rivers seems like a really cool guy. Too bad his team’s gonna lose this series.[/quote]
Yeah he seems cool. I wonder how he’ll fare after the Big 3 move on though, considering he was just an average coach at best with ORL and BOS (except for the two really bad years before getting KG and Jesus).[/quote]
I’d say he was better than average T. He took most [if not all, can’t remember] of those squads to the playoffs. Could’ve sworn I heard a rumor that he’s leaving after this season no matter what, but don’t remember the source.[/quote]
Yeah that actually came from Rivers himself in an interview. He said he’s pondering retirement, but he has been for the last few years (even after they won the title in 2008).
I agree with the bogus calls, especially the one off of KG out of bounds. Gasol’s hand was clearly on top of KG’s hand, and the refs even watched a replay of it to get the call, and they still got it wrong. Oh well, can’t do anything about it now.
Does anyone know why there are two days rest between games 1 and 2, but only one day rest between games 2 and 3? Makes absolutely no sense. Travel is hard on athletes, let alone traveling 3,000 miles to have one day rest then play again. No other round in the playoffs does this happen.
There should be one day rest between games 1 and 2, and two days rest between games 2 and 3 (to allow for travel) and a 2-2-1-1-1 format for the Finals, just like all the other playoff rounds.
How the fuck can the officiating be so prevalent in the Finals? This is pathetic. The real 2010 Finals MVP is probably wearing a gray shirt. Anybody who think the refs didn’t pretty much hand Boston the win yesterday is crazy. Kobe and Artest had some of the weakest calls made against them. Boston got away with several flops, the replays showed the quite clearly, especially the one by Ray Allen.
Meanwhile Kobe couldn’t get a call at all on offense, even when it looked [on one drive] like the Celtics big men pretty much ran a train on him [no homo]. Perkins should have gotten that double technical with the Lakers player involved. If the refs are this serious about making soft calls, they don’t need to go easy on Perkins just so he can avoid a suspension. He already got away from one.
And the out of bounds call on Gasol, when clearly Garnett’s hand was all over the ball… I can’t see how anyone would argue this was fair. They used replay and still made that call. I seriously hop the bad officiating becomes a huge story in the next two days, enough to scare them into being more heterosexual at the very least.
Yes Ray Allen played well, but he only gave the Celtics a 6 point lead at the half, and that was with some already bogus calls, and in the second half he cooled off while the Lakers caught up. Despite what the analysts were saying at the half, Boston didn’t actually play that much better than L.A. Assuming no shitty calls in the second half, L.A. would have taken it easily. I mean, Kobe had 5 fouls with more than half the fourth quarter to go.
The Lakers are in deep shit now. Aren’t the next 3 games in Boston? The momentum’s shifted again and they have to take at least one game there.
How can humor not be associated with LarryDavid, the dude’s screen name is possibly the funniest man in the last 20 years. Added to that stuffs gonna rub off on you when you watch Curb your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld reruns. Just sayin’…
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
How can humor not be associated with LarryDavid, the dude’s screen name is possibly the funniest man in the last 20 years. Added to that stuffs gonna rub off on you when you watch Curb your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld reruns. Just sayin’…[/quote]
LOL, nice.
[although I’m not actually a big Seinfeld fan like with Curb-- I like the show, though]
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Really glad you and your son got to check out a game. You went for just Game 2, right?[/quote]
Yes, just game 2. Too expensive to do anymore unfortunately but it was an experience my son and I will have in our memories for the rest of our lives. Even if the Lake Show didn’t win this game. It was still exciting.
Another endearing note, my son has brought one of the ticket stubs with him to school today so he can show all of his little 9 year old friends. This just cracks me up! I think I’m going to hug him just for doing this.