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@A-40, I dig you jo, its not as if I don't miss ariza. When artest's with the ball offensively, I always pray.

Jokes about fisher crying been making me laugh since. People don't have respect for elders again

Allen didn't have that much open looks and was closed down by even laker bigs when he attempted tight 3s. He shoulda passed the couple of times gasol and co came out on him even though some were on fast breaks. Most of the few good plays he made were off passes.

D.fish should also be commended, definitely d people's man of the match. I don't know why they gave it to kobe. Safe to say finals mvp would be kobe or rondo

[quote author=A-40 link=topic=344420.msg6179070#msg6179070 date=1276057878]@Lailai
Overrated is different from sucking at something. Pierce has just not been knocking shots down especially tonight obviously Artest has a hand in that but his mediocre offense is killing y'all especially with his shot selection and decision making. Is Artest a good defender? Yes! Overrated? Yes!

@Bawo
Artest only did a good job in game 1 and parts of 2 the rest of the series it was actually Kobe that did the dirty job. I don't know why you guys sleep on Kobe's D[/quote]it seems this your palava with artest goes way back, hope you weren't one of the fans that were on the receiving end of them artest elbows and punches in the famous brawl. . . . lemme go watch those clips again

A-40, artest d overrated? so pierce must have been taking himself out of the game every time right? artest has done a wonderful job on pierce, celtics are a very good team and dont usually rely on just one player. its been better for the lakers that way, taking pierce out of the game everytime. . . . then names like tony allen, glen davis n co start coming up.

he could do much more on offense though, at least he did perform a few heroics in the previous series

YESSS, game 2 was very tight and I believe they were juust little things that cost us the game, the same for celtics tonight. . . .this series is just getting more defensive, we still need to steal another game here.

I need to get some sleep

I don't understand how that was fair, we never got these calls in game 2, even with replay, they still called unfairly against us

Hope we don't return the favor. . . .

Fisher, you are king of la now

Celtics lost focus

dayokanu:
2 point game this is getting close

Can it be closer

We definitely play better with bynum on court, the amount of average players we have is just coming to the fore now

Bynum needs to come back into this game, odom is just blowing balloons on defence

I don't know whether yall want us to go get ariza back for the remaining games, yes it might have been a bad decision to let him go, but there's nothin that can be done about that now. . . We just have to make do now

At least bryant has done a good job on rondo today, even though he has been vexin in the 4th quarter nowadays

[quote author=A-40 link=topic=344420.msg6178794#msg6178794 date=1276049547]@Lailai
Naah mehn you guys need an aggressive Kobe tonight and he has done the bidness i think he started too slow last game. Walton's handle is just horrible maynne

52-40. Lakers lead[/quote]he can still be aggressive by passing the ball if he continues to miss his normally makeable shots. . . . .at least walton has better offensive sense than artest and hes not that much of a liability defensively.

Make bryant calm down with the shot attempts now, he can still try later. Its not by force that he must score now. These shots normally fall for him bt since they aren't, he might as well give plan B a thought and pass

Your work in the bedroom is supposed to hav adverse effects on him

Just calm down with your praise before you spit blasphemy

chiogo:
Put my Rondo on leash? hell no. I'm the only one allowed to put him on a leash. . .in the bedroom.

Then you need to do more work in the bedroom cos he hasn't ever looked like someone that just finished working in the bedroom

Blocking fisher and sneakin on kobe in clutch moments, that guy no get respect

Greater glory? What greater glory is left for him than completing our 2nd 3peat, a mission which we just started

If lebron likes, let him go to barcelona or moscow

You make valid points. That kind of toughness is needed at this stage and is one of the reasons celtics have been successful

Good points which I'll surely relay to phil jackson from a doom-for-bynum-predicting real-laker-hating celtics fan

That's why we need to stop thinking about who matches up to him one on one and instead focus our attention to harder fouls on him, better help defense or zone defence

As for the bigs, celtics definitely showed more determination in game 2 outrebouding us, rondo had like 12 rebounds

Hmmm, I think somebody is thinking celtics will loose

@jesoul, I no get your time till after the finals. For now, just ask those old men when they would get tired

Seriously, we need to put a leash on rondo, he's now the king of the culprits . Phil jackson zone defence, shannon brown, hard fouls, double team, just do something.

I like naija peeps, I tag along by submitting my account number

The true love could die the next day

A-40, leave this argument for jesoul, the fortune teller abeg. Because they won now, she has mouth

[quote author=A-40 link=topic=344420.msg6166036#msg6166036 date=1275880261]The calls where dodgy no doubt but that was not what killed the Lakers. You guys gave the Celts too many transition pts,rebounded horribly on both ends and hardly moved the ball around well enough y'all executed poorly on offense and lemme add the lapses in concentration towards the tail end when Rondo took over. As it stands now one win at Boston won't be enough for the Lakers IMO they need at least two cos even if they go back to L.A i doubt they would lose two straight! The Lakers had better play Game 3 like a Game 7[/quote]Yeah good points but its not as if the celtics too were perfect, we did our best to recover after a poor start and legendary shooting so those calls woulda helped too

We can't be thinking of winning 2 in boston now, we should just play game by game, the dynamics of this series changes game by game

I definitely believe we can take one in boston, home court dosent matter to these teams, it was supposed to matter a little for the foul calls but after what I saw from these refs tonight, we better get our fair share in boston too

I'm not happy with those crucial calls at all, come on refs, we had home court

Celtics depth advantage is starting to show, vujacis n brown have even put more efforr than odom. . . .this glen davis is just an animal

At least, it looks like its gonna take only a legendary performance to beat us art the staples, artest has done a good job on pierce as well as our frontcourters in limiting celtics offense to allen and rondo.

We still need to rebound better and kobe, its that time again

But seriously I'm scared of ray allen, the ball never even touched the rim

Abeg, where does ray allen rank among the greatest shooters of all time

This odom can just decide to be daft some days, 3 fouls in about 2 mins in the first quarter when you know bynum's not healthy. . . .trouble dey

A-40, lakers need to start giving out some free tickets to some real fans

All set, I jst hope bynum can give us more solid minutes like before to allow gasol continue at his natural position, that's is very important like a-40 been sayin since

Lakers, make me happy again

davidif:
KG HAS LOST HIS EXPLOSIVENESS! HE IS NOW A JUMP SHOOTER.

I hope all this talk about kg's grandchildren won't vex him o. . . .cos it was gasol's turn before and y'all saw the result. . . .public media is merciless, so one shouldn't grow again

Bawo, that's just plain harsh. . . . .but uncle garnett surely been gasping for breath a little more nowadays

@jesoul, kobe was blackmailed into taking those pictures, confidential info I'm giving you

Lovely victory, rolled out perfectly and did everything they were supposed to do considering the pressure . . .I was very impressed with the rondo job and gasol's mentality. Kobe was himself, allen is on a long thing throughout the series if he's gonna be guarding kobe.

I'm not gonna get overconfident because its beast-of -7 for a reason, if we lose game 2, this win would be negated immediately and celtics would gain confidence.

Btw, is chris rock alright, tryna distract kobe, was he paid or what. . . .this is the nba finals, no time for small talk