Lakers Bounce Back

Pj Brown not reconizing vujacic and eddie house missing that 2 pointers killed us tonight.

Kobe got calls everytime he jumped into the lane(pathetic refereeing). We have to i believe win game 2 in the worst way ever. Lakers have no interior defense and kg is killing me taking those long jumpers that are just not going in right now

That was not a valiant effort at ALL!!! That was a game we gave away because PP and KG refused to go to the basket. The difference in that game was Kobe decided he was going to the rim and getting layups or fouls, and our guys settling for jump shots.

The encouraging part though was that as bad as those two played, we still very easily could have won that game. One of the two of them step up and it was ours. We will get at least one of the next two. 3-0 would have been it though. Bad loss.

This was going to be be the hardest game to steal out there. Look for PP to bounce back and Allen to continue his shooting streak plus KG posting monster #s and the C’s will win game 4!

Look many of have been saying all along that KG just makes it all so difficult on offense Win or lose he just can’t bring himself to take over. Call it what you want, but we just have blown a chance to put it away and KG is about half to blame. But KG plays like this alot. He is often just ridiculous on offense on hwo bad his decisions are. Its harder to understand Paul. How does he look so bad after looking so good? He just gets so out of synch

I am fuming mad.. and I mean seriously fuming, that Doc had PJ in the game down the stretch. I’ve backed off on PJ some.. I like what he’s given us, but there is NO.. and I mean NO, justification for him being on the floor over Perkins. Perkins was eating Gasol alive. And he’s a much much much better offensive player (offensive glass).

seriously Doc crapped the bed down the stretch. Between PJ and calling for traps that far from the basket, he really hurt our chances.

also, classic Doc move burying a bench player the night after a great game. Powe – 6 minutes. Yeah that makes sense.

But PJ over Perkins is an egregious error. makes absolutely no sense.

Perk had back to back plays where he let Gasol get the board and tip it in over him. That’s why he got yanked. He wasn’t boxing out and it led to 4 easy points.

Perk had back to back plays where he let Gasol get the board and tip it in over him. That’s why he got yanked. He wasn’t boxing out and it led to 4 easy points.

Well one was because he helped on Odom and helped cause the missed layup in the first playoff. But even ignoring that, Doc should get in his ear. Perk can take it. PJ messes up constantly (that bail out foul on a desperation pass to Gasol, for example) and Doc never cracks the whip.

Perk is a better player. End of story.

Well I am blaming this on The Truth’s mom’s home Cookin.

KG a Sam I am like 29 of his last 78. Nice Huh? This is a guy who wants to win?? Keep taking thuse jumpers Kevin. Way to go. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you to go to the hole. you know better.

Clearly having a bad game means KG doesn’t want to win. Give me a break.

House was great until Lakers started to pressure the ball. Powe was ineffective because Lakers know what to expect. I’d like doc to use GDBB next game and Tony Allen.

KG at 29 for 78 in this series is beyond brutal. If that does not tell him to take the ball to the rim, then nothing will. Obviously KG wants to win, but he is not playing smart on the offensive end. If he continues to take 20 foot jumpers, the Celtics could be in jeopardy.

meh KG does all the other things correctly so I don’t mind it as much. It’s who he is. He’s a 12 year veteran. It ain’t changing.

Celtics despite that are up 2-1. I agree it would be best and alot easier if KG would play better offensively. The way this series has gone so far a ‘normal KG’ game would go a long way. Ray found his shot now KG lost his. Can’t they all find their shot together? That would be even better.

The Celtics are still in a perfect situation. They only have to win one, and they would already exceed expectations.

No need to worry, such games happen. KG and Pierce won´t shoot this bad again.

I think how Doc Rivers is treating Eddie House is a sackable offense and will for sure be one of the biggest factors (if not the biggest) IF (I say IF) Celtics won´t win the championship this year. If we look at these two players and compare them then one of them is ll about himself and the other one full of team spirit and has a good idea of how teamworks goes. I let you figure it out who is who. Everybody knows it apart from Doc.

Having seen GAME 3 I simply cannot see why all the sports writers wrote off Boston at the beginning. Lakers are for sure struggling with C´s defense and will continue to do so if we keep on playing it at a high level. I am looking at GAME 4 as a BIG KEY game (have you heard that before?) as we desperately need to steal that game so we can at least go home with a chance of finishing it there in 6 games (as I predicted). IF Lakers win GAME 4 then we are looking at a totally different scenario and everything all square means players such as Odom, Gasol and Fisher who all seem to have lost the faith, will come back stronger than before and give us a hell of a time.
Not that I want to be a killjoy but if Lakers get back to 2-2 then I predict them to win the championship. If we steal one in L.A. we will win. Simple as that.

Hello, everybody. Thought I’d stop by and offer my two cents – try to suggest that I’m not just a sore loser. :)

Anyway, some thoughts -

1) Hooooooooome cookin’. Honestly, it really upsets me how NBA games IN THE FINALS are called. It’s astonishing – can we just pencil in the home team for 10-20 extra free throws every game? The Lakers were slightly more aggressive in the paint in this game, but by a VERY small margin at best (shot chart shows 22 lay-up/dunk attempts for both teams; add in the 2-shot fouls, and the Lakers probably had a couple more tries inside, but not by a large margin). The whistles just switched from green to purple – and I’m tired of expecting the road team to have to overcome a sizable margin in free throws by their opponent. It’s not fun, for either team – I feel, at least.

2) Given the struggles by KG (unsurprising given his series to date) and Pierce (very surprising given his extraordinary play in Games 1 and 2), to be within a bucket with 2 minutes left should be considered a very positive development for the Celtics. I don’t know if they will win game four… But if Ray Allen keeps shooting lights-out I find it hard to believe they won’t be able to steal one of the next two games.

3) Kobe played something like 45 minutes. I’m not sure he can keep up that pace and continue to dominate at the end of games – he’ll tire if the Lakers can’t get some sort of a viable substitution pattern for him. Then again, if Vujacic keeps bombing away successfully, it’ll allow Phil Jackson to take Bryant off the court at times.

4) All that said, if the Lakers can win Game 4, this becomes a totally new series. If the Celtics win Game 4, it’s more-or-less over. Will Kobe be able to hit as successfully as he did in Game 3 (9/14 on jump-shots)? If not, the Celtics could roll. If so, this could significantly change the tenor of the Finals.

See everybody on Thursday.

They need to drive the basket!!! It is useless to shoot from the outside all the time especially when you are having an off shooting night. JUST DRIVE!!!!

Also don’t understand why Rivers always has the starters sitting at the beginning of the 4th?? WHY?

Sure glad that Eddie played so well—2 for 8? As soon as they pressured the ball, he was useless. Rondo’s afraid to take open jump shots—serious problems at the point.

Again, I think House was great. His shot will come back if he keeps playing and that he plays in the offense and plays defense makes him ten times better than Cassel. More Eddie!

Pierce was bad, but he still did a good enough job defensively and he repeatedly set up his mates with good passes. Unlike Kobe, who made the Lakers offense stall almost the whole game. Luckily for him, he was brilliant as a shooter.