They don't even need to carry the game. They should just do a show before, and after the game.
The Official Lakers Vs. Magic Thread
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Kobe takes what the defense gives him. He makes things happen when they play him tight.
Howard has been facing double/triple teams throughout the season and post-season. He is getting the ball in the post but not attacking the basket enough.
Good defense on the part of the Lakers but also a lack of aggressiveness on the part of Howard.
A real Clark Kent-like performance by Superman.
Howard has been facing double/triple teams throughout the season and post-season. He is getting the ball in the post but not attacking the basket enough.
Good defense on the part of the Lakers but also a lack of aggressiveness on the part of Howard.
A real Clark Kent-like performance by Superman.
For game 2 all the Magic have to do is play them like they played em in the regular season.........
Then the Magic will win in 5 games.
Then the Magic will win in 5 games.
Looking for some obscure stat about how the Lakers win the first game but will lose all the rest of them because Kobe opps tobe is the devil.
picking out a noose to hang himself with once the "Fakers" win the Finals
I love how quiet it gets when the Lakers win
lol@the clown reporter in the laker uni that interviewed Kobe
and lol@Kobe "serious" face during the interview....like he's so "serious"
youre basing that off 1 game?
dude please.
i wanna see what yall say when the Magic eliminate the lakers.
dont jinx your team dude.....be pateint
and lol@Kobe "serious" face during the interview....like he's so "serious"
lakers are just a waaayyy better teamno shit talkin just facts
youre basing that off 1 game?
dude please.
i wanna see what yall say when the Magic eliminate the lakers.
dont jinx your team dude.....be pateint
lol@the clown reporter in the laker uni that interviewed Kobe
All those reporters were retarded as hell...except for the 2 black dudes.
lol@the clown reporter in the laker uni that interviewed Kobe
and lol@Kobe "serious" face during the interview....like he's so "serious"
youre basing that off 1 game?
dude please.
i wanna see what yall say when the Magic eliminate the lakers.
dont jinx your team dude.....be pateint
I'm basing it on the fact that they are a waaay better team playa
the only thing the lakers dont do well is play hard every day. when they play hard they cant be beat period magic just dont have enough telent to beat LA. Howard is not and has never been dominant offensively, and the lakers have a powerful 7 footer in bynum, a finesse 7 footer in gasol, and a swiss army knife in odom to defend him. the magic have no mich matches on offense. and the lakers are too talented for the magic to defend. Howard will be in foul trouble for all 4 games of the finals. and what the fuck are they going to do to stop kobe
nothinglakers 2008/2009 nba champions
Told y'all their coverage sucks...And the ratings prove this. Not only that, but it got irritating right on the first FIVE minutes or so before tip off when Breen went to JVG and he said what he said about his brother being in the Finals, and then when he turned to Mark Jackson for what he wanted to talk about, Breen opened with Coach Jackson and his "non-relationship" to Mark, and Mark said something like: "Yeah, I do not play favorites." or "Yeah so no favoritism here"
About Game 1, I am surprised that the Lakers won the way that they did. This was almost the same way that they won Game 6 in the last series. In order for the Magic to come back and win Game 2 is to let Pietrus start over Lee.
Nobody said:
I would not do that, unless two things happen: Pietrus is the one guarding him instead of Lee and the PG comes in to double team him at the perimeter. Kobe scoring 30-40 points is a given, but having other teammates involved is what blew the game open on that side of the ball. Remember, LeBron scored in the ranges of 35 to 45 points in most of the games against the Magic, and that ended up killing the Cavs at the end.
Another key part of their success against Cleveland in the series was that they made the perimeter players work to find their man...James, Williams, and West had to run all over the place to find basically four players because Varejao and Z wouldn't leave the paint on defense. To top that off, Turkoglu and/or Lewis would execute the pick and roll throwing off LeBron with Howard or Lewis/Turkoglu, and with the bigs not even thinking of guarding the man off the pick/screen, that's at least one wide open man for a second or two. That's how they were able to execute their offense.
In Game 1, I didn't see any of this. What I did see was the Magic feeding into Howard early, which did lead to foul trouble by Bynum. But what happened? Odom came in the game (another 7 footer) and had Gasol rotate to check Howard. Not long after that, Dwight got his 2nd foul (and got sent to the bench). Feeding the ball to Howard in the post has it's pros and cons, and with a team like this, feeding it to him early might not work due to the length of the bigs and versatility of Ariza/Odom. Doubling him now is more effective because they have the personnel...
Yup...that was Jabba the Hutyou saw that too. right. she was beside Lisa Leslie
I didn't see it...They were able to stay in the game well into 8 minutes of the 2nd quarter. They were leading at the end of the first and that lead went up to 5 when he was on the floor. You saw how efficient he was when he was out there...3 quick assists (2 in the paint when the defense collapsed on him) and a couple of jumpers...
I think the game changed when Howard got his 2nd foul...that opened up the halfcourt game for the Lakers. I mean Howard was the only dude out there getting rebounds for his team (14 or 15 rebounds), plus he only had 6 FGAs. I'm sorry, but NO center that was able to have 40 points their last game should have just six FGAs the next game, regardless of the skills of the opposing teams frontcourt.
And I've said it before, and I'll say it again...You want to come back from a deficit or blow a game open from the Magic? All you have to do is one thing...
Let Rafer Alston shoot
Where you think he at?
He outside of Kobe's house ready to throw a pipe bomb over the fence
Where you at Rabbi?
So True. I turn down the sound.
Turn on ESPN Radio feed,.. Got Hubie Brown and Dr. Jack Ramsey
with minimal Mike Tirico.
WAAAAAYYYYYYY BETTER
dammit I forgot about that...Next time I'll use them for pbp commentary...
If I used the mute button on those TV commentators before, I can surely do it again.
Good idea... if I hear "Mama, there goes that man" one more fucking time
"Grown man move by Bynum..."
Indeed... This is what we miss with sorry ass ABC... Pure Comedy!!
Assist please !
http://www.odenized.com/2008/05/barkley-mistakes-stan-van-gundy-for-ron.html
Jeff Van Gundy was pretty quiet until the fourth quarter, none of his little quirky comments/observations until the game was decided.
I like him as a commentator but that booth doesn't work when Jackson is talking so much, I'm a Kobe fan and I got tired of hearing his praise, he was on Kobe's nuts like pubic hair.
I didn't get that at all, I was thinking he'd sit out the fourth.
I didn't even see him in at two minutes, I fell asleep with around five minutes to go and woke up and saw Eminem and Jimmy Kimmel, I was like "what fucking time is it???"
I've been thinking that for a while, it doesn't have to meet the level of the old Bulls intros but the LA intro is beyond subdued.
I don't like the jump to conclusions early, but I think the first quarter of game one is going to tell if this is going to be a long series or a quick one.. if the Magic come out again shooting like thisbecause they don't have any players with final's experience and I can't imagine this team coming back from down 0-2 after losing badly .... they don't have a Wade on this squad that can just take over and will their team to victory...
I also wonder if Nelson playing threw off the chemistry...
I'm not a Laker fan.. but I've always said that when the Lakers play intense defense for the entire game, they are almost unbeatable...
Co-sign the red.
I kept thinking the EXACT same thing while watching this game.
And 3 things really stood out to me...
1. Poor Chemistry.
J. Nelson was NOT the solution in this game. At first he did ok, but I thought they gave him way too much playing time, because Orlando was playing much better without him overall - in every other series, imo.
Not convinced that he's that ONE 'magic bullet', or unstoppable scorer, or point guard 'leader' that this Magic team simply cannot play well without. (like a Chauncey Billups, Chris Paul, or Deron Williams)
So I thought Van Gundy should have limited his minutes considerably.
Just get him more involved slowly - game by game.
2. Piss Poor Shooting.
They live & die by the '3' and they couldn't hit any outside shots tonight.
I figured they would get SUPER COLD at some point in the finals, just didn't expect it to be Game 1...
Because they were hitting EVERYTHING against Cleveland.
That was ridiculous.
3. Kobe Torched 'Em.
Gotta give credit where credit is due. Kobe did his thing.
Hung 40 on 'em and almost got a triple-double.
u know what? i never even thought kobe would go at 'um that hard in game 1. sheit, if that WAS his plan, to torch 'um so bad they would have to double team him next game and leave other dudes open, it was a slick move.
only problem is sometimes the laker support team be taking days off DURING THE DAYUM GAME
PUH-LEASE, LAKER SUPPORT BENCH, DON'T STAND AROUND WATCHING KOBE PLAY LIKE U WAS SITTIN NEXT TO ME ON THE COUCH CHECKING OUT THE GAME ON TV!
why i think the same sheit watchin dude play.....sheit, i KNOW who u talking about w/o u even mentioning his name
how u gonna fuk up when u don't play the ENTIRE game, then phil puts yo uncoordinated-lookin azz in the game with less than 2 minutes to play? u gotta be in there going bananas on um! but was in there looking like
then when he got the ball stolen and droped it twice he was lookin like 
and at the end of the two minutes we was all like 
DAHITMAN
Rising Star
*laker haters a few hours ago*
They beat the Lakers both times this season...
D. Howard will dominate Gasol/Bynum...
Jameer will be back...
blah, blah, blah
*laker haters after game 1*
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Bynum hasn't shown much in the Fakers playoff run.
He is so wack and soft, he should not be considered as the next best thing to Jabbar for the Fakers.
what's wild is you sayin they're ''the FAKERS''. as if their wins are 'real' wins and their talent ain't legit. but if the team in the dayum finals are 'fake' then what does that make YOUR team that didn't even make it to the finals? sub-fakers? nut huggers? scrubs? a bunch of bitch azzes who watchin the finals from some beach in jamaica?
DAHITMAN
Rising Star
I admit that I have to give credit to your favorite team, but I still hate them with a passion.
Kobe is a strong closer.
But Bynum is another story.
bynum is the truth and ur a bitch ur team sucks and u wish u lived in a city with world class entertainment such as the 2009 nba champion los angeles lakers
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