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144320.30 in reply to 144320.29
Date: 5/23/2010 5:10:36 PM
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Im a HUGE Celtics Fan.. as my previous posts have indicated.. I worry about the Lakers, and do predict the Lakers to pull it out, only because they will have home court and I think it will be in 7...

KG is still good enough to guard Pau, .. Probably the only Celtic Agile/Tall enough to.. and the rest of the team can guard Kobe and Lamar.. The key here is that it is Team defense we are talking about and not that they will depend on matchups.

The Lakers will win in seven if they make the extra pass and the role players can step up.. Something the Celtics have been doing all playoffs..

PS.. Why does Perkins always look like someone stole Christmas?

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Date: 5/23/2010 7:05:20 PM
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Yes i watch basketball and probably more than you do. I'm guessing I'm younger than you though and haven't watched for as many years but I watch a lot. My comments before were just for fun and to support my team I wasn't trying to make people actually mad, but you seem to have some issues and are getting extremely pissed off by comments that I made for fun, and did not even read all of mine. I had posted saying I'm sorry, rondo isn't actually bad he just bothers me.

Howard has no skills what so ever. Hes big and strong that's it. All you need to do to stop Howard is put multiple big physical bodies on him like the celtics did. Obviously he's still going to score but it will limit him a lot and he will get frustrated and make bad plays.

AS I said we havn't played anyone with good scoring big men, but that doesnt mean we are playing bad defense inside.

The Celtics won't just stop Gasol from scoring, he doesnt just walk through the paint he scores in ways that no matter who is guarding him he's going to score. He's a smart player with geat skill and can pass the ball like no other big man can.

"If you have any real, intelligent reasons the Lakers will PWNZ...." really? Everything I said before was just stupid, and youre some genius that knows everything about basketball and the celtics are going to win because your logic is flawless. I obviously know that the Lakers aren't going to just take a dumb on the Celtics I'm messing around, you know having fun if you know what that means.

Gasol will dominate KG because he can shoot over any defender, KG although has been healthy won't be able to keep up with Gasol all series. Gasol is very skillfull and makes great post moves, and can make passes in no space to give teammates open looks. On defense, Gasol is pretty mobile meaning he can move out of the key and still stay with his man, he doesn't get beat often. KG likes to take those 18 footers, and Gasol can get out there and block him. He did the same thing to Dirk in the regular season.

Fisher is my favorite because everyone thinks he's a liability and he's too slow but he is a warrior. He's a trusted veteran for the Lakers and has been great in the playoffs. He scores when we need him to and battles with his man defensively. He gets the refs to call offensive fouls when players set illegal screens quite often. If he is defending rondo he doesnt need to worry about getting around screens and can play back and force him into bynum or gasol on the drive because obviously no one can keep up with rondo's speed. If he's on ray allen he will run around with him and make sure he's close and allen can't get many open jumpers. Allen will hit his fair share of shots, but fisher will work hard to limit them, and he isn't so slow that he won't be able to keep up with him.

The Lakers will score how they always do, the triangle offense works. Now I know you are already saying what does that mean youre not saying anything, but if you watch basketball then you know what I mean by "it works". We get the ball inside to our big men and try to get isolation for them, and players are moving around getting into lanes, and obivously like every team we have guys on the threes waiting for the pass. The celtics have a great team defense and switch off well, but we have a lot of men they need to cover. Artest his knocking down his shots recently, I've talked about gasol, bynum can finish and has a few moves of his own, fisher will hit his shots, and nothing need be said for kobe. The Heat are much worse than the Thunder, D Wade can't do everything, so they weren't exactly tough to defend. The Cavs are pretty similar, they have 3 point shooters and Lebron. Stop Lebron from driving and their offense goes to smoke for the most part. Then the magic are a little more interesting. As you know we beat them in 5 last finals so it's not like you guys are so amazing for going 3-0 against them.

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Date: 5/23/2010 7:08:49 PM
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I ran out of characters so i needed to send another reply.

Stopping the MAgic involves frustrating Howard and defending the 3. The Lakers are one of the best teams at defeding the 3 and we have plenty of 7 footers to halt Howard, which is the same formula you guys used. Not too complicated. You guys have done a good job on Vince and Jameer I admit, and I give you guys props for that. I'm glad we are playing you guys instead of the Magic so that it's actually a competition. Should be a fun series, we'll see how it goes. I would liek to continue this argument, feel free to comment back, just don't get so mad at my opinions.

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Date: 5/23/2010 8:03:22 PM
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Gasol will dominate KG because he can shoot over any defender, KG although has been healthy won't be able to keep up with Gasol all series. Gasol is very skillfull and makes great post moves, and can make passes in no space to give teammates open looks. On defense, Gasol is pretty mobile meaning he can move out of the key and still stay with his man, he doesn't get beat often. KG likes to take those 18 footers, and Gasol can get out there and block him. He did the same thing to Dirk in the regular season.


This is going to be so funny to watch. People just don't realize how good Gasol is. KG is going to have nightmares with him.

From: Larelin

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144320.34 in reply to 144320.33
Date: 5/23/2010 8:24:09 PM
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Pau will do well, no doubt.

Dominate though?

The season split Gasol had a 16 ppg ave vs Celtics front line ... i HARDLY call that dominating anything.

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Date: 5/25/2010 1:37:12 AM
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Did you see game 4? I think that was a perfect example of who's team it really is. It's not rondo's team. Who did the Celtics rely on late in the 4th when it was crunch time? Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. I don't think rondo ever touched the ball on offense besides bringing it up to the magic's half and giving it to someone in the 4th quarter and OT. Now I'm not going back and saying rondo sucks, I'm just saying realize that just because rondo has been a spark for the Celtics this season, doesn't mean it's his team.

Obviously Celtics are going to win this series, but the more games the Magic take them the better for the Lakers.

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Date: 5/25/2010 1:53:02 AM
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The Magic definatley boned up for that game.. totally different team. Celtics will prob lose the next one and win game 6

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Date: 5/26/2010 5:05:13 PM
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What happened, no response to my comments back? Although lakers game 4 against Suns didn't help my case, suns had a lot of help from the refs and I still think Lakers will win the championship

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Date: 6/15/2010 1:49:45 AM
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Well after 2 embarrasing performances by the lakers (minus Kobe and Fish) the series is not looking good. I actually started cheering for Celtics in the 4th quarter of game 5 because I was so disgusted by our play. The series isnt over yet since the series comes back to LA, but I'm not so sure about our chances any more. If we force a game 7 by the miracle that Lamar Odom shows up and Ron Artest keeps his stupidity to a minimum, it will be a hell of a game.

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Date: 6/16/2010 2:00:17 AM
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And now the Celtics put up a disgusting performance of their own. Nothing good to take from that game at all. Pretty sad for a potential Finals clinching game. It's amazing how differently some of the Lakers play at home and frustrating to see them turn it around like that.

I expected it to go 7 after the C's won game two so I'm not surprised at that, just at how the C's decided not to show up. I don't think it will happen again in game 7, which is going to be damn stressful. These are two true heavyweights and the league would have been cheated if the finals had been anything but Celtics vs. Lakers.

I'll also say that the refs have done a great job since the first two games. Those two whistle-fests were hard to watch but they've let them play since then and it's been a better series to watch because of it.

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Date: 6/16/2010 9:42:52 AM
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Im a HUGE Celtics fan again, but I orginally said I thought it was Lakers in 6.. Celts will be hard pressed to win Game 7

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