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Lakers win by 20+. No way in rockets can win.
Game 7 win or go home. Rockets will come out firing on all cylinders. The 40 pt beatdown was good for them. Now they know what they have to do.
Lakers win by 20+. No way in rockets can win.
So do the Lakers.
I just want Houston to play a tough game so LA can't rest any of their starters. Play f'in hard!!!! They exposed that LA can't deal with a quick guard, so get Brooks pumped up on PCP beforehand. Halftime have him snort some coke. During timeouts inject him with sweat from MJ's balls.
Why would it be an upset? Rockets are the clear favorite in this series. They just came out and beat a team they were supposed to beat, and they will win the game on Sunday if the Lakers dont hit their shots. Nothing surprising here.
Rockets are now the bigger TV draw over the Lakers. I think it would cost the league more not letting the Rockets advance if you consider the conspiracy theories.
Rockets quite sucks. If Lakers can't beat them, it will be a huge upset.
As big an upset as Bowen's defense this past season? LOL...I kid, I kid.
Unless the Vegas Mafia got to them by betting on the Lakers in which case, the Rockets would have to lose despite being the bigger draw.
It would easily be the biggest upset of all time in the NBA.
I, on the contrary, think that the small lineup actually benefits houston more than you guys think. All the times that houston had a run most of them were fastbreaks because lakers bigs couldn't keep up and set on defense. Not to mention, most of the rebounds were from the bigs tapping them out to wing players and the PGs. If houston can continue to do that, you guys should be able to win.
Houston was favored coming into this series given that yao was healthy, and t-mac was injured. Ever since Yao's injury, Lakers are the CLEAR favored ones to win the series. You are just downplaying the fact that if the lakers lose the series, you can use a mental cushion to keep thinking to yourself that the rockets were favored
He was using SpursDynasty logic, aka a joke.
You accidentally the internet.
The 40-42 Rockets over the defending champion Lakers in 1981 would be imo (Rockets won back to back games in LA to clinch it). Another is the Kansas City Kings stunning upset of the top seeded Suns the same year.
The 3 seed Charlotte Hornets stunning demolition (3-0) of the Heat in 2001 first round would be another. There was nothing before any of those series to suggest those results were going to happen.
People are so ignorant, they just live in the moment. It's easy to pile on him now but he was a stud until this year.
No it's all about height. That's why Yao should be averaging 20 boards a game even though players of similar height (Bol, Muresan, Bradley) never did.
Lakers are just playing down to their apponent. There will be a blowout in game 7.
It would have to go down as one of the biggest chokejobs of all time. The Greatest Finisher In The Game would have to find a new nickname.
Lakers try to regroup
The Lakers only shrugged at the mounting criticism from national and local media, the ridicule and scorn multiplying quickly around the team favored to win the championship when the playoffs began a month ago.
- Another crushing defeat for Lakers in Texas
- I'm thinking of a word that describes the Lakers; it starts with 'E' and ends with 'G'
- It’s another Lakers failure of epic proportions
The Houston Rockets certainly weren't going to give up despite their last trip to Staples Center ending in a 118-78 punch line that became the Lakers' largest margin of victory in a playoff game in 23 years.
Game 7, it is. Somebody will be done Sunday afternoon.
A day after another humbling loss to Houston in the Western Conference semifinals, the Lakers began acting like the team with a 1-2 record since Yao Ming went down because of a fractured foot.
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They weren't as loose as they were in the immediate aftermath of Game 6, with Coach Phil Jackson saying Friday they were "somber" and "sullen" at their training facility.
"I think there's definitely a feeling of sobriety about the fact that we had such a big win on Tuesday and another poor performance on Thursday," he said.
It wasn't known if Kobe Bryant was still in a laughing mood -- he didn't speak to reporters Friday, as has been his recent custom on non-game days -- but the Lakers weren't exactly trading one-liners, and it had little to do with arriving back in Los Angeles at 2:30 a.m. Friday.
"I think everyone's a little upset," guard Jordan Farmar said. "Nobody really said much today."
That the Lakers fell to the Rockets in Game 6, 95-80, was obviously still on their minds as they watched video before a light shooting session.
Lamar Odom's bruised back was still an issue, as were the Lakers' shooting woes and ineffective inside attack in Game 6.
Odom slipped out a side door Friday without talking to reporters, though he flashed a thumbs up and said "I'm feeling good," before disappearing into the back seat of a sport utility vehicle that pulled out of the players' parking lot.
The national media wouldn't even give the Lakers one thumb up these days.
Scott Howard-Cooper, writing for Sports Illustrated, said the Lakers would be a "historic disappointment" if they didn't win Game 7 and "forever remembered as one of the great underachievers."
TNT analyst Charles Barkley, appearing on Dan Patrick's radio show, said the Lakers' habit of going through the motions was "going to bite them in the [rear]."
Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports wrote that the Rockets might have figured out the Lakers' weakness: "Punch the Lakers first and maybe they don't punch back."
Not exactly a clip-and-save kind of day for the Lakers' media-relations department.
Meanwhile, Jackson tried to get across the point that one play could spark a championship run by showing a brief video clip from Game 7 in the 1992 Eastern semifinals between Chicago and New York.
On the play, Michael Jordan had the ball stripped by Knicks forward Xavier McDaniel, but Jordan caught up to McDaniel and stole the ball back as McDaniel went in for what looked like an easy dunk. The Bulls won the game and, four weeks later, their second of six championships in the 1990s.
Farmar got the message.
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Are they cancelling the NBA after this season?
The "greatest ever" meme is brain dead.
It won't be an upset. The Rockets are the favorites in the series.
That was only a three-game series though. It's extremely doubtful that Rockets team beats the 81 Lakers in a 7-game series starting from up 2-1.This would certainly be the greatest upset yet if it happens Sunday.
Not only that, but they had the original twin towers in Olajuwon and Sampson
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