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Thank you so much for reversing Ghazi's jinx thread
It's almost as if you morons don't do one ounce of analysis before you past half of the re ed that comes from the pebbles you call brains.
The NBA is all about matchups. It doesn't matter how many games you won, how confident you are, or how well you are playing. If you don't matchup well against another team you will have a hard time beating them 4/7 times.
Unfortunately for Boston, they simply don't matchup as well against the Lakers as they did in '08. I'll run you through the main mismatches they enjoyed in '08
-Radmanovich/Walton guarding Pierce for the majority of the game
-Gasol having to guard Perkins
-Odom having to guard KG
-Pierce/Posey guarding Kobe
-Veteran bench vs. inexperienced Laker bench
-Celtics HCA
Now lets run those matchups again and compare them to present day:
-Artest guarding Pierce for the majority of the game
-Bynum guarding Perkins
-Gasol guarding KG
-Allen brothers guarding Kobe
-Odom going up against undersized Boston bench
-Lakers HCA
The only mismatch I see is Rondo vs. whomever LA puts up against him. That isn't going to be enough to swing the series IMHO. He's good, but not that good. The Lakers will gladly let Rondo play scorer all game as long as nobody else goes off.
Thank you so much for reversing Ghazi's jinx thread
So they'll be beating the Suns then?
Perkins will abuse Bynum.. That's another advantage for them..
HCA doesn't mean . See the ECSF and ECF for reference.
Saying Bynum is an advantage
lol Bynum
You are a ing idiot. Bynum is injured, so he will be relatively inaffective. Tony Allen can guard the best out there and he actually gives scorers like Kobe a problem(in some way, shape, or form, I still see Kobe getting his points, but they will come at a hard price). Gasol and KG even out. Odom will probably dominate the Boston undersized bench, however, if he is to guard KG, he can't worth a squat. Lakers do have HCA, but I don't think that matters to the Celtics. They've won on the road before. They are a championship team as are the Lakers. So stfu and stop asserting false Laker advantages. Typical Laker fan who knows nothing about basketball, yet talks like all the advantage goes to the Lakers.
Rasheed isn't THAT much smaller than Odom. Neither is Big Baby for that matter.
For the entire playoffs the Lakers have been living off 2nd chance points and the fact that none of these soft midget western conference teams match up with their bigs. That advantage is over now. Boston's length and physical frontline negate LA's advantage in the paint. And I predict Gasol will lose his voice by Game 3 from excessive verbal flopping.
If Rondo plays lights out, then Boston has a chance. Otherwise, LA's going to roll.
So if Boston wins in five that means last year is an * right?
Last year's could be an asterisk since KG didn't play in the playoffs last year. The Celtics were not at full strength. They didn't really get to defend their le last year when you think about it.
As of today/ this morning (it's Saturday already), the Celtics are not beating the Lakers because Lakers have not made it to the NBA finals yet. Anything can happen. The only certainty right now is that Celtics are in the NBA finals.
'08 is an asterisk as well.
No Bynum and no Ariza for LAL.
Ariza played, last I checked
and Bynum is a bum.
Yeah, L.A could of really used that 6/5 in 2008.
Boston could look at the Suns and how their zone defense disturb the Lakers and use that but a lot better, the Celtics could be fantastic at zone defense cause they have great basketball IQ, Garnett could be monster at zone defense and also Rondo.
Maybe they're playing Phoenix?
These comparisons to other years are so absurd. Cavs fans also thought they'd beat Boston easily for the exact same reasons - "they had HCA advantage in 2008 and now we're much better, bla, bla, bla". Doesn't work that way, especially because people tend to do a lot of revisionist story and many fans simply don't know other teams well enough. This post is a great example of that.
LA will struggle mighty with Boston because their offense relies on the post game+Kobe isos which is stuff Boston can defend pretty well and they lack penetration game+3 points shooting that give Boston troubles.
Ariza came off a broken foot and played limited minutes. What-if games are pointless anyway, they're for loser franchises with no le.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/.../gamelog/2008/
The Lakers' only concern at the moment should be Game 6.
Come on Suns!!! Nothing would ruin sterns day more than neither LBJ or Kobe making the finals.
And you don't remember that viscious ass pounding that Boston performed on L.A. last time? You started this thread to convince yourself that it won't happen again, but it's obvious your butthole is getting tight
Bynum >>>> Brenda and Erica
Uh, uh, Rivers would never stoop to the zone. He'd lose all respect for himself and from his charges and Celtic fans.
It's sad when you're hoping and praying your center is better than Dampier. What's funny is that he hasn't been better than dampier.
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