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DaC, this the official GD thread?
The Lakers have effectively shut Allen down since his Game 2 explosion. Their offense will have to come from elsewhere, which means Pierce and KG have to step it up.
KG has surprised me with his play. He's definitely getting good post position on Gasol and being effective in the paint. Pierce looks like he finally woke up in the last game. If both of them continue their play the game will be close. However, if either of them lays an egg you can pretty much give LA the victory.
I've said all along this one was going 7 games. I like the Lakers chances if this goes to a Game 7, for reasons I can't quite explain. I just don't see the Lakeshow dropping Game 7 at Staples with this much legacy on the line. I know Kobe and Fisher will leave it all on the floor. Will Gasol, Odom, Bynum?
DaC, this the official GD thread?
The Collusion File depends on it.
If you let Fin ring on YOUR watch, Cully, there'll be to pay...
"This I vow..."
LA wins game 6 and then wins game 7. LA riots and destroy parts of LA.
So now Luva runs you? Say it ain't so nigro.
We will win. I said Lakers in 7 and it shall be written ... when it's all said and done.
A course, Luva is my mentor.
Expert roundtable: NBA Finals Game 6
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5. How will the series play out?
Abbott: We're owed crunch time of a Finals Game 7, aren't we? We're so darned close. And if we get that, I don't see how anybody can complain. If we get that, here's my prediction: Kobe Bryant will be doubled, he'll fade away with an impossibly long and difficult shot as the clock expires, and as it hangs there in the air, make or miss, 2010 will become legendary.
Adande: For the Celtics to win in six, that would entail beating the Lakers two consecutive times in Los Angeles and three straight times overall. That's too much to ask. So it goes seven. Kobe Bryant is 3-1 in Game 7s … but lately this group has been more reminiscent of the team that faltered against Phoenix in 2006 than the resolute group of veterans who won maxed-out conference finals in 2000 and 2002. The Celtics win in seven.
Arnovitz: The Lakers will win Game 6 on their home floor, setting up the first NBA Finals Game 7 since 2005. The decisive game will be an intense struggle by two teams with very similar defensive schemes and philosophies. On the final possession, Bryant kicks the ball out to Artest against a collapsing Celtics' defense for the game-winning 3-pointer. Icebergs melt. Tectonic plates shift.
Broussard: My initial prediction was Celtics in seven. Now I'm thinking six. They're rolling, and Bynum's ailing.
John Hollinger: I said Lakers in seven at the start so there's no reason to change now. I definitely expect a seventh game because the cross-country trip is likely to rattle the Celtics' old bones more than L.A.'s (Andrew Bynum's knee being the exception) heading into Game 6. But at that point, I think it's fairly up for grabs between two teams that seem very evenly matched -- in fact, the composite score has them just two points apart.
Sheridan: Since Boston had trouble finishing off Game 5, I'd have to think that will carry over into Game 6, and the Lakers will win in the final minute (Kobe alert). On Thursday, it'll be a long, sad limo ride home for Jack Nicholson. Boston will win it with defense.
Stein: The Lakers have the capability to win these next two games, but they need a good start in Game 6 -- from more than just Kobe -- because the vibe this team is giving us right now is less than positive. The Celts are the more together group. They've always been volatile, but Boston is the better t-e-a-m right now.
Can the Lakers get that back? A good first half at home in Game 6 could certainly do it. I also have a weird feeling that the potential for technical difficulties, with Kendrick Perkins and Rasheed Wallace both one technical foul away from a one-game suspension, could still come into play … although Perkins has managed to do what even Doc Rivers doubted he could pull by avoiding a T all series.
Not saying it will be unrealistic but it is pretty damn close. Celts have them on the ropes. If they can't take them out now, it is going to be 100000000000000 times even more difficult to do so in game 7. Lakers would be rejuvenated. They are wounded right now. Time to finish them off. If they give a championship team like LA life, it will come back and haunt the Celts.
You can bet Stern's dollar there will be a game 7.
Yes, the Celtics' tremendous average margin of +0.4 PPG is thorough domination.
And there's the second person in this thread alone who has no clue what the "law of averages" means.
What exactly DOES it mean?
They're dominating no matter how you look at it. Simply pushing around Pau and Odom. Bynum, when healthy was good.
Yup.
Bull .
Lakers haven't shut him down. He's just been missing.
He has had many open looks and shots, but he's just been missing them.
Game 3, Ray Ray had several good looks, and if he had made that 3 near the end of the game, Celtics would have won Game 3.
He will get back on track soon enough. He's had the open shots....
I always love the "bu-bu-bu-but he's just missing shots!" guys who believe that NBA players play in some mysterious vacuum, unaffected by defenses. Denial is a funny thing.
the only way to prove you wrong is showing videos of Ray Ray in Game's 4 and 5, and how he's had open shots.
I always love the "bu-bu-bu-but he's just missing shots!" guys who believe that NBA players play in some mysterious vacuum, unaffected by defenses. Denial is a funny thing.
but im not making a video, so you will just be in denial.
Ray is going through a cold streak, but the shots are there.
Well I was halfway right.
Well he only has one more game to get back on track.
"open shots"
This series is what happens when a guy like Ray Allen has to face a top defense.
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