Now that I've calmed down...

[Brazil]

No SD thread about the lakers losing?

SD is not creating threads anymore for teams doing what they suppose to do.

[sribb43]

Fronting Yao? Get ready for a healthy dose of Lowry, wafer, scola, artest, landry and yes shane slashing to the cup. Fronting Yao exposes you for defensive board as Yao has inside position. Interesting to see your other players guarding the blur.

Fronting Yao is very effective, quick undersized defenders can give him trouble if they make him work for the ball. you can let him pin you in the paint and let him catch it with ease. Last regular season game Yao was torching Damp and in the 2nd half, guys like Hollins and Bass were fronting Yao and he was ineffective. I even remember guys like Najera gave Yao some trouble because of their quickness. Yao will punish you if are behind him when he catches the ball. At least make him work and tire him out..otherwise your at Yao's mercy

[pauls931]

I blame the refs. Rick Adelman is known to get ref help against the Lakers.

Was that a veiled stab at LA? aka 2002 WCF?

[MB20]

I predict Scola will score more in game 2.
Lakers will adjust to Yao (fronting, sandwiching), and forget about Scola.

[florige]

Thank goodness we don't have to hear troll Laker fans talking about that 43-0 first round crap with Phil Jackson coached teams now. Thanks you Houston, you just saved a ton of bandwidth.

[Imposter Cleaner]

I kind of remember 04-05's playoffs, the Rockets won the first game too, also on road as well. But the Rockets eventually lost that series whatsoever.

[pauls931]

I think we'd get another classic rap from Shaq if kobe gets knocked out in the 2nd round. I still don't see it happening though, just too much talent on LA, but perhaps Houston exposed that they can't play a slowed down grind it out game.

[Banzai]

Must be revenge from Rick Adelman from 2002.

[Indazone]

This Rockets team is better than the 2002 Kings

[Rogue]

This Rockets team is better than the 2002 Kings

china is better than the united states of america

Mavs didn't win the champoinship of 05-06 season

Kobe is not a

Tracy McGrady is not a scapegoat

The financial crisis is unreal

Water is not wet

The sky is yellow

NBA is not a scam

Indazone is not an idiot

...

[UltimA]

LMAO Lakers.

[DrHouse]

On Wed. we will find out just how much of the Laker's ty play was attributed to not playing a game in a week.

Part of me is thinking this will turn out like the 2001 76ers series. Lakers don't play for a week, drop Game 1 and then come roaring back to win 4 straight. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened.

Lakers in 6.

[ElNono]

On Wed. we will find out just how much of the Laker's ty play was attributed to not playing a game in a week.

Part of me is thinking this will turn out like the 2001 76ers series. Lakers don't play for a week, drop Game 1 and then come roaring back to win 4 straight. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened.

Lakers in 6.

Does not compute...

And I'm writing you down for a Backdoor Mother ing Sweeeeeeppppp!!!!

[BUMP]

On Wed. we will find out just how much of the Laker's ty play was attributed to not playing a game in a week.

Part of me is thinking this will turn out like the 2001 76ers series. Lakers don't play for a week, drop Game 1 and then come roaring back to win 4 straight. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened.

Lakers in 6.

agreed

im sure if ST worked like it did back then as it does today, 76er fans would be spamming the forum with LMAO Laker threads. whatever happened to waiting til the series was over?

Even the DAL-SA series this year after each win, it seemed like the series was over the way the fans celebrated

[ElNono]

LMAO Lakers

[dirk4mvp]

This Rockets team is better than the 2002 Kings

Please tell me you're joking.

[Banzai]

This Rockets team is better than the 2002 Kings

[Banzai]

um..the 2001 Lakers are 1000 times better than this years Lakers. They also had Shaq in his prime, Sorry Bynum and Gasol are no Shaq. And they only lost 1 game that year in the playoffs.

true.