OFFICIAL LAKERS 2009/2010 (57-25) 2009-2010 CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!

[dyyhard]

i hope paulina is prophetic about that. i want the boston fans and bill russell to see their team walking away, watching the ceremony on their court.

the team said they'd never forget about the bus incident in boston after losing in 08. i know they have a chip on their shoulder coming in.

 

[ag 47]

Originally Posted by dyyhard

i hope paulina is prophetic about that. i want the boston fans and bill russell to see their team walking away, watching the ceremony on their court.

the team said they'd never forget about the bus incident in boston after losing in 08. i know they have a chip on their shoulder coming in.

 

[dyyhard]

http://sports.yahoo.com/n...g=mc-lakersceltics053010

PHOENIX – The Los Angeles Lakers’ title hopes had disappeared with one last embarrassing loss in the NBA Finals, leaving those on board the team’s bus to sit in stunned silence. As the bus started to leave the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston on that night two years ago, chaos quickly broke out around the Lakers. Boston Celtics fans had filled the streets to celebrate the franchise’s 17th championship, not far from a statue of longtime patriarch Red Auerbach smoking a victory cigar.

Kobe Bryant hasn’t forgotten the demoralizing NBA Finals loss to the Celtics two years ago in Boston.
(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

With traffic snarled and no police escort to take them to their hotel, the Lakers could do nothing but sit and stew. Before long, someone recognized Phil Jackson sitting in the front seat, and then the rocks began to fly. Revelers pelted the bus and shook it, mocking the Lakers at their lowest moment.

“It was painful,

 

[goukiteg]

Originally Posted by AG 47

Originally Posted by dyyhard

i hope paulina is prophetic about that. i want the boston fans and bill russell to see their team walking away, watching the ceremony on their court.

the team said they'd never forget about the bus incident in boston after losing in 08. i know they have a chip on their shoulder coming in.

in 2008, after game 6, celtic fans threw rocks and shook up the laker bus as it was leaving

 

[liquor poker]

Originally Posted by dyyhard


http://sports.yahoo.com/n...g=mc-lakersceltics053010

PHOENIX – The Los Angeles Lakers’ title hopes had disappeared with one last embarrassing loss in the NBA Finals, leaving those on board the team’s bus to sit in stunned silence. As the bus started to leave the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston on that night two years ago, chaos quickly broke out around the Lakers. Boston Celtics fans had filled the streets to celebrate the franchise’s 17th championship, not far from a statue of longtime patriarch Red Auerbach smoking a victory cigar.

Kobe Bryant hasn’t forgotten the demoralizing NBA Finals loss to the Celtics two years ago in Boston.
(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

With traffic snarled and no police escort to take them to their hotel, the Lakers could do nothing but sit and stew. Before long, someone recognized Phil Jackson sitting in the front seat, and then the rocks began to fly. Revelers pelted the bus and shook it, mocking the Lakers at their lowest moment.

“It was painful,

 

[ag 47]

Wow, *$#% them #*%+## for real.

 

[carlofromdapi]

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

Originally Posted by westcoastsfinest

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

prob the worst call by the refs was the out of bounds off KG/Gasol in the last 2 min...
replays clearly showed off KG yet they STILL gave it to Boston. If they can't get it right on replay...what makes you think they could get it right live?

im not one to complain about officiating cause the calls were horrible for both sides but they had a chance to get this right with instant replay but ehhh thats how it goes sometimes
  

that's the thing.  the whole game was called bad...on both sides...so really you can't complain about that.

but the replay?...wack

So true!

 

[dyyhard]

this recap of G2 esp the last minute got me pumped for G3

 

[th0mas cr0wn]

I really +*$*!+* hate paul pierce

 

[darth dnzy]

--That bus incident will happen again after Game 5. Part 2. Deja vu Mamba.

 

[CP1708]

We're going to get back to passing the ball more in this game, lessen the dribbling around.  Ball movement is what is needed to beat tough defenses like this, in fact if you think about it, the Celts (Doc Rivers) is always yellin at his guys they have to move the ball vs our defense to be successful. 

Kobe and the bigs will be able to do what they need too, Fish needs to spot up better and help space the floor.  Artest hopefully responds well after game 2. 

I have no worries about the homecourt.  Kobe, Fish, Pau, even Ron are vets who have played everywhere in all environments, this is no different.  Boston fans hate us, but what fan base doesn't? 

My only thing is, we need to win earlier in Boston, then late.  If we don't get a game 3, then pressure builds on game 4, and if that, and etc etc etc. 

Win game 3 tonight, and the pressure is lifted, and they can play ball on Thursday and Sunday with house money. 

THREE

 

[westcoastsfinest]

stop rondo and fight over those screens plus itd be nice to have kobe play loose without being in foul trouble

 

[ag 47]

Also, can we let Sasha get some more playing time? I think he could be effective
against He Got Game.

 

[CP1708]

"Laker" fans getting their brains bashed in again all over this thread. 

Whatever happens tonight guys, praise the damn hell out of the Celtics so people will shut up for a day or two.  Please. 

When other people say things it's ok, but when we do it, we're "Laker" fans.  Like what is said don't matter or anything. 

 

[tmoney85]

Hey, who am I?


"Hi, I'm _________ and I like to leave Allen open even though I know he's made 5 straight three pointers. If Perkins has the ball in the post and is already being doubled, I wanna go down there and help off my man. Also, I was the worst dunker in dunk contest history and have nostrils the size of the grand canyon"



hope you burn in hell _________ and hope they lakers trade you quick.

 

[wings90]

Originally Posted by AG 47

Also, can we let Sasha get some more playing time? I think he could be effective
against He Got Game.

I was hoping to see that Game 2. Sasha loves chasing guys around.

 

[hybridsoldier23]

Originally Posted by tmoney85

Hey, who am I?


"Hi, I'm _________ and I like to leave Allen open even though I know he's made 5 straight three pointers. If Perkins has the ball in the post and is already being doubled, I wanna go down there and help off my man. Also, I was the worst dunker in dunk contest history and have nostrils the size of the grand canyon"



hope you burn in hell _________ and hope they lakers trade you quick.

 

[th0mas cr0wn]

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[notorious 858]

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[h1]Lakers need Lamar Odom to be a standup guy during games, not just after them[/h1]Walking toward the dozens of bodies bumping around in front of his locker Sunday night, Lamar Odom did what he seemingly always does.

He deferred. Instead of shouting for space, he stood there. Instead of driving up the middle, he hung around outside.

Instead of stomping through the maze of power cords and stepladders and sweating humanity that is the NBA Finals media, he simply shrugged.

"Hey, Lamar, why don't you do your interviews over here?" said a Lakers official, pointing to an empty space in front of Sasha Vujacic's locker.

After this kind of loss — a 103-94 embarrassment against the Boston Celtics in Game 2 — some stars would have refused to speak in front of someone else's locker. After a performance like Odom's — one basket in 15 minutes — some stars would have attempted to quietly slip away without talking to anyone.

What happened next is one of the things about Odom that I find so cool. It is also one of the things that drives me absolutely crazy.

He went with the flow. He politely stood where Vujacic once stood. He generously answered every question with class and grace. No show of anger. No declarations of revenge. Seemingly no idea that at that moment, from the locker-room offices to the Figueroa corridor, foils everywhere were screaming for him to start fighting back.

Lamar Odom is not only one of the most genuinely good guys in all of Los Angeles sports, but also one of the most maddening. The Lakers need him, but, even after six years here, they don't really know him. Even this spring, while he's finally wearing one of their rings, they haven't figured him out.

Is he the guy who finished so well against Oklahoma City, or who had trouble getting started against Utah? Is he the guy who went for 19 points and 19 rebounds against Phoenix or was he, as the Suns' Amare Stoudemire said, just lucky?

So far in the Finals, he's been neither. So far, he's been less involved than Dustin Hoffman. With the series tied at one game apiece, he's averaging four points and five rebounds in an average of 18 foul-ridden minutes per game.

From the moment one of Kobe Bryant's passes bounced oddly off his chest in Game 1, Odom hasn't been able to match the moment. Is his cluttered head there? Is his bruised body there? We know the Kardashian family is there, and that's enough to make anyone lose his marbles.

The foul issue has hampered him — five in each game — but he didn't pick up his fourth and fifth fouls until the final 27 seconds Sunday, so he can't blame his play on the officials.

Coach Phil Jackson is seeing more than fouls, because, even though Odom had only three fouls, he was removed from the game with 5:58 to play and the Lakers leading by three. By the time he returned in the final minute, it was over, and everyone surrounded the kindly giant to ask what had made him so small.

"I couldn't really contribute much, just in spirit," he said. "That's the way the ball bounces sometimes."

Obviously, the officials don't think he is exercising enough body control, and Jackson thinks he is not showing enough mind control, and something is up, and Odom needs to figure it out, fast.

In last year's Finals against Orlando, he averaged 13 points and eight rebounds, and did the little things that have helped the Lakers grow large. For Odom, it's always about the little things.

In games during this regular season when he collected at least four offensive rebounds, the Lakers were 12-3 . . . and in the postseason, 7-1. So far against the Celtics, he has one offensive rebound.

In games in which he has at least four assists, the Lakers were 21-9 during the regular season and are 4-0 in the playoffs. Against Boston, he has two assists.

"He'll get a chance later on in the series to redeem himself," Jackson said.

Writers aren't supposed to write these things, but I hope so. Odom is such a regular-guy star, he's difficult to criticize, and impossible to dislike.

Who else on the team admits to pregame meals of giant bags of candy? Who else on the team would meet a celebrity wannabe at a summer party and, against all advice, marry her a month later because he sheepishly claimed he loved her?

And I've never seen anyone else spend an entire season — 2006-07 — with a T-shirt hanging in his locker bearing the likeness of one of his children. This was Odom's way of remembering his 6½ -month-old son, Jayden, who died in his crib in the summer of 2006 of sudden infant death syndrome.

It's so easy to cheer for Lamar Odom. If only it weren't so darned hard to watch him.
Link:

http://www.latimes.com/sp...0100608,0,6376304.column

Plaschke Nails it right on the head.

This exactly why I've never and never will be a fan of Lamar Odom.

 

[solewoman]

kobe looked sooo salty lol. i love. ill be rocking my pierce jersey tonight

 

[frenchblue23]

Originally Posted by SoleWoman

kobe looked sooo salty lol. i love. ill be rocking my pierce jersey tonight

This one?

 

[notorious 858]

DFish reaction about Pierce saying "Not coming back to LA"

 

[frenchblue23]

@ Fisher's reaction on Pierce's comment.  Perfect execution by Fish. 

 

[dyyhard]

yes he's mad. but thats how you know he also bleeds purple and gold.
same expression at the espys 08

bostonsux!!!

 

[wings90]

Fisher

Win tonight and get it over with.  Anything else would be icing on the cake. Hopefully Pierce and Big Baby's comments give them some motivation.