Official NBA Finals 08 Game 3 Thread: Celtics at Lakers 6/10, on ABC HD

the lakers were just a lil shook with this being most of their first finals appearance (yeah, i know it's a lot of the celts first time too, butthey're pretty gangsta
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) and on top of that they were on the road, and on top of THAT they were in Boston!!!

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and
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at all of my friends that are celtic "fans" sending me texts at the end of those games. we'll see whats up late June.

LET'S GET IT LAKE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I BELIEVE!!!
 
if kg plays like the previous game, no way the celts are winning this one

dude needs to take the damn ball to the rim.
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at 7 footer shooting 20 ft fadeaways (word to dirk)
 
I love how a lot of Laker fans predicted Lakers in four.

After Game 1 it was Lakers in five.

Now, Lakers in six.

It's not gonna be that easy, and that should be apparent by now.
 
Come on, Celts, wrap this up!

Game 3 seems like it might play out 1 of 2 ways:

The Lakers pull out a 6-8 point win OR the Celtics continue to play as they have, win by 10 or so.

I don't see either team winning with 15-20 point blowout wins (although Game 2... nevermind).

It's really difficult to say how the rest of the series will go. If LA somehow goes up 3-2, I wouldn't be shocked. Surprised but not shocked. And ifBoston sweeps, or takes it in 5, I wouldn't be shocked or surprised.

Forget the refs, these next few games will go to the team that wants the championship more.
 
hopefully the lakers can pull this off. if they lose this one its over. oh just got this info from lakersground. your refs for the game are

CONFIRMED..
J. Crawford B. Salvatore M. Wunderlich
 
I love how a lot of Laker fans predicted Lakers in four.


Who?

I think for the Lakers to win this it'll be in Six, Boston will either win in five or seven. These next three games can give the Lakers the momentum to wingame 6 at the garden as long as the officiating is fair
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Lakers win tonight, Boston falls asleep.
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Originally Posted by Joseph Camel Jr

I love how a lot of Laker fans predicted Lakers in four.

After Game 1 it was Lakers in five.

Now, Lakers in six.

It's not gonna be that easy, and that should be apparent by now.
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links to names please?
 
No one really predicted Lakers in 4, but quite a few people predicted Lakers in 5. You can just check the game 1 post if you have to.
 
Originally Posted by acidicality

No one really predicted Lakers in 4, but quite a few people predicted Lakers in 5. You can just check the game 1 post if you have to.
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I originally said Lakers in 5 if they can win game 1 otherwise they win in 7. Now, I am hoping Lakers put up enough fight to get us to a game 7.
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Originally Posted by acidicality

No one really predicted Lakers in 4, but quite a few people predicted Lakers in 5. You can just check the game 1 post if you have to.
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True, providing the Lakers can take 1 game from Boston. Didn't happen so It looks to be a 7 game series if the Lakers are to win it.
 
Keep hoping because your posts have gotten consecutively dumber and more ignorant. Nothing classy about anything you've written at all, so any point you've been trying to make is useless. That's hardly an opinion.
i dont think you got the point. like i said, i could really careless if you think my comments are dumb. lol i mean who are you?

are you mexican? were you offended? just tell me, we'll get it straight lol i ain't a racist or anything. just tell me lol
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To all those who don't believe the Lakers were cheated take a look at this;

HP - The problem was that the Lakers weren't playing significantly less aggressively than the Celtics, and still got hosed. It's one thing to see teams get the short end of the stick and retreat into a shell. The Lakers, though, continued to go to the rack. Check the shot charts for Lamar Odom and Pau Gasol:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/shotchart?gameId=280608002

Pretty much every shot is in the paint or just outside it - between the two of them, they took 23 shots. 18 of them were within 5 feet of the hoop. They shot 1 foul between them. Look at the comparable shot chart for KG - 2 shots in the paint. 4 free throws. There's getting hosed, and then there's inexplicable.

Don't like ESPN? How about CBS: http://www.sportsline.com/nba/gamecenter/shotchart/NBA_20080608_LAL@BOS

30 shots by LA were layups or dunks. Boston had 18. Let's amend that somewhat by noting that the Celtics were the recipients of a number of 2-shot shooting fouls. They were credited with SEVENTEEN shooting fouls - LA got THREE. If we were to give every one of Boston's 2-shot fouls to the Celtics as a 'layup' or 'dunk' attempt (they had 14), that gives them 32 shots at the rim. Both of LA's two-shot attempts were on layups, I believe (one by Fisher, one by Bryant). That gives LA 32 shots at the rim. Gasol and Odom had 16 of them, and received, again, one foul shot for their troubles.

I'll reiterate simply because it bears repeating: Exactly even at the rim in shot attempts. Seventeen shooting fouls to three. On a night when the two teams took the exact same number of shots at the rim. That's not bad, that's borderline absurd. You pretend like the officiating got better in the second half? First half: 19-2, Boston. Second half: 19-8, Boston. Oh good, the Lakers got 6 extra free throws. "Fouls at the end of the game" don't hold water, because LA only fouled once on Posey - let's take that out. 17-8 in the second half, despite long stretches that saw LA play more at being matadors than at defenders because they were trying to avoid getting called for fouls!

I don't expect LA necessarily be -ahead- in free throws. But one expects them to be within, oh, I don't know, twenty? Fifteen too much to ask, perhaps? You're calling out Odom - maybe he struggled because every time he tried to go in the lane, he got hammered or called for an offensive foul? The same is true of Gasol, who admittedly allowed the officiating to take him out of the game - but it took him out of the game because it was so egregiously bad that he attempted 11 shots right in the paint amidst a significant amount of contact, and was rewarded with one foul shot.

Lost in all of this is the fact that Kobe actually played really well against the "Kobe stopper" Boston defense. 30 points on 23 shots is plenty efficient (that's just as efficient as 39 points on 30 shots, which was how he played in game 5 against the Spurs, when everybody couldn't stop talking about how well he played). He tossed in 8 assists to boot. All this despite being saddled with 3 fouls early, all of which were on the floor. I don't know that being "MVP" is worth the 20 or so FTAs it seemed to be against Utah, but, really, Kobe gets called for ticky-tack stuff 3x in the first half while Leon Powe spends his first 10 minutes in the game shoving Pau Gasol half into the stanchion every time down the court!

The 'comeback' almost buries the story more than it should, because the fact is that the officiating killed the Lakers. It pulled Kobe out of the game early, and as soon as he left the early LA lead evaporated (Lakers were up by 1 when he left, were down by 8 when he returned). When he got his 3rd on yet another nonsense call (I was unaware that being shoved into Paul Pierce by PJ Brown was considered a foul, but hey, I'm not an NBA ref - on the flipside, I can see better than Stevie Wonder, which seems to be something they all lack), the Celtics extended a 7-point lead to 12 at the half. And you're fooling yourself if you don't think that the tight officiating (at the Lakers' end, and ONLY at the Lakers' end, for the 2nd quarter) didn't affect how LA played defense for the remainder of the game.



http://hardwoodparoxysm.blogspot.com/2008/06/nba-finals-game-2-thoughts-leon-powe.html
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as much as I would love to see this game go to 7, we gotta face the facts that celtics is taking the chip in game 4...okay okay game 5.
 
LETS BE SERIOUS. the way these laker bums have been playing, its obviously going to be a sweep. All you Celtic Haters need to realize actual factuals
 
IF the Lakers loose at home then yeah it'll be over. However until that happens this is still a series. Boston is 2-7 while the Lakers are8-0 at home. If these playoffs are all about home cookin', then I wouldn't be surprised to see this shift back to Boston.
 
Originally Posted by acidicality

No one really predicted Lakers in 4, but quite a few people predicted Lakers in 5. You can just check the game 1 post if you have to.
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who the hell cares. Okay some people predicted Lakers in 5, andyour point is what? Some people had the audacity to be wrong about a sports game, nooo
 
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