I've been saying all season that the Cavs had the best shot of winning the title, but the Lakers are just scary the way they have that extra gear and just run good teams out of the buliding whenever they want to.
I love the way Charles manages to stick his foot in his mouth constantly during the broadcast. My wish is that TNT has most of the Rockets first round games so he can make more stupid bets and pay up.
You're exaggerating the Lakers game. Lakers is not scary, if anything they fear the Blazers. I would not call Utah a good team, this is the team with a really bad road record, a team in a slump and a team that got beaten by a 7 men Golden State Warriors at home.
YES! Now our game vs Dallas has now become a must-win game instead of possibly a must-tank game. If we lose tomorrow, we could drop all the way down to the 5 seed! If we really want to get out of the first round this year, we HAVE to win this game.
So do we now want the Rockets to win tomorrow and just ensure the best seed possible and HCA? Or is there still some reason to throw the game?
In addition to their road struggles, the Jazz struggle against teams that can exploit them defensively. Beyond our defensive matchup issues, that is another reason we have trouble with the Jazz. We don't make their defense pay enough.
cowens was asked in his opinion what team seeded 2-7 would give the lakers the biggest problems he said the rockets number one because of battier and artest guarding kobe, and yao ming and scola on the inside.
Webber for the epic fail as well. As Kenny said during halftime, no championship caliber team is going to tank a game. Especially the Lakers, who will face this team in the first round. The win tonight destroys any hope the Jazz might muster of winning a playoff series.
