First of all, I wanna say that seeing Mike Bibby show no hesitancy towards this powerful Laker team is just awesome. This guy hits every big shot. He fears no one. He is not fazed. The Lakers seem to be in a bad position agin being down big in the Ist Qtr in Game 4, but I just cannot pick against this team. I think they wil pull out this game, and if they do not win Game 4, I still think the Lakers can win in 7. I guess I like the Lakers so much because of Phil. He knows how to find a way to win. Remeber when the Bulls came back from the big deficit in Game 6 of the 92 Finals. I can't pick against him. I am just shocked at the fact that the Kings are doing this to a Phil Jackson coached team in his own building. Finally, Turkoglu is a Laker killer. This guy pulled a disappearing act in the first two rounds, and did the same thing aginst vs the Suns in last years first round. But in the semis against the Lakers in 2001, he did OK. And Now against the Lakers, he can't miss. I'd love to see Adelman get a series win over over Jackson after all the success (and better players) Jackson has had over Adelman. Any thoughts?
ill give my thoughts at the end of the game. No talk is needed right now. I'm gonna let it sink into my head.
That Walker three, as lucky as it may have been, may be a huge momentum changer. It frustrates me so much when teams don't milk the clock at the end of quarters. If Bibby had taken his shot at buzzer of the shot clock, the Kings are the ones going into the half with the positive momentum. The Kings still have a great shot at winning today, but they're going to have to withstand a furious run at some point, IMO. As for "turning it on", I don't think you're going to see that happen. I've said this all season long: the type of chemistry and team unity that made them so dominant and unbeatable last year takes weeks and months to develop, not a couple of days off between games. That's not to say the Lakers won't have spurts, like they did at the end of game 3 and at the end of today's second quarter. They're going to have some times where their defensive intensity is at a high level, and where some three pointers go down. But, to dominate the way most expect them to, you have to do that consistently, and they simply don't have that chemistry that allowed them to do that a year ago. BTW, Phil's not exactly the one "finding a way to win... it has something to do with Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
Lakers don't need to turn it on as long as they can continue to get the one sided officiating that they have been getting.
let me just say that I would be shocked if the Lakers do not score here with 11 secs to go. championship teams usually convert. I expect an overtime or a Laker win.
Looks like they turned it on with 0.01 seconds left as Robert Horry nailed a game winning three. Friggin a.
If you call needing a miracle shot to tie the series "turning it on", I like the Kings chances. The Lakers still have to beat them in their building.
knew it. When that ball bounced out towards the three point line, I think every Rockets fan knew Horry would get it and drain the winner. He's made a career of it. ****ing Ice Water in his veins.
I'm glad you're the not the Sacramento Kings coach. The Kings looked REALLY good the last 3 games, if the Lakers hitting one shot to tie a series, a series they don't have homecourt advantage in, means the series is over, I guess everybody should lay down for the Lakers, why play the game? The Lakers are beatable. They're not gods. I don't like either team, there are players on both teams that make me sick, but this series is going 7. I don't know who is going to win, but the series is going 7, and no I don't think the Lakers are going to roll through the series. They may win it, but I don't think they're awake. I think they have run into a talented team that doesn't fear them or self-destruct.
They didn't need a miracle shot to win it. They had to come from about 24 or 26 points down to do it. That's the dagger; not the 3. It's leading for damn-near the entire game, building a 20 point lead in the first quarter, building a 20+ point lead, and in the end, what do you have? A loss to show for it. Sooooo... don't say a miracle shot won it for them... say that they came back from being beaten to win. Now it's a series...
Didn't the same thing happen to the Rockets during their title run? I wouldn't count the Kings out yet.
The Lakers have seen the best of the Kings. The Kings brought their "A" game and really handed it to the Lakers, but in the end the series is tied at 2. You haven't seen the best of the Lakers yet. The Lakers are champions.
yeah yeah the Lakers are better, and now they are paying attention it's not over, it's a series but it's fun to say! I just wanna see Webber fail a few more times
Somebody tell me why Vlade was out on the 3 pt line tryin to set up a play and go one-on-one with Shaq with a 1:50 left??
