GAME TWO - LAKERS VS CELTICS

A HUUUUUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. I'll start with the small stuff. Odom was Odom, you never know when he is going to show up. Brown was missing too, always focusing on high flying instead of playing the game right.

The refs made the game ugly, very bad calls on both sides of the ball. It makes it hard to play a game when referees anticipate a call, assuming something is going to happen and they blow the whistle. Then you have the "that must have been a foul" call, where they cant see that it was the offensive players fault for falling or losing the ball. Finally, the call when Garnett hit the ball out of bounce, and from 8 different slow motion video angles, the refs still made the ball call.

Now on to our defense. For one, Lakers are too big with three 7 footers to not have plus 15 in rebound and shit. We are not aggressive to the boards on the o-end, and occasionally good to defense, but we cant let rondo out rebound anybody on our team. Not only that, we Lakers now have the most blocks in a NBA finals. Really does not mean anything when you lose.

The most disturbing issue of the night was Ray Allen gettin off all them three's. Now i have played ball from a kid to semi pro, you do not let a shooter have any room to pull. In the first half we did nothing right, but did better in the second half. See, in the first half, Fisher was trying to exaggerate on the screens to get calls - stop that maaaan. The Kobe wants to go over a screen - never do that on a shooter, always trail, always always always trail. Then Shannon Brown, what were you doing. You don't leave a shooter by the time you came to guard him when he was 4 for 4, you don't leave him for nothing, not to rebound, not to help on another person, not to pick up your shoe that fell off.

It was sad, but in game three, if we stop that, we can win, but it is three straight games in Boston and sometimes we do not play well on the road. However, the positive from the night was Artest's defense (we need some better O from him), Gasol and Bynum's Offense and Defense. We will win game three if we get off the road game jitters.