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Look for Lakers to be more than ready in game six
By David Zizmor June 14, 2010 |
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The last time we spoke about this series was after game one and game one the Lakers were dominate that was not a good game for the Celtics. The Lakers looked fantastic and if you compared how the two teams have played in their previous series two years ago for the finals it was night and day. The Lakers looked awesome in game one but really ever since game one this has been a real knock down drag em out fight. These two teams have come to play every single night. You haven't seen anyone team totally dominate, there have been games where one team did a lot better than the other. None of these games were run aways monstrous wins for and for these games they have been relatively close at some point in the game and maybe the team pulled away at some point in the stretch in the fourth quarter to win it but we haven't seen any monster three point blow outs or anything like that. Matter of fact when you think back to the finals two years ago in the last game of the series the Celtics won that game by 39 points over the Lakers so we haven't seen anything close to that not even in the 20 point range. The biggest margin of has been 13 by the Lakers in game one. That's the only game you can legitimately say the Lakers dominated the other team. The rest of the games have all been really good and entertaining games, some games you had some issues with the referees but the Celtics they've been doing a good job taking on these L.A.Lakers this is really a fascinating series and there have been a couple of subplots obviously. Injuries are playing a better part in this championship series and the biggest injury is the knee of Laker Andrew Bynum the center. He played reasonably well but the thing with Bynum he had injury issues over the last several years in 2008 he didn't even play in the finals he was out. There are some Lakers fans and though I don't agree with them they say that had Bynum had been playing in the series two years ago that the Lakers would have clearly won that one. I don't necessarily agree with that but they say that and the Lakers fans like to argue and Bynum is here, he's not 100% his knee has been bothering him. He was pretty good in the first two games, in game one the Lakers blew them out, game two the Lakers kept it close, Bynum when he's healthy he's a big presence down low and is a rebounding force who can block shots and play decent defense and he just keeps the offensive game for the Celtics honest. Bynum helps control the paint and without him in there it's just not the same and he's been playing on his gimpy knees which have limited his effectiveness. He's just kind of hobbling around out there and he can't make the same kind of plays on offense or on defense. If you look at the box score for game five Bynum had only one rebound. That's not going to cut it, a guy that big playing up front you get one rebound you’re not doing your job and he plays 31 minutes. We’re not talking about a guy who got one rebound for six minutes were talking about a guy who played in the game 31 minutes and really had no impact on the glass. The Lakers take on the Celtics for game six on Tuesday night at Staples Center if the Lakers want to stay in the series all of them have to be on their best game against probably a world's championship caliber team. David Zizmor covers the NBA Finals for Sportstalk radio |
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