Celtics-Lakers Game Four Thoughts (AKA How the Lakers Came From Ahead to Lose Any Shot at a Ring)
Quick-hitters:
- I just noticed that my blog lists blog categories under “Tags:” at the end of each blog entry, rather than the tags themselves.
I’ve since fixed this, but knowing me, I probably screwed up somewhere. If anyone sees a problem with the “Tags:” entry in the future, please let me know!
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,550 (not counting the two orders I placed in the last hour or so and, obviously, have yet to even consider filing :P).
No changes to my toothpaste-o-meter, but I did pick up six additional bottles of mouthwash.
- Lamar Odom just earned his entire year’s salary tonight. Too bad it was all for naught. The Lakers’ bigs finally started running hard in that first quarter. Where was this during the first three games of the series? And did someone inject something into Trevor Ariza?
(Random thought: That crossover that Luke Walton pulled off early in the second quarter might have been the whitest crossover ever :P)
Naturally, Boston was going to make their run in the second quarter, but that three-point play by Fisher was absolutely huge. And did I read that wrong, or did Kobe really not have a FG in the first half?
Then the third quarter happened, and with that, the series is now over.
(David Stern probably is not a happy camper. Certainly he wanted this series to go seven. Well, perhaps he could still do something about it… :P)
There’s just something about the third quarter that just absolutely energizes the Celtics. 21-3 to end the quarter? +16 for the entire quarter? That might have been even more impressive than the Lakers winning the first quarter by a record-setting 21 points! Most importantly, Pierce got rolling, and that’s when I knew the Lakers were in huge trouble.
Championship teams play through adversity. Boston clutched up. The Lakers wilted. Ray Allen gets to the basket untouched? And why the hell did the Lakers inbound the ball??? And those are the reasons why Boston is going to win the NBA Championship in five or six games.
Worst of all, now I’m going to have to hear how the Lakers choked away a 24-point lead for years to come, especially from the Boston myopians.
(Thanks, Jeff Van Gundy, for the hex, when you declared the series tied 2-2 early in the game :P)
Congrats, Celtics! You deserved it!
One parting thought: this series reminds me a bunch of the 2004 Finals, minus the team bickering. I argued that Detroit actually won that series 5-0, and one could argue that Boston is up 4-0 in this series right now.
Let’s hope the aftermath of the Finals does not include another Kobe Bryant meltdown.
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