Post Game Thread - Finals Game 2
by wondahbap on Jun 7, 2009 8:12 PM PDT
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Kobe was tired. He didn’t look sharp out there for most of the game. Thought that pass to Pau for the and-1 in overtime was nice.
true
Phil let him play a bit TOO loose with the ball. It resulted in 7 TOs… But hey, we WON!
RIP Nick Adenhart 4/9/09
by vlad IS my man on Jun 7, 2009 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Magic got nice offensive production out of their front line tonight:
Lewis: 12/21 = 34
Hedo: 8/17 = 22
Dwight: 5/10 = 17
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
on the other hand, Nelson + Alston + Pietrus + Lee = 12 pts.
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
I yelled "BULLSHIT" as soon as he got that shot off
That’s the kind of play I can’t stand. By sheer luck he hit it.
Lakers all the way baby
Too bad we didn’t get to play and beat your Cavs.
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
There's no doubt about it
In a grinding game of toughness, the Cavs would not have found a way to prevail down the stretch and answer the clutch plays by Orlando the way LA did. The Lakers simply are a better team than the Cavs. (Although I don’t like to admit it.)
No skittles, Lamar, no skittles...
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
.......... again and again and again.
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
good thing is lakers coulda played a heck of alot better tonight and still gutted out the win. hope they watch alot of film for adjustments and cleanup on the def. end with the blown assignments – cough lamar cough. dont let lewis get hot and this game would have been another blowout. well, least we can expect the lakers to shoot the ball better than they did today, i imagine.
You should thank god for Ariza
He played the best defense tonight. My jealousy seems to grow with every game.
He, Ariza, and Kobe took it upon themselves to keep LA from losing. Pau was effective occasionally too. Andrew Bynum was no help in this game…I was yelling at him couple times this evening.
lol, bynum did help by getting himself in foul trouble so candyman could play more minutes; bynum made the ultimate sacrifice.
How much longer does he need?
He’s been collecting 4 fouls by the third quarter in every single game since at least the WCSF!
lol your yelling for the lakers now?
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmm
You should just become a Lakers fan from here on out. Until Lebron either goes somewhere with a supporting cast or gets one in Cleveland.
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
hopefully kobe lives up to his word....
when he said he would take less in order to keep key players like ariza and odom. but i think money won’t be an issue if we get 2 more wins. WHICH WE WILL.
He just amazes me how good he is at taking the ball away.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
A lot of them didn’t show up on the box score. Instead just came up as turnovers for hte opposition.
Ariza was great. He's a really good defender, on ball and off ball...
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
Blowout in game 1.....OT win in game 2.
Well, we have won it both ways in the first two games. Magic made their adjustment and it was back and forth the whole game until we took over in OT.
Van Gundy stated in his postgame conference that he doesn’t think he can throw a lineup we haven’t seen yet. This is good news because we have handled everything they have thrown at us. However, it will be CRAZY in Orlando, so we better be ready and I am positive the Lakers will.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
Enjoy it
Only 3 teams have erased a 2-0 finals deficit to win, and the Lakers are not the 2006 Mavs and the Megic are not the 2006 Heat.
Game 3 is a must-win....
For the Lakers. Otherwise there’s the chance of becoming the 2006 Mavs.
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Can't thinklike that.
Same thing happened to Dirk in ’06. He got complacent. Game3 is a must-win.
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Game 3 is not a must win...
there’s no way to enter with that sort of mentality. You can psych yourself up, but you can’t lie to yourself.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
You mean on the ally-oop at the end of regulation?
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
No I’m talking about Dwight’s block on Pau. Dwight put his hand through the net and rim to block the shot which is clearly not allowed. Doesn’t matter now
i think gasol had basket interference on the missed lee layup at the end, so yeah doesnt matter now.
I don't think I have ever seen a goal-tending call on someone hitting the rim like that.
I wouldn’t have called it though.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
Oh, I didn't see that. Got home late.
Good to see we won dispite it though.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
You missed a slugfest
So many fouls. Which reminds me…Dwight Howard is spoiled. He whines half the time no foul is called when he’s blocked, yet he gets the big guys for the Lakers in foul trouble so quickly.
Wow you really hate the Magic.
Guess you will be happy if Lakers win. Sad if they lose.
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
You didn’t miss much from quarters 1-4. You can watch the replay on espn360.com They’ll only have the replay set up tonight. If you go on the site and you get a red box telling you to log in all you have to do is exit the box. Then underneath click basketball and it should have Lakers vs Magic Game 2. “Watch replay”
I did watch most of the game, just missed the low-scoring first quarter.
I was pacing from the 3:00 mark in the fourth till it was over.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
What a brutal game eh? It put Staples to sleep for three quarters
"This is not a game for boys. This is a game for men." - Phil Jackson
The refs were pretty horrible both ways. They missed a lot of things called an assortment of questionable WEIRD fouls. Steve Javie will do that, ugh I hate him.
Javie favors the visitors like most refs favor the home teams. He was a very, very bad draw for the Lakers tonight.
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
Didn’t he eject one of the Blazers announcers before? He can be good sometimes, mostly though he is not all that great. Sometimes I think he knows that refs are supposed to “favor the home team” and he doesn’t want to fit into the mold. Therefore he gives the road team a lot of the 50/50 calls. It is what it is I guess
Except for some calls here and there (more in game 2),
I haven’t really been pissed at the refs like I was in the Conference Finals against the Nuggets.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
he would if he..
post 20/10 for the next 5 years and help the lakers to a couple more championships(which he will).
He has to play a bunch more years at a high level.
The number of All Star games he appears in might be decisive.
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
don't forget
that it’s a BASKETBALL hall of fame, not the NBA hall of fame. gasol’s international success might get him in, just as i expect ginobli’s to get him in
Out of all the things the media can ask,
they want to know why he isn’t smiling. The guy who asked that question is a total moron. After watching the whole game, that is all he can come up with?
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
JVG was a bit moronic himself
Maybe I just don’t get his humor, but he draws way too much attention to himself with his bombastic comments.
Joe Crawford?
lol maybe Dwight will start laughing.
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I reacted the same way.
You know it is a bad call if Jack jumps out of his seat like this.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
Hedo and Lewis wasted their best game...
Just like Carmelo in game one.
I don’t think that Lewis and Hedo will combine to go 50% from three point range again. They also shot way above their averages on 2-point attempts.
Nice to walk away with this win when they were shooting so well.
Hey why don't you guys give Lebron and Mo to the Lakers and then combine the franchises
and All the Cavs fans like you can become Lakers fans.
Then it would be twice the happiness for twice as many fans =)
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Depends...
Hedo and Lewis will shoot that well if they’re left as open as they were many times tonight. As good as Odom was on offense, he was equally unfocused on defense. He let Lewis just go – forgot about him completely.
by McNown to Farmer on Jun 7, 2009 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions
The Lakers are 12-12 in Game 2s since moving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. …
Undefeated in Sunday Whites
Resiliency
That’s all this game was about. The game was not their best but the best part about it was how they fought through it as a team.
by PURPLE AND GOLD FOR LIFE on Jun 7, 2009 9:32 PM PDT reply actions
Lakers are 12-12
in FInals Game 2’s since moving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. I love meaningless statistics
This stat goes beyond the word "meaningless"
to waste of brainspace.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Past stats mean shit
Who cares what the Lakers did in the past. Unless you are willing to dress up Magic in his prime and let him play a game the past doesnt’ mean a thing. Not the regular season or any other stat. This current Laker team just has to play. That is all that matters.
by PURPLE AND GOLD FOR LIFE on Jun 7, 2009 9:36 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
They don’t mean anything but I like to post them, just for entertainment value. Also its fun to see if when a stat is finally broken and things like that.
Can you verify the Kobe dunk stat
Where the Lakers are 113-0 or 103-0 or whatever whenever Kobe dunks and is fouled in the same play?
by suns_all_the_way on Jun 7, 2009 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd say it's about building a mindset
It’s about building confidence. Knowing you’ve done it before.
survive is a great word to describe the Lakers play
They better not do that game 3 or the will be in for an upset.
ESPNEWS live kobe press conf ...
“Kobe, what were you thinking when you saw the lob to Courtney Lee in the air?”
Kobe: “SH*T!”
Exchange of the night at Kobe's press conference
Reporter: Your game face has been on the entire series. Still waiting for a big smile out of you, you’re up 2-0. What’s the story? [laughing] Are you not happy, or are you only half happy or-
Kobe: [eyes bug out a bit, shrugs] What’s there to be happy about?
Reporter: [sheepishly] You’re up 2-0.
Kobe: Job’s not finished. [to reporter] Job finished? … I don’t think so.
The End.
P0wned. I guarantee you Kobe will be beaming if the Lakers win the series, just not a second before. These reporters, man, what do they expect him to do, pull a T-Mac?
"This is not a game for boys. This is a game for men." - Phil Jackson
He watched the whole game and that is all he could come up with? That's sad.
GO BRONCOS IN 2009 AND BEYOND!!
Lakers lead NBA Finals 2-0
Jon Berry needs to stop hating on the Lakers
He doesn’t even try anymore to be impartial. Even his compliments seem backhanded ones. And somebody needs to offer Marc Jackson a coaching gig b/c I don’t like his play calling all that much. I wish they’d bring hubie brown instead, and wish they’’d take the best of the ESPN post game coverage crew and the best of TNT post game coverage crew (Magic, Stewart A Scott, Charles Chuck Barkeley, Kenny Smith) and do a special finals crew. Ditch Wilbon, JB, Webber, Ernie.
I expect the lakers to lose game 3, make the adjustments and win game 4, then lose 5, and come back to close it out in 6.
And Mike Tirico is 10X better then Tom Breen
and his “bangs!” (the reason I hate that phrase so much id because I had to listen to him say it every single freaking time Ray Allen hit a three in the Finals last year, which was a lot)
One thing I know for sure is that
the Lakers can’t play on the road the way they played today, Kobe made plays but overall he sucked, Fisher was big really big, Trevor was good on D, Gasol and ODOM all came up big but they can’t play good D for only three quarters. So they must come with A game for the whole game in Orlando.
Considering...
their the #1 road team in the league, I think they know that.
I would say this is a bit harsh.....
“Kobe made plays but overall he sucked,”
Not his best game, but “sucked”?? LOL
Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!.......Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend. – Will Munny
Kobe puts in marathon six-hour, six-days-a-week workouts during the offseason. Which is why when somebody asked him before this series began if he has prepared extra hard for these Finals, it was an insult to what he stands for.
“I can’t step up my preparation,” he said, “because I prepare as much as I can all the time.”
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