Lakers (38-9) at Celtics (41-9) 2/5

[ManUp]

Lakers fans have bragging rights, right now.

Regular season bragging rights, maybe.

This season is what matters last year is in the past.

They've beaten us twice, and ended our streak twice.

The Celtics haven't looked too good against Cleveland and LA.

[Chief]

Bedtime after that junk.


Goodnight, you princes of Maine… you kings of New England

[KJ33]

29-20 FT disparity on our home floor?  Come on.   Reggie says let em play at the end, its a physical game, but they didn't let the C's play physical all night.  Kobe said the same thing, "they play physical, no foul"  

The Lakers played good D, yes, by being physical, but the Celts weren't allowed to play that way.  If they let physical play go on both sides all games, I like the C's chances.  Leon Wood should NEVER ref a significant game ever again.

Here come the trolls.....

[Tenacious D]

And the need for a longer front court player demonstrated. Dan? Wic?

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[slamdunk]

Lakers fans have bragging rights, right now.

This might sound rude although I honestly don't mean it that way but...who cares?

[gkiteisscal]

Horrible officiating tonite.  but the C's got out played.  Kobe hit big shots, the C's either front rimmed or back rimmed everything.

What was more worrisome was that they reverted back to the PP iso play when the going got tough. It's a bad play against bad teams, it's a horrible play against good teams.  The ball movement was horrible.

Tonite would have been a good nite to have Scal.  We needed a big that could stretch the floor.  BBD couldn't hit that jumper to save his life and Powe can't play outside the paint.  I'm sure this will lead to knee-jerk Joe Smith talk, but their is a lot of validity there.  

[celticinorlando]

kobe bryant would have gotten that call that ray didn't get...

[jdub1660]

Why wasn't Eddie House in there more along with Powe instead of BBD?!?!?!?! The refs sucked b/c they let Fisher flop and foul out KG but Fisher rapes Ray in the last seconds but don't call a thing?!?!! Bad game in crunch time and now I get to hear Laker fans all week...

[Toine43]

Refs were okay. Anyone who saw Pau (or Fisher) fouling Ray on that last play is just imagining things. It didn't happen.

You can't be serious if you didn't see the hook Fisher had on Ray.

No question it was a foul.

[QuinielaBox]

We simply did not play that well tonight and the Lakers did.

I don't believe the Lakers can play any better and I know we can play much better. The decisions made on offense stunk, pure and simple.

KG getting fouled out on that chinsey call was simply a killer.

[TatteredOnMySleeve]

nothing but a championship will make up for this...this regular season offically sucks..

[Roy Hobbs]

Was that a foul?

I don't think so.  Who was the foul on?  Gasol didn't touch him, and I don't think Fisher did, either.

There were plenty of missed calls, but the Celts had plenty of chances to win it, and executed terribly.

Still...

I`m not the kind of guy who moans about the officiating all the time, but this was a ridiculous screw job. It doesn`t matter that we should`ve won the game on our own, the refs clearly took that away from us.

Yeah, KG shouldn't have been fouled out, and he would have made a huge difference down the stretch.  Still, the thing that will stick with me is the terrible execution.

Close to 8 seconds at the end of regulation, and we can't get a shot off.

16 seconds at the end of overtime, and we can't get a shot off (since Ray's attempt barely constitutes a shot).

Those things are unacceptable.

[liam]

Refs were okay. Anyone who saw Pau (or Fisher) fouling Ray on that last play is just imagining things. It didn't happen.

You can't be serious if you didn't see the hook Fisher had on Ray.

Hook on Fisher and Garnett Fouled 3 times and then thrown from the game. Who is Fisher Blowing that he gets those kinds of calls all the @##%% time!!!!

[Tenacious D]

Goodnight, you princes of Maine… you kings of New England

'Atcha, J Irving fan