I just want to share with you all how my friend's dad ruined this game for us.
My friend has a DVR, so we often like to just hang out at my house while the game is going on and record it at his, then go to his house after his parents have gone to bed so we can watch the game without any commercials. The challenge, of course, is not to get any hints from other people about how the game is going.
Tonight, we did pretty well, but when we showed up at his house, his dad was still watching the game. He finished watching it, but before we started watching it from the beginning, he told us it "was a good one" and that the Lakers "go up by 18 at one point" but that the game comes down to "the last 3 seconds."
My friend was so mad. I didn't think it was that bad. Game can still go a bunch of different ways, right? We just know it's gonna be close. But we knew the whole time that even though the Lakers went up, the Suns were going to come back. And even though they did, I had a sneaking suspicion the whole time that the Lakers were going to win. After all, if the game comes down to the last 3 seconds and the Lakers are involved, it always seems to be them who comes out on top.
When J-Rich hit that 3 to tie the game, I wasn't even surprised. I was expecting it. Then on the last possession, my friend and I were trying to figure out not whether the Lakers would score, but how, since we already knew it wasn't going to overtime.
Artest got that game-winner, which should have been simultaneously awesome and awful, but instead it was just like "Oh, so that's how it happened."
Really just a lame result in every sense.
