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Originally Posted by Loose Cannon
pretty confident that Celtics can't win this without Perkins. Gasol, Odom and Bynum are going to be able to get inside a lot more and get Kobe more space or vice versa. The bigs are going to win this for the Lakers tonight
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Here's the things that the Celtics need to fall in place...
1) Rasheed has the game of his life, he doesn't have to worry about getting 1 tech tonight (him and perk were both at the limit) what will they do? suspend him for game 1 next year?
2) The old Gasol needs to show up, the soft player that doesn't crash the board an takes alligator arm shots... this is not the Gasol that has played most of this year or this playoffs but every so often you see a little bit of him...
3) Kobe needs to take control, let Kobe go off for 60... 2 things happen when that happens, first everyone else backs off and slows down on the Lakers and it becomes a 1 on 5 for Kobe. Second is Artest will try to get in the act and start missing 3's.
an the Celtics win? yes... and I don't just mean that in a "any team could win" situation, I think they have a real shot... but no, I wouldn't bet my money on them...
I think there are plenty of Lakers from 2008 who remember being down 40 points game 6 in Boston...