My point, which you have completely failed to understand, is as follows, coaches in the NBA do NOT want to go to overtime on the road. And yes I understand that they are athletes that endure a long 82 game season, so why make it worse and make them play an overtime (which may lead to another overtime and possibly injuries), when they have to fly 2 to 3 hours to another city to play another game 24 hours later, even if it is against a crappy team because any team in the NBA can beat another team on any given night, so why give that crappy team any advantage.

MILO and Stitch (really from the movie Lilo and Stitch), I am now crowning you your new name:

MILO the B*tch (in the future please only respond to that name and nothing else).

1. The Lakers did not easily beat Philly (the game was in doubt with about 4 minutes left to go in the game) nor did they easily beat NY (if you call blowing a 26 point lead in NY easy, then you’re dumber than what I gave you credit for).

2. What I meant was the if my philosophy of going for the win with a 3 pointer, as opposed to settling for the 2 pointer and hoping to win in OT, (when all the momentum was in Cleveland’s favor), is childish, then all of the coaches in the NBA must be childish because on the ROAD, when you are down by two, the last thing you want to do is go to OT. When on the road and down by two, all NBA coaches will draw up a play to go for the win with a 3 pointer because they DO NOT WANT TO GO TO OverTime (at home its fine to go to OT because you have the crowd on your side to give you momentum), but becuase you are probably the second stupidest person on this site (second only to phantom) you don’t understand and I don’t have the time to train the childlike mind that you have simply strategy.

3. MILO - you are no doubt an f’d idiot that I wish nothing but misfortune upon because of your pure stupidity. I wish you a merry xmas you waste of human life (god couldn’t your dad have least have the human decency to spare the world your life and f’d your mother with a condom).

LakersFirst (Change) (Close) on December 23, 2007 at 6:31 pm said:

First off, nowhere in my comment did I ever say Cleveland was not the hardest game on the trip. Everybody knows that the two hardest games on the trip were Chicago and Cleveland, so to say “you told me so” is more BS that comes out of your mouth.

Secondly, if my philosophy of going for the win as opposed to winning the game with a 3 is childish, then I guess all of the coaches in the NBA are childish, you idiot. On the road, all coaches who down by 2 points with the game on the line will go for the 3 to win the game. Again, the reason why is because they don’t want to tire out their players, especially on a road trip and especially when you have a game in another city the next night. Even though a 5 minute overtime may not sound like much, a 5 minute overtime really means you’ll be on the court perhaps another half hour, with timeouts, TV timeouts, etc. Also, notice that the Lakers did not have a convincing win over Philly (the game was still in doubt with six minutes left in the 4th), probably because the Lakers were tired. If the Lakers had gone to overtime with Cleveland, I don’t know if the Lakers could’ve pulled out the Philly win.

Lastly, I find it funny that you understand my childlike speak to you (I guess that’s the only way to communicate with you). I’ll do it again.

- You, not good coach
- You, don’t think

You continue to ignore the fact that the next 2 teams are sorry ass teams that the Lakers should beat AND DID BEAT easily.DONT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ARE YOU RETARDED???And you’re last comment
“Secondly, if my philosophy of going for the win as opposed to winning the game with a 3 is childish” is retarded at it’s worst.I think you meant to say if my philosophy of going for the win as opposed to GOING FOR THE TIE witch is what i said the Lakers should have done.Now! seeing that you dont even make sense in you’re comments i think it’s not even worth it trying to proove my point to you because you’re just too retarded to understand.GO BACK TO THE ARCHIVES AND READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY AND WRITE COMMENTS THAT MAKE SENSE YOU FU-CK-EN DOWN SYNDROME RETARD

Secondly, if my philosophy of going for the win as opposed to winning the game with a 3 is childish, then I guess all of the coaches in the NBA are childish, you idiot. On the road, all coaches who down by 2 points with the game on the line will go for the 3 to win the game. Again, the reason why is because they don’t want to tire out their players, especially on a road trip and especially when you have a game in another city the next night. Even though a 5 minute overtime may not sound like much, a 5 minute overtime really means you’ll be on the court perhaps another half hour, with timeouts, TV timeouts, etc. Also, notice that the Lakers did not have a convincing win over Philly (the game was still in doubt with six minutes left in the 4th), probably because the Lakers were tired. If the Lakers had gone to overtime with Cleveland, I don’t know if the Lakers could’ve pulled out the Philly win.

Lastly, I find it funny that you understand my childlike speak to you (I guess that’s the only way to communicate with you). I’ll do it again.

- You, not good coach
- You, don’t think