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TLN’s Finals Preview: Lakers vs. Celtics [Game 6]

Published by Jonathan Somers-Harris on June 16, 2008 in Jonny's Game Preview. 101 Comments

In lieu of varsityoptimism, I won’t be doing much in the way of my normal preview (the superstitious side of me believes that that was the reason we won Game 5, and therefore this must continue on to Game 6. Haha!). instead I will post more questions than normal and hope that you all answer them when you really should be doing other things.

“The Celtics are going to be very sorry they didn’t close out the Lakers. You don’t give cats like Kobe extra lives to come back and kill you. Big mistake by the Celtics.”

-LakerTom

One of the great minds that troll the LA Times’ Lakers Blog has, beyond making an excellent pun on the term cats, made a very astute observation that condensed everything that I was going to write about Kobe into three sentences.

So instead, I though I’d ramble on about Phil Jackson instead…

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TLN’s Finals Preview: Lakers vs. Celtics [Game 4]

Published by Jonathan Somers-Harris on June 11, 2008 in 2008 Playoffs and Jonny's Game Preview. 78 Comments

Putting Kobe on Rondo? Brilliant (Why didn’t Phil do this earlier?).

Kobe defending Eddie House the same way he defended Rondo? Not so much.

As much as we laud Kobe as a great defender, he does not do screens well. To be fair to Kobe, if the screen involved Garnett then in most instances it was an illegal one… but still.

LD2k posted an article from RedsArmy (a Celtics blog), which claimed that Pierce>Kobe, and I wanted to get my two cents in.

The main claim of the article was that Pierce has similar career numbers to Kobe but shoots a better percentage, and that this was being exemplified in the Finals (this was before Game 2).

It’s certainly an interesting debate. I personally don’t think there’s much merit to the discussion though… Not to take anything away from Pierce (he’s a fantastic talent) but as far as statistical similarities go, Shareef Abdur-Rahim (I know, who?) is a career 18/8 guy but nobody compares him to Gasol even though Gasol is also a 18/8 guy.

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TLN’s Finals Preview: Lakers vs. Celtics [Game 2]

Published by Jonathan Somers-Harris on June 7, 2008 in Jonny's Game Preview. 74 Comments

If for whatever reason you did not watch the game/did not hear what had happened, Paul Pierce went down with an knee injury that suspiciously sounded like the same injury that happened to Bynum, except he came back out a few minutes later and was able to play the rest of the game.

Some people are calling it a Willis Reed moment, some are calling it “touched by an angel,” but most everyone will agree that that moment when he returned was the moment the Celtics regained courage and took the game back from the Lakers.

I’m here to tell you that’s Bull.

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TLN’s Playoff Preview: Lakers vs. Spurs [Game 5]

Published by Jonathan Somers-Harris on May 29, 2008 in Jonny's Game Preview. 37 Comments

Please, let’s not talk about the foul-or-no-foul no-call at the end of the last game, let’s just focus on the game at hand.

Pertinent Facts -

Lakers are 2-0 in close out games.
Lakers are 7-0 at home.

Lakers rotation age average: Young.

Spurs rotation age average: Old.

Now, I know a huge deal has been made about the aging Spurs, but the truth is this is their last time around with this current roster (well, current supporting cast) and you have to feel that they’re going to give it their all in Game 5.

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TLN’s Playoff Preview: Lakers vs. Spurs [Game 3]

Published by Jonathan Somers-Harris on May 25, 2008 in Jonny's Game Preview. 38 Comments

Ah, Satire. What a beautiful thing to behold.

Derek Fisher: Lock down defender? This is a good question to ask, and here’s another one…

Whats the difference between a Lakers home game and a Lakers away game? We’ll find out shortly, but either way…

It’s Business Time!

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TLN’s Playoff Preview: Lakers vs. Spurs [Game 2]

Published by Jonathan Somers-Harris on May 22, 2008 in Jonny's Game Preview. 49 Comments

Dear Hornet,

That’s how you don’t give up at home.

Dear Chris Paul,

That’s how you take over at the end of the game

Dear Spurs,

HAHAHA! 44-20! HAHAHA!!!

Seriously though, did anyone else watch the game last night think “my god, Ginobili is really slow today?” I mean, he looked like Zydrunas Ilgauskas on some of his drives.

Alright, now that I’m done talking smack to people who will never read my stuff, let’s get straight to the Preview…

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TLN’s Playoff Preview: Lakers vs. Jazz [Game 6]

Published by Jonathan Somers-Harris on May 16, 2008 in Jonny's Game Preview. 34 Comments

2:34 into this clip, a player finally doesn’t do something that we’ve seen him do all series. We see him not do something that he really has no excuse to do every time he touches the ball.

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, Farmar did not pick up his dribble at the 3-point line. All series long, he would stop his dribble at the 3-point line and look to pass. This, more than anything else in the series, really pissed me off. This was Derek Fisher’s backup. This was the guy that we needed to be productive so that Fisher didn’t have to play 3 out of every four quarters.

So kudos to Farmar becauses, as Marc Jackson says “you’re better than that.”

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TLN’s Playoff Preview: Lakers vs. Jazz [Game 4]

Published by Jonathan Somers-Harris on May 10, 2008 in Jonny's Game Preview. 48 Comments

Double Yew-Tea-Eff, mate!

What’s gone wrong with Farmar? He’s afraid to shoot, he’s afraid to pass, he even seems afraid to dribble, as he picked up his dribble under no pressure on more than one occasion on Friday.

To a certain extent, Sasha had a terrible game too, and a little production from either of these two would have probably given us enough to come back against Utah but, as the phrase Lion King made famous goes, “you gotta put your behind in the past.”

Shout out to Farmar: Watch this! Remember this, Be better, WE BELIEVE!

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