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ESPN Stephen A. Smith on the Kwame Brown for Pau Gasol trade. Funny but true!!
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Los angeles lakers advance to the 30th finals appearance in lakers history.
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Some of the reasons why the lakers would rather face the orlando magic in the 2009 nba finals !!
1: First obvious reason is homecourt advantage. Lakers would have the first 2 games at staples with a chance to go up 2-0 then if the series goes farther, they have game 6 and 7 at home. Last year's finals, it was obvious that it is very tough to win on the road with all the unstable whistles that goes on.
Leon Powe more free throws than the entire lakers team is a good example of referring goes wild .
2: Lakers lost 2 games to the Magic this season but the playoffs are much different and the intensity is much much different. In the game at orlando, it was the second game of back to back. The day before lakers played at miami and game went into last second. So fatigue and long road trip could have been a factor. Still, the game vs magic went to the last second and kobe and sasha had a chance to tie the game in the last seconds but they both missed.
In the game at staples center, the game was pretty close and it went into the last minutes but kobe missed some shots.
3: Here is the fun thing, at orlando , magic's leading scorer was jameer nelson with 27 points 4 rebounds and 5 assists. In the game at staples, magic's leading scorer was jameer nelson with 28 points 6 rebounds and 8 assists. he was a main facotor in that game hitting the clutch threes.
If you don't know, jameer nelson is out for the season with a shoulder injury. In other words, no Jameer nelson in the finals vs lakers. HE was the main reaon lakers lost those 2 games vs magic in the regular season.
4: at orlando, kobe bryant 41 points 8 rebounds, 3 assists. at staples, kobe bryant 28 points 13 rebounds 11 assists. In other words, noone on the magic team can stop kobe. (courtney lee will be guardinh him). watching the eastern conference finals, the magic rarely double team lebron, if they do that with kobe, you know what is going to happen with kobe being allowed to go 1 on 1 .
5: magic don't have enough size in the middle. dwight howard and gortat are their only centers. battier rarely comes of the bench. bynum can probably handle howard, but rashard lewis cannot handle pau gasol in the post. even if lamar gets in the game, lewis is not a good post defender.
6: Cavaliers defense is insane. I watch the games vs magic and the cavaliers can go for like 4-5 minutes forcing the magic into taking tough shots and denying the ball from touching howard's hands.
lebron james is getting better defensively. Ben wallace and varejao are very good defenders and they would be a nightmare for gasol with their physical defense. Cavaliers defense on kobe is much much better than the magics. in 2 games vs cavaliers this seaosn, kobe did not shoot the ball well at all !!
They can put lebron on him, or double or even triple team him. Frustrating defense.
I can think of more stuff to add but I don't want you guys to get bored. Hopefully this helps a little. If anyone got anything else to add, just leave a comment.
Go lakers !!
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Kobe drops a 4 point play in the nba finals game 3 vs. the Magics
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Kobe searches for his misplaced championship rings while LeBron plays some video games.
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