Optimism Discussion: The Laker's Sky Is Not Falling

Did she smack you and tell you to nut up?

 

Bron and AD sat the 4th AND get to rest until Tuesday.

 

LET'S GOOOO..!!!

 

We're a 1 of 1.

Let's go!

 

Had us winning this game but not like this! Hope we can ride the momemntum into next round. Lets goooo!!

 

We'll win it all if healthy and Ham keeps this 8 players rotation , I've seen enough on D

 

Alright okay I admit it: all day I was nervous about this game, because if AD doesn't show up or Ja goes off for 28 in a quarter, we ain't winning Game 7 in MEM, and we blow a 3-1 series lead, bringing back horrid memories of the Bad Trip when we blew a 3-1 series lead against damned PHO in '06. Yea, it was 17 years ago, but today I was having flashbacks. Until the game started.

We looked great in the 1st Q, and AD looked like Beast Mode had been activated. But I was still nervous, though we're up by 11.

Not only held serve in 2nd Q, but added to the lead by 6: halftime we're up 17...but we saw that 35-9 lead evaporate earlier in the series. Still kinda nervous, but also kinda giddy because we look REAL good. At times horrifyingly scary good, especially on D. The Pelinka Miracle Team and its glorious DEFENSE!

MEM has to come out for the 3rd on fire. They did not. WE were the ones on fire. We did not relax and let 'em back in. Ja looked defeated. He ended up 3 for 16. Dillon Brooks was 4 for 11 and just looked terrible, especially since he opened his trap and mouthed off to the press about Lebron. We outscore 'em by 16 in the quarter to go into the 4th leading by 33: Garbage Time!!!

I wish I could bottle this stuff and take a hit off it every now and then when I need it. I call this drug Euphoria, and it's a clean high and you don't feel any hangover at all. Also: no one has ever OD'd from it.

Apparently Dillon "I Run My Mouth Then Can't Back It Up" Brooks ran off after the game rather than face the press. That's who he is. You saw it. We call the Boston team the C-Bags; this guy is a C of another type.

I want more. More play like this. Defense wins championships. Someone said that before me.

 

I saw our 163 BLOCKS and we're 2nd?

Man, AD, AR, Rui, Lebron, Dennis and Co. need to get on it.

(LOL) The blocks are now, like, my favorite part of the game. AD blocks a shot, it pops up in the air, he catches it, and immediately whips an outlet pass to a streaking Laker for a layup. Jit's addictive.

 

…gotta see if we can get Jack court side for away games too.

 

Earlier in the season I talked about how much I missed the days when a team would come in talking crap and we’d just destroy them. Really nice to watch that us doing that again.

 

So nice to beat that group of trash talking punks and send them home. And irony of all ironies is Dillon’s “give me 40” team got beat by 40. Karma is a rude mistress.

 

Reminded me of Big Baby Davis saying he couldn’t wait to come back and win game 6 in LA. Made the 2010 championship all the more satisfying.

 

That was satisfying too, but I always had much more respect for Paul Pierce than I did Glenn “saliva fountain” Davis.

 

Baby Davis never faked a career ending injury and had to be wheelchaired to the back because a) he's a drama queen or b) he possibly pooped himself.