Boston-LA showdown on christmas day

Lakers-- 114

Celtics-- 79


Shutdown of the Celtcs, a nice Christmas present for the Lakers!!


wow you actually changed my text...only a celtic fan would do that......be a bitch!!

ukraine08 wrote:Celtics-- 114

Lakers-- 79


Shutdown of the Lakers, a nice Christmas present for the Celtics

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I'm pretty excited about this game cause I'm a laker fan. Right now, if we play like right now and if you play like right now, we'd lose big. We might get like a 50 point lead, and then Phil would play our 3rd stringers and you'd come back and win by like 24.

The Lakers are so inconsistent.

They better improve their bench's mentality before the Christmas showdown.

offtheheezy wrote:I'm pretty excited about this game cause I'm a laker fan. Right now, if we play like right now and if you play like right now, we'd lose big. We might get like a 50 point lead, and then Phil would play our 3rd stringers and you'd come back and win by like 24.

The Lakers are so inconsistent.

They better improve their bench's mentality before the Christmas showdown.

it's a meaningless regular season game, just a novelty. Heck, it'll be a fun matchup, but it's just the regular season and will have little effect at all in the outcome of these two teams earning the best records in the league and that having an effect on who wins the championship.

Matty wrote:

arkanekidd wrote:@staples center

Im pissed..... me and another dood (cowens_oldschool for u Boston Globe guys) were gonna go out to l.a. to see the C's whoop some laker ass... I for one wanted to be wearing a "we beat l.a." shirt and was hoping to god some of those fukc'n idoits tried t whoop my ass like they did that Celtic fan last yr... wooda been good times... now the fukc'n game is on xmas and he's not gonna want to skip being with his family,,,, damnitt,,,, damnitt,, damnitt...

LOL I give you props if you had the balls to do that over here in LA

defense is an abstract concept

WE WIN BABY/

offtheheezy wrote:WE WIN BABY/

not to take anything from the Lakers, but that game's reffing would come under the category of extreme bias. for the Celtics to have lasted that long, when they played a reg season rotation, is ridiculous.

Celtic's interior defense was fucking pathetic, Pau took advantage of that, we were out hustled on the glass, and simply outplayed, although I can't say I'm exactly worried considering the rotation we played, compared to the Laker's tossing Kobe into the game for the entire first half.

MikeDead wrote:Celtic's interior defense was fucking pathetic, Pau took advantage of that, we were out hustled on the glass, and simply outplayed, although I can't say I'm exactly worried considering the rotation we played, compared to the Laker's tossing Kobe into the game for the entire first half.

interior defense and rebounding weren't the problems. the Celts won the game in the paint and on the boards. the Lakers won the outside game. the deciding factor though was a bunch of phantom offensive fouls and turnover calls while allowing a pass for Lakers defensive 3 seconds and defensive fouls. there aren't many games where calls aren't obvious. this was one of those games and as a result, disrupted the way the Celtics could play their game on both ends of the court.

KyleCleric wrote:

MikeDead wrote:Celtic's interior defense was fucking pathetic, Pau took advantage of that, we were out hustled on the glass, and simply outplayed, although I can't say I'm exactly worried considering the rotation we played, compared to the Laker's tossing Kobe into the game for the entire first half.

interior defense and rebounding weren't the problems. the Celts won the game in the paint and on the boards. the Lakers won the outside game. the deciding factor though was a bunch of phantom offensive fouls and turnover calls while allowing a pass for Lakers defensive 3 seconds and defensive fouls. there aren't many games where calls aren't obvious. this was one of those games and as a result, disrupted the way the Celtics could play their game on both ends of the court.

Game 2 off the Finals

First and foremost I'm a basketball fan. Second, I'm a Laker fan. This is what I saw yesterday from a basketball standpoint.

The frontline match-up greatly favored the Lakers yesterday. Bynum was able to match up with Perkins to let Gasol play his more natural PF position. This was huge becuase it allowed for Garnett (from a Laker standpoint) to play away from the basket defensively, as opposed to playing him under the basket at the 5 position. This helps the Lakers becuase KG is less effective in help defense situations further away from the rim (I.E: Kobe getting 4-5 absolute chippies in the paint - somthing that did not have happen last June). This was evident in the final four minutes of play when KG was forced to hard double Kobe, which freed up Gasol to play the hero down the stretch.

On the boards and defensively Bynum was the anchor the Lakers so desperately missed last season. He took away the cute lay-ups that haunted us in June and turned them into altered shots, blocks, frantic passes, or bail-out passes. He provided the Lakers with MUCH needed defensive rebounding - somthing that they lacked in June.

Another point about this frontline match-up is the depth of this Laker team. They can simply slide Gasol to the 5 which allows Bynum to sit and then go play the 5 with the bench when Gasol gets his rest. As many of you Celtic fans saw/know, a frontline of Davis and Powe cannot contain a bench frontline of Bynum/Odom or even Bynum/Powell weather it be in scoring or rebounding.


Toughness, intensity, and consistency was there for the Lakers for the FULL 48 minutes and that was clearly obvious.

In regards to the officiating:

it was clean. Go crazy all you want and flame this all you want, but the fact of the matter was the officiating was established in the first quarter and remained consistent. What was established was a physical game and its up to the players to adjust to that. Sure, some flops were called and some calls were blown, but this goes both ways people. Screaming about officiating and fixed games just makes you and your team look bad.

another point:

-The restraining arch is limited to just help defenders. If a primary defender (Derek Fisher) is defending an opponent (Tony Allen) that primary defender has the right to set up defensive position within the restraining arch. The primary defender WILL get the benefit of the doubt especially if the man driving is out of control (see the charge called on Tony Allen drawn by Derek Fisher).
-Refs don't control missed chippies and missed open looks (Ray diddn't play to his level and i counted at least 6 missed easy opertunites by the Celtics)


Free throw disperity:
Bos- 8
LA - 15

complain about it all you'd like, but this game was not decided by stripes. If you want to see a game decided by the stripes you should have watched the Cleveland vs. Washington game yesterday.

Through all of this you still had a tightly contested game that with four minutes remaining, could have gone either way.

Now, i havent watched as much Celtics as i would have liked so far this young season ( I may be a Laker die hard, but I know beautiful basketball when I see it) but the Celtics I watched last night looked like a team that wasent playing at it's best.

As for the Lakers, they looked very good in comparison to their last 10-12 games, but don't think of yesterday as there "A" game. This team is still figuring out how best to play with eachother with the new roles provided. They will only get better from this point on and the same goes for the Celtics.


Overall, a very good game between two closely matched teams.

When the Celtics pick up a legit frontline bench player (which they will, i have no doubt) the potential for amazing competitive basketball is limitless.

Obviously this outlook is through the eyes of a Laker fan, so of course I will be missing certain things from a Celtic viewpoint, but with all the idiotic bickering back and forth between us fans, hopefully this post will spark "real" basketball discussion and help enlighten people about the great game game of basketball and this particular match-up of teams.

I'm always willing to listen and discuss basketball, so if there are any flaws in this post or you have certain views you would like to point out, I'd love to read them.

See ya guys in Feb.

That Cleveland-Washington game was a disgrace to the league.

goldnblue83 wrote:That Cleveland-Washington game was a disgrace to the league.

agreed. they always are.

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