CALL THE COPS, LAKERS ASSAULT THE CELTICS!!!

Before Game #6 Boston head Coach Doc Rivers said to his team "We can play em on the move, it doesn't matter where we play em! When you trust you play free when you play free you cant be beat, its not about the where!  Its about the how!" After that moving speech from their Coach, the Boston Celtics promptly went out onto the Staples Center floor and played intimidated restrained basketball. The exact opposite of what their Coach preached to them pre-game.

Boston fans had hoped that their beloved team would close out the series and bring home the hardware to a welcoming committee on Wednesday morning as L.A. Guard Derrick Fisher, the emotional leader of the Laker squad, picked up 2 personal fouls midway thru the 1st quarter and his 3rd personal foul at the 1:18 of 2nd quarter. Other than that hope, the Celtic fans received none as L.A. built an 11 point lead in the 1st quarter and led at the end of the 1st quarter, 28-18, behind Kobe Bryants 11 pts.  and surprisingly strong play from Forward Ron Artest. Boston seemed to loose a lot more steam after starting Center Kendrick Perkins suffered an apparent blown ACL injury to his right knee and left the game for good.


Every offensive trip down the floor the Celtics looked two steps slower and one brain short of a complete offense as they allowed L.A. to beat them like a rented mule en route to a 22 point lead in the 2nd quarter and out-rebounded the Celtics 22-7 at one point of the 1st half as they plain out hustled Boston in every statistical category there was. The Lakers led 51-31 at the half of a stellar defensive game where everything clicked on offense and all Laker players that garnered minutes made the most of them.


To start the 2nd half Boston ran out and missed 3 layups to start the 3rd quarter and it never got any better. L.A. was allowed to build a 25 point lead in the 3rd quarter, 76-51, as Boston still could not fathom how to stop the assault. After  L.A. posted a  27 point bulge in the 4th, at the 3:38 mark and with an  84-59 all the Boston starters were pulled in anticipation of the final game. Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol played their "A" game and made virtually no mistakes all night.


As I predicted at the start of the Series that it would go a full 7 games, here we are after a great Laker performance to extend the series to the last and final game. Besides the L.A. defense playing Bostonesque in Game 6 the most notable difference was that Mr. Bryant received help from his teammates on the offensive end. When the Lakers play together as they did in this game they are unbeatable and Boston needs to notify their Metal State of Emergency in order to show up ready to play with a sense of the prize that is on the line.

For only the third time in the last twenty-one years we have a Game #7. Game #7 is set for Thursday, June 17, 2010 in the TD North Garden as Boston and L.A. battle it out in this one game playoff for all the marbles.