NBA Playoffs Finals Game 6

NBA Playoffs Finals Game 6 [B][/B] [B]711 Boston Celtics +6.5[/B] Is the better team in this series getting points? I think so. All of a sudden the Lakers are to turn into a tougher team at home and win both games? I don't think so. The Lakers have clearly become Team Kobe and little else. They are soft. Pau Gasol is soft so is Lamar Odom and Ron Artest thinks he's can play defense and hit jumpers. He is soft and massively overrated IMO. Fisher is getting schooled all day by Rondo. Man for man the Celtics are the better team. The Celtics also have shown a huge edge off the bench. Boston in Game 5 hit 56% from the field, the Lakers 39%. The Lakers when behind become a desperate team and a terrible shooting team. Who other than Kobe is going to knock down the shots? And then there's Phil Jackson's comments about how Boston "knows how to lose in the 4th quarter." More fuel for the fire. Take the points.

[QUOTE=Alf M;22906][B][/B] [B]711 Boston Celtics +6.5[/B] Is the better team in this series getting points? I think so. All of a sudden the Lakers are to turn into a tougher team at home and win both games? I don't think so. The Lakers have clearly become Team Kobe and little else. They are soft. Pau Gasol is soft so is Lamar Odom and Ron Artest thinks he's can play defense and hit jumpers. He is soft and massively overrated IMO. Fisher is getting schooled all day by Rondo. Man for man the Celtics are the better team. The Celtics also have shown a huge edge off the bench. Boston in Game 5 hit 56% from the field, the Lakers 39%. The Lakers when behind become a desperate team and a terrible shooting team. Who other than Kobe is going to knock down the shots? And then there's Phil Jackson's comments about how Boston "knows how to lose in the 4th quarter." More fuel for the fire. Take the points.[/QUOTE] I like it Alf. 6.5 is a ridiculous overlay (as my thread stated). I must say that Gasol has been rock solid and did get slowed the last 2 games. It will be interesting to see if he returns to form of the 1st 3 games when he was great. I would not be surprised if anything happens but I have quitely stated for 2 years that the Lakers are very beatable.

Still undecided on which way I'm going here, but don't you think the oddsmaker may be telling us who he likes here with this high #?

[QUOTE=Shooter;22916]Still undecided on which way I'm going here, but don't you think the oddsmaker may be telling us who he likes here with this high #?[/QUOTE] Yeah he is but he also did the same thing at the beginning of the series with high series odds. Those odds look shaky now don't they? ANd so doesn't tonights odds as well.

Artest has the basketball iq of a retard. Seriously!

He just has the IQ of a retard PERIOD.

[QUOTE=bkeiller;22920]He just has the IQ of a retard PERIOD.[/QUOTE] I'm dealing -135 that Artest finally does something crazy tonight (other than shooting contested jumpers in the 2Q with 6 seconds on the shot clock) that, without question, causes LAL to lose (i.e., bites Paul Pierce's ear off while wrestling on the floor for a loose ball, earning a flagrant 2, getting him kicked out of the game, forcing P-Jax to play Walton the rest of the game). Too many games have gone by for something like this not to have happened. Any takers?

I wouldn't put anything past Artest. On the other side, not nearly as daft as Artest but still a loose cannon, is Rasheed Wallace. 'Sheed does win this year's award for the greatest reactions when called for a foul, his stare is simply hilarious. FWIW, I played the UNDER 189.5 at Stations.