The NBA playoffs could not be more exciting right now. Let’s be honest; every series is proving to be competitive. Even my lowly Heat have made their series exciting with a win this morning over the Celtics. However, the most exciting series by far has to be the Laker-Thunder series.
Laker fans have some legitimate worries about the coming games. This series could easily be 3-1 if Russell Westbrook had stayed out of foul trouble in game 2, and it was pretty hard to even call game 4 a game. The Thunder flat out dominated from beginning to end. For me, the defining moment of that game came in the first half by none other than Serge Ibaka. The Lakers were on a fast break and Ibaka blocked the first shot, the Lakers recovered, shot again, and Ibaka got that one too.
The Lakers seem like they don’t even want to be there. There season so far has been like Ocean’s 12—great cast, bad movie. With the exception of the Laker big men, the rest of the team was quite atrocious. Kobe didn’t take a shot until the middle of the second quarter and ended up with 12 points. Ron Artest needs to stop working on his newest hair-do and start working on his jump shot, because 2-9 and 0-4 from three just doesn’t cut it.
They just seem like they are forced to play basketball. Contrast that with the Thunder, who look like they are having the time of their lives out there, and it’s no surprise that this series is so close. If the Lakers don’t get their act together, they could easily be upset like Kimbo Slice and go down as the biggest letdown in NBA history.
Laker fans have some legitimate worries about the coming games. This series could easily be 3-1 if Russell Westbrook had stayed out of foul trouble in game 2, and it was pretty hard to even call game 4 a game. The Thunder flat out dominated from beginning to end. For me, the defining moment of that game came in the first half by none other than Serge Ibaka. The Lakers were on a fast break and Ibaka blocked the first shot, the Lakers recovered, shot again, and Ibaka got that one too.
The Lakers seem like they don’t even want to be there. There season so far has been like Ocean’s 12—great cast, bad movie. With the exception of the Laker big men, the rest of the team was quite atrocious. Kobe didn’t take a shot until the middle of the second quarter and ended up with 12 points. Ron Artest needs to stop working on his newest hair-do and start working on his jump shot, because 2-9 and 0-4 from three just doesn’t cut it.
They just seem like they are forced to play basketball. Contrast that with the Thunder, who look like they are having the time of their lives out there, and it’s no surprise that this series is so close. If the Lakers don’t get their act together, they could easily be upset like Kimbo Slice and go down as the biggest letdown in NBA history.
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