Lakers blow 24 point lead to Celtics, ouch!
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Paul Pierce, with a lot of help, put the clamps on Kobe Bryant
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The Lakers are done. They had a 24 point lead in the second quarter over the Boston Celtics.
Even in the 3rd quarter the Celtics were down 20 points.
Then the Lakers stopped scoring.
What was it? It was Celtic defense and Paul Pierce scoring.
It didn’t help that Kobe was being locked down by Pierce. Kobe just could not get his jumper going at all. Every time Kobe drove to the middle of the floor, he was met with a welcoming committee from Boston and most of the time had to pass off to an outside shooter. That is fine, but then the Celtics would recover fast enough to cover the outside shooter as well.
Sam Posey made a couple of clutch 3 pointers late in the game and had 18 points. It seems that there is a new Boston bench star in every game.
Kevin Garnett had a very quiet 16 points and 11 boards. Paul Pierce was very dynamic especially late in the game with 20 points in spite of missing all 3 of his 3 pointers.
Kendrick Perkins left the game with a strained shoulder. We will have to wait and see how bad that is. Paul Pierce tweaked his ankle late in the game, but continued to play.
The Lakers wasted a brilliant game by Lamar Odom, who had 19 points on 8 for 11 shooting and 10 boards.
At one point in the third quarter, they flashed a graphic saying the Lakers had missed 9 shots in a row.
Where do the Lakers go from here? Game 5 is in LA and then the last two games are in Boston. No team has ever come back from a 3 -1 deficit. It is hard to imagine the Lakers winning the next 3 games with 2 of them in Boston.
It will be interesting to see the two team’s mindset for game 5.
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