The Lakers Send It To Game 7! Oh wait....I was just dreaming.

First things first, congratulations to the Boston Celtics on winning the 2008 NBA Championship. They definitely were the better team in this series, and as I've been saying since I watched Game 3, there was no way the Lakers were winning this series playing the way that they were playing.

A huge congratulations also goes out to The Big Three of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. In this final game, each one of them showed their worth and helped in absolutely dismantling this disgruntled LA squad. I also loved seeing Ray Allen light up 7 three pointers; it spoke volumes about how much of an otherworldly shooter he is, and I'm happy that he proved it in such a meaningful game. Ditto for Kevin Garnett, who surely shut up all his critics by not only having an excellent game, but also for finally winning that first title (albeit with the help of Ray Allen and Paul Pierce...but why should that be a knock on him?).

I will discuss how disappointed I am with the Lakers in another post, but for now, I will leave you with some notes that I made during the game as I was watching it. I didn't take any notes in the first quarter, but I liked seeing Kobe get his stroke on out there. It surely looked like the Lakers were not going down without a fight. That is...until the Boston defense absolutely took the entire Lakers team out of the picture. By the way, these are unedited notes that I took while watching the game; I will analyze these notes later on, no worries, because there are familiar patterns in these (brief) notes that you'll notice, especially in regards to the Lakers. It explains a lot.

Second Quarter

• The Lakers reserves are absolutely BRUTAL tonight, especially with the turnovers. There are way too many lackluster passes being made, and anytime Rajon Rondo has 5 steals in the first half, you're playing quite horribly.
• Regarding Ray Allen: Always loved the dude, and I hope he comes back into the game soon. It's tough playing with a poked eye, I know from experience.
• Kobe turns the ball over (so it's NOT just the reserves!), and James Posey sticks in a three. The Garden is going crazy, and there are way too many threes being made by the Celtics. This is their night.
  

Edit: ...the worst sequence of basketball in history goes to these next five "plays" that the Lakers made:

• Space Cadet Vlad with an UGLY miss on a 3 point attempt.
• Space Cadet Vlad's head must be in his own planet right now: the dude just committed a inexplicable over the back foul on Paul Pierce on a frickin inbounds pass, with the Lakers sitting on 4 team fouls. Pierce is headed to the line.
• Luke Walton misses a wide open jump shot....it goes over the backboard.
• Jordan Farmer loses the ball off his foot out of bounds with no one guarding him....
• Kobe Bryant turns it over....

Edit: Yep, these are the same Lakers that were favoured to win in 5. Back to the notes!

• KEVIN GARNETT! Play of the game so far, a HUGE and-1! The guy hung in mid-air forever and finished it off with one hand! That play literally made me jump out of my seat.
• EVERYTHING is going the Celtics way....even Rondo is knocking down jump shots. You know the Lakers aren't winning this one.
• After seeing this Boston crowd, I am thoroughly convinced that LA has probably the worst crowd you can possibly have in an NBA Finals series. They just straight sucked compared to the Boston faithful.

3rd Quarter

• Once again, EVERYTHING going the Celtics way. Jesus Allen with the three pointer, Rondo with the easy 2.
• Space Cadet Vlad bricks a three...of the frickin BACKBOARD.
• Fisher with the and-one! Thank you for finally showing up in the 3rd quarter of a blowout.
• Kendrick Perkins picks up his 5th (!) foul in the start of the third quarter. What the hell is he doing out there, clotheslining on every play?
• Space Cadet Vlad finally makes a bucket by draining the 3....only to have Rondo make a 3 point play on the other end. Not the Lakers night.
• WORST PLAY OF THE GAME: Boston shoots the ball and misses, followed by 4 Lakers lazily watching the ball just bounce around on the court, with none of them going after it. Kevin Garnett finally grabs the loose rebound on what should have been LA's possession. This is pathetic, and it basically sums up why the Lakers aren't winning this game, nor this series.
• Rondo with the steal.
• WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE OPEN three pointer for Ray Allen. I mean, the dude literally took 5 seconds to set his shot, and of course, buried it. Anytime you leave a sharpshooter open on a corner three for that long, you're not playing good defense.
• Kevin Garnett snatches the ball from Pau and forces a jump ball, and of course, starts pounding his chest like he's king kong. Dude, I like you as a player, but stop that shit please, it's unnecessary. If Kobe Bryant had done that, he'd be criticized by 9982747 blogs within the next 2 hours.
• Speaking of Kobe, where the hell is he?
• Oops, there he is. He just got the ball swept from him by Rajon frickin Rondo!
• Jeff Van Gundy is probably one of the funniest analysts I've ever heard. He should go to TNT.

4th Quarter aka The Celebration Quarter

• Vujacic leaves Ray Allen on another WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE OPEN three. Jesus buries it. Yep, this is the same Lakers team that were favoured to win this series.
• Ray Allen with ANOTHER wide open three. That's two back to back WIIIIIDE OPEN three pointers. I'm emphasizing it because he's seriously having a field day out there with these open threes. It's like he's at practice by himself right now. The Lakers are playing unbelievably bad defense.
• The score is 101-70. Somebody kill me.
• Ray Allen knocks in ANOTHER 3 pointer, only this time it was contested (phew!). That's three straight three pointers for Jesus.
• This game is over...
• On the bench, KG is swearing like a mofo and ABC is bleeping out a lot of things. Eventually, ABC just stops cutting to the Celtics bench and focuses on the court.
• Vujacic starts grabbing his eye on a flop....with 46 seconds to go....in a blow out. He would make Ginobili proud right now.
• Kobe Bryant is now officially heartbroken on the bench. He's displaying the same emotion that I saw from him in the last Finals loss in '04, and the WCF loss against the Spurs in '03. This is difficult for me to watch as a lifelong fan of Kobe Bryant. I absolutely idolize the guy, and the amount of criticism that is going to come his way is going to be gargantuan, and to a large degree, unfair. You can see he obviously cares about winning; I'm not sure I can say the same for any of the other Lakers. I will cover this later on in future blog posts.
• HIGHLIGHT OF THE NIGHT: If you didn't seen it before, you have to see it now. Kevin Garnett's post game interview with Michelle Tafoya has to go down as the craziest interview I've ever seen in the NBA Finals. It was so unpredictable, so crazy, so funny....so KG. I'll link to it at the end of this post.
• KG: "Whatchu gonna say now?" That's to you, critics.
• I laughed when Stuart Scott got booed, but I laughed even louder when David Stern got booed. Thank you, Boston.
• Stuart Scott's interview with Doc Rivers was painful to listen to. I couldn't understand a word Doc was saying in that gruff voice of his.
• ABC cuts to Doc Rivers singing "We are the champions" as he sits waiting for the team photo. Hilarious stuff.
• And that's a wrap...131-92.

Words cannot even explain how disappointed I am right now. For the record though, the Lakers weren't even supposed to make the playoffs this year, so people need to calm down, especially Laker fans, but especially Kobe haters.

And for those of you who missed it, here it is, the greatest post-game interview of all time:

So just remember:

ANYTHING'S POSIBLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Congrats KG.