Ya Kobe! They're going Fishing!
The Lakers have a chance to demonstrate their championship readiness Friday night when they take their 3-2 Western Conference finals lead into Denver’s Pepsi Center with a berth in the NBA Finals at stake. Yet it’s easy to be cynical about their ability to get it done. When the Lakers had the chance to squeeze the neck of the Houston Rockets in their previous series, they lost their final two road games by a total of 27 points to a team without its top two players. They say they won’t suffer the same lapses this time around, but center Pau Gasol sounds like he’s learned enough in his season and a half with the team to realize you shouldn’t listen too closely to Lakers rhetoric when it comes to avoiding a Houston repeat.
“We said the same thing about Game 4 [in Denver] and we got our ass beat by 20,” Gasol said. “They’re different teams, different situations. Obviously it’s the same game, the same opportunity to get a win and close them out. We know how hard it is. But we can do it.”
via ESPN
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