Big game 7 tomorrow as the Big Market Boston Celtics host the Big superstar King James. Not sure if this game will live up to the hype, but it's a good match-up for the NBA at this stage. Boston already played a game 7 and this is their second one in 2 rounds. Their complete inability and downright refusal to win on the road is what's resulting in all these game 7s. Based on this, you have to almost say they are not going to win the championship. You can't play 7 tough games in every round and have difficulty winning on the road and hope to beat the Pistons or the Lakers or whoever emerges out of the West. As for tomorrow, I think Boston seals the deal. Cavs have a shot, but beating Boston at home in a game 7 setting after all these years of playoff drought is going to be tough.
But this is the best setting for the King to make a mark. Last year's game 5 at Detroit was amazing and you have to wonder how surreal would it be if he pulls a performance like that in this game 7 at Boston. The entire World will be watching and for him to make plays in this game with the clock running out in the fourth quarter would be another career defining moment. He is probably not going to do this tomorrow because he is having trouble scoring this series. Boston's defense is too good and they have some secret sauce to hold LeBron to 30% shooting. But then again, wasn't Detorit a great defensive team when LeBron walked in to Detroit for game 5 last year? You have to look at this as a game for the ages if you are LeBron James and seize the moment. Let's see what happens and who seizes what moment. Should be fun.
Big win Friday for the Fakers. They went in to Utah - one of the toughest road venues, in a playoffs where road teams have done nothing, and won convincingly. They ripped the hearts out of the Utah Jazz. What was that performance from the Jazz? Did they think they can win just by showing up at home? It looked like they expected the Lakers to take it easy and lose because they had a game 7 at LA. But the Zen-master made sure they came prepared and the Fakers punched the Jazz in the mouth from the start. The Jazz made it close at the end and had a great shot to send it to over-time, but both Okur and D-Will missed potential game-tieing threes. It would be interesting to see where the Jazz go from here. They are a good team, but probably they can't get much better than this in a brutal West. Just like the Suns, they checked out a round earlier than last year and thats never good. Wonder what kind of heat the Jazz faithful puts on Jerry Sloan, if any. As for the Lakers, pretty impressive. Two rounds in the bag and are waiting for the Hornets and the Spurs to sort it out in their game 7 while the mamba heals.
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