Just a quick note to congratulate the Los Angeles Lakers on their repeat performance as NBA champions. Didn’t I say so? Indeed, Lakers in seven it was. But boy, what a seven!
I followed the NBA seasons fairly regularly since 1996 and never missed the finals. This is one of the best — if not the best — game I have ever had the privilege of watching: gritty, defensive not always pretty but flat-out competitive basketball. Both teams played their hearts out and the Celtics left it all on the floor. Doc coached his squad really well and they deserve more than the customary polite accolade they received: this Boston squad epitomized by the efforts put in by their hard-nosed floor general worked their butts off but lost to the better team.
In my opinion, old age finally caught up to the Celtics squad and obviously they missed Perk’s presence down low. Nonetheless, the Lakers played as a team — a repeat championship team — especially on a night that 24 was off (offensively at least). I believe Pau, with a couple of big-time plays in traffic down low in the fourth quarter, emphatically shed that so-called soft label the media stuck on him since that embarrassing 39-points drubbing at the hands of the Celtics two years ago; and Ron-Ron silenced the critics with a gutsy long-range bomb — also in the fourth. Fish — being Fish of course — saved the day by swinging the momentum once and for all the Lakers way with yet another 3-point dagger.
Enough said: well-played, Celtics but go Lakers!!!!
