Originally Posted by
Castor Troy I live in L.A. and am not a Laker nor a Celtic fan so from the beginning of the thread I looked at this series as a strictly a fan of basketball....so what I'm going to write comes straight down the middle.
Anyway Laker "fans"/slash West coast folks do not understand the game. They did not see that the Celltics were a far superior team and were much more physical than their Lakers. The bottom line is, and you saw it last night in the form of a serious raping, Western Conference teams cannot stand up to the punishing and relentless defense that Eastern Conference teams i.e. Pistons Celtics dish out. Stop blaming all these extraneous factors/conspiracy's and such and just sit back and be objective.
The Lakers could not handle the much more physical and superior Celtics as they couldn't handle the Pistons 4 years ago when Detroit was basically laughed at before the series. West coast fans are an ignorant bunch when it comes to Hoops because they are only shown things that happen out West. Thats all they know so ofcourse their ignorance will show. I know because I live here so I see it.
There was a dude yesterday that had a Laker shirt on that said "It's Showtime" I felt embarrassed for him. How on earth could anyone believe that the Lakers actually had a chance? It's so astounding to me to see things like this. It's like "dude are you ******** serious?" I think the problem lies in the fact that Laker "fans" really are not fans at all. They jump on the bandwagon so to speak. "Oh look our Lakers are going to the Finals! Who are they playing?" So they base their opinions on nothing except that they live here and they might as well jump on that bandwagon. Fair weather fans I beleve they are called. Plenty of those here........
In closing people need to be honest with themselves and just stop living in this fantasy and recognize that the Lakers were beat SOLIDLY, to put it mildly, by a MUCH better team. You cannot argue with what you watched. They got a serious beating that made history. Celtics made great history and L.A. well they will have to bear that scar............
I made a VERY nice chunk of change on this series. I called Celtics in 6 and the "fans" out here jumped on that bet. Poor fellows, I hustled em and they didn't even know it.