I don’t know where to start. If I were being professional, I would say congrats to the Celtics and be done, but I am not that mature. The Lakers played like the L.A. Sparks without the famed fundamentals. The Lakers played like the Dodgers, if the Dodgers were forced at gunpoint to play shuffleboard (where Jeff Kent would be the MVP). Considering that Matt Kemp was a star basketball player in high school, is it honestly too late to draft the guy? Because seriously, he would probably play better perimeter defense than ANY of the Lakers, who honestly call this their profession. I mean they get paid to play like this. PAID. MILLIONS. TO PLAY LIKE THIS.
The Lakers could pay me a million dollars for the series and I would guard Paul Pierce. Well I would guard Paul Pierce as well as any of the other Lakers did. When I use the term “guard” I use the term loosely because neither myself or any of the Lakers perimeter defenders could or have stopped Paul Pierce. I would try though, by doing such huge groundbreaking things like, I don’t know PUTTING MY ARMS IN THE AIR, and not waving them like I just don’t care. I would put my arms in the air to try to contest a shot, or slow Pierce down from moon-walking to the basket for the easy lay-up/foul/assist combo he has been dropping all series. This goes directly to Vlad and Walton who played some of the worst perimeter defense I’ve seen since game 5, and game 4 and game 3 and these entire playoffs.
