Bay Area's Finest Award
Leon Powe
No words can describe how proud I am of Leon Powe. CAL product Leon Powe gave a show that each Bay Area resident and even Stanford grads should be proud of. By taking more free throws than the whole LAKER squad combined and making 9-13 attempts. Powe was the second-leading scorer of the Boston Celtics with 21 points and 2 rebounds in 15 minutes of playing time.
For the rest of his Boston peers, it was Pierce who carried the team like the star he was never given. Quickly overshun as an MVP candidate and more recently a target of Phil Jackson's mindgames with his heroics in game 1, Pierce led his squad with 28 points and 8 assists. But the difference, as usual, was Kobe Bryant not being a catalyst for the rest of his team. Though he led all-scorers with 30 points and 8 assists, he still wasn't his killer-self. As of late, his game has been inconsistent since the opening of the series, but this time the Los Angeles Lakers have a "reason": the referees. As much as I enjoy the Los Angeles Lakers being at odds with the referees and having them suffer the Laker biased-"are you kidding me?!" or "are you blind?"- calls , it's the Finals: no room for errors.
Speaking of questionable calls, here is a excerpt by J.A. Adande's article on espn.com that offers his perspective on the matter:
Leon Powe
No words can describe how proud I am of Leon Powe. CAL product Leon Powe gave a show that each Bay Area resident and even Stanford grads should be proud of. By taking more free throws than the whole LAKER squad combined and making 9-13 attempts. Powe was the second-leading scorer of the Boston Celtics with 21 points and 2 rebounds in 15 minutes of playing time.
For the rest of his Boston peers, it was Pierce who carried the team like the star he was never given. Quickly overshun as an MVP candidate and more recently a target of Phil Jackson's mindgames with his heroics in game 1, Pierce led his squad with 28 points and 8 assists. But the difference, as usual, was Kobe Bryant not being a catalyst for the rest of his team. Though he led all-scorers with 30 points and 8 assists, he still wasn't his killer-self. As of late, his game has been inconsistent since the opening of the series, but this time the Los Angeles Lakers have a "reason": the referees. As much as I enjoy the Los Angeles Lakers being at odds with the referees and having them suffer the Laker biased-"are you kidding me?!" or "are you blind?"- calls , it's the Finals: no room for errors.
Speaking of questionable calls, here is a excerpt by J.A. Adande's article on espn.com that offers his perspective on the matter:
But you'll notice a certain theme developing when you hear Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic say, "You can't do anything, because if you do anything they're going to go to the line. You have to adjust to the calls." And Luke Walton saying, "It was a foul every single time down. We never were able to get into that flow, at that pace that we like to play at."
And even Bryant managed to sneak in a complaint.
"We've got to get timely rebounds and we have to stop them in transition knocking down those 3s and we'll be fine," he said. "A free throw or two wouldn't hurt."
Tune in next time for the results of the match-ups, my predictions for game 3 and maybe even more.
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