Seriously you are insane if you think Kobe is better then the big ticket. Kobe needs to learn something called consistency to even compare to KG.

Hold on now. Detroit hasn't even beaten the Pacers yet and you're talking about Pistons in the finals already.

Sure, it doesn't look like the pacers stand much of a chance the way they're playing, especially with O'neal playing with a bum knee BUT...I still have faith :D

Go Pacers!

--jaded

Oh, the lakers will kill the pistons if it should come to that. I can't see detroit winning two games against them.

the question for tonight is can the pacers buy a foul


espcially reggie



things look bad with tinsely down oneal hurt and artest with a head ache if the pacers win tonight it will be with that at times amazing bench

KG needs to learn a thing called 'clutch' and 'NBA champion' to get qualified in my book.

KG WAS the wolves this year. Can't say that about Kobe. Also, Kobe has Shaq. I'll make my decision when Kobe gets put in KG's situation.

Kobe WAS the Lakers too in the 4th quarter. That's all he needed to be. Just because you're on a team with a bunch of awesome players doesn't mean you aren't the best there is.

There is a reason why KG got the MVP - because he WAS the most valuable player to his team. The Lakers, however, had enough good players that the best player in the league needed not be the most valuable. Catch what I'm saying here?

You're arguing for the MVP, which I am in agreement. However, when it comes to skill vs skill, instinct vs instinct, clutch vs clutch - Kobe is the reason why the Lakers are where they are.

This is the funniest game i've ever seen. It's halftime right now, and man, I thought it was the end of the first. How pathetic.

The Pistons will get killed by LA. They've been lucky all post season, and they get almost no respect from me. Little Ben can't handle Shaq, and the Pistons can only dream of having a player who can slow down Kobe.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playof...ory?id=1814070

This link is for Sixate. :D You better hope the negative trend of your pistons series picks doesn't continue. But hey, I don't disagree that Shaq and Kobe will be a problem, but they're a problem for any team. And they've been beaten anyway before.

What's funny is Rip is gonna have to guard Kobe. Just how many do you think Kobe is gonna lite him up for each night?

Do you also realize the Rockets were the best team defensively throughout the season? Look at what LA did to them in the playoffs, and the Rockets actually had the size(Yao, Cato, Taylor) to match up with LA, the Pistons don't. Ben is tiny next to Shaq, and Rasheed couldn't perform against the Lakers when he was in his prime in Portland, and the rest of the Pistons are a bunch of unproven playoff performers with zero experience........ Something the Lakers don't lack with Kobe, Shaq, Malone, and Payton.

No brag, just fact!

And, as I recall, I predicted that LA was the only WC team who could hope to beat EITHER Indy or Detroit in the finals.

I still think that the key to the Lakers is Malone. Nullifiy his physicallity and the Lakers are beatable. The Pistons can do it, but will the league allow it? Rasheed and Ben are not the glamourous poster boys that Shaq and (pre-rape charge) Kobe are. Lakers in 6 or 7... depending on the refs. (But my heart says Pistons in 6).

(Detroit split the season series with the Lakers. Back in November, Corliss Williamson, a 6'7" small forward, SHUT DOWN Shaq as Detroit defended it's home court. LA is very good, but not invincible.)

Im glad this series is finally over. It should have been over in 5, with all the Pacer injuries. Every Piston except Rip Hamilton has played like shit this entire series. The inconsistency is nauseating. The farther this thing goes, the more flaky they play.

Lakers in 5.

Houston definitley weren't the best defensive team this year. San Antonio or Detroit, both being very good. But come on now, Houston? Kobe is going to have tons of fun chasing Rip around all night. I think the wallaces won't shut down shaq, but they will at least slow him down a little.

Speaking as a non-biased pistons fan, if they continue to play as crappy as they did at times in the indiana series, it will definitley be the lakers out on top. But if they play better, who knows. The pistons are the definite underdog in this series, i'm not disputing that. LA is a good team with 4 hall of famers, but they aren't as invincible as you all think, and I think it will show in this series.

Lakers in 4. My hat off to Detroit against a gimpy pacers team. But reality is, Hamilton vs Lakers just isn't enough.

--jaded

Detriot has no hope of beating LA, I'm almost leaning to a sweep. Pistons have no hope of stopping LA's scoring, nor comparing to it. Nor will they have an answer to Diesel or Kobe.