Well, I wouldn't be too happy tonight after the win in the last game in the Staples Center. The first half of Game 5 resembled much of Game 4: a quarter of power to a quarter of crap. Luckily with the foul trouble of Garnett and the injury of Perkins, the Lakers were able to sneak past the Celtics to make it a 3-2 series.
The gameplay of the Lakers were consistently... inconsistent. At stretches the Lakers were dominant in defending and at times were completely horrible, especially when Radmanovic and Gasol were on-court, they looked lost defensively. Also at times the Lakers were making every shot but then the shooting stroke became nonexistent. The first quarter was wonderful; whoever took the shot made it in. But then came second quarter where the Lakers made only six points with four minutes until halftime.
The Lakers need to change their playing style. Phil Jackson did try to fix the problems. He played Chris Mihm for awhile instead of Ronny Turiaf to match up with P.J. Brown more easily. He also tried playing Farmar and Fisher together in the back-court. But that won't cut it because the Lakers were barely pushing the Celtics away from the lead.
Fortunately, the Lakers played on home-court and the Celtics weren't in sync tonight. But in no possible way will that be the same in Boston. It will be at 9:00pm. It will be freezing cold. It will be full of angry fans. It will be a big fat headache.
The future looks grim for the Lakers, but we can all hope. I still do.
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