The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back?

Let’s go team, we can beat these guys. Our inexperience has killed us, lets learn from our experience in this series and run the table..

/sarcastic

The four game winning shots against the magic the previous rounds had desensitized me to soul crushing defeats or they built up my tolerance for what happened last night. I didn’t have the anger to yell and throw sh!t around like i’d usually do. Just kinda sat numb.

I guess it wouldn’t suck as much if they played to their potential and got beat straight up by a better team. But we gave away 2 games, and that’s what stings.

Of course we do, and it’s not all on Howard; he did so much… Turk ALSO missed THREE free throws late in the game, ANYONE of which would have won the game for the Magic. He ALSO gave all his heart…

And WHERE was Rashard Lewis…?

AND WHY was Nelson kept in the game, just when we needed Alston’s spark and drives inside…?

Questions never answered…

And of course, the REFS ALSO impacted the game by missing the unforgivable foul in the mouth of Nelson by Kobe, again giving fuel to the charge that Superstars get preferential treatment. That foul gave Fisher open room to shoot his game-deciding 3-point shot. Kobe and Fisher were smiling wide… I was raving MAD!!!

But in all truth, we lost plain and simple because we MISSED just too many free throws and easy lay-ups. We needed just ONE free throw; ONE LOUSY FREE THROW!

Near misses don’t win Championships: When the going gets tough; it’s the Lakers who get going and deliver. The Magic NEED this Championship and have fought hard for it; The Lakers may DESERVE it… SO DO WE!!!

But I’ll tell the Lakers ONE thing: NOT in OUR home court!

…they can become the only team ever to overcome a three games to one deficit in the Finals.

I know it will be very difficult; I’m just trying to put a positive spin on things :-)

at least your team makes the playoffs let alone the finals! some of us get to the playoffs once in every … oh … say 12 years or so …

Good to see Pietrus doing what he never had the opportunity to do as a Warrior.

I actually think though, the mistake Orlando made was bringing back Nelson for the finals. I think they should have kept the same lineup that got them to the finals. Chemistry on a team is something that can’t be understated, and integrating someone who hasn’t been around the last 4 months back into play — at what is probably the most intensive pressure times a team can be going through — the NBA finals, has all kinds of underlying effects. And this is the point spot — not the center. This is the guy that sets up the play. I dunno .. I just have a feeling it wouldn’t be a 3-1 series if they would have kept Nelson out till next season.

I really wish Orlando would have won that last one, but as soon as it went into overtime, I knew it wasn’t going to happen. I don’t know what the stats are but the Lakers always seem to win in overtime, at least the games I’ve watched with them in it. I’d still love it if Orlando found a way to win the next 3 (we northern Californians have little love for the Lakers), but even if they don’t, watching Orlando in the playoffs this year has been alot of fun for us fans from playoff-absent teams.