http://lakeshowlife.com/2009/05/07/ppg-lakers-tough-enough-in-game-2/ A Los Angeles Lakers Blog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:37:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://lakeshowlife.com/2009/05/07/ppg-lakers-tough-enough-in-game-2/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Peter Thu, 07 May 2009 20:45:20 +0000 http://lakeshowlife.com/?p=977#comment-271 Playing tough doesn't mean committing flagrant fouls. Any LA gang thug can punch and elbow others around on the basketball court. No, the definition of playing tough is to play aggressively while still following the rules and sportsmanship of the game. Clearly that could not describe the Lakers last night. They started to look more like a gang of muggers than a first class basketball team, and that is truly to their shame. And the fans were just as bad. What kind of a mindless mob would actually want Derek Fisher to elbow Luis Scola in the face, perhaps giving him a career ending injury? How tough are you when you have to cheat to win? Saying the Lakers proved they are tough last night is just a pathetic euphemism that otherwise means they had to commit flagrant fouls in order to win. But it won't work in game 3: those refs will throw Kobe out of the building so fast, it will make your head spin. Its time LA fans realized the new reality they are living in: Kobe is not invincible, the rockets can beat them because of their aggressive D and accurate shooting, and flagrant fouls are just a completely ineffective way that sore losers and spoiled little brats cheat because they somehow think they don't have to work hard to win. Playing tough doesn’t mean committing flagrant fouls. Any LA gang thug can punch and elbow others around on the basketball court. No, the definition of playing tough is to play aggressively while still following the rules and sportsmanship of the game. Clearly that could not describe the Lakers last night. They started to look more like a gang of muggers than a first class basketball team, and that is truly to their shame. And the fans were just as bad. What kind of a mindless mob would actually want Derek Fisher to elbow Luis Scola in the face, perhaps giving him a career ending injury? How tough are you when you have to cheat to win? Saying the Lakers proved they are tough last night is just a pathetic euphemism that otherwise means they had to commit flagrant fouls in order to win. But it won’t work in game 3: those refs will throw Kobe out of the building so fast, it will make your head spin. Its time LA fans realized the new reality they are living in: Kobe is not invincible, the rockets can beat them because of their aggressive D and accurate shooting, and flagrant fouls are just a completely ineffective way that sore losers and spoiled little brats cheat because they somehow think they don’t have to work hard to win.

]]> http://lakeshowlife.com/2009/05/07/ppg-lakers-tough-enough-in-game-2/comment-page-1/#comment-265 mikesatx Thu, 07 May 2009 16:34:06 +0000 http://lakeshowlife.com/?p=977#comment-265 This series is going to get ugly and fast. I see some stuff going down in game three. This series is going to get ugly and fast. I see some stuff going down in game three.

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