rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (Rob Buchner) (05/28/85)
I don't have any particular biases in the NBA finals, but after the first game, LA doesn't have a prayer. I thought it would be a close series. LA probably winning on better motivation(for last year). But Boston was awesome. This game must be a severe blow to LA moral. They'll never recover. They needed to give a good showing of thenselves just to remove doubts.
srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (06/03/85)
In article <1154@ihuxe.UUCP> rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (Rob Buchner) writes: > >I don't have any particular biases in the NBA finals, >but after the first game, LA doesn't have a prayer. > That's the problem with shooting your mouth off on the net. By the time anyone reads your message, Games 2 & 3 have been played, and you end up looking ... foolish. I'm sure you aren't alone, but the Boston messages from the first game haven't gotten here yet. Won't stop me from commenting anyway. The first game was fairly boring, thanks to the early Celtic lead. The Celts were gods out there; any team that can shoot that well deserves to win. The second and third games have been much better, especially for Laker fans. The interesting thing about the second game was the bias of the refs, who damn near managed to ref the Celts back into the game. The ratio of foul calls was 35/20 against the Lakers. To give you some idea of the magnitude of the bias, Kareen didn't go to the line till the third game. And he doesn't get fouled every time he touches the ball in the low post? What is worse, in the Garden, Boston's guards are allowed to foul the man with the ball all the way up the court, which essentially removes all chance of a fast break style of game. Advantageous to the Celts, I know, but it still aggravates me. The interesting thing about the third game was Kareem on speed. He played so great; I wept like a baby. Talk about how good the Chief has been in the playoffs, I agree. But Kareem...well, he's still a master. Scott R. Turner ARPA: (now) srt@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA (soon) srt@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!srt SPUDNET: ...eye%srt@russet.spud PS: The Celtics, of course, are weenies.