LA With The A Game

Tonight in Houston, we saw why the world thought the Lakers were a lock for the Finals, as they simply brought a higher level of game than the Rockets could match. The game was intense but not chippy, well-officiated, and everything you could hope for, except drama. The single biggest difference was that while the Lake Show went 8 of 35 from the arc in the first two games, they were 11 of 20 tonight. They led by double digits most of the way. For Fisticuffs Lovers, there was a questionable moment with 9:13 left when Von Wafer edged into a parachuting Sasha Vujacic, but honestly, the biggest problem from the play was hearing Jeff van Gundy pule about the state of the world today. You also had a late Testy ejection on a really borderline flagrant foul call against Pau Gasol, which more or less proved that the refs have one standard for Testy, and one for the rest of the NBA world. Not a great thing for Houston, that.The signature play happened at the end of the third quarter, off an ...