Game Three Day Two

On Friday, more games for game three took place and a lot of the teams really took charge over their opponents.  The first game was Celtics at Knicks and it couldn't have been a more dismal affair. The Knicks, starting energized, fell to a large lead right off the go in the game and never really came within five points. Paul Pierce took charge in the game with 38 points along with Rondo with a triple double, who the Knicks couldn't still find any answer for. On the other side of the ball, Williams led the scoring with 17 points and Melo with 11 rebounds, no one on the team shot or scored well and the final score was 113-96. Stoudemaire and Billups where still out and Melo wasn't a key factor, which caused this brutal slaughtering of argueably the worst team in the playoffs.

The next game on Friday evening was close, Magic at Hawks. Dwight Howard again led his team with 21 points and 15 rebounds, but being the only large star on the team had some problems and the Magic fell once again to the Hawks 88-84. On the other side of the ball ,Crawford scored 23 points, along with Smith with 10 rebounds. After this game, I am starting to feel that the Hawks have the favor, they have already beatin the Magic on the road and now again at home. Plus players like Turkoglu on the Magic haven't played to the hype they had, leaving Howard as the only true star on their team. Which could be a problem, for the young and energized hawks. Hawks will win the Series 4-2.

The final game on Friday night was a good game, well at least for a Lakers fan. The lakers traveled to New Orleans ,with the series tied 1-1. This time the Lakers really came to play, even Gasol who had scored under ten in the first two games, which is a career playoff low for him. Kobe led his team to 100-86 victory with 30 points and Andrew Bynum led the defensive end with 11 rebounds. The other side put up pretty good numbers as well, but just couldn't seem to keep comparably close to the energized lakers. Landry led the scoring with 23 points along with Ariza with 12 rebounds. This series has been well fought so far, but I do see the lakers coming out the better team, but close. They will win 4-2.