On our Lakers blog, Silver Screen and Roll, confidence is running high after the Lakers Game 1 victory. And for good reason considering the play of Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol:
Lakers Blog: L.A.‘s Big Two Of Bryant And Gasol Too Much For Boston
Having the two best players in the series is no guarantor of success in the NBA Finals – Lakers fans need only think back to June of 2004 to be reminded of this – but it's an awfully good place to start.
Here in June of 2010, Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol are the two best players in the Finals, and the drop down to number three is steep.
Kobe and Pau tonight put their full panoply of skills on display against a Boston Celtics team that seems poorly equipped to stop them, with or without the assistance of wheelchairs, and the result was a resounding 102 to 89 Laker victory.
And when you add the Phil Jackson factor, the Lakers are looking pretty good.
As you'll hear maybe once or twice in the next few days, Phil Jackson-coached teams are eleventy billion-and-oh when they prevail in Game One, so have fun chewing on that factoid, Celtics fans.
To cap off a great night for Lakers fans, the defending champs beat the Celtics at their own game with defense and rebounding.
Basically, Game One was all kinds of delicious. We now have three days to savor it before Game Two on Sunday night. If there’s any justice in the world, Garnett and the Celtics will have to spend the next three days answering questions about their toughness, or lack of it.
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