Lakers still afloat

Sure didn't look good after game 2... Lakers down 0-2, George injured and everyone writing them off. And I'll admit it, I was one of the many fans who were giving up. Nevertheless, I still wanted to know if they could pull themselves off the floor Friday night in game 3. George showed up and stood up and delievered! Jack Nicholson got into the act hasseling the refs. And the Lakers won comfortably. Saturday brought the shocking news that Phil Jackson had to have an emergency angioplasty and stent to fix a 90% blocked artery. He was literally a walking heart attack. So game 4 on Sunday arrived with Jackson resting at home from surgury. And at the beginning the Lakers were down and out but somehow they stayed in the game and it turned into an ESPN classic knock down drag out and the Lakers found a way to win.

Kobe and Shaq are the stars of the team but they need at least one or two guys to step up to help them out and they keep finding the strength within to do that ... it could be the scrappy Fisher hitting a few shots, the aging Shaw giving some good minutes, the physical banging around of Madsen, the athletic George fighting through the ankle injury to put in solid minutes, Horry (who hasn't been shooting well) still being wily on defense, even Pargo, Medvedenko and Walker (the three lines scores are mostly zeros) got in a few minutes to rest the other guys.

But it is still an uphill fight as Spurs still have homecourt and are looking for some home cooking in game 5!