The Lakers started off game two on fire. Kobe said before the game “I’m going to come out on fire!” He did, scoring 15 points in the first quarter. Kobe sat out the first 4 minutes of the second quarter and the Lakers quickly lost the lead. The Lakers got real sloppy and stopped the ball movement. I don’t think Kobe touched the ball until the 3 minute mark in the second quarter but by then the Rockets already had taken the lead. It seems that whenever the offense doesn’t go through Kobe the rest of the Lakers get sloppy and take bad shots. The Lakers did have much better defense compared to game one especially on Yao Ming. Hopefully the Lakers will play a strong second half and win game two of the western conference semi-finals. My prediction Lakers 106 Rockets 99.
Update: My predicted score was close as the Lakers upset the Rockets in game two. The second half was full of rough play and ejections and I hate to see players such as Derek Fisher get tossed out of the game because they let their emotions run high. Everyone is also making a huge uproar over the unitentional kobe elbow which in my opinion was just that unintentional. I look forward to game three with or without some key players.
