re: If L.A. wins...

Any team that won it all the past 20 years are better than the 09 Lakers.

With regards to the idiots who are saying the Houston series did not how the Lakers are not soft...go understand basketball better. Please? Yao goes down and now the Rockets can play at the Lakers speed. Scola had a good game in the series, but it was the guard play that hurt the Lakers most. Which is why you saw Brown and Farmar so much more. Fisher was struggling to keep up. But like a strong team they made adjustments and pulled it out. Then they played who people were labeling the thuggets and beat them as well. I think the soft thing was a term for last season and people without an original thought or an idea of how basketball works are carrying to this year without knowing what they are talking about.

If the Lakers get one more win they will have played three tough teams. Making adjustments in the Houston series after their game turned into a fast pace game as well, defeating a Denver team many thought the Lakers would lose to and could not win on the road against and finally defeat an Orlando team who knocked off the defending champion (understand the injuries) and dominated the team everyone had already marked as champion. I just don't understand the soft talk, they make adjustments like a champion should make, they have won the close game, won on the road, overcame an 18-0 free throw deficit on the road...soft teams would not do these things and win.

The Laker hater speaks yet again against the Lakers...what a shock.

So you are measuring the softness of the Lakers big man on the play of Houston guards? You are so fricking stupid (as we all have come to know though). Artest took a lot of jumpers in that series, but I guess Bynum, Gasol and Odom should have been able to reject those 17 foot jumpers from the paint. I guess every team that played Jordan in the finals was soft too. You are judging big men by the play of guards. Soft players buckle under pressure tough players find a way to previal. The fact that you can't comprehend the moment Yao went down the Lakers had to adjust to a completely different style of team that is a better match up against the Lakers, proves you do not know shite about basketball. There is a reason the Rockets had winning record against the Lakers when Yao did not play prior to this series. You just want to keep hating the Lakers though and not give them credit for making adjustments against a team who had the right guys to win that series. Yes, Houston took away that soft title, they had the matchup to win the series and did not pull it off.