re: If L.A. wins...

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.