Game 55: Los Angeles Lakers (42-12) vs. Boston Celtics (39-16) - 3:30 PM ET

[mcscotty]

Rondo playing inspired ball tonight.

[bb22]

AD has hustled a couple times, but is looking absolutely terrible on both ends today. Hopefully he can regroup mentally in the second half.
Lebron also has to score in this one. Won’t win with him putting up another low 20s performance.

[Landsberger]

We lost the mo when we took Rondo out. Bron with 8 shots and 2 of them were from 30+ feet with more than 18 seconds on the shot clock. Davis is having issues making shots. Kuz and Rondo had a great stretch to push the lead up but we gave it back when the offense went stagnant with Caruso, KCP and Green as the initiators.

[SashAlex]

Gotta mention the refs and AD tonight. Both playing against us.

[Landsberger]

Well... at least Kanter didn't kill us again. Gotta get Davis going

[bb22]

This Lakers lineup is very beatable with small ball.

[Landsberger]

Green misses a 3... stands there while Tatum runs by him and gets an easy transition 3. Green looks like he's 70 when trying to sprint. The more I watch him the more I wonder why we signed him for what we signed him for. If he's not making 3's he's just about useless.

[bb22]

I think this game is starting to get away from the Lakers. Tatum outplaying Lebron. AD is l irrelevant. Vogel still going with McGee in the lineup for reasons that I don’t think anyone can explain. Just playing into the Celtics’ strengths. Lakers came into this one prepared and slowly Boston has picked them apart and killed their momentum. Owning the matchup this season.

[SweetTouch]

Tatum is not doing anything defensively

Fix the lineup so Tatum has to actually defend a laker not no dead Danny green

He has all energy to go all out offensively if he doesn’t have to defend on the other end

[SweetTouch]

LBJ will get them in foul trouble all day

Stop force feeding Davis

Let Davis get LBJ miss’s lay ups bunnies off rebound

[bb22]

Kudos to Tatum. Guy is killing it. Not sure why he isn’t being doubled.

[Landsberger]

The Kuz/Rondo/Bradley trio again paying dividends.

[SweetTouch]

So wait you run the double at Tatum and one trick pony Tatum has to think and make a quick decision

[Landsberger]

The real difference today is that when Rondo gets the ball he's looking to run and attack immediately. So far Bron has gotten the ball in positions to run and has slowed it down. The C's have issues with pressing guards and transition it seems. It's about matchups.

[Landsberger]

Kuzma has been able to stay in front of Tatum and suddenly he no longer looks like Kobe.

[mcscotty]

That was an intense quarter.

[Landsberger]

Vogel needs to change this up and let Rondo finish this game. The ball moves without any hesitation when he's in there. There is actually a flow to the offense.

[mcscotty]

Caruso!!!

[EArl]

That should have been a goal tend.

[Landsberger]

Rondo has changed the game. He is disrupting the initiation on every possession.