Post#19 » by dockingsched » Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:42 am
kmart speaks like someone who has never reached the top. on the surface, one could argue that two simple possessions were the difference between two lakers wins and two nuggets wins, but like a saying in baseball goes, its a game of inches. so while on the surface you lost by an inch, that inch is the last and most difficult obstacle you'll ever encounter on your journey. that inch is more like a mountain with no visible top, and only the ones that have conquered it truly know how high it is.
its like saying the lakers "should" have beat the celtics if they simply would have completed their huge come back and held off their collapse. one, two possessions go different in each game and the lakers are two time defending champions. truthfully, they really weren't that close, that inch wasn't really just an inch. luckily the lakers realized it last yr and were able to adjust this yr and prepare for the mountain. unfortunately for kmart, he still thinks its an inch.
reminds me of this little exchange when someone keeps up for the start, but when championships are won in big moments by big time players, they're nowhere to be seen.
kmart: i almost had you
kobe: You almost had me? You never had me - you never had your car... Granny shiftin' not double clutchin' like you should. You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake! You almost had me?
"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on." - Dumbledore