Diamantidis wrote:Dloading24 wrote:Dominater wrote:No because Perkins would've been in for game 7. The rebounding loss without him was huge. Also, Celtics were rolling in 09 until KG got hurt
Ya but got whooped twice by the lakers in the regular season, beating the Celtics at both they're 19 and 11 game win streak. Lakers had Celtics number that year either way
Regular season games dont mean much, especially since that Celtics team was clearly coasting in the RS.
In game 7 Celtics was up for 3 and a half quarters until KG's and Sheed's old legs gave up. Lakers outrebounded Celtics 53-40, Gasol alone had 18 rebounds. Of course Perk would have made a difference.
Lol that regular season argument is terrible. It only really applies to dynasties (teams that have been to multiple finals like the spurs, current warriors, Lebron in the east. thats because they've done it multiple times and know what it means to get to the final. For the Celtics (max only 1 final experience for any player on that team) that definitely doesn't apply. Most teams in champion contention at the very least treat a few games in the regular season like real playoff games, and no doubt a rivalry like the Celtics and Lakers, especially after meeting in the finals the year before, counts as one of those games. Your telling me with guys like KG, pierce, ray Allen, and Rondo, some of the most competitive guys in the league coasted in that game and acted like it didn't matter? Highly doubtful. On top of that they won 62 games going on 19 and 11 game win streaks I wouldn't consider that "coasting"
All we have to compare the two teams that year is the RS so thats what we have to go based off.
Its not wise to extrapolate based on other seasons due to other factors ie change in team personnel, change in player mentality/goals/drive, heck change in player skills (Kobe added a post game going into the 09-10 season) but if you want to add the year before or after sure lets dig into it a bit.
If you want to extrapolate based on 2008, I can easily make the argument that Bynum would have pushed that series to 7 adding that "toughness" the lakers were missing that year.
Want to talk 2010, I doubt perk would have made much of a difference. Sheed rebounded well that game (8 tot Reb) thats equal to KP's avg that season. Want to get crazy and say he Reb 10 times? I'm sure the two 2extra rebounds wouldn't have helped. On top of that it was game 7, all players are nervous and typically play worse than they normally do, so most likely KP ( who is trash on offense) is more of a negative than a positive in that game.
Both those teams were evenly matched when at full power imo. If no injuries, we would have seen a 3 finals from 2008-10, 7 game each, epic rivalry. And game 7s are honestly a crap shoot so it can go either way depending on who's hot or not for that game.
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