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Man this feels good. When the boys are playing a good team it brings out the best in them. This bodes well for the playoffs. If everyone gets and stays healthy it will be a short summer. I can only imagine what the laker team must be thinking having Peja healthy and present for the entire playoffs. Good night Phil. Can anyone say SWEEP!!! Too bad, during the entire post-laker playoff spout-off, the laker fans have perpetuated the "poisoned cheeseburger" story while neglecting to ever mention that the Kings played without Peja for all but a few moments at the end of the series. This is going to be fun. Peace.

Reno Lady

While the Nets certainly played more like the Nets last night, I never once thought they were going to win the game, or even get in a position to win the game; the Kings just weren't going to allow that to happen. Props to the Nets for a great effort however, especially Kidd, Martin, and Jefferson. Their biggest shortcoming is they have no in-the-paint presence who can defend Vlade and Webber well enough to take them out of the game - and when either are forced out of the paint they just go outside and hit shots from there.

Back to yesterday for a minute: I was listening to Bob Ryan on espn radio this morning. His take on Shaq's foul against Francis is that was the turning point of the game. I don't see it. It wasn't a flagrant, but it was still a foul and didn't come at an especially crucial time in the game at all. Francis was going to go the line for FTs anyway. Ryan's rant was toward the officiating and rightly so, but I can't agree with his viewpoint on that foul.