Hey everyone and welcome to the official JUNGLE FITNESS Orange County Personal Trainer Blog!  Today is Celebrity Thursday, we’re going to discuss Game 3 and 4 of the NBA Finals.  Our recollection on the intense moments for both these games…Lakers in Game 3 and Celtics in Game 4.

Game 3

The Lakers came into the second half up by 12 points, but the Celtics made it obvious that they weren’t going to lose without a fight.  After Ray Allen’s first points of the game and a Paul Pierce three brought the score to 54-47 with little more than 9 minutes left, the C’s offense sunk down, going more than three minutes without a field goal. The Lakers, however weren’t able to pick up the lead however due to slow offense that bet everything on Kobe Bryant, who struggled to find open shots running his total towards the end to 25, leaving with a three pointer that put the Lakers up by eight with less than ninety seconds left.

Derek Fisher skied in to get the rebound and made the biggest play of the night to follow. The Boston defense was confused as to what the Lakers were going to do. Kevin Garnett said post-game that he thought they were going to call a time out, other Celtics looked like they thought the Allen missed three had lost them the game. Either way, Fisher took advantage of a lazy/confused Boston defense and attacked the basket on a coast-to-coast fast break, finishing at the rim with a beautiful lefty lay-up even though three Boston Celtics contested the shot while two of them whacked him on the head. Fisher nailed the free throw, giving him 11 points on the quarter. Once again, Fisher had come through when it mattered most. I covered it in my column after the Phoenix series, but once again, after being criticized all regular season long, Derek has comeback in the post-season while facing the best competition in the world (Westbrook, Williams, Nash, Allen) and he is making big shot after big shot. We say it every time he has a game like this, we tell ourselves that this should surprise nobody, because, as Kobe said post-game, “that’s what he does.” But I’m surprised. How this guy keeps coming through in big moments is beyond logical thinking, at least considering his 82 game display before the playoffs. But I’m not complaining either, I’ll take 0 points a game in 1000 games that don’t matter if you’re going to give me 11 points in the fourth quarter of an NBA Finals game on the other team’s home court. I’ll take that any day of the week. Fisher finished with 16 points on six-of-12 shooting. He still sits without a three-pointer in the Finals, but that doesn’t matter after tonight.”

(quoted from: sports.yahoo.com)

Game 4

Rajon Rondo stole the ball to corner the Lakers, but the Celtics bench stole the show in Game 4.  Rondo’s steal and layup with 31 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter put the game out of reach, but the game was won over a 9:09 stretch to start the fourth in which the Celtics bench erased a Lakers lead and ended three quarters of ineffective offense for the home team. After the bench had done its job, Boston’s starters came in at the 2:51 mark and finished off a 96-89 win over the Lakers in Game 4, evening the NBA Finals 2-2.

10:09 4th quarter, Tied at 64: Nate Robinson ties up Jordan Farmar and gives the ball back to the Celtics. Fans here are still expecting the Celtics to go on that mini-run and take this game over, but it hasn’t happened.

8:22 4th quarter, Celtics 71-64: And there it is. Glen Davis caps a 7-0 run, bailing out Tony Allen, who missed a wide open lay-up. Davis is fired up and so is this crowd.

7:25 4th quarter, Celtics 74-66: Rasheed Wallace picks up his fifth personal foul and also a technical foul. A very bad time for that technical, but Kobe Bryant missed the free throw.

5:39 4th quarter, Celtics 79-72: Wallace redeems himself with a three-pointer to give the Celtics their largest lead, but Nate Robinson picks up a technical foul of his own.

3:57 4th quarter, Celtics 85-74: Pau Gasol picks up his fourth personal, sending Glen Davis to the line. Davis and Robinson have been phenomenal for the Celtics in the fourth quarter.

1:17 4th quarter, Celtics 85-77: The most crucial call of the game goes the way of the Celtics, as Paul Pierce drives and gets the blocking foul called on Kobe Bryant. Pierce converts the three-point play.

22.2 4th quarter, Celtics 92-86: With the Lakers in need of a couple of three-pointers, everybody in the building knew Kobe Bryant was going to shoot, except Bryant didn’t shoot. Rajon Rondo stole Bryant’s pass and took it all the way for a bucket.

17.7 4th quarter, Celtics 94-86: The Celtics get the inbounds to Kevin Garnett, who nails two free-throws to put this one out of reach.

Final: Celtics 96, Lakers 89: It’s all over. The 2010 NBA Finals are tied, 2-2.

(quoted from: boston.com)

The Lakers stepped up their game in Game 3 and the Celtics in Game 4… I can’t wait for Sunday! How about you?

Stay tuned for the next blog …on Freelance Friday

This is Jon Jung of the Jungle and I’m out…

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