Lakers vs Suns Game 1

  The first game of the western conference finals took place in the staples center since the Lakers have won home court in the west. The Lakers are the favorite in the competition because of their size, they are much taller than the suns and their big men Paul Gasol and Andrew Bynum are also very agile in the paint so this is going to be a very tough task for the Suns to be the defending champions. In the beginning of the game the Suns had short lead however the Lakers stormed back taking the lead. The lakers team leader and future hall of famer Kobe Byrant went off for 40 points being the game's scoring leader. The sixth man for the Lakers Lamar Odom also made a great contribution for the Lakers by added 19 points and 19 rebounds, which was his playoff career high in rebounds and also Kobe's eleventh 4o point career game. The new edition Ron Artest had a game addition to Kobe and Lamar by dishing out five asssits which led his team. However the game's leader in assists was no other but former two time MVP Steve Nash who had 13 assists and the Suns scorer lead was Amar'e Stoudemire who had twenty three points. In the end the Lakers come out with an easy win 128-107 beating the Suns by twenty one points. In my opinion for the Suns next game against the Lakers they need to work on their rebounds, they lakers dominated them with the Suns rebounding leader only having six rebounds. That inexcusable for a team that made it so far in the playoffs, but thats where the Lakers size come into place since they are so much taller than the Suns they grab rebounds without effort. However the Suns need to box more than they did because Lamar Odom shouldn't be coming off the bench grabbing 19 rebounds. The last thing they need to work on is slowing down Kobe Byrant, everyone knows that Kobe Byrant cant be guarded but they need to make more efforts on double teaming him more than they did in the first game.