Last night’s Lakers-Grizzlies game was awesome.  You had Kobe’s quick three, two missed foul shots from Mike Conley, then a missed game winning three from Ron Artest.  With all of that action going on, it is easy to forget that the most important play was the one that happened right before the others I have mentioned.  That play is the Rudy Gay 3 that took the Grizzlies lead from 2 to 5:

Up by two, the Grizzlies are in no rush here.  They walk the ball up and kill 10 seconds before they even start their offense.  Mark Gasol cuts through, and right after the cut, Zach Randolph comes sets a screen for Conley.

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Yesterday’s Lakers-Celtics game was a very good one.  You had both teams taking a sizable lead, only to see the other claw back and make things interesting.  The result was Kobe being very Kobe-like, hitting a very tough jumper with Ray Allen draped all over him.  The Celtics were now down 1 with 7.3 seconds left.  We are going to take a look at the play that followed Kobe’s shot, and what made it so fun to watch (at least for the partial observer) was that in my opinion everyone on the court did everything right.  Let’s take a look at the play after the jump.

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