Lakers-Rockets: Top Three Reasons Game Three Is Important

Will:  The collective desire of a group.

Attrition:  The act of weakening or exhausting by constant harassment, abuse, or attack.

The seven-game Series is certainly a battle of both will and attrition.

As the saying goes, only the strong survive.

As such, the Lakers and Rockets head into Game Three on a collision course that began with a brutal shoulder laid out by one of the good guys in the league, Derek Fisher, which got him ejected with 13 seconds left in the third quarter on Tuesday.

The message was clear: We’re not going to take it any more.

When the Lakers left the court after a disappointing loss in the Garden last June, the talk was all about how “soft” the Lakers were. The Celtics were the more physical team who bullied us and pushed us around.

Our boys have been trying to shake that label ever since.

Fisher wanted to make sure everyone heard him, loud and clear.

While I do not condone what he did—and think there are more subtle ways of going about it—I cannot say that I did not enjoy replay after replay of Luis Scola getting decked and sent hard to the floor.

They always say a series does not begin until the road team wins. Well, Houston did just that right out of the gates.

However, it would appear that this series did not truly begin until someone got thrown out!

To find out what my top three reasons Game Three is so important, go to Lakers101.com.