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00:00in that last victory by the Sonics and so now the slate is clean we're underway and the Sonics in
00:05green the Lakers in gold and Nate McMillan will be guarded by Magic Johnson double team on McDaniel
00:12good pass from McMillan to Lister and Seattle takes the lead and they have a versatile offense
00:18those Sonics three players that can kill you both inside and outside Magic Johnson this is the hook
00:23shot and it's knocked out of bounds it'll be Laker ball you're right three guys Chambers
00:28averaging nearly 25 in the playoffs Ellis nearly 29 and McDaniel who really killed the Lakers in the
00:35regular season that's the key matchup for the Lakers to stop McDaniel is guarding James Worthy
00:42and the rebound by McMillan he's a good rebounder for a guard he's a rookie from North Carolina State
00:48Ellis Scott all over him forced to put up the shot Magic with the rebound here's the fast break
00:58although the Sonics get back their big job is to control that defensive glass to stop the fast
01:03break the Lakers they count on point explosions using that speed Byron Scott misses a three and
01:10there's Lister who's come back from a broken bone in his foot his timing is a little off but he's got
01:15the speed that could help the Sonics today at the center he may be the x-factor in this
01:19Alton Lister and his speed up the clock to help protect against the fast break speaking of x-factor
01:24McDaniel missed that shot still two to nothing in favor of Seattle posting up his Magic and his pass
01:33is out of bounds last touch by McDaniel Lakers ball Sonics want to force the Lakers more to the half-court
01:39offense but they're pretty devastating when they go to the half-court offense they got three players that
01:44can play down low and score and they can also go to the perimeter and score not an easy team to figure
01:50out with their three guns Magic has a shot blocked by McMillan and a great play by Nate McMillan so the
01:56Lakers 0 for 4 shooting in the early moments Lister has really showing that his foot is okay he's running
02:03up a storm he's beating Kareem down three straight times Chambers inside the three-point line hits the shot
02:09and Tom Chambers who is the MVP in the all-star game and this has become a bigger thrill for him and
02:15here's that delay tactic a little bit make him take an extra count to bring the ball up that allows the
02:21Sonic big guys to get back and protect but the Lakers have exhibited more balanced offense
02:30James Worthy coming in from the wing and he's been the leading scorer in the playoffs for Pat Riley's team
02:35and a 20 second timeout called by Bernie Bickerstaff unusual this early well I think they want to get
02:41their defense together a little bit Bernie Bickerstaff the real problem is how do you play Kareem down
02:47a low post he's been a dilemma for years do you double team him he's such a great passer that if
02:52you allow somebody to be open he'll find the open man and if you play him one-on-one he'll score over
02:57most guys here's a shorter man here's the double team and one easy pass finds him so easily and it's a cramp
03:04shot and Bernie Bickerstaff said that he wanted to make Kareem a passer and of course he can burn you
03:10more that way you've talked many times in the past that may be making Kareem take a lot of shots and
03:14perhaps wearing down he is 40 years of age and it's very difficult to defend against the Lakers when they
03:19double team Kareem because they rotate people through and they put defensive pressure on the lone defender
03:25there the Sonics have a winning record on the road in the playoffs they're three and two
03:30they started out with two big wins in Houston in the last series chambers over worthy worthy got a
03:39piece of it Dale Ellis misses inside loose ball foul called against the Sonics
03:46interesting matchup the Lakers have put
03:50green on AC green on McDaniel because they know McDaniel likes to go to the board and that will help
03:56them control the defensive rebound when AC green's hanging around there and of course if worthy is
04:01on chambers outside he can break to the other end for the easy basket also is able to get up quick to
04:07stop that outside shot by chamber worthy is doubled and his foul gone in the officials this afternoon in
04:13game one jack madden and mike mathis and ed middleton is the alternate working in this game the personal
04:19foul is against tom chambers and james worthy will go to the line not only is worthy led the lakers in
04:28scoring but he has turned his defensive play up a notch so he has become really the complete player in
04:33postseason all season long it has been his ability to get out with that speed and create that three-man
04:40attack that has really posed the most problems for other teams does anyone finish your break more
04:45spectacularly than this man he takes off from so far out that even if you've got a guy back there
04:50you're afraid to foul him supersonics lead by one
04:56with less than three minutes gone by first period mcmillan goes in loses the ball credit worthy with
05:01that and it's a three-on-one break scott
05:08well you can smother all you want but you gotta not turn the ball over because that's an easy basket for
05:14the lakers then don't blink or the lakers will score there's another turnover and here's another
05:19break possibility although mcdaniel's slowed up magic and it's still lakers ball so the sonics
05:25turned it over two times in a row up the court magic is going to be the key man today i think primarily
05:32on the defensive rebounding aspect if he can do a lot of defensive rebounding come up with the ball
05:37himself the break starts then lakers perfect five and oh at the forum in postseason play
05:45kareem with lister on him mcdaniel double scott
05:51sonic's rotating very well defensively kareem has called for the offensive foul and a good call
05:56by mike mathis now lister looks like he's got his feet working in this one because he took him to the
06:02the middle cut off the hook shot and made him spin and then moved those feet to create the charge by
06:09kareem look at that great defense
06:13sonics were 26 games worse than the lakers in the regular season
06:17mcdaniel hits the shot and xavier mcdaniel who led scoring against the lakers nearly 27 points a game
06:24man the lakers couldn't find an answer against him in their sixth game worthy
06:32and chambers gets the rebound for the sonic six to five seattle four minutes elapsed in the opening
06:38period of game one sonics have some good matchups to go to i mean chambers can go inside against worthy
06:44he just baked worthy out of his shoes and gets the basket
06:47for a guy his size he's got great ability to get a step on anybody
06:58lakers in a set offense now and they're isolating two-man game it looks like between scott and kareem
07:05ac green
07:07from the baseline
07:09seattle by one
07:11this is not the pace of the game the way the lakers like to have it in the first quarter
07:15they want this thing normally steaming up and down the court the sonics very successful so far
07:21normally the lakers move out to good leads
07:24in big playoff games ellis coming off the screen is fouled and the basket counts and that's going
07:29to be one play that the sonics run over and over and it's a play they're going to have to fight through
07:35ellis has been red hot riding the hot hand and it's going to be byron scott against him how do you
07:40look at that matchup well he is a much bigger player than byron scott and he's got speed of his
07:45own ellis so that when he comes off picks scott is really going to have to work his tail to fight
07:50through and not trail the picks so he can get on his shooting hand a lot quicker scott with his first
07:55foul and ellis makes the three-point play danny young is now in at point guard number 22 for the
08:01sonics more conservative than the up-tempo nate mcmillan well they have to go out and play danny
08:05young in the back court because he can hit the outside shot something mcmillan doesn't do
08:12steel by xavier mcdaniel they rotated after the double on kareem and chambers gets a fast break
08:18hoop for seattle and the sonics lead by six now sonic's playing great defense now scott
08:25he's been hot and cold in the playoffs and the lakers could sure use a hot perimeter shooting
08:32byron scott today i think his outside shooting will be key in this series because the more they're
08:38forced to the half-court game the more he's going to have to shoot outside nearly halfway through this
08:42first period scott bought through the pick nicely ellis had to give it up
08:48and mcdaniel turns it over scott
08:56and they've got that extra defender down there to protect the inside
08:59lister as kareem was way late getting back up into the offense worthy travels and a timeout
09:05an official timeout with 6 10 remaining 13 to 9 seattle with the early lead
09:14power i think these factors will be the most important in this series speed the lakers have
09:20always counted on their quickness of their forwards i think it's even in that department
09:25rebounding i give to seattle because they've got three board bangers up front and a lot of guys on
09:30the bench that can pull it off the glass half-court offense goes to los angeles because they've got
09:35multiple low post players and they sure can hit that outside shot and of course execution goes to los
09:41angeles because there's only one magic johnson and boy does he read defenses and tommy what he did
09:47against the rest of the league he also did against the seattle sonics as those numbers attest
09:52and uh the mvp honors are starting to come in for urban magic johnson although the official word
09:57hasn't come down yet but he's got to be the man i would say he's done just about everything you could
10:02ask the ball player to do this year ellis comes around a lister screen and hits so ellis who scored 36
10:08against houston in the deciding game makes it 15 to 9 under six minutes to go first period worthy
10:14and unstoppable from four feet
10:21young guarded by magic johnson you'll see bernie picker staff use almost his entire bench he used
10:2811 players in the first half the other night this is the drive out of bounds and it's going to be
10:34lakers ball and a foul mike mathis a loose ball foul
10:38a c green had to switch out and pick up chambers and there was a definite speed advantage on a quick
10:46step to the hoop against a c green normally you think of him as a excellent defender alton lister his
10:53first foul ellis challenging magic penetrating is scott and he'll go to the line
11:01the right of your screen you're going to see alton lister
11:11and uh he's just going to get up there and look at kareem just lally gag up that gives him five
11:16defenders and they're trying to play four offensive people against five defenders the advantage goes to
11:21the sonics that's where that speed at the center position is paying off danny young commits the foul
11:27his first and clemen johnson has come in for alton lister and johnson an experienced backup he played
11:32with a title team in philadelphia and lister coming back slowly from the broken bone in his foot goes
11:37to the bench but the sonics have committed 14 fouls to just one for the lakers and the lead now is three
11:43for the sonics donna choose so many people they're not concerned a lot about fouls
11:48no so manyい Boh mia Shirley all against them
11:51yes let's say something looking down
11:52Ellis picking there's chambers perfectly executed he has such a great vertical leap and he's such a big
11:59guard that he can spot anybody going through the Very Little who Magic on in and he's fouled
12:03inside so the lakers are getting good percentage shots and into the ball game is kevin williams
12:14as Xavier McDaniel goes out of
12:17the ballgame.
12:20McMillan playing Magic Johnson is
12:22kind of important because
12:23McMillan is pretty aggressive
12:24defensive player.
12:26He's on the bench right now and
12:27you know and Kevin Williams is
12:29in and Danny Young is in Michael
12:32Cooper is in right.
12:34But that matchup will provide
12:37McMillan with the long arms and
12:39ability to take away his passing
12:42into the low post a little bit
12:43and also slow him up on the
12:45fast break.
12:46Young doesn't give him that
12:47aggressive defense.
12:52Sonics by three.
12:57Kevin Williams a rugged defender.
13:00He came from the CBA as several
13:01of the Sonics.
13:02Ellis this is a long range shot.
13:05Byron Scott with a chance to
13:06bring the Lakers to within one.
13:11Worthy.
13:11Tripp double team.
13:13And throws the ball into the
13:15hands of Danny Young.
13:16Boy that extra man up on defense
13:18is causing the Lakers an awful lot
13:20of problems.
13:24Chambers inside.
13:26And it's still Seattle ball.
13:29The Lakers feel that the Sonics,
13:31a perimeter shooting team for the
13:32most part, are a kind of team that
13:34they've had good preparation against
13:36after going against Denver and
13:37Golden State in the earlier rounds.
13:38They feel they're in the groove
13:40defending against perimeter shooters.
13:42Danny Young misses there.
13:44Knocked out of bounds.
13:45Lakers ball.
13:47The only Laker lead was five to four.
13:50And with four ten remaining in the
13:52first, it's 17-14.
13:53Kevin Williams will go and harass
13:55Magic.
13:56And even though he presses him,
13:57he's a tough man to really get by.
14:00Chambers on the switch.
14:01Williams picks up Worthy.
14:02And Worthy takes him to town.
14:03Lakers took advantage of that switch
14:05nicely.
14:06That is Magic Johnson at his best.
14:08Pick out the best option.
14:11Nobody does it better.
14:15Off a screen.
14:16And Michael Cooper is guarding
14:17Dale Ellis.
14:18That's going to be an interesting
14:20matchup now.
14:22Whenever you switch out with a big
14:24guy on Magic like that, Magic will
14:26take advantage of it, particularly
14:27with Worthy, who knows how to get
14:29that good position.
14:30Strong, quick move to the middle.
14:33Cooper will be guarded.
14:34Guarding.