Well it was a happy Mother's Day indeed. I got up today and called my Mom to wish her a Happy Mother's Day, then I went over to my Dad's house to watch the Laker game, then to go see my Grandmother and to have dinner. All in all it was a great day, and the Lakers prevented themselves from being pushed to the edge of the abyss, basketball-wise. Down 0-2, they HAD to win today's game, because nobody ever in NBA history has come back from an 0-3 defecit to win a seven-game series. The Lakers had their backs to the wall, and they finally responded and played one of those rare games where they did just about everything right and where everyone on the team had a good game. They played great defense, most notably on Tim Duncan and Tony Parker (two guys who combined for 104 points in Games 1 & 2), holding those two to a combined 18 points, and holding the whole Spurs team to only 81 points, their lowest offensive output in over a month. The end result was that the Lakers won by 24 points, which was their most lopsided win since beating the Queens by that much on March 24th (one day after the Spurs last loss before today). The good news is that LA isn't dead just yet. The bad news is that today's game was almost surely an aberration, and the Lakers won't have it that well again against the Spurs for a long, long time. More bad news is that losing in such a humiliating fashion like the Spurs did today will more than likely either make the Lakers a little over-confident and complacent, or it will make the Spurs want blood, or maybe both. The Lakers still have to win 3 of the next 4 games if they want to get past the defending champions, and LA can not take ANYTHING for granted for the rest of this series. Game 4 on Tuesday is a must-win game just like today was. If LA loses Tuesday, then they'll be faced with the task of having to win 3 straight against a team that's only lost once in the last 7 weeks, and they'll have to win 2 of those games in the SBC Center in San Antonio, where the Lakers have never won a playoff game (they're 0-5 there, all-time). Today was a good win for the Lakers, no doubt; but they still have a steep, steep climb ahead of them.