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Robert Horry is a GOD!!!

I gotta post something here. I absolutely can not fucking BELIEVE IT!! Holy shit, Robert Horry has got to be one of the greatest clutch players to ever play, no doubt! These last three hours, and these last couple days have just been terrible for me. I was feeling physically ill during large stretches of today's game. Just to give you some background, here you go. I felt after Game 2 the Lakers would come out in Game 3 and really take it to the Kings to show them who was boss. Instead they fell behind by 27 and ended up losing by double digits. So then I had a lot of doubts about the Lakers (still do, by the way). I was thinking that if they couldn't come out strong in Game 4, they were done. Well they came out about as bad as possible in Game 4, they were down by 20 after the first quarter, and the Kings stretched that lead up to 24 in the second quarter. I figured it was Game 3 all over again, and the Lakers were finished, down 1-3, case closed. But of course I kept watching because there was a lot of time left, and LA started to slowly chip away at the lead. LA closed it to 7 at one point in the third, and then got it down to 4 a couple times in the 4th, but the Kings kept fighting back and pushing it back to 8 or 9. In the last 3 minutes LA finally started getting closer, Shaq was hitting all of his free throws, Kobe was making some jumpers in the lane, Horry hit a three down the stretch; but the Kings kept scoring also. LA cut it to 3 then Shaq went to the line for two free throws and hit them both. LA fouled Vlade who only hit one of two, and it was LA's ball down 2 with 11 seconds left. On the final possession Kobe drove in and missed a shot he normally makes, Shaq got the rebound and missed an almost gimme putback, so Vlade got a hand on that rebound and just swatted it towards the other end...

...but Robert Horry was waiting out at the top of the three point circle, and he grabbed the ball and put up a three point shot with less than a second on the clock. The buzzer sounded as the ball was in the air, so this was it right here. AND HORRY NAILED IT!!! Nothing but net! The crowd went nuts, the team swarmed on Horry, and this series is 2-2 baby! Horry's three point shot was the first lead the Lakers had had since it was 2-0 in the opening minute of the first quarter, so you can see what an incredible win it was. LA tied their own NBA record for largest deficit after the first quarter where the team came back to win.

This series is a LONG way from over. I know Horry got that shot and it was incredible, but the reality is that the Kings have solidly been in control of the last three games, and of the remaining three games two are in Sacramento (widely considered the hardest place for a road team to win). LA better get their shit together for Game 5. God, how I DREAM of LA coming back here for Game 6 up 3-2! Please let the Lakers get past this round!