Are the Lakers that good?

[Rastapopoulos]

Do you mean Johnny Bach?

Errm... Bob to his friends! Yeah, that's right.

Bach was clearly important to the Bulls, but the defense the Lakers are playing is different from the Bulls' defense. The Bulls had several good to great defenders and had a unique defensive presence in Pippen, and a weakness in the middle. The Lakers have defensive strength in the middle, no Pippen and no great defenders and only one good defensive starter in Kobe and one good defender off the bench in Ariza. He's not simply using the old Bulls' defense.

Always the obsession with facts. It's unhealthy.