Ray Allen- please report to TD Banknorth Garden sometime before game 4. The Lakers go up 2-to-1 in spite of every effort to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Give Boston credit for playing great defense in the second half, but the Lakers proved to me that they are their own worst enemy. In the second half, their offense looked more like a group of guys playing a pick-up game rather than a well-oiled machine that we've come to expect from a Phil Jackson coached team. Kobe almost played the role of the "chucker", until Derek Fisher let him off the hook with one of the gutsiest layups I've seen in a while. Paul Pierce said the series will not go back to L.A. If Allen shoots like this the rest of the way, he's right. -----KG