It's All Come Down To This..Game 7

Like so many of us wished for, there will be a Game 7 between the Celtics and the Lakers thanks to a full team effort by the Lakers on Tuesday night.

Now the Lakers will get a chance to avenge their 08' loss to the Celtics by winning their second-straight NBA championship.

You would have to be very dumb to count the Celtics out at this point even without Kendrick Perkins. The Lakers have yet to win back-to-back games in this series and a lot of that can be attributed to Doc Rivers and the adjustments he's made after each loss.

Expect Game 7 to be anything but a blowout. You can make reasonable argument for either team to win it all at this point.

In the end I wish I could stick with my prediction of the Celtics in seven, but I'm afraid I'm going to end up being wrong by the slimmest of margins.

The Perkins injury really hurts the Celtics from a defensive standpoint. He's the anchor of shutting down Pau Gasol. Gasol came one assist shy of recording a triple-double with Perkins out of the lineup.

We all know Kobe Bryant will get his numbers, but Pau Gasol can put this team over the edge as far as winning this series. Perkins was a great defender against Gasol and now that defender is gone.

Glen Davis is a sub-par defender against Pau Gasol and Rasheed Wallace definitely isn't known for his defense.

If Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett all come out firing on all cylinders on offense then they have a chance to just simply win in shootout fashion, but last night's dismal 67-point output tells me that might be a stretch.

I'm not counting the Celtics out completely, but it's going to be a tough challenge to stop the momentum the Lakers built on the home floor in Game 6.

Once again if Rondo plays like his heroic self then maybe, just maybe, the Celtics can pull this one out.

Either way it does promise to be another great Game 7 between the Celtics-Lakers rivalry.