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00:00You've had run-ins with Strom in the past, however, when you're on the road, he's an official you dearly love to have.
00:06Earl is not intimidated by the home crowd.
00:09The Lakers control the tap.
00:11Magic hands off to Cooper.
00:13And the Boston Celtics right now are sitting and waiting.
00:16Larry Bird in an appointment of the NBA Championship Series.
00:19And down away from the ball, a little illegal defense, Earl.
00:21Illegal defense!
00:23Well, that's getting illegal defense very early in the game.
00:26And the second one will cause for the shot to be taken on a technical foul.
00:33Cooper will throw it inbounds for the Lakers now.
00:35They work deep out of the corner, and here's Magic.
00:37They're going to double-team Kareem as much as possible.
00:42Offensive foul.
00:43Kareem swung his arm around, and Strom picks up number one on the big fella as he comes back down the floor.
00:48And here's the Laker pressure right away.
00:50It is Nance helping out, coming across the timeline now for the Suns.
00:54McGee will take Mason.
00:57And there's the stack, Kevin.
00:58Down low underneath.
01:00Davis pops out from it.
01:02Wheels back to Mason.
01:04The Lakers were confused.
01:05Exactly.
01:06A good strategy by John McLeod.
01:08Try to negate the quickness and the speed of the Lakers.
01:12Now it is up to the Suns crusher.
01:13Can they keep it up at the defensive end against the Lakers?
01:16Here's Kareem into the middle with that jump hook.
01:20Off.
01:20Controlled by Edwards.
01:21Quickly to Davis.
01:22He's got Nance ahead of him for an easy layup.
01:25That's a great start for Phoenix, Brent, because they could not afford to get down big early.
01:33Magic outside.
01:36The Lakers are on the board.
01:38Pressure from Cooper at the ball.
01:41Macy with a screen and quickly Davis has got it across.
01:46Lucas outside.
01:54Magic again outside.
01:56This time missing.
01:57Lucas rebounds.
02:00Macy across the timeline.
02:02Into the attack area.
02:04And the Suns are perfect from the field here so far.
02:07They break to an 8-2 lead.
02:10And Riley is up now alongside that Laker bench.
02:15This is not what he wanted.
02:16This is what San Antonio did last year in the fifth game.
02:22Walker Davis got caught by Holden Cooper.
02:25Very good start from Phoenix, Brent.
02:28It seems every time the Lakers get in trouble, they'll go down to Kareem.
02:31Pat Riley will probably call a play for Kareem.
02:35Magic gets down into the paint.
02:37He's fouled by Edwards.
02:38He'll come to the free throw line.
02:39There's Magic on the drive here.
02:45Taking two outside shots.
02:47Three straight shots for Magic.
02:49Very unusual.
02:50Usually he's looking to get his teammates off early.
02:53I'm very surprised that he's taken three shots so early in the game.
02:56For the first two minutes, I don't think I remember him seeing him taking that many shots.
03:00Plusher in the backcourt by Los Angeles.
03:16They'll go to the trap when they get the opportunity.
03:18Lucas dribbles the ball up.
03:20This is Edmonds.
03:23Almost forced back in by Nance.
03:26Came up with an awesome left hand that time.
03:28Lucas back on Cooper. Holds up and doesn't foul.
03:30McGee deep in the corner.
03:32And the whistle has sounded. He was out of bounds.
03:34McGee has turned it over.
03:36It'll be the Suns' ball.
03:45Davis dribbling up on Cooper.
03:47Take it in to James.
03:51Davis.
03:53Oh, they are breaking impressively here.
03:55I must tell you that the Suns have scrimmaged in each of the last two days.
03:58Not today, but for the two prior days.
04:00That is highly unusual for an NBA team at this point in the playoffs.
04:03They taped ankles and went at it.
04:05On the pass into Kareem, there's a foul.
04:08That's the great outlet for the locals.
04:10Going to Kareem, get Edwards in foul trouble early.
04:14When Adams comes in the game, his replacing is much smaller at 6'9", 6'10".
04:20So he's got two right away, Kevin.
04:23And that could indeed hurt the Suns.
04:24He's been in foul trouble each of the last two.
04:26Three seconds.
04:28Three-second violation.
04:29And again, it'll go over almost every turnover imaginable against the Lakers here early in this fifth game.
04:38Nance moving the ball to Edwards as he came up.
04:42Jump ball.
04:43Jump ball.
04:44Magic tied him up.
04:45This is Kyle.
04:46This is Kyle.
04:47The ball to Mason.
04:48James Edwards, Magic Johnson.
04:53Control by Kareem off the tap.
04:58Wants it down to McGee.
04:59Macy is back on defense.
05:01McGee rebounds his own miss.
05:05Back to Magic.
05:07Kareem will come back into your picture and it'll be 5 on 5.
05:12I think Kareem wanted to play guard and send Magic into the pivot that trip.
05:16Back up, James!
05:17Back up, James!
05:18Back up, James!
05:19That's McLeod yelling defensive.
05:21What they are doing here is giving the Lakers that outside shot.
05:24Try to surround Kareem.
05:25If possible, not have the inside power beat them.
05:29If they're going to hit the 15-foot, 20-foot jump shots, let them go ahead and rip away.
05:34Lucas has it blocked by Rambis.
05:41Gets it back.
05:42Macy wanted the baseline.
05:44Magic cut him off, so he takes it back out.
05:46Down to 5 at the shot clock as Edwards comes up and hits the jump shot.
05:50One thing Phoenix has done, Brent, they've spread the floor out.
05:53A good strategy and try to negate the quickness.
05:56That's a good move by John McLeod.
05:58John McLeod.
06:01And as a result, they have built an early lead.
06:03So critical of this game for them.
06:04Turn around by Kareem.
06:05Moving the other way.
06:08John McLeod said he's tired of seeing Kareem make that shot.
06:12He's felt he's played like him every night.
06:14He wants Macy to come that way and he did.
06:20And they get the field goal underneath on the assist by Macy.
06:24It was Nance.
06:27Johnson again outside.
06:28He's off the mark.
06:29Macy rebounding.
06:30Go.
06:31Go with it.
06:32Come on now.
06:33Go through.
06:34One of you go through.
06:35Here's Edwards.
06:37The Phoenix bench is into this game.
06:40John McLeod.
06:41John Wetzel.
06:42Al Bianchi.
06:47Kareem swinging up the hook.
06:49Foul is called.
06:52Edwards and Macy were working against him.
06:55And that goes against Macy.
06:57The best way to stop the Laker fast break, Grant,
07:00is to make these shots on the offensive end.
07:03And Phoenix is shooting the ball so well.
07:05That'll keep the other team from pushing the ball up the floor.
07:07And then when they come down, the Lakers offensively,
07:10half-court game usually goes into Kareem.
07:15If the Lakers would win this series,
07:17either tonight or Friday night,
07:18then our championship series on CBS would begin Sunday
07:21in the Boston Garden at 1 p.m. Eastern time.
07:24All the championship games will be seen live right here on CBS.
07:28And, of course, if the Suns win tonight,
07:30we'll bring you game six of this series from Phoenix Friday night,
07:3311.30 Eastern time.
07:35And then a game seven we'd have on Sunday afternoon.
07:39So all the action the rest of the way is coming exclusively on CBS.
07:43This is Mason going to Lucas.
07:46No rebound when you're shooting like that, Coach.
07:49Great shoot.
07:53This is the way the Lakers blazed away on Sunday,
07:55and Phoenix McGee gets open underneath.
08:05Phoenix ball.
08:06But you work and you struggle against the Lakers.
08:09And then you look over there,
08:11and Pat Riley is ready to send in the goal wave at you.
08:15And that has to be very much on the mind of John McLeod
08:18as we've got a timeout.
08:19This is a game.
08:20Congratulations.
08:29Not only must Phoenix win here tonight in the forum,
08:32they must close out with three victories in a row to capture this.
08:36And here are the only four teams in NBA history
08:39to come back when they trail 3-1.
08:41The last time was in 1981
08:44when the Celtics rallied against the Philadelphia 76ers.
08:47That one was in the Eastern Final.
08:50So the Mountain is a tough high one indeed for the Phoenix Suns.
08:56Macy coming to the ball, and he was fouled by McGee.
09:05Davis will inbound it again.
09:08Goes to Nance.
09:09And if you haven't seen him,
09:10you're going to watch a marvelous athlete.
09:12Number 22.
09:14Speaking of that, here's number 6, Walter Davis.
09:16Not so bad himself.
09:17Got his man in the air and went with a shot
09:19and threw the foul on Cooper.
09:20Great play by Davis.
09:21That's a great individual play by Davis.
09:23Phoenix spread the floor in Florida.
09:25But all four men on the baseline.
09:27And they let Walter Davis go 1-1
09:29against a great defensive player in Cooper.
09:32He's got a chance for a three-point play.
09:34Phoenix has taken 12 shots.
09:36Brent made 10.
09:37That's some start.
09:38Fantastic start.
09:396 minutes and 30 seconds to go here in the opening period.
09:50Missed the fifth game of the Western Conference Final.
09:54There's the shot they're going to give McGee.
09:56James Worthy soon to check in.
10:00As Pat Riley moves to the goal wave here in the opening period.
10:09Lucas.
10:13They are shooting with confidence.
10:15They're taking good shots.
10:16They really have taken a little bit away from L.A.'s game.
10:19Let's see what the bench does in L.A. when they come in.
10:22McGee missing that time.
10:23Magic was underneath trying to rebound.
10:25As Worthy checks in.
10:26Here's our first sub.
10:31McGee goes out.
10:38Of course that means that Cooper works in the backcourt with Magic.
10:41Worthy, Rambis, and Abdul-Jabbar up front.
10:45Green, without his goggles, hit that hook shot.
10:51Highly unusual for him to be playing without those goggles.
10:54Something might have happened.
10:55One of the lenses might have plowed it up.
10:56We'll check it.
10:57The steal by Werner.
10:58He contributes immediately.
10:59He's awesome on the break.
11:00Showing you why he was a number one pick out of North Carolina.
11:15Edwards.
11:17The battle underneath is won by Kareem.
11:20Looking outlet to Cooper.
11:22Goes to Johnson in the middle.
11:23Back to Cooper.
11:24A three-pointer on its way is off.
11:26Rebound by Nance.
11:27He's got Davis, but Kareem is back.
11:30Davis waits for help.
11:31It's Lucas to the middle.
11:33He looked Cooper off.
11:34And rolled in for an easy two.
11:39They go down to Kareem.
11:42Triple team.
11:43Magic gets open.
11:46Kareem has so many dimensions.
11:47Great score, blocked shots, and also a fine pass.
11:50Macy.
11:51Cut off.
11:52Here is Lucas.
11:53A little bit too much rotation.
11:54They press the ball.
11:55Trying to deny the Laker fast break.
11:56But Kareem is at the other end.
11:57They had three men at the ball.
11:58So the Lakers came back here and out gunned him.
11:59And now the Lakers have gone on a roll.
12:00Kareem's goggles are being repaired on the bench.
12:01James Worthy has made the big difference.
12:03426 to go, opening period.
12:04Phoenix leading the Lakers, but Los Angeles has gone on a roll.
12:06And Kevin, Pat Riley wants to get the ball.
12:08He's got the ball, trying to deny the Laker fast break.
12:09But Kareem is at the other end.
12:10They had three men at the ball.
12:11So the Lakers came back here and out gunned him.
12:12And now the Lakers have gone on a roll.
12:13Kareem's goggles are being repaired on the bench.
12:15James Worthy has made the big difference.
12:17426 to go, opening period.
12:27Phoenix leading the Lakers, but Los Angeles has gone on a roll.
12:30And Kevin, Pat Riley wants to get Byron Scott into this lineup right now.
12:35Why would he bring him in?
12:36He wants Scott in the game and also try to get McAdoo in the game while Kareem's in the game
12:41because they're the best outside shooters that the Lakers have.
12:44It's tough to double-team and drop off a Scott or a McAdoo.
12:49You also got to talk about Magic Johnson, Brad.
12:51He started the game defending against Nance, a big forward or a 6'10 player.
12:56Now he's playing a lead card in Mason.
12:58What a versatile player.
13:00The goggles have been repaired.
13:01Kareem has him back on.
13:03And speaking of versatility, Magic Johnson forced that great turnover on Edwards.
13:07Slipped around him on the blindside and got a hand on the ball.
13:11Scott will wear number 4.
13:16Here's Macy to double-team.
13:18So Worthy has a shot rejected by Nance.
13:20And there's Byron Scott in the corner.
13:22Shot clock is now down in 6 seconds.
13:24Here's Kareem sending it back to Scott in his first outside shot.
13:27Right in the hands of Kareem.
13:29The Lakers closed to within a point.
13:38And McAdoo will be checking in, Kevin.
13:42They'll have the outside shooters there.
13:44Now the strap has been repaired as I told you.
13:50Edwards rising up with that jump shot.
13:52Magic losing it as he came in.
13:53I thought he was fouled.
13:54Macy to the attack.
13:55Slips the pass to Nance.
13:56Nance comes through.
13:57There it is.
13:58Real nice pass by Kyle Mason.
13:59Be interesting to see if John McLeod would substitute for Macy or Davis like you told us.
14:12He's staying a little longer than we expected.
14:14You get caught up in a game.
14:16You're going well.
14:17You change that strategy that you've thought about all day.
14:20That's an easy two points.
14:21Just a drop off from Kareem to Magic.
14:23That's too easy.
14:24If you've got a double-team Kareem, someone from the weak side has to take the cutter.
14:29That's an easy basket.
14:30That's a layup by Magic.
14:31Don't love him as that shot.
14:35Davis jumps into Lucas.
14:37Faces up.
14:38Sends it back to Davis.
14:39And they move the ball now quickly.
14:41On the turnover.
14:42A three-second violation.
14:45McAdoo.
14:50Alvin Adams has checked in.
14:51And Cooper.