Los Angeles - After being dismantled by the Boston Celtics 131-92 in Game 6 to lose the NBA Finals, Lakers' forward Lamar Odom ripped coach Phil Jackson. "Phil looked like he was on the wrong medication," said Odom. “Be the ball? What the hell does that even mean?”

Jackson’s “complete lack of focus,” suggested Odom, may have been tied to a season-long nap deprivation problem. “We caught him nodding off during the third quarter a bunch of times during the regular season which was no big deal - but, hey, this was Game 6 of the NBA Finals!”

“Phil’s naps were totally on schedule,” snapped Jeannie Buss, Jackson’s girl friend, a former Playboy model who is also the owner’s daughter. “He wasn’t the one shooting bricks.”

“When you’re the eye of the storm,” observed Jackson, “you must take the time to smell the roses.”

In a very brief interview, Jackson also indicated his displeasure with the officiating during the series, suggesting a location where he’d like the refs to place the roses after he had finished smelling them.

Laker backup Ronny Turiaf had another theory for the Lakers’ Game 6 blowout. “We shouldn’t have had calzones for the pre-game meal. Don’t get me wrong, they were tasty, but a little heavy.”

Turiaf said he was confident the Lakers would have a great season next year.  "We're nice people, and nice people deserve to have good things happen to them - and that includes Kobe.”