Lakers at Spurs (-3.5)

This is a "must-win" game for the Lakers. If the Spurs happen to win game 4, and tie the series up, Phil Jackson knows his team is in serious trouble. Hopefully, for the Lakers sake (and every other NBA fan who would rather see a soccer match than watch a Pistons-Spurs final), game 3 was just a hangover game. The Lakers became complacent, which is something Greg Popovich gets opposing teams to do better than any other coach, and left their A-game in L.A. Coach Pop would rather pull his starters with 8 minutes left in the 4th, and allow the opponent to win by 25, instead of grinding one out and keeping it close. He knows the blow-out loss will do two things: 1. embarrass his team, making them focus and play the following game with much more intensity, and 2. get the opponent to relax and become over-confident which is every coach's worst nightmare. He is the master of this practice and Phil Jackson is the Zen-Master, which is why he took a page right out of Pop's book in game 3.

Lakers come out focused and ready to go! Lakers 102 Spurs 95