Trouble in Laker Land

Damn, I read that and almost thought somebody made it up. Those are some serious attacks. Should be an interesting season for the Lakers with all that talent trying to mesh.

 

Shaq is making a big deal about the offense running through him cause he wants to get his contract extention. Funny how players seem to raise their level of play when money is involved. This is one reason why I never liked Shaq. He could have been even more dominating the last few years but hasn't because this guy is all about money not basketball.

I am not a Kobe supporter expecially after the incident regardless of if he is guilty or not. However, if I was Kobe I would try to keep a low profile. But one thing I will say for Kobe at least he plays the game to win and because he wants be the best.

This is why I support players like Yao Ming and Tim Duncan. They love to play the game and money isn't the only motivating factor.

 

Shaq is a bit of an ass. But Kobe is turning into a serious a-hole.
Sounds like Shaq has had enough of Kobe's perceived selfishness.

Righting your motorcycle to a game instead of the team bus??? WTF.

 

shaqs the vet. and hes in better physical and mental shape. gotta defer to the man. i dont think hes going too far. harsh but he speaks the truth

 

...or not trying to.

Perhaps Shaq is right. Kobe's health (physical, and mental?) ain't Kobeesque and Bryant needs to get the ball to them what can do something with it.

The underlying question is will the Lakes be celebrating in June, or ruptured much earlier?

 

shaq needs to remember who's the guy that bailed him out during their championship run when they were playing the spurs. and oh yea, who was the guy that took up most of the slack when his lardass was too lazy to have surgery done during the offseason like a responsible and mature player would have done.

i dislike kobe as much as the next guy but shaq can't say anything about anybody.

shaq=the poster boy for 'speaking without thinking'

 

Bailed him out? I guess I agree with you, if you consider Kobe taking constant advantage of the other team double teaming Shaq the entire game "bailing him out".

I think Kobe could have been replaced by other swingmen during the title runs, and the results might have been the same. I can't say that about Shaq...unless you are talking about replacing him with Duncan.

 

man when SC said kobe and shaq were already having a war of words i thought it was going to be some joking segment, but nope, they're really going at it. it's like shaq is just trying to piss kobe off. he may be the biggest reason they win and why payton and malone came, but hey big guy, who takes over all the 4th quarters for you? kobe.

and kobe just seems like he's trying to get himself ostracized from the team more and more.

if any of it keeps them from winning a championship, awesome. if it doesn't, well at least it's good theater.

 

well mcgrady would've been the only other swingman in kobe's class during those 3 years, so i guess they're even, one replacement each. it's not like they blew people away on their 1st and 3rd titles, they went to 7 games in both wcf's and pretty much wouldn't have won either if not for the refs so it's not like shaq didn't need kobe or someone amazing.

as for the spurs, kobe tore them apart two different years and they don't just double shaq even when he doesn't have the ball. kobe torched them b/c kobe is good and the spurs had enough defensive C talent in drob and duncan to at least make shaq try, thus making it almost better if kobe was doing his thing.

shaq is the more important of the two, but he's not invincible. he didn't win until kobe was a top 5 player.

 

its times like these where i love yao and francis' chemistry.

 

"Everybody knows that. You [media] guys may give it to [Bryant] like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. ."


i'm sorry but as i sit back and think, i have NEVER heard kobe ever saying that the Lakers were his team. EVER. and it's always shaq that has to remind us all that this is his team blah blah.


So ... if you ain't right [physically], don't be trying to go out there and get right on our expense. Use the people out there, then when you get right you [can] do what you do."

yea...and this is coming from a guy that didn't want to get much-needed surgery during the offseason because 'it was his vacationing time'.

shaq has got to be one of the dumbest person in the history of the NBA. he doesn't think before he says anything. he thinks whatever he spews out is poetry. what a moron.

 

I almost feel bad for Malone and Payton now*...even if they do win a title this year, how can they possibly enjoy playing through all of this? Winning a championship should be about enjoying playing with all of your teammates and everyone enjoying it together, not everyone jabbing at each other and being selfish. This is just a team thrown together with no real chemistry. How can they possibly have fun together?

If Phil Jackson does take this team all the way, he deserves credit as the absolute best coach in the league. I can't imagine what it must be like to deal with these ego's. I do imagine it's mostly Kobe's ego causing the trouble...if they don't pull it together I imagine he'll bolt next summer.

*Then I just think about what they've done over the years to the Rockets and it goes away (Payton and Malone)

 

Shaq makes any team into a contender. You can not say the same for Kobe. Shaq is the man and anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves.

 

He said that the media said that it was Kobe's team. He didn't say that Kobe said that it was his team.

r, c, p

 

Hypocrite or not, Shaq speaks the truth. Kobe should ease his way back, as Payton has asked him too. Shaw himself is really just asking the same: take it easy until you are healthy, then "do what you do." But I can't help but think that Shaq's contract extension--about which he has been pissed for weeks--is playing a huge role in these public barbs. It would be typical Shaq.

 

Oh man, this is ****ing awesome.


IMPLOSION IMMINENT

 

IMPLOSION IMMINENT

When has a Phil Jackson coached team EVER Imploded?

Phil has established himself as the single greatest coach in the history of the game, and possibly the greatest single coach in the history of professional sports.. The one thing he has been able to do better than anyone else in history is command the respect of the most massive egos in the game.. This year will be no exception..

I wouldn't put this past Phil and the team pulling another mind game with the media and rest of the league...

 

People, people!....Are we actually falling for this?

"Hey let's distract the whole world with our annual Shaq vs. Kobe drama, and while they think we're not focused, we laugh our way through the season all the way to another parade. See you all next year! Now we aren't talking about Kobe's trial? Doesn't all of thhis sound familiar? " '00-'02 "

-Just my thoughts

 

very awesome!