They are as good as we think they are... this year. Next year is different. Nothing one year guarantees the next. The article is pretty funny in that it makes a big stink about taking the champs to 7 games meaning nothing yet it assumes because LA won it was automatically the best team. Fail logic. Who says LA was the best team in the league. Basically what it means is that this particular year LA beat an overhyped (by the league and media, for ratings) Denver team and then beat a Orlando team which had hot shooting to upset Cleveland. I mean in the semis LA is soft, Kobe is overrated blah blah but then a few games later all of the sudden they are indisputed. The article is correct in its point about Houston but ironically misses the same and larger point point that the NBA champs "proves" only that a particular team happened to win the tournament that particular year. LA isn't necessarily "better" by virtue of that than Cleveland, a healthy Boston, a healthy SA, or even necessarily a healthy Houston
Maybe you should look up defense in the dictionary. In games 4 and 6, the rockets were able to get just about any shot they wanted because of lack of defense by the lakers. In games 5 and 7 the lakers shut them down. The lakers lack of a killer instinct is why the rockets won game 4 and 6.
He had some really fair points, with some really unfair way of saying things. I think it was a fair assessment of the worries and troubles we are facing, but we're a damn good team. I don't think we're the 2nd best in the NBA, as in the Magic should technically get the title, but we did give LA quite a run that I think no one (including myself maybe) thought would happen. As many people have said, we made progress and that's a step in the right direction.
