I wish we could bring up some of those Spur threads from right after last year, and revisit the comments of guys like Scar and verse. I recall many a time seeing "the Spurs will not make it out of the first round next year". Ha. SA and LA are now 2-2 the last 4 times they've met in the playoffs. You had the Fox injury this year. SA had D. Anderson injured two years ago and Robinson last year. LA didn't even have to face them the first time because Duncan was hurt and they couldn't get past the Suns. The talk of LA's dominance over the Spurs after last year has now been proven to be total b.s.
Yes... but most people here don't think I am, therefore I won't bother trying to prove my state of Rocket fandom. Rockets are my favorite team, then the Lakers. I became a Laker fan before the 00 playoffs because I was annoyed that people hated LA for no true reason.
Goodbye Fakers, good ridance! Kobe ain't no Jordan!! He's just the next guy trying to be him! I will never forget them tears from Kobe, it gave me great pleasure to see him cry like the b*tch he is!
I think this is just a hard lesson learned in Kobe's early career and I'd hate to be the opposing player gaurding him/ team that has to play him next year. I can see him winning MVP next year.
I agree. Kobe is so good that people are just going to hate him anyway, yet this guy *already* has a lock on HOF....terrifying considering he still has many more years left in him. The loss was clearly devastating to him....he seemed to take it personally. The comments he made afterwards about the next season starting tomorrow just demonstrates his dedication to winning. His only flaw is his ego, in my humble opinion. Once he conquers that, he will definitely have a shot at being the GOAT.
I absolutely despise Kobe and am glad he cried a little punk. That said, I think he will have a historical season next year. You can see in his eyes that he truly wants to win. I wish Francis had half as much pride and heart as Kobe.
I really thought the Lakers could pull it together one more time, but SA really whipped them. The Spurs brought out the killer instinct that I thought they never had. This has been a disappointing season for my two favorite teams, but next season should be totally different.
You show some class stepping up to the crow chow-line, kidrock. I'm still spitting out feathers from predicting that Nachbar would be a major contributor this past season due to his 5 years of playing Euroball and what I had read and seen of him before the draft. Right! (the disappearing man, lol) My quote right after the draft was the last quote Clutch posted on the Front Page from a BBS member before he stopped doing it. (argh!) So good on you for fessin' up. I still hate the Spurs and the Lakers, btw, but I sure as hell would like some of their players on the Rocks!
Talk about revisionism. The Lakers have won 3 of the last 4 titles. If the Spurs win this year they will have 2 in 5 (and I predicted the 1st one they got, see below). BTW--Here were some more of my predictions and comments from year’s past: Last 2 years I predicted the Kings, not the Lakers to win the title. Last year I probably should have been right and all this Lakers demise talk would have started barring a game 7 El Foldo by Peja, Hedo, Christie and co, but oh well I was wrong in the final assessment. This year I was wrong again, but everyone knows if CW was not injured it would be the Kings versus the Spurs for the real title not the Mavs--so who knows if I was initially pretty on target that the Kings were the best team going into the playoffs. Inflated predictions of the Lakers I do not have--but 3 of the last 4 years I have been right on the money that the Lakers were a better overall team than the Spurs because despite of TD's greatness I have always admitted to the Spurs have not had the right guys around him. I'll also give you 00 would have been really interesting with DA not out (the 3rd best Spur on that team)--but you can't take away that Lakers victory (I think a sweep) any more than you can take away this Spurs victory (in 6) this year with the Lakers 3rd best player out with an injury and maybe 5th best player severely hobbled. Honestly, I have little doubt the Lakers still would have eventually won in with both teams healthy in 00 and only slightly more doubt the Spurs still would have won in 7 this year barring injuries--I just don't think Fox would have helped the Lakers defense quite enough. I also predicted the Spurs to win it all in 99 when everyone thought it was the Jazz's year (I don't think anyone--I certainly didn't, pick the Lakers)--and was pissed the best player on the best team did not get the MVP. So it isn’t like I have never picked them (further, against the Jazz or Blazers or Knicks it was easy to root for them as well). Some more predictions and comments...While you Freak and others were saying the back court of Steve Smith (who I told ya’ll was washed up after his foldo in 00 versus the Lakers), Daniels (who I told you wasn’t a day to day starting NBA PG despite ya’lls objections), Porter and co was good enough for a title I was saying no, the Lakers and Kings (w/Bibby trade) have widened the gap from the rest of the league with the Spurs losing DA, AJ & SE (DA especially) being MAJOR. This has been absolutely true until this year when new blood has improved the Spurs back court and swing positions with more versatile athletes capable on both ends like DA and some of their other guys provided (AJ, SE, and before that Mario). So Freak, I think you have a fairly twisted memory of my Spurs comments unless you are taking really out of context stuff clearly directed in jest to self-identified trolling Spuridots talking a lot of smack on a not a greater Texas, nor SE and Central Texas, nor greater Southwestern, but a Rocket board.
Scar, I'm talking about at the end of last year. I specifically remember comments about the Spurs having trouble getting out of the first round this year. You guys were relentless about it. Relax, man. You're usually right about everything else. I think you're confusing '00 with '01. '00 they didn't play each other because Duncan was hurt. '01 was D. Anderson's injury. '02 Robinson missed the first round and the first couple of games in the LA series. I don't know what you're talking about with the revisionist stuff. The teams are 2-2 in the last 4 playoff meetings. They didn't play each other in '00 due to the aforementioned Duncan injury.
Yeah, I meant 01 was the DA out year. BTW I never "got into" the SA-LAL head to head match-ups per se, what I more got into was which teams have built the best teams period. What I did say is LAL were the best team 3 of the last 4, and that going into last season from the offseasons (Bibby and DA trades specifically) the LAL and Sac were now the class teams of the league. Regardless of whether they played each other or not in the playoffs, the Lakers have been the best team 3 of the last 4 & the Spurs have a chance at 2 of the last 5--though honestly I think the Kings should have won the title last year on talent only to choke it away (I am not one to blame it on refs though--losing game 7 on your own court is your own damn fault). Thus it is the Kings with folding in last year's game 7 (and no Freak, while CW is no Duncan, I think he played well enough along with Bibby to win last year only for other guys to miss easy shots) and CW injury this year that keep up ****ing up my predictions more so than the Lakers or Spurs. OK I'll relax, but I really don't think I said anything like the Spurs won't make it past the 1st round unless a Speridiot was being obnoxious and deserved the jabbing.
When I saw the Lakers players crying, I almost felt sorry for them. Almost. Then I realized how badly I wanted to see them lose. Rubbing it in, though? Not worth the effort at all. The Lakers just had too much to overcome. They need depth. And, to tell the truth, I don't think the Lakers as we know them will be together much longer. I wonder if Kobe will bolt in one year when he can opt out (Charlotte?) Shaq's health and weight are a concern and he doesn't have Kobe's drive, which is why I think Kobe might look elsewhere. But that's to be seen.
The current breed of lakers is done for sure. As soon as Phil Jackson retires, this lakers team will be rebuilt, and soon Shaq is going to retire. Kobe is probably going somewhere else or stay in LA only to fail to convince people that he can win without Shaq. The lakers doesn't need to make any change since they're not going to win a championship any time soon.
