You have to be mentally r****ded to come up with this number. Even if a team will win 75% of the time with HCA, the chance of winning all 4 series would be 31%, compare to 7 out of 20, 35% you listed here, that sounds about right. Thank you for proving my theory again. Now if you want to say a team having 75% chance of winning a series should be the underdog, we don't need to argue no more.
He took 3 shots, and barely played 4th quarter. How many times Kobe would only take 3 shots in a quarter? This was way over-exaggerated.
No, I think you have to be mentally retartrd to not realize that things can happen during a season (ie trades or injuries) that prevent one team from having HCA against an opponent, even though they have the better team when they meet in the postseason. I have provided numerous examples. LA finished one game behind Sac. Barring injuries they would have had HCA. They won because they had the better team. The yr LA beat the Wolves, the Wolves had HCA but it was moot when they faced LA because Cassell was hurt and the Lakers clearly had the better team. The better team is usually the team to win, and in most cases the better team has HCA. But that's not all cases, and clearly wasn't the case for LA. One is really mentally retartrd to argue that the Kings had a better team than LA, or the Spurs after LA got Malone and Payton for nothing. Your mind is made and that's fine, but your recent posts sound silly.
winning does wonders to you...before gasol and the championship..kobe basically says, "this team sucks, i wanna win, and i wanna go somewhere else without all these crappy players.." ...he openly trashed bynum...and hten after gasol come and they started to win, kobe then basically says, "oh i trashed my teammates, tlk **** about my gm, and be an arrogant jerk as a cover for my deep good intention of trying to motivate my team...bynum is an allstar center.."..bull****!
Actually the only player he ever trashed on current Lakers team was Bynum. And Bynum really came around slow, not even a starter quality when he trashed him. Had he got stucked with Kwame, Smush and Walton as starters, it'd be hard to be in playoff still.
Kobe didn't trash anyone on the team, really. He said he wanted Bynum traded for Jason Kidd but its not like he just went on air and started dissing teammates. Bynum is the only one he even mentioned. Actually, I remember his press conference after the Suns beat the stuffing out of them in the fifth game and he was giving a lot of props to Walton and Odom for playing hard. He called out management and the gm's, you could say he trashed them definitely, but not the other laker players.
Yeah, I guess I'm a fake one... Strange considering how much time I spend on sites like these. In that case, being a real fan requires way too much time and effort for my liking.
Heck yeah he quit, its not even a quesiton The guy stood at halfcourt for a full half of a game and passed the ball around. He never tried to make a move, he didnt shoot, he didnt try to create, he just stood at the top of the key and passed off to the same teammates he berated in the summer. Its a joke that people on the internet argue things just for the sake of it.
Kobe quit. I'm not going to rehash how he quit in the phoenix series it's already been done. Kobe is the leagues premier little b****. When he can't handles Battier's defense on him, he cheap shots Shane while he's on the ground. Not as much this year, but in past years when his team was on the verge of losing, and the game might go either way, Kobe would play hard but limp or grimace in supposed pain to highlight a supposed injury. Once he was scoring he was totally fine, and there would be no limp, but anything else and he'd act like he was struggling to play through some monumental injury. He just wanted to be the hero and look even better if the Lakers would win, or to have an excuse in cae they lost. If he had a problem with Bynum or the GM or any of his other teammates he should have handled it behind closed doors, but in the end he acted like a b****. I would much rather the Rockets not have the huge stain of having Kobe on the team even if they would have won an extra championship or two. That being said, he does work tirelessly during the off season and has a competitive streak that is unmatched in the NBA today.
He quit on the Lakers, but he didnt quit on the game. He would play 110% all out even if he was on a team he hated. When he demanded a trade from the Lakers, he still put his heart on the game for the Lakers, even though he wanted out.
I don't think there's any way around it. He quit. No matter how you qualify it, he quit. The reason this is so significant is because people hold the Toronto game and really the 2008/2009 season against McGrady saying he quit and because he quit they will never trust him again. But Kobe quit. Sure, you could say Kobe's quitting was him just trying to make a point due to his competitive drive to want to win. On the other side of the coin Tmac's quitting could ahve been frustration at his inablility to play like himself due to injury. Medically speaking he shoudln't ahve been out there. At the end of the day none of that matters. McGrady quit. He did, and it was disgusting. The question is can we ever forgive him. It will take some time for me to rally behind him again, and it may not even be an issue if we trade him. But at the end of the day, Kobe quit too, and was able to get his fans back. I hope I can say the same about McGrady in a few months.
Kobe's "quitting" didn't really impact the Lakers as much as it does here with McGrady... I've followed Laker fans and their boards for a long time because I am a Kobe fan... Most of them, I can tell you were behind Kobe. Kobe wins for them.... he got them a ring... more importantly, he's the best player on the planet.... he can get away with "quitting" and still win people back because he's so good, I'm not sure T-Mac can really do that unless he leads this team to the glory road.
Kobe didn't have the injuries McGrady had. And Kobe had either Shaq or Gasol when he won rings. What McGrady had was the injury-prone Grant Hill and Yao Ming. The point of this thread is, when you win, people (such as blind devotees like you) will be blind to your faults.
Exactly. If Tmac had played with an allstar big man, he'd have gone from first round fodder to the finals too.
