So the lakers have droped 3 in a row.. lamar odom and chris mihm are out so it looks like its not just tmac and yao who cant carry a team... kobe cant do it either. he's been playing awesome tho scoring 35+ dishing 7-10 assists 6-9 rebounds a game shooting like 50% but they still lose.. anyways hopefully they stay injured and rockets pass by them for hte 8th spot since we are getting healthy finally!
It's rather difficult to do it alone in this league, especially if you're a backcourt player. Kobe is having an out-of-this-world career season and his team is struggling to stay above .500, would be interesting to see if they will make the playoffs this season or if they miss it once again. They got manhandled by the Hornets.
what do you mean by carrying a team? to a championship? to the playoffs? if it's the latter t-mac has carried worse teams than what the lakers had LAST year to the playoffs, 3 times (2001-03). if it's the former, the only players that could carry a team to the finals just based on the fact that they were on the roster is shaq and duncan prior to this season.
EXACTLY LIKE US... without tmac and yao we SUCK... might even be crappier than the lakers without kobe cuz atleast they play with more energy
well so far this season tmac has a horrible record with out yao.. . and we have yet to win a game without tmac.. or even with yao in the line up and no tmac i think we are like 0-8 .. yao got a **** load of critism for not being able to carry the team to a win.. my point was it looks like the player everyone deemed the best in teh league right now cant do it either.. with odom and mihm injured kobe has had two great games but loses to two crappy teams.. well NOK is acutally decent
1. the lakers w/out kobe are a much more talented team than the rockets without mac and yao because odom is infinitely better than our 3rd best player who becomes the #1 option (whoever that maybe) 2. the lakers with kobe are a much more talented team than the rockets w/out t-mac or yao because again odom is infinitely better than our 3rd best player who becomes the #2 option (whoever that maybe). Well Yao missed 21 games and t-mac missed 5 of those 21 completely and didn't play the 2nd of half of 2 others. in the 14 games w/out yao that mac fully participated in the rockets were 6-8. i don't consider that horrible, it's not good but certainly not horrible. and the first few weeks into that 21 game stretch the rockets were down to 8 or 9 players at one point ... no center in the first two because deke was injured.
I might be wrong here, but the Rockets are over .500 with McGrady finishing off games. I think the Rockets have a close-enough record with McGrady playing and without Yao to what the Lakers have had being mostly healthy all season long, we're probably a few games off, which is expected since without Yao McGrady doesn't have anyone resembling Lamar Odom's skills.
1. How are you going to compare a team without its best player to a team without their TWO best players? If you want to make comparisons for comparisons' sake, you take out Kobe AND Odom and see how talented the Lakers really are. 2.
TMac and the Rockets OWNED Kobe and the Lakers with a depleted lineup. Lets not forget that. Whats that say, that TMac is a better leader than Kobe. Kobe isnt a leader. He doesnt care about the playoffs, nor how his team does. All he wants is to put up the stats. Of course, when you got 3 rings, and are just hitting your prime, you might do the same thing. This guy doesnt care for his teammates or trust them. If he did, if the lakers worked more as a team, they could have a chance at the playoffs. The lakers are posers. A lot of fools think that this team can go a distance, but they cant compete with upper half of the nba. One of the ESPN guys even said the lakers are goin to the WCFs. LOL.
Well that shows that Phil Jackson can't coach. I think the Lakers need to fire him. Because if you can't win without key players you must suck as a coach.
No he didn't. It was a business decision and apparantly was a good decision. Lakers couldn't afford to pay both of them, plus an older broken down Shaq isn't worth that kind of money anymore. We have gone into more detail in many other threads about this. There are more Kobe threads on this board than I can believe. Kobe haters are obsessed.
