Phil Jackson fires back a shot that will make them VERY, VERY mad... He also says: I predict some physical altercations this time around.
Correction: if Bavetta hadn't been there, this would'e been a 6-game series... I don't mind Kobe, but Shaq and Phil Jackson drive me nuts. I mean, how arrogant can you be? Aren't the champions supposed to set an example? What is all this garbage? A 4 game series? Phil needs to go meditate on that one and keep his mouth shut.
Why do the Kings get to run their mouths and the Lakers don't I mean... if 3 in a row doesn't give you the right to talk, what does?
Amen to that brother. Lakers can all the smack they want until someone beats them. Besides Bibby, the Kings are a bunch floppin queens who choke when the going gets tough.
The Kings did beat them. It was Stern, through Bavetta, who pushed the series to seven games to make more $. Game seven was fair. Game six was not. Bobby Jackson, Scott Pollard, Hedo Turkoglu, Doug Christie, Lawrence Funderburke... those guys are not floppers or chokers. And Bibby will never be the leader of the Kings until he shows he can play at a high level ALL YEAR instead of ten games or so. Stockton killed him in the Jazz series, and his play was decisively average throughout the regular season. Bibby had a few great games right before his contract was up. Good for him. But it's become trendy for people who watched him in the playoffs to name him the next great player after ignoring him in the regular season. He's a good player, but quit acting like he's the messiah and he carries the team. He's not and he doesn't. I like Bibby and I don't like Webber, but quit acting like he's the Kings' only damn player. "Kobe's sick!" Jackson whines. At least he played. Peja had a severe ankle sprain that he didn't recover from until weeks after the season, even though he tried to play at the end. By the way, if the Kings are a bunch of queens, then what does that make all these teams who didn't even make the playoffs?
Cite your sources. While that does sound like the Zen Master, I haven't come across those quotes anywhere.
Why thank you for that prompt response! I know this sacto fanatic who needs absolutely no encouragement to go on a 2 hour rant on the inferiority of the lakers, so this should send him off into apoplexies of unconscious rage- to the entertainment of all!
LMAO! Kings one of the greatest teams ever? Does he mean, greatest teams without a legit go-to guy? Kings will not beat the Lakers anytime soon in a 7-game series, bad refs or whatever. Laker haters do what they can to discredit the achievement of LA. The Kings were in the series, because Bibby played great. I really think he will prove be a flash in the pan, now that he has his fat contract. Even if Bibby is their go-to guy, relying heavily on a PG in the West, is like having a one-armed man in an ass-kicking contest.
please stop this complaints, the kings lost and the lakers won they where better.i'm getting so tired of people who say that the lakers won because of the refs. it is always the excuse, if the kings where better they would have won. i agree with you on this point. bibby just played 2 good series but al year he has been the third player on the team,he is a good point guard, but not one of the best, he is overrated becase of a few games, in the season he was maybe the tenth pointguard. not one of the best. we will see this year if the kings are better,but if they lose again than i don't want complaints about how the refs gave the victorie to the lakers.
Eggs-ZACK-ly! (Someone I knew pronounced "exactly" in this way.) No offense to kidrock8, but what's with the Lakers-worship? Isn't this a Rockets fan site?
Let me go over this one more time: GAME SIX OF LAKERS-KINGS IS THE ONLY GAME EVER WHERE I BELIEVE THE OFFICIALS DECIDED THE OUTCOME. Sure, I have complained about lame calls before: Shaq body-blocking Steve Smith out of bounds in game 7 of Lakers-Blazers, Larry Johnson's supposed four-point play against Indiana, Jordan's obvious push-off on his last shot against the Jazz, etc (all calls made by Bavetta, BTW). But I don't believe these decided outcomes. They were single calls; the officiating throughout the games was not totally unbalanced. Your claim that poor officiating is "always the excuse" is simply wrong, at least in my case. This is the ONLY game I have ever claimed was decided by the refs, and probably the only one I ever will. And I'm not alone. Here are some people who agree with me... 1. Ralph Nader wrote a letter to the League asking for an apology. 2. Bill Simmons calls game 6 "from an officiating standpoint, the most one-sided game of the past decade..." http://espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/020606.html 3. During the Finals, there were multiple editorials from China (where the best-selling jersey is Kobe's) calling the Kings the "real champions" or something to that effect. 4. David Aldridge says "There is nothing I can say that will explain 27 free throws for the Lakers in the fourth quarter -- an amount staggering in its volume and impact on the game. It gave me pause. How can you explain it?" http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2002/columns/aldridge_david/1389713.html 5. From the same David Aldridge article: "After Game 6, I went out to dinner in L.A. with a couple of sportswriters and three or four other folks who aren't in the business. Each one of us at the table had a college degree. None of us had a dog in this Lakers-Kings fight. But us Sports Guys wanted to see if we were overreacting. So we asked the woman with the business degree who has season tickets to an NBA team (not the Lakers, not the Kings) what her immediate reaction was after watching Friday. 'They stole the game from the Kings,' she said, matter of factly." 6. Again from Aldridge's article: "The next morning, I call for a bellman for help with the bags. The door is open five seconds when he says, and I'm paraphrasing here because I don't generally quote bellmen, 'What was up with that game last night? I mean, I'm a Laker fan, so I appreciate the calls. But I don't want to win that way. It was like Chris Webber was saying, 'I can't win, so why should I play hard?''" So stop claiming that all Kings fans are all automatically whining babies. I'm telling you right now: THE LAKERS' FIRST TWO TITLES WERE LEGIT. I have no beef about those. But this third one was unjust. Again, this is probably the only time you'll ever hear me say that.
Maybe I "worship" them too much. Or maybe I realize that they are heads and shoulders above the NBA, including the Kings.
It's hard to say on top...the league will just keep coming until they fall... ...and when they do, the Laker haters will show no mercy... ...it's inevitable.... The reason they are so many Laker haters is because the Lakers (Players and Coaches) exacerbate the situation themselves ... THEY HAVE BIG MOUTHS ...they show no GRACE as champions.
All last season, I admired and respected the Lakers. Until Bavetta. Now, I hate them. If you can swallow that, praise that...you disgust me. I hate you, too. It reminds me of that scene in Saturday Night Fever where Tony Manero "wins" the dance contest over the better latin couple because the crowd is a bunch of racists. He doesn't want anything to do with the trophy; it disgusts him. The trophy is a piece of crap. Please pardon use of SNF as iconic kitsch cultural reference.
I think it's the opposite. I think people hate on LA (there were Laker haters before they won in 00), and the Lakers players and coaches respond somewhat boldly, in response to the haters.
The point of the matter is that it takes a lot to win a championship and the lakers have done three years in a row. Just because Sac-town gave them one good series doesn't make them the best team in the nba. The championship team has to beat 4 good teams to win a championship and they did that 3 years in a row. There are no asterisks. They didn't b**** that Kobe was sick or Shaq was gimpy. They just won. By the way I'm not a Lakers fan, but I can respect them which I is more than I can say for the Kings. The Kings are almost as bad as the Jazz. They flop and cry to get calls and they start a conspiracy theory when they don't. What a bunch of pansies. One more thing. Did the rockets cry when the refs stole a game from them when they kicked Drexler out of the game during the Phoenix series. No, they didn't. They just went out and won the series with clutch shooting and great D. Something the Kings need to learn how to do before they call themselves the best team in the NBA.
Phil just did. See the first post of this thread. And he did complain about it throughout the series.
I'd like to thank Chris Webber for running back to the Kings instead of signing with the Rockets. If the Rockets sign Webber WE'RE the ones getting smoked by the Lakers, and we don't have any cap space or a center, and a thin bench. Now the Rockets draft a potential franchise center, a 6-11 dynamic SF who can play SG, a slew of versatiles, talented young players, and a deep bench.
