[ms] · Est. May 2002
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gee.... who would have EVER thought this would happen??? :roll:
[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2213&e=7&u=/ap/bkn_lakers_jackson[/url]
[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?id=1824721[/url]
and they still didn't win a ring with their superstar status...
:CrackUp:
OWNED!
Teams that try to piece together a whole bunch of superstars usually do not work... The team looks great on paper, but when they're on the floor together you just have too many egos. I remember Houston Rockets try to have Hakeem Olajuwon, Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley on the same team to try to when a championship, but it was of no use.
Well I wouldn't blame Jackson for walking away from this mess... it was a mess indeed... :wink:
Great to see Shaq talking about Kobe finally... really blew some steam there, although I would've like to see them throwing punches in some game... sure would've been better than De la Hoya's fight.
Shame on Buss... no respect...
[quote=bananapeel]Teams that try to piece together a whole bunch of superstars usually do not work... The team looks great on paper, but when they're on the floor together you just have too many egos. I remember Houston Rockets try to have Hakeem Olajuwon, Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley on the same team to try to when a championship, but it was of no use.
Well I wouldn't blame Jackson for walking away from this mess... it was a mess indeed... :wink:[/quote]
yeah and the rockets still have egos on their team.. new deal in the works for steve francis, catino mobley and kato for orlando's tracy mcgrady... if orlando gets three decent to better than average players AND they get first round draft pick ,they are going to have a decent team next year... as for the rockets, mcgrady and yao together? i don't know, it sounds good but the rockets would be giving up three good players in return.
some big decisions in the works for the nba this summer.
That's crazy talk, Garrick. :P
Re: Those Silly Lakers
[quote=Garrick]gee.... who would have EVER thought this would happen??? :roll:
and they still didn't win a ring with their superstar status...[/quote]
Didn't Phil win 3 rings with the Lakers?
he meant after adding Payton & Malone...
I respect Shaq a lot more I tell ya...if people were more upfront in business and not beat around the bush, business would get done more efficiently.
Buss is taking a major gamble, because if Kobe is found guilty, goodnight team...they can go join the Bulls from dynasty to basic dwellers in the cellar...(barring who they get for Shaq)
Didn't somebody say something about rats leaving a sinking ship? :wink:
Not Phil, but everyone else. I respect what he's achieved.
Going to hell in a handbasket, is all I can say. Who would have thought 2 or 3 years ago that this is how this team would come to an end. I love Shaq and I love Kobe, but they are really casting themselves in an extremly negative light with all of this juvenile in-fighting. Look at the Pistons who just handly kicked their respective asses. No bonafide superstar (stars, but no superstars), team attitude, team play, and they just won. I've never seen 2 players on one team do more to hurt that teams stability and chance of winning. They both want to be "the man" and are too stubborn and full of themselves to admit they couldn't have done anything without each other. And let's not forget Phil. He took the exact same team as the year before he came to a ring.
I kind of hope they both go seperate ways and never win anything ever again. Maybe that will bring them back down to Earth.
yah they got their ass handed to them :lol:
It was SAD, I don't mind if a team tries and has their ass handed to them, BUT they just got pummeled. It wasn?t even close. I don't think that they even tried. Oh well, the same thing that happen to Chicago will happen here.
Re: Those Silly Lakers
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[quote=evangelion]Going to hell in a handbasket, is all I can say. Who would have thought 2 or 3 years ago that this is how this team would come to an end. I love Shaq and I love Kobe, but they are really casting themselves in an extremly negative light with all of this juvenile in-fighting. Look at the Pistons who just handly kicked their respective asses. No bonafide superstar (stars, but no superstars), team attitude, team play, and they just won. I've never seen 2 players on one team do more to hurt that teams stability and chance of winning. They both want to be "the man" and are too stubborn and full of themselves to admit they couldn't have done anything without each other. And let's not forget Phil. He took the exact same team as the year before he came to a ring.
I kind of hope they both go seperate ways and never win anything ever again. Maybe that will bring them back down to Earth.[/quote]
im not much of a Kobe fan but if the magic get shaq do u think t-mac would really want to leave? you know shaq still has a house in O-town.....bring shaq BACK TO orlando
there was something really satisfying in seeing the lakers beat.
You know, This all comes down to one thing, East Coast vs West Coast, And I am sooooo glad the eastern conference finally got an nba championship winning team this year, Im so sick and tired of seeing nothing but western conference teams win NBA titles every year.
[quote=Bryanw24]im not much of a Kobe fan but if the magic get shaq do u think t-mac would really want to leave? you know shaq still has a house in O-town.....bring shaq BACK TO orlando[/quote]
What I hope happens is Shaq gets traded to the Magic for their first overall pick this draft. The Lakers use that pick to take Okafor. T-Mac stays in Orlando and Kobe stays in LA. Malone, Payton and Fisher resign and the Lakers get someone decent to play the middle. Then they they both play each other in the Finals next year. Could you imagine "SHAQ VS. KOBE!!!!!!" It would be awesome.
Garrick, what you say about Francis and Mobley may be true.
I also heard that Rudy Tomjanovich, the Rockets former coach, is talking to the Lakers about the head coaching job.
Some major shakeups are already going on this offseason. :Hijack:
[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1824988[/url]
already contacted him...
USC's Henry Bibby, George Karl, Jim Cleamons and Kurt Rambis are also rumored to be in the mix as potential candidates....