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Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
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Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
Yes, Go Lakers, go back to LA for the offseason in disgrace.
The only player on that team I can even remotely sypathize with is Malone because he attempted to be a teammate to the rest of the squad, whilst every other "Star" seems to be playing one against five.
Take care all.
I don't have sympathy for any of those Laker players. Shaq's never been a great sportsman, Malone has always been a dirty player, Payton just whines too much, and Kobe thinks he's MJ.
As for the rest of the Lakers...let me just say this: If you have Rick Fox asking to be in the starting lineup, you know you're team is bad.
Yet Shaq is the only one doing anything worthwhile on the team.
I hate the Pistons because they play boring basketball. They score very few points, even in light of the horrid Lakers' defense.
I used to feel that way, Yams, that defensive basketball is boring, but with the Pistons, it's not. The Spurs...hell yes. They are boring. But it must be the fact that the Pistons are completely obliterating your precious Lakers that is making this quite enjoyable for me. :)
Yeah, it's hard to call kicking the Laker's ass boring basketball.
It is when all you do is clog up the lane with a bunch of players and hope that Kobe isn't doing well and will miss most of his shots. Shaq on the other hand could not be stopped.
And the team didn't get him the ball. Their fault? Yeah. The Lakers this year are not a team meant to win a championship, because they are stupid. They care more about themselves than about the team.
It's amazing how Kobe has not yet admitted that Tayshaun Prince is playing him well. Give the shrimp some credit. I guarantee that he's the main reason Kobe is shooting 31% in the series. :)
It always bothered me that people who accused defensive games as boring always had teams that lacked defense.
I remember when people called the Ravens boring, mainly those complaints came from Rams, Vikings, and Titans fans...offensive oriented teams that played no defense whatsoever.
So yeah, if the Lakers played defense and were defense oriented, I GUARANTEE none of these Laker bandwagon fans would ever call their teams boring.
Bandwagon fans? I've been a Lakers fan since the last days of "good" Magic and of Van Exel and Divac.
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Originally Posted by Yamaneko
But I know you wouldn't say the Lakers were boring if they were completely defense oriented like Detroit.
Often people never give underdogs credit. You can make a case for a 1 game series, but a 7 game series? Detroit is clearly the better team, boring or not.
I almost always cheer for the underdog. I love underdogs. Heck, I love all dogs. Especially cute little ones. My parents have a little dog that's about a foot long (like a hot dog! Ha ha.. ha.. sorry) and it's so cute.
Go Pistons!
detroit has obviously taken the approach of runnign around the entire game, regardless of score, just to wear the Lakers down. It obviosuly works since the Pistons have dominated in the fourth qaurter whereas the Lakers have faltered.
As much as I love Aretha Franklin, you'd think she'd atleast not fake the national anthem.
Yeah, I noticed that they didn't leave the camera on her much after the first few lines.
10 point lead late in the 2nd! This is going well so far.
No Malone, so that's one less person to body up the Wallaces, which seems almost like waving the white flag by Phil Jackson. As a sign had it, "The Lakers don't need Coach Phil, they need Dr. Phil!"
Take care all.
You know that you're ridiculously bad defensively when you hear assistant coaches muttering, "We gotta stop that Ben Wallace fellow." :p
One quarter left. I daresay we shouldn't begin the party yet, but we're well on our way to it.
23 point lead going into the 4th quarter!
If the Pistons blow this, I'm going to eat my socks.
The only question left, who is the playoff MVP? My vote goes to Rip Hamilton, who can be the second coming of Reggie Miller if he gets a little more range.
Take care all.
Everybody go ahead and get your slices of the cake I made. Sorry, Yams, you're not allowed.
Edit:
Game 1 MVP: Chauncey Billups
Game 2 MVP: Chauncey Billups
Game 3 MVP: Rip Hamilton
Game 4 MVP: Rasheed Wallace
Game 5 MVP: Ben Wallace
This is by far the hardest vote. I'm gonna have to go with Chauncey Billups, though.
Chaunce might get the MVP vote.
But this will be the first 5 game sweep in NBA finals history.
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Everybody get their slice.
Pistons have won the title. The experts said they couldn't do it but they did. They blew out a dynasty. Hell yeah!! As you can tell I'm happy being from Detroit. Who did you think would win the finals and whayt did you think now looking back. I said the Pistons in 6 they did it in 5. Time 4 me to get CRUNK!! YEAH!!
We're already celebrating in our other thread.
Grab a slice!
I think this could have been the first time ever TEAM MVP, but Billups deserved it. Though, I'd also say Ben Wallace deserved so much credit because his defense is what set the tone for the team.
Congrats to Detriot, and to Larry Brown, the first coach ever to win the NCAA and NBA Basketball title.
Is there a better exec in the business than Joe Dumars right now? Perhaps Jerry West, but right now, Joe D is DA Man!
Also, I will officially state that this is the end of the Lakers run as they currently appear. Shaq will be back, but who else?
Take care all.
I'm so happy!
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Ah, well.
I'd put Go Dodgers! as my sig now, but I don't much care for baseball. So until the NFL pre season at least and my Go Raiders! sig.
I kind of think Tashaun Prince deserved MVP for locking up Kobe and producing points. Ben Wallace also had great defense and rebounding but kept missing those open layups. I would say Rasheed Wallace but he got in too much foul trouble. Rip Hamilton had a few off nights. So yeah Tashaun. Perhaps Elden Cambell second for producing a lot every game off the bench.
I probably would have given Tayshaun second, even though he didn't stand out in any game all-around. But he kept Kobe off-balance with his freakin' 7-foot wingspan, and perhaps could have won the series for Detroit by doing that. Ben Wallace, while a defensive nightmare for the rest of the Lakers, could simply not stop Shaq. 'Sheed had one good game, but struggled in the rest. Chauncey was the most consistent Piston, thus, he wins the MVP.
If the Detroit Pistons were in that hotel room, they would have stopped Kobe from penetrating.
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Originally Posted by Dingo_Jellybean
Great joke, Dingo.
Could have also said, "In That Hotel Room..." though that's a bit MORE vulgar.
EDIT: It's official, the Lakers are breaking up. Jackson is out as coach, Kobe is a free agent and now Shaq wants a trade.
Take care all.
I was hoping Phil would stay. As soon as he sees rebuilding, he jets. That's why he's so overated as a coach. I was hoping the Lakers would go like 10-72 or something...drop his winning percentage to below .700 :D
But that won't happen. The good news is that Malone will opt out of his contract(obviously to get a bigger one from LA) as well. This leaves the Lakers void of 4 Hall of Famers. Payton is still there, but he'll likely decide to exercise his option and play his 2nd year because he knows he won't get anything near that mid-level exception anywhere else.
So yeah, the Lakers are so doomed.
This is a happy day.
This blew my mind: Shaq is owed $30 million next season? Can someone say Mark Cuban as a potential buyer?
Take care all.
Yeah, Mark Cuban and Dallas have the best chance...but LA hates to send Shaq to an elite team...but they do have the components, like sending Steve Nash and Antawn Jamison and Antoine Walker with Shawn Bradley.
There were talks of sending Allen Iverson to Toronto and Vince Carter to philly too.
But the juiciest trade that will most likely happen is Tracy McGrady (along with Andrew DeClerq and Tyronn Lue) going to Houston of Steve Francis (along with Kelvin Kato and Cuttino Mobley).
Can anyone imagine a Yao/T-Mac combo? Yao's game is going to open much so much more as teams have to deal with a Top 5 player rather than a Top 25 player.
Right now, I think the T-Wolves have the best chance at the title.
Take care all.
