elmouse03 wrote:I remember when the lakers traded for Rice and brought in Rodman.
No... they traded NVE in the offseason and brought in Rodman at the start of the season (about 8 games in). Then they cut Rodman and traded Eddie/Campbell at the deadline for Glen Rice/JR Reid
Ftr... the 04 team was extremely slow. Malone was a dinosaur... and Payton was old and lost in the triangle offense... he lost a step on the other end too. A shell of his former self, if you will.
On June 24, 1998, after five seasons as the starting point guard, Van Exel was traded to the Denver Nuggets for Tony Battie and the draft rights to Tyronn Lue.
What are you retarded? That same team won the next year and the following year after that so how can you say they never won a championship… KUB suggesting the 2008 is silly that team went on to win back to back championships…
Kobeunderbite wrote:(I was able to see this topic title even though I have Leoss on ignore)
I've always felt that 2008 was our greatest team to not win the title. Pau did get pushed around in the series and we DEFINITELY missed Andrew, but what's overlooked is the fact that without a healthy Ariza we had hot garbage checking Pierce.
Our 5-8 in minutes played for the series: Vujacic, Radmanovic, Farmar and Luke - this is astonishing when you think about it. None of the three who guarded Pierce was ever capable of guarding a brick wall. And despite this we had control of Game 1 until Pierce's theatrics, got punked by Leon Powe in Game 2 and completely gave away Game 4.
I have virtually no doubt in my mind that with Ariza OR Bynum we win the series. There were simply too many terrible players receiving heavy minutes for Kobe and Pau to overcome.
I forgot that Game 2 bullshit. No name Leon fucking Powe got a parade thrown for him by the refs at the free throw line, unreal. Didn’t he have more free throws that game than the Lakers as a team?