It's better to be rebuilding than being stuck as #2

[GenuineLakerfan]

Might as well get a head start on rebuilding our franchise and getting the 'next' big thing. It's complete garbage to be happy over being 1st in the Western Conference if you have 0% chance of winning the trophy.

Spurs fans, don't get your hopes up again. There's no chance at the ring unless Pacers and Heat have a plane crash.

[The Batman]

Rebuilding, I thought they don't rebuild, they just reload?

[Kool Bob Love]

K

[CitizenDwayne]

Might as well get a head start on rebuilding our franchise and getting the 'next' big thing. It's complete garbage to be happy over being 1st in the Western Conference if you have 0% chance of winning the trophy.

Spurs fans, don't get your hopes up again. There's no chance at the ring unless Pacers and Heat have a plane crash.

um...what? :lol

[Indazone]

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[The Batman]

http://i.minus.com/iExO7fdAUexqW.gif
http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/lakers-reaction-kobe.gif

[bluebellmaniac]

Might as well get a head start on rebuilding our franchise and getting the 'next' big thing. It's complete garbage to be happy over being 1st in the Western Conference if you have 0% chance of winning the trophy.

Spurs fans, don't get your hopes up again. There's no chance at the ring unless Pacers and Heat have a plane crash.
Right... And living out of a dilapitaded trailer home eating from old opened cans of cat food is preferable if you don't own the biggest house on the block... Good luck w that.

[Clipper Nation]

Pre-Fredo: :cry "Lakers don't tank, we reload!" :cry

Fredo Era: :cry "It's better to tank than to lose in the Finals!" :cry

:lmao

[The Batman]

Pre-Fredo: :cry "Lakers don't tank, we reload!" :cry

Fredo Era: :cry "It's better to tank than to lose in the Finals!" :cry

:lmao

The Parrot: Without Buss, we're light 2 world titles. Ca Cawwww

[Sean Cagney]

Still obsessed with the Spurs Lakers fans huh? Thats all you got?

[Roger Freemason Jr.]

There's no threat for the Spurs outside of the Thunder, and Rockets. The Spurs win it all if they come out of the west, you can quote me.

[Thebesteva]

There's no threat for the Spurs outside of the Thunder, and Rockets. The Spurs win it all if they come out of the west, you can quote me.

C'mon now...

[HI-FI]

http://i.minus.com/iExO7fdAUexqW.gif

it's okay Simba, your butthole is now safe.

[sook]

The Parrot: Without Buss, we're light 2 world titles. Ca Cawwww:lol

[elmanutres]

"We don't rebuild, we reload". -lakerfan presweep

[Trainwreck2100]

Have fun rebuilding with no draft picks next year.

[dg7md]

Lakers are far, far away from a "rebuilding" stage because they still have a lot of pieces and consequences they are stuck with due to the failure of the Nash/Howard pickups. They lost a lot of picks and have a lot of work to do to even be considered "rebuilding".

[Raven]

ask the bobcats tbh

[Raven]

Lakers are far, far away from a "rebuilding" stage because they still have a lot of pieces and consequences they are stuck with due to the failure of the Nash/Howard pickups. They lost a lot of picks and have a lot of work to do to even be considered "rebuilding".

not to mention The Contract

[ambchang]

Laker fans actually saying missing the playoffs is better than making the finals.

Also admitting being Paul Shirley is better than being Kobe.

[Captivus]

Lakers fans should force OP to change his username, ASAP!
Otherwise...you know...is bad.

[Killakobe81]

Spurs had 5 in the trophy case last year so of course they have a chance this year.

"Get those mother------- ropes out of here," Allen hollered as the buzzer sounded, and off went the security guards, off went the duffel bags, off went the Spurs' championship shirts and hats eventually to impoverished regions of Africa as donations from the NBA.
After the Heat had won to force Game 7, Spoelstra retreated to his office and watched the last half-minute of regulation. "It crumbled me in my chair," he says. Breen went back to the Mandarin Oriental hotel and barely slept. Bosh went out to dinner and barely ate. "What's wrong with you?" friends asked. "What happened tonight," he replied, "never happens."
"But it happened!" they said.
"I know," Bosh explained. "We could play out that scenario a million times and maybe we win twice."


Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20131218/ray-allen-miami-heat-29-seconds-nba-finals-game-6/#ixzz2vfYaMK6P


No math wiz, but what % does Bosh place on how close the Spurs were to a title last year?

[td4mvp2k]

:cry lakerfan :cry

[Katherine Robinson]

Spurs had 5 in the trophy case last year so of course they have a chance.

"Get those mother------- ropes out of here," Allen hollered as the buzzer sounded, and off went the security guards, off went the duffel bags, off went the Spurs' championship shirts and hats eventually to impoverished regions of Africa as donations from the NBA.
After the Heat had won to force Game 7, Spoelstra retreated to his office and watched the last half-minute of regulation. "It crumbled me in my chair," he says. Breen went back to the Mandarin Oriental hotel and barely slept. Bosh went out to dinner and barely ate. "What's wrong with you?" friends asked. "What happened tonight," he replied, "never happens."
"But it happened!" they said.
"I know," Bosh explained. "We could play out that scenario a million times and maybe we win twice."


Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20131218/ray-allen-miami-heat-29-seconds-nba-finals-game-6/#ixzz2vfYaMK6P


No math wiz, but what % does Bosh place on who close the Spurs were to a title last year?

Out of 30 teams, nobody could say it'd be the Spurs instead of the other 29 either. It was a meltdown we may never see in NBA history again during our lifespan. Maybe in a far off future, our great great great great great great grand children will witness another spectacle like 6

[Budkin]

:lol Phil Jackson

[Clipper Nation]

Spurs had 5 in the trophy case last year so of course they have a chance.

"Get those mother------- ropes out of here," Allen hollered as the buzzer sounded, and off went the security guards, off went the duffel bags, off went the Spurs' championship shirts and hats eventually to impoverished regions of Africa as donations from the NBA.
After the Heat had won to force Game 7, Spoelstra retreated to his office and watched the last half-minute of regulation. "It crumbled me in my chair," he says. Breen went back to the Mandarin Oriental hotel and barely slept. Bosh went out to dinner and barely ate. "What's wrong with you?" friends asked. "What happened tonight," he replied, "never happens."
"But it happened!" they said.
"I know," Bosh explained. "We could play out that scenario a million times and maybe we win twice."


Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20131218/ray-allen-miami-heat-29-seconds-nba-finals-game-6/#ixzz2vfYaMK6P


No math wiz, but what % does Bosh place on who close the Spurs were to a title last year?
According to win probability, the Heat had about a 6% chance of winning when RayRay hit that three:

http://www.inpredictable.com/2013/06/nba-finals-game-6-win-probability-graph.html?m=1

[KaiRMD1]

Moral victories

[Mel_13]

Even by the low standards set for threads started by Laker trolls, this one is remarkably stupid.

[td4mvp2k]

Six NBA teams have been billed for luxury-tax payments they owe for last season's payrolls, according to official league figures obtained by ESPN.com.

And the heftiest, not surprisingly, belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Lakers will be forced to pay more than $29 million in luxury tax for a team that -- thanks to a steady stream of injuries and L.A.'s well-chronicled chemistry problems -- barely squeaked into the playoffs and will go down as one of the biggest underachievers in league history.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9465225/los-angeles-lakers-hit-luxury-tax-29-million

[Killakobe81]

According to win probability, the Heat had about a 6% chance of winning when RayRay hit that three:

http://www.inpredictable.com/2013/06/nba-finals-game-6-win-probability-graph.html?m=1

Come on. maybe if you talking about in all situations but a team like the spurs with great closers and the best coach in the game has to be much more of a lock.
Spur fans how many games have the Spurs lost like that in the Tim/Pop era ...none?!
My guess you could make it 0.6.

[Killakobe81]

No disputing this ... but injuries had nothing do with "6" either.

[baseline bum]

Come on. maybe if you talking about in all situations but a team like the spurs with great closers and the best coach in the game has to be much more of a lock.
Spur fans how many games have the Spurs lost like that in the Tim/Pop era ...none?!
My guess you could make it 0.6.

One other, to McGrady.

[Killakobe81]

One other, to McGrady.

Fair point. When yall do meltdown it is epic ..but seldom happens.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

Ha! Ha!. Dead Last and the Lakers are over the luxury tax threshold. That is hardly rebuilding. That is called injuries and just plain sucking. Lakers will be rebuilding (sucking) for awhile.

[Killakobe81]

Ha! Ha!. Dead Last and the Lakers are over the luxury tax threshold. That is hardly rebuilding. That is called injuries and just plain sucking. Lakers will be rebuilding (sucking) for awhile.

Yep woe down and out for at least 3 years. Maybe we make the playoffs before then but we wont be contenders for at least 3 seasons and when you add the last two that is at least a 5 year drought of being irrelevant from the title convo. Lakers have not been legit since 2011-2012 which ended in a Sweep by dem Mavs.

[Mel_13]

Yep woe down and out for at least 3 years. Maybe we make the playoffs before then but we wont be contenders for at least 3 seasons and when you add the last two that is at least a 5 year drought of being irrelevant from the title convo. Lakers have not been legit since 2011-2012 which ended in a Sweep by dem Mavs.

2010-11, tbh..

[td4mvp2k]

"This year, we all know it's been a real tough year for us, right?" Bryant told Power 106, according to Lakersnation.com. "So what I'd like everybody to do is to really just sit back and just absorb this year. Take it all in. Sit back and watch and listen and hear all the hate that's being thrown at us and remember every person that's kicking you when you're down, because next year it ain't gonna be this way.

"Appreciate it now. Let it sit in now, because revenge is sweet and it's quick."

Bryant, meanwhile, hasn't been able to help. He missed the team's first 19 games while recovering from a torn Achilles in his left leg suffered last season, returned to play six games, then was sidelined Dec. 17 with a fracture of the lateral tibial plateau in the knee.

Bryant told Power 106 that proving those who had a lack of faith in the Lakers and his recovery wrong is what fuels the five-time NBA champion now.

"You've got to appreciate that and enjoy that and use that as fuel as motivation to basically just shut everybody the hell up," Bryant told the radio station, according to Lakersnation.com. "It's that challenge, that challenge that drives us all, I think, and definitely keeps me going."

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10549900/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-says-revenge-sweet-quick:cry achilles :cry

[Killakobe81]

2010-11, tbh..

My bad even worse ... lol

[Clipper Nation]

:cry achilles :cry
Kirby manipulating the media per the usual.... notice how he deflects this season to the "haters" instead of owning up to running Dwight offPERIOD and signing an extremely selfish contract.... that means he can spew more of his fake-competitive crap that Media laps up by talking about "proving the haters wrong" and "getting revenge" :lol

In reality, we all know he's loving the fact that the Lakers are finally consistently losing without him :lol

[Kobe_5_Duncan_4]

OKC > Spurs

[ElNono]

The Parrot: Without Buss, we're light 2 world titles. Ca Cawwww

:lol

[Leetonidas]

Faggot :lol

[Sybok]

Might as well get a head start on rebuilding our franchise and getting the 'next' big thing. It's complete garbage to be happy over being 1st in the Western Conference if you have 0% chance of winning the trophy.

Spurs fans, don't get your hopes up again. There's no chance at the ring unless Pacers and Heat have a plane crash.

I'd feel the same way if my team had your record.

[Thebesteva]

:lol OP just stirring shit and dissapearing

[Clipper Nation]

http://i.imgur.com/z7vK5vr.png

[elmanutres]

Might as well get a head start on rebuilding our franchise and getting the 'next' big thing. It's complete garbage to be happy over being 1st in the Western Conference if you have 0% chance of winning the trophy.

Spurs fans, don't get your hopes up again. There's no chance at the ring unless Pacers and Heat have a plane crash.

Better to be #1 than to hope dr. buss comes back from the grave and help you win

[Thread]

Better to be #1 than to hope dr. buss comes back from the grave and help you win

Wouldn't do any good, Elm, even if we did reanimate the Dr.. It's the CBA that has catfished us. & it's that fucker Cuban who threw the piano wire line in the water that ended up catfishing us.

[Thread]

Better to be #1 than to hope dr. buss comes back from the grave and help you win

Hey, Elm, did you cry Sunday?

[ElNono]

Wouldn't do any good, Elm, even if we did reanimate the Dr.. It's the CBA that has catfished us. & it's that fucker Cuban who threw the piano wire line in the water that ended up catfishing us.

That's not true Dale... Pat found a way, and he'll find a way again. You know he will. Dr Buss had "it", like Pat. Grim business.

[elmanutres]

Hey, Elm, did you cry Sunday?

yea dale. I cried. I couldn't hold it in. seeing manu and tony and the guys smile. I couldn't help it. Tears of joy.

[Thread]

yea dale. I cried. I couldn't hold it in. seeing manu and tony and the guys smile. I couldn't help it. Tears of joy.

I'm happy for ya, boy.

[Thread]

That's not true Dale... Pat found a way, and he'll find a way again. You know he will. Dr Buss had "it", like Pat. Grim business.

We always had the bottomless wallet to go back to. Even if we didn't go there, it was always ALWAYS available. No more.

I feel so fucking poor now.

[HI-FI]

Wouldn't do any good, Elm, even if we did reanimate the Dr.. It's the CBA that has catfished us. & it's that fucker Cuban who threw the piano wire line in the water that ended up catfishing us.
:lol
props on learning about catfishing and already implementing it.

[elmanutres]

I'm happy for ya, boy.

thanks dale. it may be 5>5 now but at least the suns are 0 & 46

[Thread]

thanks dale. it may be 5>5 now but at least the suns are 0 & 46

Yep, I still have that. And it's not in imminent danger either.

[midnightpulp]

We always had the bottomless wallet to go back to. Even if we didn't go there, it was always ALWAYS available. No more.

I feel so fucking poor now.

How about the Lakers try build from the ground up and develop players now?

With the new CBA, the NBA is now about rewarding front office competence rather than how deep their pockets are.

I think the Lakers gave up too quickly on players like Goudelock and Earl Clark.

[Kidd K]

The Lakers are stuck at #2 anyway.

If by "#2" you're referring to shit. Or #2 basketball team in LA. :lmao

[ElNono]

We always had the bottomless wallet to go back to. Even if we didn't go there, it was always ALWAYS available. No more.

I feel so fucking poor now.

You know it's not the wallet. You're not fooling me.

It's the braintrust. Top to bottom. Players never above the franchise. When Shaq got fat and happy, he was dealt with swiftly. When Kobe started pouting, he was told he could move to the Siberian Pistons.

You only needed two max players for 09 and 10. You can have two max players now. But you had a coach that could make Sasha and Radmanovic look like fresh salad on a hot summer.

Silver doesn't look like Stern, and that's another big loss right there. He just handed his first LOBT to a small market. Help isn't coming there.

I think the franchise can be saved, but it will take a Lakers' great to do it.

[TheGoldStandard]

You know it's not the wallet. You're not fooling me.

It's the braintrust. Top to bottom. Players never above the franchise. When Shaq got fat and happy, he was dealt with swiftly. When Kobe started pouting, he was told he could move to the Siberian Pistons.

You only needed two max players for 09 and 10. You can have two max players now. But you had a coach that could make Sasha and Radmanovic look like fresh salad on a hot summer.

Silver doesn't look like Stern, and that's another big loss right there. He just handed his first LOBT to a small market. Help isn't coming there.

I think the franchise can be saved, but it will take a Lakers' great to do it.

Don't think Jerry West is gifting any players to LA anytime soon

[IrisHockey]

Wouldn't do any good, Elm, even if we did reanimate the Dr.. It's the CBA that has catfished us. & it's that fucker Cuban who threw the piano wire line in the water that ended up catfishing us.

:lol what did Cubes do in the negotiations? It sounds like sweeping the Lakers wasn't enough for the jew bastard,

[Thread]

You know it's not the wallet. You're not fooling me.

It's the braintrust. Top to bottom. Players never above the franchise. When Shaq got fat and happy, he was dealt with swiftly. When Kobe started pouting, he was told he could move to the Siberian Pistons.

You only needed two max players for 09 and 10. You can have two max players now. But you had a coach that could make Sasha and Radmanovic look like fresh salad on a hot summer.

Silver doesn't look like Stern, and that's another big loss right there. He just handed his first LOBT to a small market. Help isn't coming there.

I think the franchise can be saved, but it will take a Lakers' great to do it.

I ain't trying to fool ya. I'm being candid. If you don't believe my assessment that is your lookout. The new CBA threw us for a leap. We've never recovered. And we can't, because everytime we'd make a mistake before it was only 2 for 1 to get out of it. Big deal. Buss would wink & nod and open the wallet. Now when we fuck up there is no where to go.

But, I'm talking to deaf ears, EL. You don't want to discuss. You have an agenda. 48 hours ago didn't sate it. Nothing will. You're incapable.

[spurraider21]

But, I'm talking to deaf ears, EL. You don't want to discuss. You have an agenda. 48 hours ago didn't sate it. Nothing will. You're incapable.
look who's talking

[Thread]

How about the Lakers try build from the ground up and develop players now?

With the new CBA, the NBA is now about rewarding front office competence rather than how deep their pockets are.

I think the Lakers gave up too quickly on players like Goudelock and Earl Clark.

They're/we're still in a state of shock. When you're used to (better) it is difficult to change, to step down into the melee. It is incomprehensible to the subconscious. Sure, you get the legal papers and you know what IT MEANS, but, your mind will not accept it, cannot accept. Like being mugged in the streets, you're in a state of physical shock. That's us, we've never known "poverty." Never stood in line before. We'd make a mistake and could walk away from it without even looking back at the wreck in our wake. Just start over and all it cost was 2 for 1. It was like Xmas every day.

We, WE, WE, WE, cannot face itPERIOD

[ElNono]

I ain't trying to fool ya. I'm being candid. If you don't believe my assessment that is your lookout. The new CBA threw us for a leap. We've never recovered. And we can't, because everytime we'd make a mistake before it was only 2 for 1 to get out of it. Big deal. Buss would wink & nod and open the wallet. Now when we fuck up there is no where to go.

But, I'm talking to deaf ears, EL. You don't want to discuss. You have an agenda. 48 hours ago didn't sate it. Nothing will. You're incapable.

None of that, Dale. No agenda. I'm genuinely worried about the current state of affairs.

I always been a Dr Buss fan, and never hid my appreciation for PJax. I think they're doing Dr Buss wrong.

I also think the Lakers' greats don't like Jim. They're not outright calling him out out of respect to the memory of his father. But it won't take long if it keeps going like this.

Last season I said I was considering making amends with you. The only thing that gives me pause is the back to back chickenshit, tbh. We'll probably never look eye to eye, but I don't have a problem with real fans, and I know you're one.

[Thread]

None of that, Dale. No agenda. I'm genuinely worried about the current state of affairs.

I always been a Dr Buss fan, and never hid my appreciation for PJax. I think they're doing Dr Buss wrong.

I also think the Lakers' greats don't like Jim. They're not outright calling him out out of respect to the memory of his father. But it won't take long if it keeps going like this.

Last season I said I was considering making amends with you. The only thing that gives me pause is the back to back chickenshit, tbh. We'll probably never look eye to eye, but I don't have a problem with real fans, and I know you're one.

I won't do this with you. No.

[ElNono]

I won't do this with you. No.

Fine.

[elmanutres]

back to back chickenshit
:lmao:lmao:lmao

[100%duncan]

:lmao

[Kool Bob Love]

:lmao