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Poor Lakers fans panicking already and the damn season hasn't even started yet. It's funny because you guys say "we aren't worried" yet you guys have started most of the threads in here since the trade yesterday. But you "aren't worried".....
Awww cmon House, surely you must have been ting bricks sometime in 03 lol
And yea sure you can say what you want on the head to head matchups, but the Spurs still have more offseason to go, where they can acquire even more pieces. So say what you want about the Lakers, since they are the "champs" for now. Next year though, be ready to have that uneasy feeling in your stomach again, because the Spurs are coming for that le.
You shouldn't be scared of the RJ trade....
You should be scared that Manu and Tim will be healthy next year and play the way they are known for playing.
Manu will be healthy?
Sorry House, but your Lakers don't have enough size to deal with us.
Nothing new here, move on.
I just think Doc House is just poking at you guys. Harmless stuff.
On a serious note; No doubt that a healthy Manu, Tim and Parker unit is still a formidable core group. RJ is going to help a whole lot more than I think people are willing to admit. It's the Spurs interior that needs addressing. R.C. will work something out for sure. I am in the camp that still thinks S.A. has a run or two in them and when I mean "a run" I am talking about making it deep into the playoffs. I don't know if Manu is going to be the gung-ho slashing warrior he's known to be but we are talking about Manu here. The man is capable of so much. And who knows; Manu may sacrafice it all just for one more run at glory.
To write off the Spurs at this particular moment in time is nuts. You guys will contend next year for sure. I Just think the Lakers are at another level. One thing is for sure....gotta have the same or almost the same group back.
I am just hoping for some good games between us.
Time will tell.
Some great games I bet to be played
I am just being totally optimistic about Ginobili's health. He's the x-factor. Even a healthy TD might not be enough. Just too many good teams.
Given the appropriate regiment, I think he'll be o.k. Going to have to keep on eye out on Tim's knees though.
Some great games I bet to be played
I am just being totally optimistic about Ginobili's health. He's the x-factor. Even a healthy TD might not be enough. Just too many good teams.
House makes it seem like the Lakers steam rolled over every team all the way to the Championship. I really don't see the dominance that House presumes to think this Laker roster has over every other team. They were exposed time and time again through out their whole playoff run. The only difference was better coaching and more veteran experience.
You guys haven't even resigned Odom or Ariza. How about you let the offseason play out first before you crown yourself 2010 champs already lol. Not to mention you never know how the season will unfold. As if the Lakers are immuned to any ill-fortune that alot of the other teams experienced the past year.
Is Oden still taking his Geritol?
I can't wait for Football season to start. The only bad thing about that is being a Raider fan.
You make a valid point. Much can happen between now and November. The Houston series, of all the series, was the one that exposed some issues. We were extremely fortunate, aside from Bynum who really wasn't 100% this playoff run, not to have injuries. Health equates to deep runs. Blockbuster trades are worthless if key guys go down.
I am with you on this though. I am not crowing my Lakers 2010 champs just yet but they will be the favorites though.
4-1, 4-3, 4-2, 4-1
Pretty solid run right there. And this Laker team is only going to get better next season.
Hey how old are you?
1) Spurs fans are way off on this. The RJ move was fantastic, but in and of itself meaningless. Spurs are still far behind the Lakers. If the Spurs address their PF/C needs with legit talent, then they will be close to equal ground.
But the Lakers are still #1 in talent by far. If the Lakers lose Odom or Ariza, then the gap closes and the edge can go to the Spurs. But as things stand right now, there is not another move (signing or trading for a center) that would catapult the Spurs ahead of the Lakers if they re-sign everyone. They can get close to matching them depending on the other moves, but not clearly overtake them.
2) Spurs have a lot more questions than just signing talent. Tim and Manu have to be healthy in order for any of this to matter. The Lakers do not have those health questions.
3) Gino about equal to Kobe? GTFO.
LA is above all other teams right now!
The Rockets Took you to game 7 without their best big man-Yao Ming you struggled to beat them, good luck when McGrady finally comes back and Ming is healthy.
Ya'll almost lost to Denver, if they had made their free throws they would've won that series. Luckily they were idiots and your team advanced.
You played the Magic in the Finals, although they got Nelson back he was a s of his former self. Remember what happened in the Regular season? The Magic made your team their es.
The Celtics lost Garnett due to an injury, they took Magic to game 7 without Garnett. Had Garnett been healthy they would've owned your team like they did last year.
And now teams are reloading, getting WAAAAY better. Good luck guarding RJ, Manu, Parker, TD and we aren't even done yet.
You're talking as if you beat the best of the best, when in fact you didn't beat . The only reason your team won was because everyone was injured this year.
Lakers are the favourites, spurs adding RJ doesn't change anything...just means Spurs are a top 2/3 team in the west rather than just a top 5 team
Let's be honest here people. Many here on this site and on this thread ...have opined that Witha a healthy Manu, Yao or KG the Lakers would have been beaten.
Lucky for you your GM's DO NOt agree with your short sighted views. IF your team was a healthy MANU aways why trade for RJ? Why are the Celts shopping Ray?
The other teams are afraid, not the LAkers ...
Look nothing is promised to the LAkers next year and we still have not re-signed our key guys but if we do and we can stay realtively healthy we have to be the favorites. The Spurs will be tough they always are ...but I like our chances ...
Whatever makes you feel good about a 1st round sweep ...Look i like your confidence in your team but no need discredit what the LAkers did. I could whine that Stern gave you your last le by suspending Amare etc. SO you guys failed to beat the best of the best either, last year David West was hurt and it took 7 games to beat them.
Playing what if games are for losers ...sore ones at that. The record shows the lakers lost 8 games and won 16 to capture their 15th le everything else is just losers trying to cope with the truth that for 2009 the Lakers were the best team in the NBA ...
It's not necessarily about "fearing a team." Who were the Lakers afraid of when they traded for Gasol? Did they have to be afraid of another team to trade for him? Sometimes, moves are made because they make the team better. The really good teams in the league continually try to get better, even when they win. Richard Jefferson doesn't address the size mismatch against the Lakers. The Spurs acquired RJ because he makes them better, not because they are afraid of the Lakers. Were they afraid of Trevor Ariza and that's why they got a small forward? Come on. Some moves are made and designed to make a team better and not necessarily a reaction out of fear of another team.
I don't think the issue is so much "fear" as teams know that they have to improve to compete with the Lakers. I think most fans here know or should know the Lakers are right now the team to beat...despite all the schoolyard "my team is better than yours" blather that goes back and forth.
The Spurs are 2 years removed from a championship I would tend to think that the Spurs like winning championships and will do or attempt to do what it takes to get there again.
amen.
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