Trumped Again By The Lakers

[bishopospurs]

Lakers Swapping < Spurs Improving

[hater]

what a spineless pussy!!!

pathetic.

[Johnson]

how does someone with the intellect of the OP (ie zero) have over 1 million posts?!

[birdy219]

just another added ego to that team
looks like a recipe for disaster

[bishopospurs]

Who wears short shorts?

[spurspokesman]

Who wears short shorts?

[EricB]

Ron Artest and RJ are still background noise to the fact that the real question still lies with Lamar Odom and Mystery Spurs Big Man.

If the Lakers re-sign Odom (as they most likely will) the Spurs have to get their decent Big (ie Sheed, Gortat). Otherwise, the Spurs still can't contend with the Laker Bigs.

STill gotta wait and see how it shakes out.

Glad your looking at it from such an objective point of view.

[Mugen]

i do think its funny that laker fans were mostly quiet when we traded for RJ and drafted Blair but come out from under their rocks when they sign Ron Artest.

bandwagon at its best.

[rayray2k8]

You came back for this ??
Just go crawl back into the hole you came out of.
You think the season is already over before it even started. Some fan you are.

[EmantheSpursFan]

wow it must suck to live in such a pessimistic life, to go and say we are good as done before the season starts is just coward...

In the words of Shaq your a master of Panic!

[Spursmania]

Spurs aren't getting Wallace Rump, he's going to be Celtic. You know better.

Even then, Rasheed is a relic at this point in his career. He can't guard Bynum, Gasol in the post or stay with Odom on the perimeter.

lol Blair

Always nice to hear from the homer Laker fan You scared?

[z0sa]

nothing like getting "trumped" in the offseason.

I'll leave the "trumping" to the postseason of 2010.

[Leetonidas]

Okay, first of all, Bynum is a ing pussy and he ain't ever going to amount to in the NBA. SEVERELY overrated by Laker fans, it's almost sickening. You would think his jersey said Abdul-Jabbar on the back of it the way people around him suck his . He ing blows, he is soft, afraid to go out there and bang around and rebound, and he is bicurious on top of that (which really doesn't speak much for his game, but still, him).

As for the Artest acquisition...it's the Lakers panicking to Ariza leaving and the Spurs/Cavs/Magic getting stronger. Odom staying there isn't even a guarantee, seeing as how we haven't heard about the Lakers offering him a contract or anything yet. He could bolt just like Ariza, and then what?

Optimistically for Laker fans, this is their outlook versus us:

Kobe - Ginobili
Parker - Fisher
Artest - Jefferson
Duncan - Gasol
Wallace/McDyess (assuming it happens) - Bynum

You better believe Wallace or McDyess will own Bynum's soft ass out there. Jefferson will probably have the duty of guarding Kobe, and Manu will be on Artest most likely (see Kings vs. Spurs 2006). Duncan and Gasol? Easy, chalk it up for Duncan there. And Parker...Tony Parker is better than any player the Lakers have besides Kobe.

And who do they have on their bench? Even if they keep Odom, they really only have one man off the bench. Farmar? Walton? VUJACIC?

Ultimately, Odom will play a big part in what happens. But, if he decides to leave, it will be an easier Spurs win than I originally thought.

[Trainwreck2100]

Well, I was happy.

Until last night when I learned that the defending champion Lakers would be signing Ron Artest, the game's best perimeter defender who can also hit a shot.

The Spurs had opportunities to get the mercurial Artest via trade and/or free agency since 2001 when the Bulls offered him to San Antonio for scraps.

Homers like exstatic feared that he would go nuts like he did in Indiana about 5 seasons ago.

Well, I hope his performance with the undermanned Rockets showed you something.

Now the Lakers are more powerful than ever and the Spurs' offseason positioning is all for nothing.





Fvck.

word.......ooh ohhh eh eh




a cookie to anyone who gets that reference

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Most overrated poster in spurstalk history.

[DrHouse]

You do realize the Lakers won the 2009 NBA championship last season right? Because based on Spur fan's reaction it seems like it was the Lakers who got bounced in the 1st round a ty Mavericks team and the Spurs that won it all.

I'm not going to worry about the Spurs until I see a major frontcourt piece there alongside Duncan, and no Rasheed Wallace is not that piece.

The game is won in the paint, not the perimeter. The Lakers showed the Magic that in the Finals.

[Borosai]

If Artest plays his role (like Ariza did), his addition will be a positive for the Lakers. However, I expect him to do his own thing (taking really, REALLY bad shots), piss off Kobe, and start a locker room brawl.

[spurspokesman]

If Artest plays his role (like Ariza did), his addition will be a positive for the Lakers. However, I expect him to do his own thing (taking really, REALLY bad shots), piss off Kobe, and start a locker room brawl.

I predicted that to my cousin who is a laker wagoneer

[bishopospurs]

You do realize the Lakers won the 2009 NBA championship last season right? Because based on Spur fan's reaction it seems like it was the Lakers who got bounced in the 1st round a ty Mavericks team and the Spurs that won it all.

I'm not going to worry about the Spurs until I see a major frontcourt piece there alongside Duncan, and no Rasheed Wallace is not that piece.

The game is won in the paint, not the perimeter. The Lakers showed the Magic that in the Finals.

Luis Scola agrees

[Trainwreck2100]

Most overrated poster in spurstalk history.

multiracial pbs 90s greatness

[Trainwreck2100]

HAHA! I used to watch that crap in grade school. TERRIBLE!

How could you hate that show,they went around solving mysteries. They were scoobydoo with less white folks, no weed, and a more UN appeal

[Sobe_Kucks]

Damn I was gettin hyped for the season but after reading this post I'm not going to watch any of the games since we're going to lose....

Please! That's why they play the games. Artest is a huge gamble and it could work out for the Lakers or maybe not. It is scary they have plenty of bigs to go around. It makes the Spurs need for a big man and their gift from the draft Gods (Blair) that much bigger deal. I'm an SA transplant living in Houston and plent to plenty of Rockets game (with my SPurs cap on of course). Artest is two players he's good Ron Ron and bad Ron Ron. Bad Ron Ron compares Lebron as a younger version of himself and jecks up 3's at the end of games and shoots them out of a victory. Good Ron Ron plays great D, adds intensity to softer players and makes more than he misses of those shots at the end of the game. There are pluses and minuses with the move but Phillip has a track record of dealing with crazy brain talent (Rodman). Lakerfan should be happy. That is a sick line-up on paper. Paper isn't chemistry though. We need to see them play. Their PG will be the point at which we will attack and if we can strike with a strong FA signing (i.e. Sheed/Dyess not some scrub) then we have a much better chance of taking them down.

Lakers are stacked, Spurs just might be too. I like it that way. Then there is no whining when the Silver and Black win the ring. No.. that Jefferson move was crap and collusion... etc. etc. Lakerfan is fully loaded and shouldn't have excuses. They got a strong FA who took less money for a ring (like hey usually do). We are set to try and win the cold war against the USSR now not again N.Korea. Which one would you rather conquer and plant ur flag on??? I hate the Lakers and their fans are annoying as . Mav/Suns fans are annoying like flys buzzing around a picnic. Lakerfan is annoying like "who the dropped a turd on my brand new rug!" So get ready to share in the rivalry full force. Can't stand them and they can't stand our small market team that continues to rise from the dead. I'm not goin to hold me head down because of this move. Does it make them better, I think so... do they have weaknesses... I think so. Once we get our team set via FA, BRING IT!!! We'll be ready with a new big man, new offensive punch in RJ, a hungry ass draft snubbed young beast in Blair, the top PG in the lead, El Contusion should be back, TD should be back and rested and it would be great to see Ninja Kicking Bowen back in SA. I like our chances...

[Muser]

Laker fan in denial.

[baseline bum]

Well, I hope his performance with the undermanned Rockets showed you something.

It showed me he has horrible shot selection. Artest was awful in games 3-7. Not just overall in those 5 games, but in each of them also.

[The_Game]

You do realize the Lakers won the 2009 NBA championship last season right? Because based on Spur fan's reaction it seems like it was the Lakers who got bounced in the 1st round a ty Mavericks team and the Spurs that won it all.

I'm not going to worry about the Spurs until I see a major frontcourt piece there alongside Duncan, and no Rasheed Wallace is not that piece.

The game is won in the paint, not the perimeter. The Lakers showed the Magic that in the Finals.

it really is quite funny I agree....having a healthly manu wouldn't of been enough to beat the mavs and they were not a good team...says it all really.

Spurs should be focused on getting a big who stays in the paint who can rebound and block shots not a guy who doesn't get away from the three point line.