Lakers Suns Game 1 thread

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Just Game 1...

[kromediablo]

Was that Stacy Dash in the background?

[SomeCallMeTim]

19 AND 19! wow

Odom has been inconsistent most of his career... but he has always consistently brought it against Phx in the playoffs.

[pauls931]

On the plus side Lopez is looking ok and holding up. But the obvious problem remains, La has so many good bigs they can rotate and trap with everyone else and always have a safety net near the basket. And kobe was just crazy, Grant couldn't do anythign with him tonight.

[milkshakeballa]

kobe wants 1 more cookie!

[TJastal]

The most shocking aspect of this game was how the refs totally disrespected, gutted, filleted, mocked, and ultimately removed Grant Hill from being a factor in the game against Bryant defensively. One would have thought Hill was some unknown 21 year old smart aleck asshole out there and not one of the most classiest, respected 37 year old nba seasoned veterans in the league.

If this is the plan as set forth by the league this series won't last over 5 games max.

[hitmanyr2k]

cool story bro Magic (and suns) are NOT done ..

The Suns are done like the Jazz man. They're pretenders. The WHOLE Western conference was full of pretenders from the get go. None of these teams have the size to match up with LA. Amare Stoudemire = Carlos Boozer. The man has no interior presence whatsoever to put pressure on Gasol or Bynum. He's a jumpshooter...period!! The Phoenix Suns will either have to shoot lights out or go home. And they're going to go home in 5 or 6 at the most.

Orlando is in a similar situation. Dwight Howard is an overrated bum and the Magic have to shoot lights out to beat the Celtics. I'm betting that's not gonna happen.

The Celtics are really the only team with the size that can slow LA's bigs down and make them work.

[Pero]

kobe wants 1 more cookie!

Cookie=white chick?

[JamStone]

LMAO @ Kobe lobbying the NBA for one more league MVP. What an ass.

[TD 21]

why you mad though?

Because I'm sick of this . The playoffs, already underwhelming this season, have virtually been ruined. For a fan with no rooting interest at this point, what's their to look forward to? It's just flat out stupid watching a team who's third big is better than a lot of teams first big. Like I said, if they had legitimately acquired all three, fine, but they didn't.

I want an honest Lakers fan, who can put aside their arrogance for a brief moment, to answer this question: Is this even fun at this point? No one they've played is big enough to legitimately challenge this team and the few teams that are they've either successfully avoided or will not play until the finals (if the Celtics advance). I don't see how this could be enjoyable anymore. We all want our respective team's to win, but the way this team does it, if I were a fan I'd be numb to it by now. What joy is there if they're not even going to be challenged?

I'm flat out disgusted and verging on disinterested. Even though I hate them, I can live with them winning if I feel like the opposition at least has a chance. None of these teams do, unless the Celtics can maintain their energy level, which I doubt.

[4>0rings]

The most shocking aspect of this game was how the refs totally disrespected, gutted, filleted, mocked, and ultimately removed Grant Hill from being a factor in the game against Bryant defensively. One would have thought Hill was some unknown 21 year old smart aleck asshole out there and not one of the most classiest, respected 37 year old nba seasoned veterans in the league.

If this is the plan as set forth by the league this series won't last over 5 games max.

He was the only one that was able to remotely guard Kobe but Sun fan to busy licking Laker balloon knot just grateful to be there to care.

[Pero]

LMAO @ Kobe lobbying the NBA for one more league MVP. What an ass.

More like LMAO @ Kobe for pretending he doesn't care about it.

[milkshakeballa]

LMAO @ Kobe lobbying the NBA for one more league MVP. What an ass.

LOL cookie = le jam not MVP

[milkshakeballa]

Because I'm sick of this . The playoffs, already underwhelming this season, have virtually been ruined at this point. For a fan with no rooting interest at this point, what's their to look forward to? It's just flat out stupid watching a team who's third big is better than a lot of teams best big. Like I said, if they had legitimately acquired all three, fine, but they didn't.

I want an honest Lakers fan, who can put aside their arrogance for a brief moment, to answer this question: Is this even fun at this point? No one they've played is big enough to legitimately challenge this team and the few teams that are they've either successfully avoided or will not play until the finals (if the Celtics advance). I don't see how this could be enjoyable at this point. We all want our respective teams to win, but the way this team does it, if I were a fan I'd be numb to it by now. What joy is there if they're not even going to be challenged?

I'm flat out disgusted at this point and verging on disinterested. Even though I hate them, I can live with them winning if I feel like the opposition at least has a chance. None of these teams do, unless the Celtics can maintain their energy level, which I doubt.

Can't get numb to that...

[JamStone]

LOL cookie = le jam not MVP

Nope. Kobe was clearly talking about an MVP.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Suns wont be talking about defense anymore.

That talk is almost as dead as "drive for 5" talk.

[florige]

The Suns are done like the Jazz man. They're pretenders. The WHOLE Western conference was full of pretenders from the get go. None of these teams have the size to match up with LA. Amare Stoudemire = Carlos Boozer. The man has no interior presence whatsoever to put pressure on Gasol or Bynum. He's a jumpshooter...period!! The Phoenix Suns will either have to shoot lights out or go home. And they're going to go home in 5 or 6 at the most.

Orlando is in a similar situation. Dwight Howard is an overrated bum and the Magic have to shoot lights out to beat the Celtics. I'm betting that's not gonna happen.

The Celtics are really the only team with the size that can slow LA's bigs down and make them work.

I don't agree he is a complete bum. But I do agree he is HIGHLY overrated.

[LnGrrrR]

As soon as I saw that Kobe had gone off for 40, I knew this thread would be 20+ pages long

[milkshakeballa]

Because I'm sick of this . The playoffs, already underwhelming this season, have virtually been ruined. For a fan with no rooting interest at this point, what's their to look forward to? It's just flat out stupid watching a team who's third big is better than a lot of teams first big. Like I said, if they had legitimately acquired all three, fine, but they didn't.

I want an honest Lakers fan, who can put aside their arrogance for a brief moment, to answer this question: Is this even fun at this point? No one they've played is big enough to legitimately challenge this team and the few teams that are they've either successfully avoided or will not play until the finals (if the Celtics advance). I don't see how this could be enjoyable anymore. We all want our respective team's to win, but the way this team does it, if I were a fan I'd be numb to it by now. What joy is there if they're not even going to be challenged?

I'm flat out disgusted and verging on disinterested. Even though I hate them, I can live with them winning if I feel like the opposition at least has a chance. None of these teams do, unless the Celtics can maintain their energy level, which I doubt.

and its 1 game...chill the out

finals are going 6 at least.

bynum isn't playing all that great as it is

[pauls931]

The most shocking aspect of this game was how the refs totally disrespected, gutted, filleted, mocked, and ultimately removed Grant Hill from being a factor in the game against Bryant defensively. One would have thought Hill was some unknown 21 year old smart aleck asshole out there and not one of the most classiest, respected 37 year old nba seasoned veterans in the league.

If this is the plan as set forth by the league this series won't last over 5 games max.

Suns will definitely have to look at how they deal with Kobe. Problem is the old plan of letting Kobe score as much as he wants no longer works because there's 3 other players that are good for 15-20+ a game on the court in Gasol and Odom, Artest. It's like the old LA with Bynum and Gasol added.

[Killakobe81]

LMAO @ Kobe lobbying the NBA for one more league MVP. What an ass.

LOL jamstone ...

[midnightpulp]

The worst playoffs in recent memory continue. Once again the Lakers will get a bye into the finals. I hope the league is happy, they'll get their ratings, but they'll continue to lose credibility.

It's a ing joke. Their size advantage is unfair. It would be one thing if they legitimately cultivated that size, but not the way they did it. When old man Bryant falls off a cliff in a few years and Gasol begins to decline, how will the league help them then? Because apparently they're not allowed to fall off. Everyone else can, the Knicks, Bulls, etc., but not their precious Lakers.

Quit complaining.

Their size advantage is unfair because other teams were too stupid or made to draft, sign, or develop true big men, instead preferring these 6-10+ pussies that play like in guards because they're a "matchup nightmare."

9 other teams could've drafted Bynum, but they didn't. 40 some other teams could've taken a flier on Marc Gasol, but they didn't. The Spurs could've kept Scola, which would've kept them in hard contention, but they didn't.

After 60 years of NBA basketball, the song still remains the same. Size, rebounding, interior defense, and low post play win les. I'm not going to hate on the Lakers for realizing that fact and doing whatever it takes to make it happen.

I just wish the Spurs FO would grow a set of balls in place of the pussy that used to be a set balls and do the same. Spurs fans been calling for a true big to complement Duncan for some time and they FO goes out and gets scrubs like Matt Bonner while letting Scola drift away for nothing. McDyess is okay, but he doesn't play like a true big.

That said, my congrats to the Lakers. Not gonna hate on a team that builds their team the right way and plays the right way.

[JamStone]

Because I'm sick of this . The playoffs, already underwhelming this season, have virtually been ruined. For a fan with no rooting interest at this point, what's their to look forward to? It's just flat out stupid watching a team who's third big is better than a lot of teams first big. Like I said, if they had legitimately acquired all three, fine, but they didn't.

I want an honest Lakers fan, who can put aside their arrogance for a brief moment, to answer this question: Is this even fun at this point? No one they've played is big enough to legitimately challenge this team and the few teams that are they've either successfully avoided or will not play until the finals (if the Celtics advance). I don't see how this could be enjoyable anymore. We all want our respective team's to win, but the way this team does it, if I were a fan I'd be numb to it by now. What joy is there if they're not even going to be challenged?

I'm flat out disgusted and verging on disinterested. Even though I hate them, I can live with them winning if I feel like the opposition at least has a chance. None of these teams do, unless the Celtics can maintain their energy level, which I doubt.

Did you really and honestly give a about other teams and feel sorry for them when they couldn't match up with two superstar 7-foot centers both of which had the size of centers and the agility of power forwards when the Spurs had both Duncan and Robinson the late 90s and early 2000s?

[Budkin]

gotta love the "series will be a sweep because the home team won game 1" posts that happen every series.

The Suns are simply no match for a Lakers team playing like this. This was not just a win.

[milkshakeballa]

Nope. Kobe was clearly talking about an MVP.

Dude....cookie = nike commercial

each cookie represents a ring

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