Was game 4 of the 2008 Finals the most painful ever for Laker fans?

[tlongII]

You blow a 24 point lead AT HOME on your way to losing in 6 games to the Celtics. That HAD to hurt!

[21_Blessings]

Yes it hurt. But I bet game 7 2000 WCF hurt more.

[Why So Serious]

Indeed.

I remember that more vividly than getting blown out by 30.

[TheManFromAcme]

You blow a 24 point lead AT HOME on your way to losing in 6 games to the Celtics. That HAD to hurt!

It hurt and angered many a Laker fan tlong. No denying it.

Tell me, do you drink morphine martinis when you follow your team?

Hmm?

[blkroadrunners]

Yes it hurt. But I bet game 7 2000 WCF hurt more.

Pwned.

[Giuseppe]

Not for me. The choke job in 84 will always be the worst.

Per usual, Luva, with the goods.

[lefty]

Yes it hurt. But I bet game 7 2000 WCF hurt more.

Ouch

That's why people have to make some research before bashing the Lakers

Because their trolls are sharks

[Ashy Larry]

Not for me. The choke job in 84 will always be the worst.

damn, beat me to it ....

smoked the Celtics in Game one.

James Worthy had a tremendous Game 2 and threw it all away with one bad pass.

Smoked the C's in game three and up 5 with possession of the ball with 58 seconds on the clock in game 4.

Gave that series away ......

[Giuseppe]

....we'd flirted with disaster in the Dallas series earlier.

Magic had to hit rock bottom before he could rise.

[tlongII]

Yes it hurt. But I bet game 7 2000 WCF hurt more.

Nah. We were on the road and I think our biggest lead was 18.

[lefty]

Nah. We were on the road and I think our biggest lead was 18.

And that has got to hurt

[SomeCallMeTim]

You blow a 24 point lead AT HOME on your way to losing in 6 games to the Celtics. That HAD to hurt!

It was painful.

I think the pain of it was lessened for me as my DVR did a major hiccup that went from the big halftime lead to (I think) the Lakers' lead cut to a perilous 79-77 in the 4th. I missed the terrible 3rd quarter where they gave most of it away. There was no growing alarm, just a jarring "what happened?" moment.

To me the most painful was the failed comeback in San Antonio in game 5 of the 2003 POs. When Horry's shot FTW rimmed out, you just knew the Lakers' run was over. Up until then, every time they needed a shot like that to go down at the end, they got it. In that moment though, the magic departed and it was never to return for the Shaq/Kobe Lakers.

[Giuseppe]

To me the most painful was the failed comeback in San Antonio in game 5 of the 2003 POs. When Horry's shot FTW rimmed out, you just knew the Lakers' run was over. Up until then, every time they needed a shot like that to go down at the end, they got it. In that moment though, the magic departed and it was never to return for the Shaq/Kobe Lakers.

Solid offering, Tim. Top notch. Easily visualized once again.

Yes, it started to move away from us and we couldn't get it stopped.

[Koolaid_Man]

You blow a 24 point lead AT HOME on your way to losing in 6 games to the Celtics. That HAD to hurt!

For me it was the Magic HIV announcement...ohhh yeah and the 2008 lost to Boston nothing short of a sweep will suffice for me...

[lefty]

It was painful.

I think the pain of it was lessened for me as my DVR did a major hiccup that went from the big halftime lead to (I think) the Lakers' lead cut to a perilous 79-77 in the 4th. I missed the terrible 3rd quarter where they gave most of it away. There was no growing alarm, just a jarring "what happened?" moment.

To me the most painful was the failed comeback in San Antonio in game 5 of the 2003 POs. When Horry's shot FTW rimmed out, you just knew the Lakers' run was over. Up until then, every time they needed a shot like that to go down at the end, they got it. In that moment though, the magic departed and it was never to return for the Shaq/Kobe Lakers.

; I thought I was witnessing a fundamental collapse; Lakers down 16, Kobe goes nuts, Horry in..........

And out

[SomeCallMeTim]

Nah. We were on the road and I think our biggest lead was 18.

Heh. tlong obviously still in the denial stage of grief.

Sorry, but the fact that it was a Game 7 with the big lead given up in the 4th including a stretch of 13 straight missed FGs by the Blazers puts it into another universe beyond the LA vs. BOS meltdown.

Blazers still haven't recovered from that blow. Decade later and they haven't gotten out of the first round.

[lil_penny]

Yes it hurt. But I bet game 7 2000 WCF hurt more.

That and the memorial day miracle do it for me... but that game 7 was basically the finals that year, shaq said it best that whoever won that game won it all, we were so close I could taste it, but the kobe to shaq lob made that sweet taste turn to vommit :/

[21_Blessings]

2008 was made easier by knowing the Lakers had at least a 5 year window. The Blazers just fizzled out after 2000. They never emotionally recovered while slowly morphing into the JailBlazers.

[lil_penny]

2008 was made easier by knowing the Lakers had at least a 5 year window. The Blazers just fizzled out after 2000. They never emotionally recovered while slowly morphing into the JailBlazers.

That was actually a pretty fast morph imo lol...

[TheManFromAcme]

2008 was made easier by knowing the Lakers had at least a 5 year window. The Blazers just fizzled out after 2000. They never emotionally recovered while slowly morphing into the JailBlazers.

Yup.

That was the only ray of light that made it easier for me just as well.
All "JailBlazer" puns aside...I wonder what awaits this bunch next season

[tlongII]

2008 was made easier by knowing the Lakers had at least a 5 year window. The Blazers just fizzled out after 2000. They never emotionally recovered while slowly morphing into the JailBlazers.

We were already the Jail Blazers at that point. We'd been thuggin and buggin for a good 4-5 years already. What that loss did to us is that it caused Whitsitt to have a brain cramp and trade Jermaine O'Neal and Brian Grant while simultaneously acquiring the fat version of Shawn Kemp. Those were disastrous maneuvers.

[Venti Quattro]

yes. 131-92 was no match to the pain that this game caused

[Ashy Larry]

Yeah, but game 7 was even worse. Two minutes to go, down by five, Magic gets ripped clean by DJ, Coop saves his ass by coming up with the heroic block on the other end, and Worthy comes down and hits a fifteen footer to cut it to three with about a minute and a half left. Lakers get it back, and Magic comes down again with a horrible pass to nowhere, and turns the ball over. When the buzzer finally sounded, I'll never forget the sea of Celtic fans drown Kareem out of picture, and all I could think about was "why me." What was suppose to be a celebration BBQ turned out to be a search party for a a little boy hiding, while crying in the hills of Griffith Park. I've never been the same.

true ... but if the lakers handle one of those other two, we're talkin' six games at most and even a possible sweep. bad series.

[Smooth Criminal]

Hey one that was pretty bad for me, but turned out to be a false alarm was losing Game 2 to Denver last year. I thought it was over after that I was pretty depressed, but due to the outcome of the series it doesn't deserve a place in even the Top 10 Laker Pain Moments. It might have been the scariest false alarm though

[Ashy Larry]

they redeemed themselves the following year and showed plenty of heart after that Game 1 beat down ...... just seeing Red seriously pissed as the Lakers celebrated on the parquet was so beautiful .....