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They aren't the strongest squad. The Lakers from 00-01 were very tough and could easily beat these two teams.
The 2009 and the 2010 Lakers are the best Championship Squads ever assembled...if anything I would say they are one of the weaker ones.
2009- Lakers entered a cakewalk finals in the west. Manu was injured, Yao and the Rockets would've won but Yao got injured. Ariza picking off in bound passes won the Nuggets series and KG was injured so no Boston repeat. and LOL MAGIC in the Finals.
2010-Struggling against the ing Suns for real? Relying on the refs to bail you out of a 7 game series against a bunch of old angry dudes? Seriously some weak Laker fans.
2005 Spurs would curb stomp both those teams, probably make them cry on national television AGAIN.
They aren't the strongest squad. The Lakers from 00-01 were very tough and could easily beat these two teams.
They're a good team, possibly cracking into the top ten. No way are they even top 5, the 1999 Spurs would have beaten this laker squad.
I don't understand how someone can be that blinded by homerism. Did they forget that the Celtics beat essentially the same team 2 years ago and took them to 7 this year?
This Lakers team is overrated... they are entirely beatable, nonetheless they are very tough
Removing Phil, Kobe and Fisher from both teams (they're disqualified), the then three-peat champ Lakers would defeat the now back to back champ Lakers. Easily.
What Laker fan has ever said the '09+'10 teams were the best ever? Are you mistaking real Laker fans for Mav fan trolls again? You do realize Bump has about 5 of them and he spawns ridiculous pro Laker troll posts at least once a day.
The '01 Lakers would murder the current back to back champion Lakers.
lol lefty
speaking as a Lakerfan... nope, this ain't one of the best-ever teams.
I've seen some advanced stat guys make arguments that last year's team actually stacked up pretty well historically (haven't seen anything about this year's team because it's too recent).
But that doesn't "feel" right to me. I'd say off the top of my head the 00-01 Lakers, 04 Pistons, 05 Spurs, and 08 Celtics were better teams and would likely have beaten this 09-10 team in a 7-game matchup. And that's just teams over the last decade, let alone the 96 Bulls, or 87 Lakers, or 86 Celtics for starters.
21_ ings iirc. But I think we know who's troll this is.
21_ ings is a ass punk
fail when u mention the rockets
That's you, shaving.
The 2009 and the 2010 Lakers are the best Championship Squads ever assembled...if anything I would say they are one of the weaker ones.
2009- Lakers entered a cakewalk finals in the west. Manu was injured, Yao and the Rockets would've won but Yao got injured. Ariza picking off in bound passes won the Nuggets series and KG was injured so no Boston repeat. and LOL MAGIC in the Finals.
2010-Struggling against the ing Suns for real? Relying on the refs to bail you out of a 7 game series against a bunch of old angry dudes? Seriously some weak Laker fans.
2005 Spurs would curb stomp both those teams, probably make them cry on national television AGAIN.
Shame on me. I nearly forgot about the stiff compe ion your team posed for Phoenix.
lol goran dragic 23 points... IN THE FOURTH QUARTERShame on me. I nearly forgot about the stiff compe ion your team posed for Phoenix.
The current repeat champion Lakers would skull the out of any Spur one and done championship team. It's not even close either.
Two lock down wing defenders. Ridiculous length inside. No way the Spurs could match the Lakers versatile offense while the Lakers could easily match their defensive intensity.
lol goran dragic 23 points... IN THE FOURTH QUARTER
Not sure if OP is trolling or just basketball dense ...
But the Lakers squad is nowhere near the strongest or weakest ...
and the irony is based on the same criteria used, cases could be made that 2 of the 4 spur teams are among the weakest ...(if we play the oh so and so was injured or the strength of compe ion card) ...
I never thought this recent Lakers squad were as good as the 2000 team (overal) or the playoff version of 2001
To even compare them to the 80's Lakers or the best of the 90's Bulls squads is even more ridiculous ...
They are definitely in line with most of the average Finals teams maybe not as good as the best of the Lakers, spurs squads of recent years but i would put them above the one and done Heat or Celts
ANd on par with the the "weaker" (relative) Spurs le teams or the Pistons, and rockets when they won ...
For the record ...I'm not saying all ofthe spurs finals team were weak ..
to me the only "weak" teams of the past 30 years of watching ball was the First Rockets le, the first one duncan won with a young Manu/Parker and the Heat one.
Much props to duncan, hakeem and Wade for carrying those squads to a le ...
It's also pretty laughable anyone would mention the 2008 Celtics as greatest anything. ing fluke le team that lucked out when the Lakers had TWO starters injured.
How many teams have been to three straight NBA finals? Exactly. And this Lakers core is about to make it 4 straight in a conference where just about every playoff team has been putting up 50 wins. Compare that to the Bulls dynasty that was playing in one of the weakest conferences and eras of all of time.
Yeah these Lakers sure are average.
It's also pretty laughable anyone would mention the 2008 Celtics as greatest anything. ing fluke le team that lucked out when the Lakers had TWO starters injured.
How many teams have been to three straight NBA finals? Exactly. And this Lakers core is about to make it 4 straight in a conference where just about every playoff team has been putting up 50 wins. Compare that to the Bulls dynasty that was playing in one of the weakest conferences and eras of all of time.
Yeah these Lakers sure are average.
You make a GREAT point ...3 straight finals (you cant count this upcoming year) is DAMN impressive.
BUT we only won two. And I think (or hope) that everyone is looking at the team on a year to year basis. With the injuries to bynum (and to a leser extent Ariza) ...the Lakers are not as strong a Finals team when you look at the "talent on the floor" ...for those two les and the Finals loss.
If we can get healthy and STAY healthy this upcmoming season's Lakers maybe the best (of the Finals teams) and we may not win a le ... nothing is promised.
But if you go by results of course this recent lakers team (3 straight finals) is on a historic run ...
2010 Lakers would compete with the 2000 Lakers while losing to 2001 and would most likely beat the 2002 squad. And they would utterly demolish every other champion/finals team of this last decade. It's not close. They would dismantle the out of the Pistons for example.
I wont speak to how they would destroy Psitons etc. Because im not in the mood to battle the other team's fans today ...
But i disagree on they would compete with 2000 ...
The 2000 Lakers squad was the only one that had a motivated, healthy and in shape Shaq. It was his last "great" year IMHO (he had some great Finals runs after but 2000 was the year he put it ALL together) and I dont think this team as good as it was the past 2 years would be able to deal with that Shaq...true kobe didnt really blossom until 2001 ...but 2000 shaq was THAT dominant ...
One thing i will say artest would of locked down Rice and young kobe would of given last year's kobe fits ...
But I stll think the 2000 and 2001 Lakers (Playoffs only) are better ...
Well that's dumb, no offense. The Blazers should have beat that team and if wasn't for Kobe's miraculous game 4 the Pacers would have took them to 7. And the Pacers were nowhere near as good as Boston was.
2000 Shaq was so dominant that Kobe was forced to become the first option in the last few minutes. Even then you could still exploit Shaq's effortless pick and roll D. Which is exactly what the Lakers would do to them, especially with Pau's jumper keeping him honest.
Old man Kobe would have given his young self more fits. Especially on the block.
AC Green is my boy but he's going to struggle when it comes to keeping Odom off the glass.
so this is how trolls do it these days. Make up some bull saying that "Lakers fans" think this and that when NO lakers fan even thinks this or that. lol
With exception to the 2008 Celtics team. I think that any of the championship teams between 2000-2005 could stomp any of the championship teams between 2006-2010.
Agreed
According to my boolean simulation quant analysis, when you calculate the Lakers performance in 2009 and 2010 playoffs, its clear as day that the Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs from 2007-2010 were amongst the highest ranked teams in the history of the nba and would have swept this Laker team with an average scoring margin above +10.0. You cannot deny what the math is saying here folks.
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