Reply With Quote
We've gone from 6 to 7. Because Laker fans are holding out all of their hopes that their precious #7 pick nets them a star. It's all they have, literally all their franchise has to hope for.
Of course not you necrophiliac
We've gone from 6 to 7. Because Laker fans are holding out all of their hopes that their precious #7 pick nets them a star. It's all they have, literally all their franchise has to hope for.
Fisher going 15-20 from deep didnt hurt...
Of course not you necrophiliac
Fish's contribution was key ...... Lakers finally got somewhat of a third scorer but if an MVP was handed out for that series, it would have gone to Bryant.
It wasn't. That Spurs team was highly overrated, fielding Terry Porter, Danny Ferry, and Sean Elliott on the perimeter. It's no wonder Kobe went off. Once Derek Anderson went down, so did the Spurs perimeter threat. That's how weak that team was on the wings. The 6ers put up more of a fight than us, and thus, the NBA Finals were actually the real NBA Finals.
I'm not sure we beat the 6ers. Mutombo would've made Duncan work and the Spurs had no one that could contain A.I.
Man you know and I know that the Spurs would have destroyed that Sixers squad. The Sixers came into the finals injured while the Spurs had just stomped a 47 win 8 seed Twolves and a 53 win 5 seed in Dallas. They would have ran the Sixers. Snow could barely walk. Geiger was hurt. Tyrone Hill was injured. That team was held together by duct tape and spit.
With Derek Anderson.
The Spurs and 6ers met in January, and the 6ers won that game by 17 with A.I. dropping 40 on 58%. And that was with Derek Anderson and before Kukoc was traded for Mutombo.
Spurs perimeter defense was beyond . It's why they traded for Bowen.
If we had Derek Anderson, I agree it would've been the "real NBA Finals," Spurs probably win game 2 had he played and maybe challenged better in games 3 and 4. Now I'm not saying Derek Anderson is anything special, but losing your second leading scorer is a pretty big deal, even if Derek Anderson isn't that good. That's how thin the Spurs were on the perimeter.
Even without D.A., you guys would have rolled. Sixers were also without Geroge Lynch. So even when they got you guys by 17, many of those players were probably healthy then. Also the Sixers shot their wads against the Raptors (7 game series) and the Bucks (another 7 game series). That team was injured and spent.
But at the end of the day, they actually gave you guys the greatest challenge. They won one and 3 games were within one possession late in the 4th. Maybe we beat them, but that's irrelevant. For the Lakers, it was the "Real NBA Finals," since no other Western team had a pulse when they played against them.
we'll have to agree to disagree. I just can't see a team that injured and struggling against the Raptors and the Bucks being the second best squad in the league.
Antonio Daniels guarding Iverson.
At Lebron's and the heat fans reaction.
why didnt duncan?
He was too busy ducking Jordan's Bulls by staying in college tbh
He won at 23 in 99 which isn't too shabby either. Kobe's first FMVP happened at 31
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions