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I never saw Kobe and Fisher breaking down as an embarrassment, Larry Bird broke down after losing to Magic and Michigan State, it only shows how much the players cared.
But as a Spurs fans, it was great to see how the Spurs broke them.
You know it's funny i know there was great joy in that moment for Laker-haters and even embarassment on SOME Laker fans ...but it never bothered me i was PROUD my 2 favorite Lakers CARED that much and you could see that same fire in last sunday's game. I dont know if we WILL beat the Spurs in the playoffs ...but I do KNOW it will be a great series they always are ...and that DFish & Kobe will will play their hearts out ...that i can be proud of. Shaq did NOT ALWAYS play hard
I never saw Kobe and Fisher breaking down as an embarrassment, Larry Bird broke down after losing to Magic and Michigan State, it only shows how much the players cared.
But as a Spurs fans, it was great to see how the Spurs broke them.
As far as I'm concerned the Spurs only get the best of the Lakers once during that time in '03. The '99 * season doesn't count in my mind since Phil Jackson was not the head coach.
the Lakers had a more talented team that year IMHO with NVE and Eddie Jones.
Where the Lakers in the NBA in the last few years? I only noticed them again when Jerry West gifted them Gasol.
Not only that, who's to say they're going to meet again this postseason to renew their rivalry? It's not a forgone conclusion that both of them will meet in the Conference Finals...
This is fairly typical Laker fan palaver.As far as I'm concerned the Spurs only get the best of the Lakers once during that time in '03. The '99 * season doesn't count in my mind since Phil Jackson was not the head coach
the Lakers had a more talented team that year IMHO with NVE and Eddie Jones.
What makes it classic is that LakerFan doesn't even know who was on his team that year. Nick Van Exel didn't play a game for the Lakers in 1999 -- he was with the Nuggets for the entirety of that season. And Eddie Jones played in only 20 games for the Lakers in 1999 before being traded to Charlotte for Glen Rice.
Of course it didn't count, the Lakers were swept.As far as I'm concerned the Spurs only get the best of the Lakers once during that time in '03. The '99 * season doesn't count in my mind since Phil Jackson was not the head coach
the Lakers had a more talented team that year IMHO with NVE and Eddie Jones.
my bad, you guys are right. All I'm saying is the rivalry didn't start until Phil Jackson came over, I think we all know that.
That's as much a load of crap as the insistence that the '99 le is somehow tainted. Had the Lakers won that 1999 series, you would no doubt be insisting that the rivalry had begun right then and there. All of the major players were in place in 1999 and they went head to head in that series, again in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. It's absurd to say that the addition of a coach created the rivalry -- the teams and players were clearly rivals before that ( , LA had reached the conference finals the year prior; it's not like they were some unaccomplished squad). Phil may have tilted the rivalry in the Lakers' favor, but he doesn't define the existence of the rivalry.
I agree it did start BEFORE Phil ....but he escalated things with the * remark ...
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