Spurs vs Lakers - Game 6 - 2003

[SpursNextRomanEmpire]

Very nice

[Gutter92]

It's just some of your fans are "haters" ...

And some of your fans are "idiots". There are some intelligent Laker fans too, but most are trolls on this forum tbh.

[picc84]

The finals before the finals, eh boys? Enjoy.

[xtremesteven33]

Nohing was sweeter as a Spurs fan back then....

[DAF86]

Thanks.

[silverblk mystix]

That spurs team at that moment in time were pretty dominant...

if you think about..that was in 03 and they went on to win les

in 03, 05 & 07

that was pretty special

[ChuckD]

Robert Horry. The Lakers were playing 4 on 6 that series.

that open three pointer that he clanked in game 5

Not his fault. He was what, 32 or 33? Phil was playing him WAY too much. He just had nothing left for the playoffs.

Thanks for throwing him away, though. He was good news for our 2005 and 2007 ring teams.

[sammy]

Great game for the Spurs, but I can't help but notice how much a Laker homer Tom Tolbert is.

Parker got hacked by 4 guys, fell down, was crushed by Shaq. Parker got up, shook it off and went for the FTs. Tolbert said Parker had to be tougher? What the ? How? Not fall down after being hacked by somebody who outweighs you by 200 lbs? Even Walton couldn't take it.

Then at the end, he was saying, "You have to give the Spurs their credit, BUT the Lakers are missing Rick Fox, who is a veteran with championship experience ...."

I mean, what? Rick Fox? Are you kidding me?

The Lakers were outplayed by a mile in that game, Duncan was incredible, literally carrying the offense in the 3rd.

Tolbert is an idiot! I guess his stupid comments got him dumped from BSPN/ABC! Never saw that jackass again! LOL!

[Killakobe81]

Killakobe81, you hate Parker and Bowen, but where do you stand on Ginobili?

Nothing but respect for Manu ...
Great comepe or ...
Clutch ...

Gets away with travels but so do a lot of NBA players (kobe included)

I always thought he could run point in the triangle besides duncan Manu and George hill are the two spurs i have wanted most onthe Lakers ...

[Old School 44]

Always fun to watch that game! That Spurs team was loaded! If only the overlap of a healthy D-Rob's career with TD's was longer.

In the game, you can see the breakdown of the relationship between Shaq, Kobe and Phil Jackson. It seems as if somewhere in the game, Phil said were going to run the offense through Shaq in the post and Kobe didn't like it. It's like Kobe was going through the motions. Giving up the ball, and/or passing up shots.

[lefty]

I miss Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax


:-(

[Cant_Be_Faded]

CBF-NonTrolling Mode Post:

I always thought the Lakers were so freaking thin beyond Shaq, Kobe, and Fish, that it was ridiculous that team three-peated. They definintely were going to win a championship or two, but three in a row? I thought it was ridiculous.
I thought the only year they were the best team, without a doubt, no one was gonna stop them was 2001.

In 2000, I felt they were compe ive to win the le, but were lucky that both Portland and Indiana choked like total ing assholes. But like they say, only the good teams are lucky.

But in 2002, there is no doubt in my mind the refs ed the Kings, and that the Kings were supposed to go down in history as the champions that year. Hnaturally the Nets were never going to beat any team that came out of the West.

Moving forth, this new Lakers Dynasty is much much better than its Western Conference brethren, relatively, than the original Shaq Lakers Dynasty was in the west.
In 08, there was a chance the Lakers could be taken down. We could have done it. But we failed.

In 09 and 10, there was realistically no team that could touch the Lakers.

So here is a question I would like to ask Spurstalk:

What would the new Lakers Dynasty have done in the nba if we can magically transpose the 08-10 Lakers team into the 00-02 NBA seasons?


I've never seen this discussed at length and feel its an interesting topic.

Personally I think the West was much more stacked then, compared to now.

[Budkin]

I kept waiting for the inevitable Laker comeback... and it never came. What a game that was!

[SpurSpurSpurs]

I just lol'ed at Joe Crawford for the foul he called in the 2nd quarter, changing it from Kobe Bryant to Brian Shaw. Then if you look at the replay, you're gonna roflmao few times.

[hitmanyr2k]

What would the new Lakers Dynasty have done in the nba if we can magically transpose the 08-10 Lakers team into the 00-02 NBA seasons?

I think the 08-10 Lakers would have gotten their collective asses whooped by the Blazers, Kings, and even the Spurs back then. These days the Lakers get by on size. They win because they can put the biggest team out on the floor and they play against midgets more often than not. They dominate the offensive glass and get a lot of second shots. I said it all through the playoffs last year and I'm saying it now. You beat LA on the boards you win the series. It's that simple. Back in the early 00's the Kings, Blazers, and Spurs all were capable of putting out big/lengthy lineups that could give the 08-10 Laker team more than enough trouble in the paint.

When it comes right down to it prime Shaq was a beast that rarely could be stopped. He made entire frontlines wilt and just broke them down as the series went along. No one wanted to take that physical punishment guarding him game after game. When you have a guy breaking down the opponent's interior and demoralizing them like Shaq did the game became easier for everyone else. As good as Gasol is he's not that punishing type of player and all of the teams I mentioned had frontlines who could match up with Gasol and Bynum's game and length (Sabonis/Dale Davis/Brian Grant, Divac/Webber, Duncan/Robinson).

[BillWalton]

Wow, can it get any better than this? A magnificent scene has unfolded before us in picturesque downtown Los Angeles. We are forever entwined in the middle of Hollywood watching these collective casts of superstar character wielding their magic. You have Tim Duncan, the wizard, leading on these courageous young men from San Antonio. Then you have Kobe and Shaq, on top of the basketball universe for eons and eons. Can Duncan's men scale the mountain that stands in front of them, The 3 time NBA Champions from Los Angeles?

Slava Medvedenko is guarding Tim Duncan. Give him the ball now, anything else is ludicrous!