Well, most Warrior fans hate the Lakers but its not like our "championship" anymore. Maybe when we were irrelevant, but not at this point. Im not going to sit here and try to convince laker fans that the Warriors have a chance at beating them in the playoffs because there will clearly be no headway made in doing so, as most laker fans are hard headed. The main reason I don't like a lot of Faker fans (not all) is because they consistently show up to Oracle Arena and act as though they are huge die hard fans, when it reality don't even know anybody on the team except Kobe. Also they don't know about basketball yet feel the need to act as though they do. I'm not sure if all laker fans are like this, however there is a plethora of them here in NorCal so by personal experience I hate laker fans...
Lakers played like , then blew up in the third. Jax killed us with those 3's at the end of the game. Not surprised at all that we lost. Wouldn't be surprised or upset if the Lakeshow lost tomorrow as well. Golden St. is a very good team and is really tough to beat when you're missing two 7 footers. Hope we matchup with either them or Denver in the playoffs though. A healthy Laker team should dominate either of those two teams.
I loved watching Golden St. destroy the Mavs last year and B Davis is one of my favorite players, but I can't see them beating a healthy Laker team. Golden St. is weak inside and the Lakeshow will have two 7 footers in Bynum and Gasol to throw at them. No way I see them beating the Lakers.
Please, Warrior fans are far worse. Warriors didn't even have fans until last year! Talk about the epitome of a bandwagon fan-base. And you won't convince anyone here that GSW can beat the Lakers in the playoffs because THEY CAN'T AND THEY WON'T.
Why is there always a thread when the Lakers lose on this forum? No other team gets the pub that the lakers get, but of course, no other team is more successful than the Los Angeles Lakers. It's funny how so many assumptions are made after a lakers lose, without 4 players, 3 of which are Centers leaving the Lakers centerless! Pathetic!
The Warriors would not give the Lakers any trouble with Gasol and/or Bynum Please don't compare us to the mavs of last season which came into that series against GS scared. We are not the mavs. The Lakers have a low post game and a coach that knows how to make adjustments, unlike Avery of last season. Bynum would have a smooth transition against a team like GS because all the lakers would have to do is lob it to him all game. GS has no one to stop him even at less than 100%. Gasol, although soft and not the best defensive player I've seen has played good defense in spurts (like that game saving block on Aldridge last time they met when Aldridge was eating him alive all game) They are both excellent low post players, Lamar was having his way today, what do you think it would be like for Gasol and Bynum?
Lakers take out the Warriors in 5 if they meet. Book it!
It's because the Lakers have 14 Rings and are on the verge of winning another Team of the Decade le.
Sounds about right
It's actually because Laker fans are incredibly uppity smug little bandwagoning bas s who act like their team has proven something despite missing the play-offs and then getting bounced in the first round for 2 years straight.
No one likes fair-weather fans, and the Lakers fans are the worst kind. When the Lakers are a winning team, their fans are gut-wrenchingly horrible.
And you're demonstrating that by talking trash about the Warriors despite them boning Kobe in his house. Jax had ice in his veins tonight.
The Lakers being bounced in the playoffs the last 2 years had more to do with us being in rebuilding mode than anything else. It takes time to rebuild the pieces after a SUCCESSFUL championship run, something Suns fans will never know about. The fact that the Lakers did it in 4 short years only missing the playoffs ONCE is nothing short of astounding. In fact, it is one of the quickest rebuilds in sports history.
The facts are the rest of the NBA hates the Lakers and their dominance. Now that we are back they hate us even more, nothing new here. When your team has been in half of all NBA Finals, you've got to expect this level of hatred from other team's fans.
the Spurs have been just as succesful, if not more, over the last decade.
LMAO! This is what GetNashty was talking about. You want to take credit for re-building so quickly, yet last summer all of you Laker fans were crying how the Lakers had done nothing to get better and had completely wasted Kobe's prime. It was disgusting. Kobe himself asked to be traded!
In one year, the Lakers had a remarkable turnaround and now you want to gloat. The Lakers didn't give a blue print for how to rebuild, they gave a blue print for how to get lucky. The Pau Gasol trade was one of the most one-sided in NBA history, and now you want to be smug about it and claim that its because of the "greatness" of your organization?
Dumbass fans like you are why so many people hate the Lakers.
btw - Youre not on the Lakers. You sure did drop a lot of "we"s in that post. The Lakers could win every championship from here to eternity and YOU will still be a loser.
It has nothing to do with being uppity. It is what it is! The Lakers are the best franchise in NBA, our record speaks for itself. The fact that the lakers were bounced out of the playoffs the last couple of years has no bearing on today. The suns have been bounced from the playoffs their entire existence in the NBA, doesn't mean they will again this season and I don't see Lakers fans throwing that up in your faces. I for one, like the Suns because I'm a big Shaq fan.
The warriors played a good game last night and they deserved the win. SJax was clutch! There is no disputing that. No one's trying to minimize their accomplishment last night but the truth of the matter is that the lakers were missing key players last night. It is what it is! I personally feel that all the lakers need to defeat the Warriors is just ONE center, I really don't care which one and I would feel confident in beating the Warriors in a 7 game series.
and what record would that be?
The Pau Gasol trade might not have ever happened if Bynum would not have gotten injured. They were winning before that trade. So what the Lakers did was rebuild their team and add pieces to become a contender again. It was a great job by Mitch and the Lakers organization. Your team has taken 23 years to be in contention again, so to blow off the Lakers accomplishment in 5 years is asinine.
like i said, the Spurs are comparably succesful (before you rant, take into account time in the league & the Spurs recent flourish of greatness)
And again, before you get butt hurt. i never said the lakers weren't a good team/franchise.
but you could recognize good company. (Only one other team has been undefeated in the finals)
Sorry but that doesn't count. Out of 60 nba finals, you've been there 4 times. You don't qualify for any acknowledgements on being 4-0 in the finals.
It's the winning that makes everyone hate the Lakers! That's all, the bottom line! It's funny hearing this from a spurs fan when they throw their measly 4 les in the faces of other teams that haven't won all the time.
Lakers fans gives a !
Who gives a about one and out les with *'s? I certainly don't!
Monday night, B2B, Lakers@Warriors.
Can the Warriors make it B2B Ws?
But NBA TV is carrying PHX @ DET
Did what in 4 short years? This year's Lakers team hasn't accomplished yet. Unless the Lakers get at least to the NBA Finals this year, it's not a successful rebuild yet. You jumped the gun a little with that comment.
And, as for one of the quickest rebuilds in sports history, look at what the Spurs did after David Robinson retired in 2003. They won a championship in 2005 with new core players. Why not "rebuild" while winning championships at the same time?
BTW...just wondering why you make 5 years the "Window" of when teams are relevant? Is it so Lakers Fans cant use the 3 peat into thier arguement? If so..bravo..you should be a lawyer.
Last I checked the Spurs still had Manu Ginobli and Tony Parker in 2003, they didn't rebuild so much as retool their bench players. That is much easier to do, there is no shortage of veteran ring chasers in the NBA.
And since when does rebuilding = winning a championship? All I'm saying is the Lakers are back in contention after 4 short years, there is no denying that fact. A team consisting of Andrew Bynum, Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, and Kobe Bryant is going to do some damage when healthy and fully integrated together. The best part about it is all the core players are young enough to play at a high level for the next 5 years, at which time the young stars (Bynum) can start shouldering the load.
Anyways back on topic, someone over at LG said it best about the GSW/LAL matchup
I for one would really love to see the Lakers get the Warriors in the 1st round. The Warriors thrive against teams that they can go small against because nobody plays small ball as well as they do. The Warriors forced Dallas to go small last year in the playoffs because Dampier, Dirk and Diop were not able to punish the Warriors in the post (namely because none of them are good post players), and once the Mavs were forced out of their game, the series was over.
The Lakers, on the other hand, typically force the Warriors out of their game and make them have to go big and abandon their small ball. With Gasol and Bynum out right now, the Lakers can't do this (Ronny & Odom aren't any bigger than Biedrins & Harrington), so essentially the Lakers are forced to play small ball against the team that does it the best. But this will not be the case if the Lakers play the Warriors in the playoffs. The Warriors would get absolutely mauled by the Laker frontline attack in the playoffs and would be forced to have to try to go big and go away from what works for them, and the Lakers would really just cruise to victories.
Remember how effective the severely under-talented Lakers did two years ago in the playoffs against Phoenix just because the Lakers forced the Suns out of their small ball game by using Kwame Brown and Lamar in the post? Imagine Phil employing that strategy against an even smaller team in the Warriors but with not one but two 7 footers who are actually very very tough to guard down low. A first round matchup with the Warriors would be an easy one for the Lakers. Don't let last night's game or tonight's game mislead you into thinking that's what a series against them would look like.
I made that comment because you said that you were not born when the lakers won their les. That would make you what? 5 years old? The Lakers are tied with the Spurs for the most les this decade!
Okay, I was just talking trash about the Spurs les, trying to minimize their accomplishments like what you're trying to do with the lakers. 4 les is a great feat and I will give them their props for it but compared to the lakers accomplishments, it's nothing to brag about. Talk to Mavs fans and Suns fans about les, not lakers fans!
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