What did he do?
Lakers youngsters are actually pretty damn good. Turiaf, Farmar, Bynum, now Critt are all good. They're not ready this year, but within 2 they will be solid. That's what makes Kobe's complaining all the more puzzling. It's like he can't even evaluate his own teammates. His smartest move would be to just shutup and play basketball, actually pass the ball and develop his teammates. Either way we will be good. Whether we keep him or trade him for Deng, Gordon, Thomas, and whoever.
The problem is, Kobe signed that last extention not to baby sit his young, potential teammates, but to quickly challange for championship year in & out with a rebuilt veteran team orbiting around him (instead of O'Neal as in the past).
Great game for the Lakers! Not so good for PHoenix.
If he wanted that, maybe he should have signed for less money.
Nah, who'd be dumb enough to do that?
Suns Coach Mike D'Antoni wasn't smiling in the final few minutes, particularly after Jackson called a timeout immediately after a mandatory Phoenix timeout with 4:45 to play and the Lakers ahead, 111-81. D'Antoni and Jackson exchanged words, with D'Antoni reminding Jackson the teams will play three more times this season.
"You mean the eight minutes he took over there to explain maybe one play that he probably didn't run? Yeah, I was pretty upset," D'Antoni said. "I thought he disrespected our players. But he likes to play mind games, and that's fine. He might want to try to do it in playoff time when we bust them every year. We have them three more times. . . . That's fine." (latimes)
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Did you see what Phil said something to the effect of WTF are you doing? Sit down. LOL
Dantony was loudly complaining to the ref, said something about we're good, three more games blahblah flashed phil a thumbs up.
Phil yelled at him to sit down and then called him a mother er.
Dantony didnt say anything after that.
Suns Lakers game will be must watches from now on.
The problem is Kobe's not a big so whether he likes it or not a team built around a guard won't be able to challenge and win championships year in and year out. This ain't a post expansion Jordan's Bulls. Basketball is still a big mans game and winning les goes through the post.
D'Antoni running playoff smack on Phil Jackson?
Classic.
Next week: Steve Nash calls Bill Russell out for not winning a playoff game in almost 30 years.
"Yeah, I was pretty upset," D'Antoni said. "I thought he disrespected our players. But he likes to play the mind games and that's fine. He might want to try to do it in playoff time when we bust them every year."
Jackson said he was just getting a mandatory timeout out of the way.
"He wasn't thinking straight. That's all," Jackson said of D'Antoni. "He'd understand that if he thought about it for a second. I think he thought I was trying to showboat or grandstand. But when you have a mandatory timeout coming in a minute and a half or something like that, just get it out of the way."
"Yeah, I was pretty upset," D'Antoni said. "I thought he disrespected our players. But he likes to play the mind games and that's fine. He might want to try to do it in playoff time when we bust them every year."
Jackson said he was just getting a mandatory timeout out of the way.
"He wasn't thinking straight. That's all," Jackson said of D'Antoni. "He'd understand that if he thought about it for a second. I think he thought I was trying to showboat or grandstand. But when you have a mandatory timeout coming in a minute and a half or something like that, just get it out of the way."
Damn LOL
You forgot the part where he asks: "Got anything, Steve?"
Sleepy Suns booed during rout by Lakers
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/sports/67758.php
suns coach should stfu
the lakers took suns to 7 games not to long ago
then the suns always lose to the spurs
so it really does not matter if they get by the lakers
sucks that we lost,but I'm not too upset the suns tend to start the season off bad and they get their togther and if I remember correctly we lost the season opener to the lakers(minus kobe) last season....not the end of the world
Last year in the Suns opener against the Lakers, the Suns didn't play Amare much. And, Boris Diaw was fat. And, they didn't lose by that much.
This year, the Lakers were playing without Odom. And, they busted the Suns open like a teenage virgin.
D'Antoni stores up slights like a squirrel stashes acorns for winter, but that is ridiculous. Wasn't he in Italy in 2000? WTF?
Great passing by the Lakers last night. They played great team ball........that or the suns defense is the worst its ever been.
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