No llores, mija. It is what it is.
They had a murderer too: Javaris Crittenton.
I think Manu and Tim would've stepped up and had monster series like in 05, and the Spurs would've won and gone back to back. They were on a mission 'til that .04 BS.
05 was much closer than I thought it was going to be. I think the Piston having a ring in their pocket gave them more confidence is why. In fact, Spurs arguably needed some breaks to win that series.
I call it the five-game sweep. Lakerrefs had to play really hard to engineer that lone W. Then in Detroit, the Lakers just looked like they had no business being there. It was one of the most embarrassing finals ever for a team, tbh.
Yeah, that 04 squad was better than our 06 team, tbh, as far as which team that should have been part of a B2B but wasn't.
As is usually the case with teams attempting repeat, the Pistons supporting cast was weaker in 2005
Dayum, forgot about him. He was an LG legend
Spurs got transgressions too
--Their GM is a drunkard
--Their coach is a closet MAGA
--Their best player alone has Merlin Tats, Tramp Stamp, 2004 Bronze Medal (), payed para mi amigo's gym, got duped in a failed Maybelline scandal for millions, got a tongue ring (), and only weekend visitation rights to his (?) kids
--Their 2nd best player ever got deported, only to win it all
--Their 3rd best player has a 1988 Bronze Medal
--Their best PG ed the out of his teammates wife
God damnit, Julio. We're talking about pieces of as in criminals, dirty mother s. We have 1 drunkard and 1 adulterer. Pop is about as white-cuck apologist as you can get, you're basically lying there. Learn to fully understand the language, Esteban or take your ies, your hairnets and your Locs sunglasses right back across that damn border and live with the rest of them dirt-farming, pepper-eating salsa suckers.
Boiled down:
Spurs: 2 pieces of
Lakers: countless and growing by the day
@ not mentioning the spurs rapists. Not on my watch
Former spurs guard David Wingate was accused of rape twice in the same week
Neal also rapedPERIOD
You have nary room. Spurs standing shoulder to shoulder with the Lakers. The spurs organization so called class is nothing but a bad joke.
Not even close. A few rapists, an adulterer and drunkard < murderers, rapists, snitches, adulterers, pedophiles and Magic's son.
Just a few rapists
Strong retort
Not to pile on to your crusade, but I have a foggy recollection of a former Spur in maybe South Texas somewhere being into some heavy stuff; don't remember if it was pedophila, murder, drugs or what....
https://www.gq.com/story/prime-shaq?...=pocket-newtab
Don't agree with most of the article, but relevant to the topic here.
For one thing, statistics, both advanced and traditional, showed that Shaq is clearly better than Bryant. Outside of very few kobestans, Shaq is still ranked way above Bryant.
Shaq's compe ion is the Hakeems and Duncans, while Kobe is compared to the Carters and the Garnetts, just two different class of players.
But he did the underbite thingy when he made tough shots.
Shhhhh!!
It used to be "Kobe is the next Jordan!!!!!!!!!!!'
Then it's Kobe can be as good as Duncan
Then it's Kobe was 1a to Shaq's 1
Now: "kobe is better than Bradley Beal!"
In a few years, Kobestans will be like, "You know why Kobe is the best ever, because he was clearly better than Harold Minor".
PPG
Shaq 23.7
Kobe 25.0
RPG
Shaq 10.9
Kobe 5.2
APG
Shaq 2.5
Kobe 4.7
FT%
Shaq 52.7%
Kobe 83.7%
BPG
Shaq 2.3
Kobe 0.5
All-time Scoring Rank
Shaq 8th
Kobe 4th**
Rangs
Shaq 4
Kobe 5
Total GP
Shaq 1,207
Kobe 1,346
All Star Appearances
Shaq 15
Kobe 18
Shaq is the "Most Dominant Ever" but Kobe averaged more points/game - despite Kobe coming fresh out of high school, barely playing his rookie year, and NEVER being the 1st option (rightfully so) when he was a teammate of Shaq. Kobe also sustained his scoring over more games than Shaq. Usually Big Men play longer, but Shaq was lazy.
Shaq averaged more rebounds and blocks, but that's it. Defensively is a whole other level. Kobe runs circles around him. Shaq's scoring was more efficient, but if Kobe didn't defend Ray Allen, Mike Bibby, Jason Kidd, Manure, Reggie Miller, and many many more all star - or even HOF bound guards - as well as put in work offensively, the Lakers DON'T 3peat. For many series the Lakers were "two deep" vs teams that were "too deep" - the 2000 Jail Blazers come to mind. And, Kobe was the defacto PG (love Fish but he didn't run the team, Kobe did).
Kobe is hated by millions of fans that either hated the Lakers and/or fans that "sided" with Shaq in their feud. Shaq played on 6 different teams (including the damn Celtics SMH) in a pathetic attempt to catch and/or surpass Kobe in rangs.
I'm glad it didn't work. Now he'll go to his grave knowing that he ed up by letting his talent go to waste because he stopped putting in the work. Kobe did, so I will rock with him to the death in this never ending feud between these two knuckleheads.
**Bron is 4th in scoring, but will pass Kobe
Read my next post sucka.
2008-09 season.
Gasol: 126/105 O/Drating
Kobe: 115/106
Gasol: 13.9 WS, .223 WS/48, 3.3 OBPM, 1.7 DBPM, 5.0 BPM, 5.3 VORP
Kobe: 12.7, .206, 4.8, -0.2, 4.5, 4.9
Playoffs:
Gasol: 124/102
Kobe: 117/104
Gasol: 4.3, .221, 3.0, 3.5, 6.5, 2.0
Kobe: 4.7, .238, 6.7, 0.8, 7.5, 2.2
The reason Kobe was able to "go off" is because he played against teams like the Jazz, Rockets, and Nuggets then Magic in the finals. This is about the easiest path to the finals by a team ever.
Kobe was an expert in going off on bad compe ion to bad his stats. The only time he ever got off against "good" compe ion was when he did it against geriatric Terry Porter and Steve Smith against the Spurs. Other times? he got outplayed thoroughly by Austin Croshere, Reggie Miller, Rip Hamilton and Paul Pierce.
rewarding Kobe for not passing the ball to Shaq to pad his own stats.
One record nobody can ever surpass Kobe though - Bricks.
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