2 of Amerika’s Most Wanted: The Official GOAT franchise Boss Angeles Lakers 2019-2020 season thread

[2Quik4UHoes]

I mean, it's known that Kobe was the reason Jim and Mitch got the boot then got Magic and his boy Rob inserted into the front office. He told Jeanie he knew they wanted LeBron and this is what would need to be done to accomplish that. Kobe has his fingerprints all over the franchise.

Woulda been the next Jerry West but behind the scenes.

Why he had to go man?

 

[Yessir_Araphat]

Game 7 2010 Finals on ESPN for anyone interested

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Game 7 2010 Finals on ESPN for anyone interested

I ain’t ready....

 

[MenacingMonk]

It's over brehs. Sports is done for months. A decade ago LA had its last title. It looked like the drought would be over, then this shyt happened.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Thats true, we can blame Magic but I dont think Bron comes here if Jim Buss or Rob Pelinka are in charge..He probably would have asked Rob Pelinka to be fired and hire his own guy without Magic being involved.

If we are also going to blame Magic for those early trades then Rob should get blame as well

He is still so so with me, I wont truly judge him till I see what he does with AD and life after Bron. As far as we know Rich Paul is the one who got AD here and a lot of role players were recommendation of AD/LeBron

I think bron was gonna come no matter what to set up life after basketball.

 

[ALonelyDad]

I think bron was gonna come no matter what to set up life after basketball.

Wouldn't be under Pelinka though, he would have wanted a new hire. He didn't even to meet Pelinka at first lol. Magic doing what he did with his quitting was probably the best for relationship of LeBron and Pelinka.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

They showing Birth of a Dynasty on Spectrum talking about the Blazers series, Blazers really trotted out

Damon Stoudamire/Greg Anthony
Bonzi Wells/Steve Smith
Pippen/Schremph
Sheed/Brian Grant
Sabonis/Young Jermaine O'Neal

Damn

That was a squad

Whats crazy is they would have been a tougher team in this era. Sheed/Sabonis would be taking more outside shots. Probably start Sheed and Detlef at the 5/4 for real.

That whole decade blessed us. Only further cemented the Lakers status as the GOAT franchise in all professional sports....

Wait, y'all are serious? I thought the first comment was making fun of that lineup until I saw the replies.

Stoudamire was 5'9" tops.
Steve Smith was post-injury and on the decline, just a year away from being a straight scrub
Pippen was 34 and in the twilight of his career, averaged 12ppg that year
Sheed never wanted to be the man and would have been one of the weakest #1 scorers on a Finals team ever
Sabonis was 35 and DEEP into the twilight of his career, averaged 11ppg that year and retired a year later

They were trotting out 6'9" Brian Grant as the backup center because they didn't trust Jermaine O'Neal.

And Bonzi didn't start, he was a 2nd-year player who got 17 minutes/game.

Whole team was on some "shoot a bunch of long midrange jumpers" shyt, which is one reason they collapsed in that Game 7 cause they all started hitting the back of the rim at the same time....be a jump-shooting team without any three-point shooters brehs.


There was an argument the other day about how Rose-Deng-Boozer wasn't a good enough scoring trio even for a defensively elite team, and these guys were trotting out Sheed-Smith-old Pippen without even being defensively elite.

 

[Trojan 24]

Wait, y'all are serious? I thought the first comment was making fun of that lineup until I saw the replies.

Stoudamire was 5'9" tops.
Steve Smith was post-injury and on the decline, just a year away from being a straight scrub
Pippen was 34 and in the twilight of his career, averaged 12ppg that year
Sheed never wanted to be the man and would have been one of the weakest #1 scorers on a Finals team ever
Sabonis was 35 and DEEP into the twilight of his career, averaged 11ppg that year and retired a year later

They were trotting out 6'9" Brian Grant as the backup center because they didn't trust Jermaine O'Neal.

And Bonzi didn't start, he was a 2nd-year player who got 17 minutes/game.

Whole team was on some "shoot a bunch of long midrange jumpers" shyt, which is one reason they collapsed in that Game 7 cause they all started hitting the back of the rim at the same time....be a jump-shooting team without any three-point shooters brehs.


There was an argument the other day about how Rose-Deng-Boozer wasn't a good enough scoring trio even for a defensively elite team, and these guys were trotting out Sheed-Smith-old Pippen without even being defensively elite.

Oh look the Blazer fan thinks that team was trash when everyone else talks about how deep they were

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Oh look the Blazer fan thinks that team was trash when everyone else talks about how deep they were

What is that an argument for?

I didn't say they weren't "deep", I don't even know why you mention that. They were "deep" to a degree in that they could legit play 10-11 guys, but this was their bench:

38yo Schrempf
Brian Grant
Greg Anthony
2nd-year Bonzi (17 minutes/game)
21-yo Jermaine (12 minutes/game)

In fact only 7 Blazers even played in all 7 games that series and one of those 7 was Brian Grant averaging 4 and 4. Greg Anthony only played 8 minutes/game in the series, and Jermaine just 3 minutes/game. So they only went 7-8 deep against the Lakers

Laker bench, for comparison, was Fisher-Horry-Fox-AC Green-Shaw-George. So the benches were pretty comparable.....but Lakers were running out a first three of Shaq-Kobe-Glen Rice, while the Blazers were rolling with Sheed-Steve Smith-Old Pippen.


Here's some shyt I GUARENTEE you no one other than a Blazer fan would remember. Back in that day Colin Cowherd wasn't a national sports commentator, he was just the obnoxious sports guy for a local Portland station. I'd left Portland years earlier but was back visiting family when I saw him talking after Game 3 when the Blazers went down 2-1 with another home game up next, and he MOCKED Portland's chances to win the series. When da fukk have you seen a city's own sports broadcaster MOCKING his own team's chance to win a playoff series? But now you want to talk about how that Blazer squad (heavy underdogs who lost in a 1st-round sweep the next year) were some sort of world-beaters even though they never did shyt.

 

[Yessir_Araphat]

I ain’t ready....

that shot of Gigi on Kobe’s shoulders while talking to Bill Russell

 

[Trojan 24]

What is that an argument for?

I didn't say they weren't "deep", I don't even know why you mention that. They were "deep" to a degree in that they could legit play 10-11 guys, but this was their bench:

38yo Schrempf
Brian Grant
Greg Anthony
2nd-year Bonzi (17 minutes/game)
21-yo Jermaine (12 minutes/game)

Laker bench, for comparison, was Fisher-Horry-Fox-AC Green-Shaw-George. So the benches were pretty comparable.....but Lakers were running out a first three of Shaq-Kobe-Glen Rice, while the Blazers were rolling with Sheed-Steve Smith-Old Pippen.


Here's some shyt I GUARENTEE you no one other than a Blazer fan would remember. Back in that day Colin Cowherd wasn't a national sports commentator, he was just the obnoxious sports guy for a local Portland station. I'd left Portland years earlier but was back visiting family when I saw him talking after Game 3 when the Blazers went down 2-1 with another home game up next, and he MOCKED Portland's chances to win the series. When da fukk have you seen a city's own sports broadcaster MOCKING his own team's chance to win a playoff series? But now you want to talk about how that Blazer squad (heavy underdogs who lost in a 1st-round sweep the next year) were some sort of world-beaters even though they never did shyt.

You know they actually are pretty similar to the 2011 Mavs, except well the Mavs somehow won

5'8 Midget
A bunch of flabby heads
And a PF who wasn't a leader till he won

 

[10bandz]

I think bron was gonna come no matter what to set up life after basketball.

I don’t think he would’ve if Jim was in charge. Kobe told Jeanie to fire him for a reason he must’ve known ahead of time.

that shot of Gigi on Kobe’s shoulders while talking to Bill Russell

yeah I’m not watching that game for a while

 

[10bandz]

You know they actually are pretty similar to the 2011 Mavs, except well the Mavs somehow won

5'8 Midget
A bunch of flabby heads
And a PF who wasn't a leader till he won

 

[Trojan 24]

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You know they actually are pretty similar to the 2011 Mavs, except well the Mavs somehow won

5'8 Midget
A bunch of flabby heads
And a PF who wasn't a leader till he won

Dirk was already an MVP, Sheed hadn't even made an all-star game until that year.

Mavs won due to fantastic coaching and great teamwork more than anything else. Blazers hated each other, completely imploded as a team within months, and were coached by freaking Mike Dunleavy (46% lifetime winning %) who was fired less than a year later.



I swear some of y'all the biggest chatty pattys. You're like pro wrestling fans, you enjoy talking to men about fake narratives involving other men more than you like talking real basketball.