The media mostly. They instigated it through their coverage of them and it made Laker fans resentful of LeBron and made LeBron fans completely dismissive of Kobe....
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The media mostly. They instigated it through their coverage of them and it made Laker fans resentful of LeBron and made LeBron fans completely dismissive of Kobe....
Do you really want me to remind you the teammates lebron had during that time
This is true obviously I’m a lebron fan but I never hated Kobe. The only time I felt a way about Kobe was when the situation with him telling on Shaq came up.The media mostly. They instigated it through their coverage of them and it made Laker fans resentful of LeBron and made LeBron fans completely dismissive of Kobe....
Too many postups right now. They need to get him the ball rolling to the basket though it's hard to do that with javale/dwight in the paint.
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Lol yeah right...easy to say when it's 10-2....
One losing streak away from losing it again.
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G-Zeus Chrystler...the brehsident
I'm not even sure the problem is postups...
But they are grounding the crap out of him...I don't understand how he is not getting more calls....
This is the thing about having a bunch of defensive guys on the coaching staff
We've got the best defense in the league, but a fairly unimaginative offense
Nah.... More concerned than anything. Dude has been logging some serious minutes. That bothers me a bit.
Breh, I can’t even imagine how much better this team would look with a real offensive guru on the coaching staff. We’ve got the players to have a great offense but we just gotta make it happen.
It was the 2009 season with the puppet commercials..The media mostly. They instigated it through their coverage of them and it made Laker fans resentful of LeBron and made LeBron fans completely dismissive of Kobe....
People thought we was gonna see Cavs vs Lakers but the Magic stepped in and made Mike Brown look stupid as hell in that series and knocked the Cavs off
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AD's offense got me concerned lately, seems like those injuries are catching up to him 
He's still been great getting those blocks and defensive presence, but definitely hesitating throwing it down and shots still not quite there
He's still been great getting those blocks and defensive presence, but definitely hesitating throwing it down and shots still not quite there
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They were the two most dominant wing players at the time, and on opposite coasts. TMac let us down too many times and Duncan has the personality of a cardboard box. Plus I think deep down people could see in the mid-late 00s that both Bron and Kobe were both headed to top-5 ish type players. A finals between them would have been colossal.
Now the beef between stan bases is a bit strange though. Cant really pinpoint a moment were that would have started.
Mike Brown was a problem but I think the roster they gave Brown was worse. The front office signed a 6'1" tweener guard who couldn't play defense or pass off the dribble and had no experience in big moments and that was supposed to be LeBron's top sidekick in a title run? Remember when Kobe was demanding more help in LA and they got Pau, imagine how he would have reacted if they got him Mo Williams instead.It was the 2009 season with the puppet commercials..
People thought we was gonna see Cavs vs Lakers but the Magic stepped in and made Mike Brown look stupid as hell in that series and knocked the Cavs off
Their roster was like a grab-bag of basketball skill elements with no rhyme or reason to how they would fit together.And then there was also just bad luck. The Cavs actually could have handled the Lakers because they just happened to match up well - the Lakers had no beast offensive presence inside to take advantage of Cleveland's skinny big men(Bynum was a 20min defensive presence at that point with little offensive development), Varejao and Iglauskas matched up fairly well with Pau, neither Fisher nor Farmar were going to burn Mo's weak defense, and LeBron outplayed Kobe more often than not.
On the other hand the Cavs had a horrible roster against Orlando. Dwight could just manhandle Z inside, Varejao wasn't nearly fast enough to chase Rashard out to the 3pt line, Turkoglu was a good 7" taller than Delonte West, and Mo got his ass burned by Skip to My Lou all series long. Mike Brown's attempt to have LeBron guard Pietrus and then just help on everyone didn't work for shyt, but what would have worked? He probably should have had LeBron stick on Turk all game with Delonte on Pietrus and then had LeBron double off of Turk, but that would have only been slightly more effective. It was just not a very skilled or balanced roster.
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