The Lakers couldn't get out of the 1st round before Pau. They weren't the best team in the West. Now stop quoting me with your dumb shyt.
Luka Doncic traded to Lakers for Anthony Davis (Shams) He might be hacked?? IDK* ITS REAL DAMMIT
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i see what everyone talk about now lol
That you a clown?
VegetasHairline
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Torrential
LWO
He’s such a fsggot . The warriors window is closed he has nothing to argue about now he’s starting to get involved in the stan wars bringing up Kobe . Such a shameless fakkit . He has no relevance left on this board .
You came in here stating the Lakers were the best team in the West before they got Pau, when they weren't, and you got the nerve to say I'm wrong.
You know cotdamn well the point of my argument is that the Lakers didn't have any playoff success until they got Pau, but here you are talking about being a #1 seed as if that means anything. Being the #1 seed doesn't amount to anything in this context. It's patently ridiculous to be hung up on that point when the Lakers were nothing but a 1st round exit team until they traded for Pau.
Why even argue something as straight-forward as that?
Were you in a coma 2007/2008?
It seems like you were.
What playoff success did Kobe have without Pau prior to that trade in 2008? What did the Lakers do other than crash out in the 1st round?
2008 was not the same team prior
odom was playing his best
fish came back
sasha couldn’t miss
bynum was damn near a all star
kobe changed his game
it wasn’t the same damn team as the previous 3 years
Funny how people are trying to justify this trade by saying how great AD is but are more excited to have Luka over him.
Bynum was in his 3rd year has a guy who came to the league out of HS. So it's not like Bynum was ready to help before then.
We grabbed Trevor Ariza during the season too.
Gil a fakkit, the fact Kobe even took those 06 and 07 teams to the playoffs was crazy. He was taking the 05 team to the playoffs too before he got hurt.
darealvelle
Real Talk
My memory is very hazy cuz this was during high school for me but I do recall Kobe was on god mode after shaq left, and several of those teams were very good
UpAndComing
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- "The relationship between Nico Harrison and Luka"
- "Luka is an unbelievable talent which is obvious. But his lack of discipline with his fitness really wore on the Mavericks organization. Nico was very high on that list, but by no means alone in that"
- "When Luka sprained his calf on Christmas Day, there wasn't a big chunk of sympathy for the situation. It was more like well this is what happens when you don't care about conditioning or dieting"
- "There was 4 strains on 1 calf in 3 years, a chronic problem. Then after that he missed all camp, all preseason, and wasn't taking care of his body"
- "Luka can average great stats and play like crap, that's how talented he is. But he was playing around 260 pounds"
- "And now they are thinking, oh wait, we are going to give this guy a $345 mill commitment this summer. There was a fear this would be another Joel Embiid situation. A guy that is on a Supermax and not on the floor very often"
Mavericks Organization put their foot down I guess
