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So lemme get this str8. In your opinion the Lakers are going to be representing the West in the NBA Finals this year?
Quote from: Bay Area Jat on January 09, 2007, 09:13:00 PMSo lemme get this str8. In your opinion the Lakers are going to be representing the West in the NBA Finals this year?Yes they are.
jewsylvania you said that it's not possible to 'love shaq' and 'love' the lakers,lol hypocrit ::dissmissing jewsylvania::
mdogg that was a very well thought out argument , one in which i almost agree with 95% of . In a perspective, the lakers ARE in a better position (and lets remember that word position) to be NBA champions....the past few years(not only in basketball) have proven that any team can win it all. no dominant teams ,and teams that should have won, have won. the no offense pistons win the championship over a hall of fame (granted beat up) laker squad that should have won it. the Steelers a wildcard team beats the division champion bengles then beats the nfls best team the colts then goes on to beat the nfc's best team the seakhawks, the boston red sox, historically the greatest no.2/3 finisher of all time, runs through the AL first round, then comes from behind to beat the arch nemesis that 'cursed' them, then goes on to beat a team that they easily could have gotten served by, the miami heat a very old relatively NEW team comes from behind to beat the mavericks a team that was hot off wins VS pheonix and the nba's best team the spurs. so the lakers , who you said will most likely finish fourth or fifth, and for all intensive purposes would have finished at 3rd if the team was healthy, could be in a better (here's that word again) position to be nba champions , considering they're goign to the playoffs, the heat might not. but who's to say pheonix won't beat them again, who's to say the mavericks might get better and beat them, and oh shit there's still the spurs .....they just sleep eat and shit playoff mode all through out the season, so they could always win too. but again they're in good POSITION to overcome all that, and win it all, in which i hope they do.but that's what COULD happen if everything goes right......but things really havn't gone right since shaq got traded. we don't make the playoffs one year, we get embarassed the next. while shaq's over there in miami sitting on another championship ,almost 2, in the same time it took the lakers to go to being in the finals to getting embarrassed. and granted one of the key players that couldn't do it in miami is now on our team. HISTORY right now is favoring the HEAT in this trade, you don't think if managment wouldn't have been more responsive to that petty kobe shaq shit that we would'nt have at least ONE MORE championship. odds are, considering what has happened in the last two years if the lakers and shaq find a happy medium, the lakers' last memory of the finals is not the piston loss, and the last memory of the playoffs is not an embarressment. sure though yes the lakers are in a better POSITION to help balance history, but until they DO IT in the next 10 years or so, shaq is still sitting over there with the last laugh, primetime sanders c/o 95' style. even if the heat miss the playoffs. and the lakers make it the next 10 years. History is measured in how many championship banners you have up in your arena, not how consistant you were over the years. until my team proves me wrong, IMO we would have had a deeper richer history if management would have kept shaq and worked things out. but i'm still waiting to be proved wrong.
Quote from: Rik Fury on January 09, 2007, 09:34:57 PMQuote from: Bay Area Jat on January 09, 2007, 09:13:00 PMSo lemme get this str8. In your opinion the Lakers are going to be representing the West in the NBA Finals this year?Yes they are.wow thats a bold statement.
Quote from: Bay Area Jat on January 09, 2007, 10:10:08 PMQuote from: Rik Fury on January 09, 2007, 09:34:57 PMQuote from: Bay Area Jat on January 09, 2007, 09:13:00 PMSo lemme get this str8. In your opinion the Lakers are going to be representing the West in the NBA Finals this year?Yes they are.wow thats a bold statement. I said this before the season began