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2009 Playoffs ~Los Angeles Lakers (65-17) vs Denver Nuggets (54-28)~ Round 3
"THE" MoSav:
these are just 2 evenly matched teams. But game 7 Kobe will be the deciding factor
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: "THE" MoSav on May 21, 2009, 11:16:58 PM ---these are just 2 evenly matched teams. But game 7 Kobe will be the deciding factor
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If Kobe is the deciding factor, the Lakers win, I think it comes down to the other 11 in forum blue. Can Gasol step up, can Odom keep saving bad plays like he did today, can Ariza keep up this overplaying his doing. If Kobe's play decided the Lakers fate, the Lakers would have had 2 titles since Shaq left. Kobe decides the game, the Lakers win, but it's everyone else.
.:DaYg0sTyLz:.:
Saying the Lakers beat themselves is a cop out, and completely disrespectful to a VERY good Denver team. Right now, Denver is every bit as good as the Lakers....but i think Denver is more consistent right now. Every losing team can say they beat themselves.
Ill say it again...and believe me, youll start to hear Laker fans say it at some point. Phil is overrated as a coach.
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on May 21, 2009, 11:34:43 PM ---Saying the Lakers beat themselves is a cop out, and completely disrespectful to a VERY good Denver team. Right now, Denver is every bit as good as the Lakers....but i think Denver is more consistent right now. Every losing team can say they beat themselves.
Ill say it again...and believe me, youll start to hear Laker fans say it at some point. Phil is overrated as a coach.
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when you win with Mike and Scottie, then Shaq and Kobe, but can't win otherwise, you might be right.
Denver is good, Melo is playing like everyone thought he would when he came into the league. His making himself one of the best players in the world today. But the bottom line is the Nuggets had NO 24 second clock violations, they played smart, the Lakers had at least 4 that I can think of in the second half. That's a mental break down, and in all but one Kobe didn't touch the ball, and the one time he touched the ball it was too throw up a shot that was an air ball. Phil Jackson is not installing basketball IQs into the rest of the team. In the fourth quarter, Shannon Brown instead of trying to find Kobe, drove to the basket for a lay up, not once, but twice, only to get rejected in the paint. That's when as the head coach, you pull your PG aside and tell him to distribute the ball 'cause you have the best closer in the game and he needs to ball to close. Yes the Nuggets are playing well but this game was the Lakers killing themselves. Hell, this kind of effort on the Lakers might have actually won them games against many other teams, they still played hard, and they hustled on every play. That beats the Rockets, the version of the Celtics that got eliminated, and it beats the Spurs. But it doesn't beat a Nugget team that's in the NBA conference finals for a reason. Phil needs to step up his coaching, 'cause his costing Kobe his chance at another title and Kobe only has at most 4 more years before it's too late.
wcsoldier:
Let's stay realistic Lakers fans , Denver should have won Game 1 , we should have taken this one ... there is nothing to cry about .. of course it's very frustrated that we were not able to put Denver in a hole but there is nothing unfair about the series being tied ... I'm just disgusted by the horrible coaching ( and this happened this year on a regular basis) , I just cannot see how anybody can defend him because he has 9 rings ...
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