Wammy Giveaway wrote:I've been keeping an eye on this team since the Chris Paul veto. Growing up a Lakers fan, I know what it's like for a team to have to face adversity. The Lakers have always conquered through because of Dr. Jerry Buss and his Midas touch.
wut
i have no personal beef with you, but i need to correct some of your line of thoughts. again, nothing personal, just your post right here, right now.
#1. you growing up a lakerfan taught you how to deal with adversities? being a laker fan is the last place in the NBA to learn how to persevere through adversities, let alone even know what adversities really mean in NBA. all the championships in the 80s, then shaq and kobe, then kobe and pau weren't enough for ya??? really, GTFOutta here with that.
#2. if you call buying draft picks from teams in financial trouble due to lack of attendance and thus little cash flow, being genius with a midas touch then well... yeah okay... whatever. but rules were different back then. lakers used being the only team at the time in the biggest basketball market in the world of that era, into building perennial super teams, and still lost at the big dance repeatedly when they had Wilt, Jerry West, Elgin baylor, gail goodrich and the rest of your allstars. playing in los angeles and its celebrity fan base brought media attention, was able to outspend their way into being perennial champions only when they had magic and worthy by
buying the picks with cash.
would you call the Yankee GMs over the years geniuses for winning all that ships with the biggest budget on the planet? having the deepest pocket is even making Ned Colletti look like a... well.
Wammy Giveaway wrote:The Clippers have always been the opposite, running away from their problems, until they got CP3 to help them face their fears. Slowly and surely, they've been learning lessons on how to become a true title contender, and possibly, a dynasty.
nope. we have attempted many tries to turn the ship around.
first came Larry Brown. we had become respectable and made back to back playoffs, then Larry pulled being Larry and left. DTS then did what DTS does when there is no strong basketball mind in the organization and went back t being cheap.
then came Mike D Sr. i was actually one of the very last standing supporters of Dunleavy through the years. he was the man that was able to get rid of the cancer that was Elgin Baylor. for those who have been following the clips for a long time, remember when Baylor drafted Wilcox then Ely in the same draft and wasted two high picks in the first round? he drafted one PF to trade that was supposedly in the pocket, then drafted another to keep. well Elgin was a sucker and this allowed the other GM to draft whom he really wanted by having the clips be duped. how stupid can you get? Mike Dunleavy fixed that problem for good, and brought in Sam Cassell and signed Cat Mobley. Signing Cat Mobley was the biggest turning point of this franchise. this was the very first time a well known FA who was not washed up and out of other options came to the clippers willingly, and Cat delivered. Mike D had a plan, and that plan was to built around Shawn Livingston becoming the next magic. then the tragedy struck.
it's not Mike D's fault that we faltered, and Elton brand became Felton in my book (F Elton was the meaning) after ditching us.
only after all this, then came the CP3 era, but not before drafting Blake. so to say the clippers turn around only came after we got CP3 is deadly wrong. CP3 was the end of the journey for the transformation, not the beginning.
Wammy Giveaway wrote:Over the years, my loyalty for the Lakers has drifted away into nothing, not because of the veto, but for the realization that a changing of the guard has taken place. And I'm glad for them. Really.
so, will you be leaving us for another franchise once that "changing of the guard" takes place? everything that has a beginning has an end (borrowing the words from the Oracle of the Matrix) and all things that has a rise will fall someday. will you be gone when the clips start the next cycle of sucking?
Wammy Giveaway wrote:Of all the interviews I've done for my Clippers season wrap-up podcast (see the Multimedia thread), with names like Jimmy Church, Fred Katz, Steve Perrin, Eric Pincus, Chris Wylde and Woobly O'Balls, they've all shared the same sentiment: it's a new world, the Clippers have changed, and I've welcomed it.
I thought you were Chris Wylde. now I have no idea of who you are. that's why i said if you were the one being called a **** by drew gooden.
Wammy Giveaway wrote:So please do not assume my post above was a stab at a Clippers and a root-root-root for their arch rival. That post up there describes a team going through a growth spurt. The Clippers are shedding their step child persona and is about to become a man.
I really didn't mean to make you look like a bad fan or anything, but truly your this particular post did not sit well with me and felt compelled to make my points.
sorry If i offended you. that was not the purpose of this reply.
ehhhhh f it.
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