This team is going to be scary good in '08/'09

islander009 · Post #61 » by **islander009** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 5:53 am

Lakers will get theirs next year. Then win another championship. Enough said. 50, 60, 65, 70, or 81 wins doesnt really matter we will still have the rings fitted by the start of the following season.

EHL · Post #62 » by **EHL** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 5:56 am

Jordan23Forever wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

The MJ shill board is that way. --->

Post #63 » by **milesfides** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 6:55 am

ILikeTheGrizz wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I think I'm fine. Thanks for the heads up though, that's not baiting from a mod at all.

No, that's not baiting, that's my warning to you for insulting people.

SashAlex · Post #64 » by **SashAlex** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 7:58 am

What about 82 - 0 ?! Pretty real !

ILikeTheGrizz · Post #65 » by **ILikeTheGrizz** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 12:47 pm

milesfides wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

No, that's not baiting, that's my warning to you for insulting people.

Insulting people? In this thread? :lol:

Ok.

bobobolas1 · Post #66 » by **bobobolas1** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 2:23 pm

It is going to be scary good, yep, but forget about 72Wins cause we gotta play 4 games with 6 Contenders wich means 24 really tough games. imposible but yes, we are giong to be scary good.

Post #67 » by **dockingsched** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 3:45 pm

if healthy? 71-72 wins for sure. they won't even sniff 73 though.

zenmaster2323 · Post #68 » by **zenmaster2323** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 4:42 pm

You have to remember that when the Bulls won 72 games, the entire league was much easier.

Now days you have an incredibly stacked western conference and some really good teams out East.

I think even a 60 win season would be great for the Lakers next year given these circumstances. Honestly I don't really care about their record as long as they win the conference and have home court all the way through the playoffs.

The Laker Kid · Post #69 » by **The Laker Kid** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 5:23 pm

ILikeTheGrizz wrote:What does that have to with anything? Neither the Lakers nor the Grizz are gonna sniff 70 anytime soon.

No one had predicted that Kobe will one day score 81 points...

No one had predicted that the H-Rox will one day have a 22-win streak...

NO ONE had predicted that Kupcake will pull the greatest heist of all time in acquiring... (should I go on?..I mean it would hurt to read so I think maybe I should stop?.. )You know what I mean.

The moral is.. we don't know what will happen next year. We're just saying that a 70-win season is attainable, but NO ONE is guaranteeing it.

Lost Angel · Post #70 » by **Lost Angel** » Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:07 pm

is that you Chris Wallace?

Chubby Chaser · Post #71 » by **Chubby Chaser** » Mon Apr 7, 2008 4:19 am

I'd be more surprised with a healthy season than if we pulled a 70 win season.

TylersLakers · Post #72 » by **TylersLakers** » Mon Apr 7, 2008 5:38 pm

Who cares about next year right now?

I'm focused on this season.

backtothebball · Post #73 » by **backtothebball** » Mon Apr 7, 2008 8:59 pm

zenmaster2323 wrote:You have to remember that when the Bulls won 72 games, the entire league was much easier.

Now days you have an incredibly stacked western conference and some really good teams out East.

I think even a 60 win season would be great for the Lakers next year given these circumstances. Honestly I don't really care about their record as long as they win the conference and have home court all the way through the playoffs.

im not really that sure about this claim. the pacers were basically a younger version of the team that played the lakers in the finals 5 years later, miami had tim hardaway and mourning, detroit had grant hill(20,10,7) allan houston, and joe dumars, a championship core knicks, and orlando had shaq, a pre-injured penny(22,4,7,2), dennis scott, nick anderson, horace grant yet were swept by the bulls that year.

meanwhile, the west had a jazz team which in 1998 swept a shaq and kobe(2nd year) lakers team, houston still had hakeem, drexler, and cassell, the spurs had robinson, elliot, and several others, and the sonics had kemp and payton.

the next year may have featured even better teams.

the lakers have a very good team this year. They are probably a top 3 title contending team. At the same time though, they are still just that. kobe has championship experience, and gasol some international, but outside of that, kobe really is the only top 4 player to make a playoff run. Meanwhile, the 90s bulls team and the 80s celtics team all featured top players with championship experience. Think of it this way, if on average, there were 27 teams over the past 25 years, then there were 675 teams, so 70 wins puts them better than 00.1% of teams. I'd wait to see if the Lakers can get a title before speculating if they could be the best team ever.