Post#49 » by Winsome Gerbil » Sat May 7, 2011 3:42 pm
You should never underestimate the ability of a team like the Mavs who have always found a way to lose, finding a way to lose again. But that said this Lakers team just does not have it. People have been mentioning pride and confidence in these threads like this was '09 or something. These Lakers do not look proud, and they certainly don't look confident at all. A two time defending champion, but they know they are weak. Half of them look shell shocked or even scared. There is no sense at all of a team about to come together and say "not on my watch!" I think its easy to confuse arrogance with pride sometimes. And arrogance/complacency helped get the Lakers to this point. But pride We are the Lakers and this is how we roll stuff? Just very rarely been there basically all year.
And Pau...last year on this board we had to deal with a surge of nimwit Laker fans, who I assume averaged about 16 and had never seen anybody else play, running around talking about Pau as a HOFer and being better than Webber, and better than Dirk, and better than just about everybody who had ever played except maybe Tim Duncan, who might have had 1 or 2 years as good. Dumb as all that was, I in no way expected the complete collapse in confidence he has seemed to suffer. The huge relapse into softness. Its just so evident when you watch him out there. It looks like he is just floating around in a daze waiting for the other shoe to drop. And it may on Sunday.
