Re: Time to put some RESPECK on Kobe's name...(Going back to back ain't so easy is it?)
Posted: Wed May 8, 2024 3:01 am
Jamal Murray is injured so idk why we need to put respect on Kobe’s name. Denver ain’t some super team
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JR Hawks wrote:You can thank KG's injury for that back to back.
DoctorX wrote:He had a stacked team that no team could matchup with size wise. He lucked out with the Perkins injury in the '10 Finals. When he finally ran into a team that had size to matchup with his team's twin towers in the '11 Mavs he got swept out of the playoffs.
Those Lakers team strategy was Kobe shoots a bunch of bricks, but they have Gasol, Odom, Bynum to clean up his bricks with countless offensive rebounds. Eventually after shooting a bunch of bricks Kobe then gets hot and the Lakers win the game. Rinse and repeat from '08-'10.
Kobe's killer instinct was pretty much useless unless he had a dominate big in Shaq to cover up his bricks or a trio of all-star caliber bigs in Gasol, Bynum, Odom to clean up his bricks. I still remember Kobe shooting 8-24 in game 7 of the 2010 finals only to be bailed out by Gasol.
Fadeaway_Jumper wrote:Kobe has too many haters on this board for people to give him serious credit
Your favorite player needed a superteam to go back to back. Duncan and his stacked spurs with the supposed greatest coach of all time couldn’t even do it. Kobe & Pau were definitely a problem
One_and_Done wrote:bledredwine wrote:Kobe was a beast.
No one here wants to admit it, but he was.
Agreed. Definitely a top 25 all-time player.
Wolfgang630 wrote:Jamal Murray is injured so idk why we need to put respect on Kobe’s name. Denver ain’t some super team
Fencer reregistered wrote:JR Hawks wrote:You can thank KG's injury for that back to back.
For the second one add injuries to Perkins and Ray Allen.
Yes, Allen played through his, but shot horribly with it. Perkins' limited his whole subsequent career, knocked him out of the Finals, and contributed heavily to the Celtics losing a 3-2 lead.
Handlez wrote:One_and_Done wrote:bledredwine wrote:Kobe was a beast.
No one here wants to admit it, but he was.
Agreed. Definitely a top 25 all-time player.
Well yes, of course he's top 25.
Just like Jordan. Or Bird. Or Kareem.
All top 25.
LakerLegend wrote:Fencer reregistered wrote:JR Hawks wrote:You can thank KG's injury for that back to back.
For the second one add injuries to Perkins and Ray Allen.
Yes, Allen played through his, but shot horribly with it. Perkins' limited his whole subsequent career, knocked him out of the Finals, and contributed heavily to the Celtics losing a 3-2 lead.
If Bynum and Ariza were healthy to play in the 08 Finals and Kobe wasn't playing on one knee in 2010 it's an easy 3 peat.
One_and_Done wrote:LakerLegend wrote:Fencer reregistered wrote:
For the second one add injuries to Perkins and Ray Allen.
Yes, Allen played through his, but shot horribly with it. Perkins' limited his whole subsequent career, knocked him out of the Finals, and contributed heavily to the Celtics losing a 3-2 lead.
If Bynum and Ariza were healthy to play in the 08 Finals and Kobe wasn't playing on one knee in 2010 it's an easy 3 peat.
And if KG never gets hurt in 09, after which he is never the same, then the Celtics win 3 titles in a row and Kobe has zero titles as the lead dog, and 3 as Shaq's coat tail rider.
LakerLegend wrote:One_and_Done wrote:LakerLegend wrote:
If Bynum and Ariza were healthy to play in the 08 Finals and Kobe wasn't playing on one knee in 2010 it's an easy 3 peat.
And if KG never gets hurt in 09, after which he is never the same, then the Celtics win 3 titles in a row and Kobe has zero titles as the lead dog, and 3 as Shaq's coat tail rider.
The Lakers would have beat the Celtics in 08 if Bynum and Ariza weren't injured and would have beat them in 09 and 2010 if both teams were fully healthy.
The Lakers beat the Celtics both times in 2009 and KG played in both games.
One_and_Done wrote:LakerLegend wrote:One_and_Done wrote:And if KG never gets hurt in 09, after which he is never the same, then the Celtics win 3 titles in a row and Kobe has zero titles as the lead dog, and 3 as Shaq's coat tail rider.
The Lakers would have beat the Celtics in 08 if Bynum and Ariza weren't injured and would have beat them in 09 and 2010 if both teams were fully healthy.
The Lakers beat the Celtics both times in 2009 and KG played in both games.
Nah. The Celtics were clearly the best team until KGs injury.
LakerLegend wrote:One_and_Done wrote:LakerLegend wrote:
The Lakers would have beat the Celtics in 08 if Bynum and Ariza weren't injured and would have beat them in 09 and 2010 if both teams were fully healthy.
The Lakers beat the Celtics both times in 2009 and KG played in both games.
Nah. The Celtics were clearly the best team until KGs injury.
Lakers beat them both times in 2009, nothing you say can change that.
One_and_Done wrote:LakerLegend wrote:One_and_Done wrote:Nah. The Celtics were clearly the best team until KGs injury.
Lakers beat them both times in 2009, nothing you say can change that.
Regular. Season.
LakerLegend wrote:One_and_Done wrote:LakerLegend wrote:
Lakers beat them both times in 2009, nothing you say can change that.
Regular. Season.
Like I said, nothing you say will change the fact that the Lakers won both games when both teams were healthy with their complete rosters.