The Lakers 4-Peat Thread!!

Dan Keefe · 04-20-2003, 09:51 AM

OK here we go...it worked last year and was kinda a cool thread.

This years Lakers are going for the 4-Peat. They sleepwalked through the season...Can they do it...DUH! of course they can, They are the Lakers...

Let the flames begin

dan

Bry_DD · 04-20-2003, 10:40 AM

I hope not.. Let is please be someone else...

Chris Farmer · 04-20-2003, 11:26 AM

Not a chance. The Spurs and Kings are too hungry, and the Lakers are vulnerable. Getting swept in the regular season goes a long way towards erasing the mental edge they held over the Spurs the last two seasons. Of course, that assumes the Spurs get past Phoenix (talk about mental edges).

Howard Williams · 04-20-2003, 12:11 PM

Big time Laker fan here. I hope they win it all again and I will be rooting hard for them, but I don't think they will.

I felt the same way last year though, so.....

Michael Ballack · 04-20-2003, 04:54 PM

I hope the Lakers lose so bad. I'm so sick of the arrogant Phil Jackson along with his wanna be Michael Jordan and Big Giant Freak of Nature. Go Kings!!!

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Hunter P · 04-21-2003, 12:32 PM

And we wonder why Laker fans have a reputation of being arrogant and narrow minded...

Patrick Larkin · 04-21-2003, 12:53 PM

Wasn't this thread locked yesterday?

Lakers probably will 4-peat since the NBA lets Shaq get away with murder.

Thi Them · 04-21-2003, 01:29 PM

I thought this thread was locked, too.

~T

BrandonM · 04-21-2003, 02:12 PM

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The Spurs and Kings are too hungry, and the Lakers are vulnerable.

The Lakers were infinitely more vulnerable last year. Shaq was playing with his injured foot throughout the season and obviously struggling. Shaq didn't play like himself until the final 2 games of the Kings series and during the NBA Finals. Also, during the Kings matchup, Kobe was hampered by food poisoning for half the series.

This season reminds me the way the Lakers finished the 2000-2001 series. They didn't have an impressive regular season that year, but at the end of the year, they went on a nice run and continued it with their 15-1 postseason. As long as Kobe and Shaq are in good health, I'd always bet on the Lakers.

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Getting swept in the regular season goes a long way towards erasing the mental edge they held over the Spurs the last two seasons.

For one, the Lakers forget the regular season the moment the playoffs start. I believe the Spurs beat the Lakers 3-1 in the 2000-2001 season during the regular season and it didn't seem to affect the Lakers then. Also, two of the games were without Shaq and they were still close. And finally, I think the Lakers 8-1 record in the playoffs vs. the Spurs in the previous two years sticks in their mind more than any Spurs success in the Lakers minds.

Chris Farmer · 04-21-2003, 02:55 PM

Last season the Lakers took the season series 3-1 over the Spurs, and the Spurs still almost beat them, except for those 4th quarter collapses they have down to an art-form. The season before, they split the season series, but the Spurs came in overconfident, believing the only reason they hadn't won it all the year before (and quite possibly accurately) was because of Duncan's minicsus tear. The Lakers then showed the Spurs why overconfidence is a bad thing.

This season though, the Spurs have an athleticism that they've never had before, and as long as he stays out of foul trouble Bruce Bowen can guard Kobe as well as anyone in the league. Kobe may get his 40 points, but it's gonna take 40 shots to get them.

And I won't even go into the Kings, who are out for blood after last season's Game 6 fiasco.