<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 27 2006, 12:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Because your the Lakers...you always have great teams...just 2 years ago you had Kobe & Shaq.</div>Oh so because our team is successful, we're bandwagoners. The Lakers bandwagoners of the dynasty years are now Heat fans. Anyone that is still a Lakers fan after last season is an actual fan.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>I'm just one of those guys that believes to be a true fan you have to experience it...BBW Pistons, Celtics and Mavs fans who live it and are involved are much more interesting and credable to me than guys from Ohio or Washington that love the Suns...</div>So...to be a true fan you can still grow up a huge Lakers fa---err, enthusiast, spends hundreds of bucks on Lakers memorabilia, follow the team religiously...and not be a fan because you've never been to L.A....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ELiiiTE @ May 27 2006, 04:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I've sided with the Lakers for over 750 games since '97.I guess I'm not a true fan then. Just because I live in Canada. I really hope you were being sarcastic there.</div> Why would you decide to be a Lakers fan? I doubt you can watch many Lakers games and I doubt you have ever seen them live.
Shoot why does anyone choose to be a fan? I have no explanation for being a HUGE Dodgers fan...I just am...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 26 2006, 09:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I believe that, yes.</div>So I'm not a real fan, because I was born up here in the Bay Area, even tho I've stayed up past midnight on school nights to watch games, cried for my team, cheered thru rape trials, breakups, and implosions, regarded the threepeat as the best years of my life, seen Kobe grow as a player and as a human being, and thought about purple and gold at least for a moment every single day of my life since I discovered the team back in 99, I'm not a fan? That's just flat out bullsh** and you know it.
I have an NBA season package on TV, and I do not watch every single game, I'm not a Lakers freak. And I have seen then live, just not in the Staples center itself.I decided to be a Lakers fan since Kobe came on the team, won the dunk contest. I was pretty young, I knew nothing about the Lakers, they just happened to be an extremely good dynasty. Plus my dad is a Lakers fan, and as a kid you look up to your father. And he has watched Laker games in Staples center. He is in your opinion a true fan I guess.
You Lakers fans are too much fun...I didn't think it was possible to piss you guys off more than Kobe bashing and I was wrong. I toyed with your Lakers souls.
nah, I'm not pissed off at all. I'm just typing my thoughts, I think you need to take this less seriously.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ELiiiTE @ May 27 2006, 12:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Plus my dad is a Lakers fan, and as a kid you look up to your father.</div>Heh...part of me being a Lakers fan had to do with my dad being a Celtics fan...
Nice fallback plan BCB. But I dont exactly believe that.And I couldve been a celtics fan for that reason too. There's a time in your life when you want to copy, and one where you want to be better, different, etc
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ELiiiTE @ May 27 2006, 12:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Nice fallback plan BCB. But I dont exactly believe that.And I couldve been a celtics fan for that reason too. There's a time in your life when you want to copy, and one where you want to be better, different, etc</div>Well...mine had more to do with trash talking...just like he became a Colts fan when I started following the Titans...
I was kidding about some guys not being real fans...I realize that Melo only sees lakers games because when I want to Australia that's all they showed when I was there...And being stuck in a lousy country like Canada (that i'm visiting in July) you don't have a choice and the Raptors suck.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Melo_061 @ May 26 2006, 05:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think Rich Bucher picked it up saying the media's hate on kobe is going too far.edit: i don't think Kobe really cares. The media has been on his back for a while now and he's just gotten better.</div>Does Kobe care about anything? That's something I love about him. Anyways, the media is a pile of sh*t, not just for sports. For everything. From making athletes look bad, religons looking bad (Islam), making skin colors looking bad (blacks), making sports look bad (UFC) etc... they should just all die man.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>I was kidding about some guys not being real fans...I realize that Melo only sees lakers games because when I want to Australia that's all they showed when I was there...And being stuck in a lousy country like Canada (that i'm visiting in July) you don't have a choice and the Raptors suck.</div>BCB, Canada aint a lousy country. It doesnt brag about being the land of the free when they had slavery for over 300 years. And they dont brag about being a multi-cultured society when 50% of americans are racists.
Every country throughout it's history has inslaved people, what were black people doing before we sent them here? Oh they were enslaving eachother. 50% of Americans are racist? Give me a break.
LeBron James was playing against arguably the best defense in the NBA. Kobe Bryant was playing against arguably the worst defense in the NBA. Huge Difference there. Plus Kobe Bryant is a bi*ch and it's always fun to bash him.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Diesel @ May 27 2006, 09:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>LeBron James was playing against arguably the best defense in the NBA. Kobe Bryant was playing against arguably the worst defense in the NBA. Huge Difference there. Plus Kobe Bryant is a bi*ch and it's always fun to bash him.</div>Yes of course. Undermining LeBron's talent when he obvously just didnt play well.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Melo_061 @ May 26 2006, 07:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I really do not know what to say. In game 6, kobe bryant scores 50 and they lose. What was everyone's response? Kobe's selfish and ditched the team plan.Game 7, lakers get blown out and kobe passes "Kobe should've shot the ball more times than he did and should've been agressive".What does kobe have to do to be left alone? He did everything possible in game 6 to win and they lost. How is that selfish? Then in game 7, Phil jackson the greatest coach of all time decided the scoring will not do it.No one would call him uncoachable :HAHAHA: I rest my case. People called kobe selfish for scoring 81 on you're raptors.</div>Well they should not. They lost in overtime that game. He played great the whole game and did everything he could to give the Lakers the win. He took control. I like that and most others do as well. Game 7 is what people are ripping on him for.They were getting blown out. I dont care what the freaking gameplan was, when they are slowly losing grip in the game, he has to take control, score some points, and help them get back into the game. I mean, they were down by 15 or so in the fourth. That isnt too much to come back from. Kobe basically thought it was over, so he didnt do anything to stop the bleeding. In a sense, he gave up.Only NBA jackasses would call his performance selfish in Game 6. In the playoffs, you have to do everything possible o help your team win. Kobe's team is the Lakers. Nothing was working so he just didn't pass and kept on getting points. He was real close to winning, but they just couldnt stop the Suns offense.Oh yeah, a 4 year old could have guessed that Kobe needed to score in the final minutes when his team was losing grip. Im sure Phil would be smart enough to know that too when his teammates just werent making shots. Kobe had to take control. Even if Phil didnt want him to. It's instinct. When you are losing pretty badly, you have to score and put your team back in the game.
I think it was questionable that Kobe wasn't trying to score in the second half, but it is undeniable that in order for the Lakers to have a chance, Lamar and Kwame had to establish themselves on the blocks. Yeah, it sucks because the Suns are in the WCF, but it doesn't really bother me nearly as much as I thought it would. That Suns series was still an invaluable learning experience for the youngsters on the Lakers squad.
