I guess you are. Ill always cheer for the Lakers even when they suck. Once Lakers always Lakers, thats a fan to me
A real laker fan does not leave the staple center when they're ahead by fifteen or down by 15 in the last several minutes of the game. A real laker fan does not boo the team like how half of the people at staple center was doing during the game against portland yesterday. I wanted to deck those 10000 so called "fans" that were booing the laker team. That was just ridiculous.
A real fan shouldn't get frustrated at his team when they're not playing anywhere near the level that they can?
Of course a real fan can get frustrated at that, but not to the point of booing. You boo your opponent's team. BOOING your own team? Fans should support their team no matter what. Why do teams seek for homecourt advantage? To try and disrupt the opponent. To cheer on your team to give them a boost of motivation and confidence. Booing? Come on man.
No matter what happens i'll always cheer for the lakers. Man i would do anything just to see one game at Staple Center. Mayby not this season but next season im going to make the trip and see the Lakers @Staple Center. That is one of the greatest experience ever. At least 2 me it is. And you're right JLee348. A fan doesnt leave when its not going well but stay and support the team. Let them know you're still a fan even though they are having a bad day.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting JLee348:</div><div class="quote_post">Of course a real fan can get frustrated at that, but not to the point of booing. You boo your opponent's team. BOOING your own team? Fans should support their team no matter what. Why do teams seek for homecourt advantage? To try and disrupt the opponent. To cheer on your team to give them a boost of motivation and confidence. Booing? Come on man.</div> I would have booed the Lakers too if I'd have been at Staples. A team that plays with no energy doesn't deserve to be cheered. People pay a lot of money for those tickets deserve to watch a team of players who play like they're earning the millions that they are getting paid.
Most of them did play with a lot of energy. Just cause a couple of them weren't giving it their all doesn't mean it was the whole team that wasn't playing their hardest. Didn't you see Kobe hustling after every ball and trying to get the team going? I know he was forcing some shots and all, but that guy was playing hard. Something was wrong with him too. He was always sitting alone on the bench during timeouts. He didn't even drive home that game, one of his bodyguards did. I presume he was probably sick or something must've triggered him to be that upset or depressed. He still played hard. Shaq had a bum knee in that game so he wasn't as mobile, but i'm sure he played the best that he could. Fox was busting J's too and didn't get his usual to's. Don't say the team didn't have energy just cause a couple of players were lazy. Blazers are adesperate team right now and therefore prob wanted it a heck of a lot more than the Lakers. They were knocking down shots even when the Lakers started playing tougher defense. Lakers did play with energy man. We can't blame GP for not being able to guard Damon cause afterall, gp's in his mid thirties and can't keep up with the young guns ne more. Most of the fans that attended the game were obviously bandwagoners and probably became fans when we started getting them bling blings. REAL FANS DON'T BOO YOUR OWN TEAM. What'll booing do? Nothing...look at Philly, they haven't won a championship in years and their fans boo them when they play poorly. It doesn't do anything but get the players upset and worsen their game play.
Are you kidding? The team played remarkably listless. It looked like they didn't even care for the majority of the game. Booing gets them to play harder. Remember the Mavs game last year?
You should single out the players not entire the team. Also, Lakers are known to come back from huge deficits in the fourth. They never got booed during the playoffs when we played against Sacramento game 4 of 2002 in the WCF and what happened then? They never got booed in the 2000 WCF game 7 when they were down by 15 in the fourth quarter. Or that unforgetable game a couple years back when we played against the Wizards. We were down by around 20+ points in the fourth and Kobe with his triple double lead the team to victory. Laker crowd never booed the Lakers back then either and we ended up winning. It's not the booing of the crowd that gets them to play even harder. Why didn't the booing help them win against Portland the other day? Booing your own team doesn't help them.
Are you saying they would've just come back if they weren't booed? That because it's the Lakers a big deficit never gives them trouble? Why do they even lose games, then? The crowd tried cheering their confidence back into the game in both the Portland and San Antonio matches and it didn't work.
No i'm not saying that they would've won if the crowd didn't boo. I'm saying theres no point to booing your team because Lakers don't get pumped up if we turn on them. Undertakernv said booing gets the Lakers to play harder. I was giving those examples because he brought up the Mavs game and said we won due to the crowd booing. The crowd never booed those other games when we were down huge, yet we ended up winning. Booing was never a cause of our victory during that Mavs game.
I quietly root for the Lakers. I've been a Lakers fan since the Van Exel/Eddie Jones days. Shhhh..don't tell anyone.
If I went to a game, especially an expensive-ass Lakers game, I expect an inspired performance from the team I paid a lot of hard-earned money to see. I'd understand if they just weren't talented enough (e.g. Utah Jazz), but everyone KNOWS LA can be the BEST. If they're clearly playing like they don't want to be bothered with putting forth effort, why should I bother with supporting them? They wouldn't deserve anyone's support. That's ALL it's about. You're reading into the "booing doesn't help them make comebacks" side-comments too much.
Like I said before, you should just single out the players that aren't giving it their all. Like how Sac Town fans were just tearing on CWebb. I know that at least half the team was really trying to compete and win that game. No one can always play perfect consistent game all the time. A lot of the players were just off. Shaq's knee was jacked up thats why he was playing so poorly. I know people pay a lot of money to watch them perform, but you can't help that some players weren't giving it their all. If you want to boo then go after the players that weren't giving it their all.
Oh yeah I forgot to add...most of the people who purchase those lower level seats are basically rich like no other. Its like chump change for them to buy tickets. You wanna know why REAL FANS can't usually attend the games? Its because all those rich corporate business men buy season tickets and attend the games only half the time. Most of the so called laker fans that go to the games are bandwagoners.
^man, i know exactly what u talking about...Since the Lakers and Clippers moved to Staples Center, I have not ever attended a game. It just isn't worth the $$ when i can watch it on T.V....but luckily I love the dodgers...12 bucks and u in (altho parking is $10 now!!)
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Ice:</div><div class="quote_post">Once the Lakers start rebuilding, we will know who the true fans are.</div> I actually posted this... <div class="quote_poster">Quoting ANiMuS:</div><div class="quote_post">I've been a Laker fan since the spring of 2000. Barely knew they existed before then. If LA starts sucking again in the next few years I'll be back to not giving a damn about them--in fact, if they don't win this year I'll be all about the Kings and T-Wolves baby!...should get some photos and videos ready just in case I need to make the signature and avatar switch. </div> ...to parody the collection of bandwagon accusations that are just worded a bit differently each time. But I guess people took it seriously...meh.
