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Originally Posted by n3wb
So annoying listening to Laker fans talk about "running out of gas". Wow, stop making stupid excuses. The Lakers lost because they fucking sucked. There is nothing more to it. It has NOTHING to do with the amount of games they've played etc etc...
Jordan's Bulls won 6 championships in 8 years, in an era that took a much greater toll on their bodies for several reasons. Add on top of that, that back then, players actually had the passion to get better in the off-season.
This is NOTHING like the Shaq era...In fact, even in that downfall, the Lakers didn't "run out of gas" (my god that sounds so dumb). The downfall of that team was simply that Kobe couldn't stand Shaq being the man, and that's where conflict came in within the team. Kobe made it very clear; either Shaq leaves, or I leave. Though Shaq was still the most dominant player in the league, he was the obvious pick to go as he was in his last few years as being that guy, whereas Kobe was only on the rise. The worst part is, if Kobe could put apart his differences with Shaq and just learn to be #2 for a couple more years, this Laker team would've won 10 straight rings.
Unfortunately, it didn't happen, Shaq moved on, and won a championship as the #2 guy with Wade only 2 years later.
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I agree with your first post about not making excuses for the 3 peat. The Lakers were very different this year. The one-man-team by Kobe didn't perform as well. I found it weird how Phil gave minutes to his WHOLE bench. Some of those bench players suck shit. Gasol is plain garbage, as I stated earlier this season but someone ripped me on that one.
The latter between Kobe and Shaq is in the past. I have no opinion on that one. They are both outstanding players.
While I am very disappointed about the Lakers being swept, they didn't put out a good series. In fact, the series blew by so fast that I didn't even get to catch a game of them.
Next year, with other talents please. Fisher might not be there, murder Gasol, trade Bynum, keep Odom, swap the bench with to have some other supporting cast.