Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 8351 Location: Santa Monica
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:39 pm Post subject:
DLaker wrote:
Just placing the history of the LA Lakers at the start of every decade
1970 Finals lost to Knicks
1980 Champion
1990 Division Champ Best record
2000 Champion
2010 Champion
2020 - Going to be a very good year just have a feeling
It seems like Lakers greatness goes in 20-year cycles:
Late 40s, early 50s: 5 championships with Mikan
60s: Draft Baylor in 58, draft West in 60, they go to the finals a bunch of times over the next dozen years
80s: Trade for Kareem in 75, draft Magic in 79 and win five championships
2000s: Acquire Shaq and Kobe in 96, win 5 championships
We got LeBron last year, and this year we got AD. That 20-year cycle is starting up again soon. _________________ Lakers 49ers Chargers Dodgers
Just placing the history of the LA Lakers at the start of every decade
1970 Finals lost to Knicks
1980 Champion
1990 Division Champ Best record
2000 Champion
2010 Champion
2020 - Going to be a very good year just have a feeling
It seems like Lakers greatness goes in 20-year cycles:
Late 40s, early 50s: 5 championships with Mikan
60s: Draft Baylor in 58, draft West in 60, they go to the finals a bunch of times over the next dozen years
80s: Trade for Kareem in 75, draft Magic in 79 and win five championships
2000s: Acquire Shaq and Kobe in 96, win 5 championships
We got LeBron last year, and this year we got AD. That 20-year cycle is starting up again soon.
Someone on this forum said that is the Lakers formula. Win championships than have a few crappy years and when the time comes (like this summer), strike hard.
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 22852 Location: La Jolla, San Diego
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 8:33 pm Post subject:
No way we're winning anything unless Lebron remains historically great at his age. It's going to be a crowning achievement for him. But should he lose a step next year, and we're not good enough to win, he's going to get shredded.
Joined: 17 Jun 2019 Posts: 202 Location: California
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 8:57 pm Post subject:
At the very least we will be serious contenders. We obviously will make the playoffs, So really the season will be about working out what works best and how good can we be and play. Plenty of games/time to figure it all out. _________________ "Bryant to Shaq"
Assuming Cousins is Cousins of old, I don’t see anyone stopping us. Davis is going to feast in the playoffs, we have shooters to surround him and that’s not even factoring in LeBron. And then you add Cousins, Kuzbass, Green, this team is loaded.
Barring crazy injuries I don’t see anyone outlasting in a 7 game series.
Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 11197 Location: The Other Perspective
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 1:30 pm Post subject:
governator wrote:
Brawn13 wrote:
The Lebron AD 2-man game is just gonna shred teams watch...
This has a feel of Kobe-Pau on steroid... LeBron is just a way more willing passer and AD is an even more athletic version of Pau
I don't think next season's Bron will be as good as repeat-era Kobe, but this current team has more talent than Kobe's squads. _________________ "Chick lived and breathed Lakers basketball…but he was also fair and objective and called every game the way it was played."
-from Chick: His Unpublished Memoirs and the Memories of Those Who Knew Him
Just placing the history of the LA Lakers at the start of every decade
1970 Finals lost to Knicks
1980 Champion
1990 Division Champ Best record
2000 Champion
2010 Champion
2020 - Going to be a very good year just have a feeling
If you add up the career averages for the current team, it comes to 168 points per game...
Man, they are gonna run right over those other teams...! _________________ “Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
Not sure if those comparisons make sense, but we can be pretty certain AD as that big for Lebron is gonna fit like a glove how Pau did seamlessly when sliding next to Kobe.
Not sure if those comparisons make sense, but we can be pretty certain AD as that big for Lebron is gonna fit like a glove how Pau did seamlessly when sliding next to Kobe.
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