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... and in a couple of those games kobe was off to a hot start while his teammates played miserably right from the tipoff.
you can really read a lot into this. it seems teams coached by phil dont play hard or fight until the end. once you've cracked them, there'll be no resistance at all. and in most of these games (except the phoenix ones and partly the celtics disaster) we were stacked with veterans, proven champions etc...
the mavs game felt a lot lik the spurs game. i was waiting for kobe and fish to break out in tears sitting on the bench, but i guess they saw it coming at some earlier point....
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 4:15 am Post subject:
Then again, you are not counting in the games like G6 of finals last season which for Lakers was an elimination game. We won, but the starting point was the same. I wonder what is our record of elimination games or even if we have had more than a few of those. _________________ .
Lakers depth chart
PG Johnson / Goodrich
SG Bryant / West / Scott
SF Baylor / Worthy / Cooper
PF Mikkelsen / Hairston / McAdoo / Gasol
C Chamberlain / Abdul-Jabbar / O'Neal / Mikan
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 4:18 am Post subject:
mrand wrote:
... and in a couple of those games kobe was off to a hot start while his teammates played miserably right from the tipoff.
you can really read a lot into this. it seems teams coached by phil dont play hard or fight until the end. once you've cracked them, there'll be no resistance at all.
You can't really say that. At least Kobe-Shaq team had several good comeback playoff games. _________________ .
Lakers depth chart
PG Johnson / Goodrich
SG Bryant / West / Scott
SF Baylor / Worthy / Cooper
PF Mikkelsen / Hairston / McAdoo / Gasol
C Chamberlain / Abdul-Jabbar / O'Neal / Mikan
they had, they had.
but the point is... if this team gets eliminated, they get blown out and there'll be no fight.
i know they had several elimination games which they succeeded. you can even count the kings (00? and '02), the blazers game 7 etc in, but game 5s (in a best of 5 series) and game 7s are a lot different than elimination games when you are trailing in the series...
it's not about that you lose, its about HOW you lose...
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:06 pm Post subject:
You forgot that 2013 Spurs series where Dwight and Pau just mailed it in for the whole series. Had never seen anything like that before. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
Give the lakers the chance to close a series, even on the road, and they will step on your throats.
However, bully the lakers into an elimination game, and they will notoriously quit.
Like they did in game 6 of the finals in 2010? _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
You forgot that 2013 Spurs series where Dwight and Pau just mailed it in for the whole series. Had never seen anything like that before.
Are you serious? That team was awful. Even with a healthy Kobe doing great things, they struggled to earn a playoff spot. It was a combination of Utah folding at the end and the league just pushing the Lakers into the spot. I'll never forget the NBA playoffs commercials with Lakers players dancing all over in it even though the percentages said the Lakers were almost sure to miss the playoffs. It was like they knew something we didn't The Lakers were just overmatched in that series. That Spurs team ended up winning it all and the Lakers didn't have a single healthy player that wasn't a D Leaguer. I can't blame Pau or Dwight at all for that one.
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