**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins

[geno90221]

Nah, by now everybody knows the story on Jimmy. Great player but he's a malcontent who doesn't get along with his teammates. I gave him the benefit of the doubt but he's in Chicago but he's doing the same thing again in Minnesota.

Cause he’s around the same coach could be a big reason...

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

He reminds me of Dwight

Paul George and Dwight were separated at birth

 

[pmatic]

What's with the Jimmy Buckets talk?

Pincus mentioned a source telling him Butler is open to coming in 2019.

 

[MVP]

Jimmy should be a last resort. Last thing we need is him pulling up on Savannah or Denise with his shenanigans.

 

[mr j 858]

 

[Mr Dink]

Jimmy for Deng only. Otherwise, nope.

 

[purpnyellow]

Best Kobe dunk has to be that dunk against Minnesota in the play offs he sucked the air out that building after that

 

[moonman818]

I like his game but we cool on Jimmy.

This.

Not even sure I’d throw the bag at him next offseason.

Would you guys do Jimmy for Deng, Hart & a 1st?

 

[Maximus Meridius]

This.

Not even sure I’d throw the bag at him next offseason.

Would you guys do Jimmy for Deng, Hart & a 1st?

Nah. Not how good Magic and Rob been drafting.

 

[bonafide101]

Best Kobe dunk has to be that dunk against Minnesota in the play offs he sucked the air out that building after that

Not this?

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Paul George and Dwight were separated at birth

Damn ya'll really going in on PG

I still don't have issue with what he did.

 

[geno90221]

Not this?

Dwight hated Kobe from that very moment

 

[noblekane]

The coward has been running his mouth about it's a lot lately. Sounding real insecure about his decision. It really still baffles me he didn't come here, he can go rot with the Clippers.

gotta be him and russ are down low

thats the only reason he could just change him mind like that after professing he signing with the lakers

only the p or should i say the b got power like that

 

[purpnyellow]

Not this?

nah that one good but the other one was over KG

 

[fayetnam]

gotta be him and russ are down low

thats the only reason he could just change him mind like that after professing he signing with the lakers

only the p or should i say the b got power like that

Big facts

 

[Lizakers]

That dunk against TMac in Orl when the TMac/Kobe debate was at an all time high

 

[had pants]

 

[purpnyellow]

That dunk against TMac in Orl when the TMac/Kobe debate was at an all time high

when Kobe shut tmac down with one arm that debate was over

 

[MVP]

Damb we coulda had the heir apparent

 

[bonafide101]

This one too

 

[had pants]

The Five Toughest Players I've Ever Guarded

I still remember watching his 81-point game. I think everybody who watched that game remembers where they were — it was one of those special moments in sports. I was sitting in my basement with my friends playing dominos and I looked up at a TV and saw what was happening and said, “Hold on, we gotta watch this!” I couldn’t believe my eyes.

Kobe has the mentality of a basketball serial killer. He’s going to come at you every single way possible and he’s not going to let up. His mentality — his killer instinct — is what separates him from the other guys on this list, because once Kobe knows he has you, he’s going to keep attacking you. He’ll throw you down, beat you up and even when you’re knocked out, he’ll keep hitting you.

Kobe wants to destroy his opponent every night, and his desire to do so is second only to Jordan. I never had to play against Michael when he was with the Bulls, so Kobe is the closest I’ve come to facing that type of determination in my career.

One of the toughest games I remember playing against Kobe happened in Boston. I think he made seven or eight shots in a row on me. So we come into the huddle during a timeout and Coach is looking at me with a face that I knew meant he wanted me to switch off of Kobe. And the rest of the guys on the team could see what was happening and they were looking at me too. Finally they bring up that maybe we should switch and put a different guy on him, and I yelled, “Hell no! I’m going to guard him! I got this!”

He ended up missing the last nine shots of that game with me on him, and we won. But the stat sheet is still vivid in my mind. Kobe took 47 shots. Forty-seven. No one has ever taken 47 shots on me. Most games a team will get up 81 to 89 shots.

What you have to understand about Kobe’s game is that by taking that many shots, he’s meticulously wearing down the defender until he breaks them. He’s made a career out of making guys lose confidence in their defense and then continuing to attack them. He’s won five rings doing that.

If you want to have any defensive success against Kobe, you can’t break. That’s much easier said than done.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/paul-pierce-five-toughest-players-ive-ever-guarded

 

[noblekane]

you slowly coming back huh?

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

Damb we coulda had the heir apparent

 

[mr j 858]

 

[mr j 858]