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Originally Posted by vtotheinay
SPURS? what? thats just being greedy. not like they dismantled their own team or failed to produce, they played hard and sometimes you win someyou lose some.Originally Posted by Supafly122
Originally Posted by lakersmets49ers
5. Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks of this decade. How neither of those teams won a championship during the main years their window of oppurtunity was open beats the hell out of me.
Originally Posted by tmoney85
SPURS? what? thats just being greedy. not like they dismantled their own team or failed to produce, they played hard and sometimes you win some you lose some.Originally Posted by Supafly122
Originally Posted by lakersmets49ers
5. Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks of this decade. How neither of those teams won a championship during the main years their window of oppurtunity was open beats the hell out of me.http://www.faniq.com/images/blog/CoolSpurs2(1).jpg src="http://www.faniq.com/images/blog/CoolSpurs2(1).jpg">http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/...5/04/sp_warriorskr18.jpg src="http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/05/04/sp_warriorskr18.jpg">
Only players worth a damn in their prime then was Nash, Q-Rich, and Marion. Amare, JJ, and Barbosa have gotten better since then.Originally Posted by Jehlers02
The 2004 2005 suns.
Steve Nash
Leandros Barbosa
Quentin Richardson
Joe Johnson
Shawn Marion
Amare Stoudamire
Smush Parker
With a team like that while they were healthy all year, and in their primes, i dont know how you lose.
Nah, well sorta, only Barbosa.Originally Posted by JapanAir21
Only players worth a damn in their prime then was Nash, Q-Rich, and Marion. Amare, JJ, and Barbosa have gotten better since then.Originally Posted by Jehlers02
The 2004 2005 suns.
Steve Nash
Leandros Barbosa
Quentin Richardson
Joe Johnson
Shawn Marion
Amare Stoudamire
Smush Parker
With a team like that while they were healthy all year, and in their primes, i dont know how you lose.
Originally Posted by Kookcle
Originally Posted by iNiNe5
these are dynasty teams that could have been even bigger dynasties....
1. 90's Bulls: can;t really knock them but they really should have won 8 titles, and possibly more than that if the team wasn't demolished after 98
2. 00's New England Patriots: after winning the Superbowl in 04/05, they choked in the playoffs in 2005, 2006, 2007 and Brady got injured in 2008. they really could have been 5 or 6 time superbowl champions but have to settle for 3 (for now....)
3. 00's Colts: with all that talent, they only won 1 superbowl, and that was because of a 5 yard too many men on the field penalty commited by the pats in the AFC championship, that allowed them even the chance to play in the superbowl
word every year they have the potential to be national champs....but they end up losing to a team thats headed for the Pacific life holiday bowlanywaysOriginally Posted by Matt Barkley Heisman Number 8
usc football the last 4 years
At least you mentioned both the Lakers and Celtics. Both teams had serious injury problems during the '80s (and during certain players'primes) that prevented both teams from winning more titles. As dominant as those teams were, they had some serious misfortune that allowed other teams tobubble up. If everyone had stayed healthy, that entire decade should have been Lakers-Celtics, Len Bias aside.Originally Posted by lakersmets49ers
maybe im reaching and being biased but the 80's lakers should have won more then 5 championships.
getting upset by 40 win houston in the 1981 playoffs
james worthy breaking his leg prior to the 83 finals phily probably wins anyways if worthy plays but its not a sweep
1984 the lakers are up 1-0 in boston with the lead in the final minute and they just need to hold on to the ball and they win oops turnover and boston sends it into overtime and ties it up, the squandered chances in game 4 of that series as well and it came back to haunt them before eventually losing in 7
1986 losing to houston 4-1 in the wcf sad because the potential 86 finals between the 62 win lakers and 67 win celtics would have been epic.
1989 after coasting through the playoffs sweeping through the 1st 3 rounds, they lose most of their starters to injurys and are swept by detroit yet 3 of the games were close with the lakers leading late in the 4th quarter. with a healthy magic and byron scott its not a guarentee they win that finals but it would be much more competetive and i don't think its a reach to say they could have won and 3 peated
1990 going 63-19 in the regular season and losing in 5 games to phoenix is just flat out unacceptable and a choke job
other mentions
1988 detroit pistons if isiah doesn't get injured in game 6 the possibly beat the lakers in 6 instead of losing in 7
1987 detroit pistons if bird doesn't get the steal in game and pass to d.j in game 5 detroit wins that series in 6 and plays the lakers in the 87 finals instead of boston
mid to late 80's boston celtics
the len bias death was the start of the downfall and bird started getting inujured pretty often but if they were able to stay healthy they should have won another ring. them holding off detroit and playing the lakers as tough as they did in 1987 was pretty impresive considering the team was worn out, old, and tired.
Originally Posted by dmbrhs
And I'd say the mid-'90s Sonics, but George Karl was coaching them, and he is the world's worst playoff coach. He's like the A-Rod of coaching: puts up great numbers when nothing is on the line. He went to max games or just got worked too many times in the playoffs. They barely even made the finals in '96. There was no excuse for that garbage. The Sonics were great defensively, and that wasn't Karl's work, it was Kloppenburg and Grgurich who orchestrated their success. Sonics also got screwed out of the finals in '93 (read up on Game 7 of the WCF).
I will go to my grave saying the mid-'90s Sonics were all smoke and mirrors (as much as I loved watching them and they are my favorite sportsteams ever). Got screwed in '93 when they were better than Phoenix by the end of the season, lost in '94 in the infamous first round, lost in the firstround to a Lakers team that was 9 games worse in '95, barely made the finals as the WCF's best team in '96, went the distance in the first tworounds in '97 and eventually got booted, and to top it off won 61 games in '98 and went five games in the 1st round and got booted in 5 by an"equally" matched Lakers team in the conference semis (won Game 1, lost the next four). You can't blame that on players,over all those years.George Karl is a TERRIBLE playoff coach. I'm amazed the Nuggets even dominated a series.Originally Posted by lakersmets49ers
Originally Posted by dmbrhs
And I'd say the mid-'90s Sonics, but George Karl was coaching them, and he is the world's worst playoff coach. He's like the A-Rod of coaching: puts up great numbers when nothing is on the line. He went to max games or just got worked too many times in the playoffs. They barely even made the finals in '96. There was no excuse for that garbage. The Sonics were great defensively, and that wasn't Karl's work, it was Kloppenburg and Grgurich who orchestrated their success. Sonics also got screwed out of the finals in '93 (read up on Game 7 of the WCF).
yeah i do recall them choking away that 3-1 lead against utah in the wcf and sacramento stealing a game in seattle in the 1st round as well.
even though that 96 finals went 6 and seattle won games 4 and 5 i knew it was over when the bulls spanked them in seattle in game 3, because it was no way in hell they would win 2 games in chicago in that series. 1 game maybe but 2 wasn't happening.
WordOriginally Posted by jmause3
my Cowboys for the last 3 years. SMH