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activeverb
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| danzag wrote: | | SuperboyReformed wrote: | | trablos wrote: | | Basketball reasons screwed us so bad. |
ain't that the truth. just think, we'd still be in the tail end of the CP3 era. |
Probably with 2 or 3 more titles.  |
Given Kobes and Paul's health issues, it seems just as likely to me it could have been a winless and frustrating too |
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lakerhalo
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| still mad we didn't have Ariza and Bynum vs. C's in 2008 |
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trablos
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| lakerhalo wrote: | | still mad we didn't have Ariza and Bynum vs. C's in 2008 |
And C's fans keep crying about how they didn't have Perkins in game 7. We were 1 meltdown in game 4 from possibly beating them in 08 too. |
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panamaniac
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| Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| activeverb wrote: | | danzag wrote: | | SuperboyReformed wrote: | | trablos wrote: | | Basketball reasons screwed us so bad. |
ain't that the truth. just think, we'd still be in the tail end of the CP3 era. |
Probably with 2 or 3 more titles. |
Given Kobes and Paul's health issues, it seems just as likely to me it could have been a winless and frustrating too |
Since we're already deep in what-if territory, I think that the presence of CP3s eases Kobe's workload, so probably no achilles tear late in 2013. |
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slavavov
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The best thing about that Laker team was that it was never supposed to happen.
If we never got Gasol, we may have become a good team, but not a contender, let alone a championship team. Bynum was good, but not that good, and as we all know his knees were less reliable than a 1978 Ford Pinto with the exploding fuel tanks.
Who knows, maybe Kobe would've demanded a trade again, and he either would've been traded or left as a free agent in 2009. That would've made our FO look like even more of a disaster than it looks like nowadays, and we (probably) wouldn't have been able to attract a Lebron or other superstar.
The way I see it, Kobe's indomitable work ethic and will to win attracted the good fortune to acquire Pau Gasol and start the second half of our dynasty.
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danzag
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| panamaniac wrote: | | activeverb wrote: | | danzag wrote: | | SuperboyReformed wrote: | | trablos wrote: | | Basketball reasons screwed us so bad. |
ain't that the truth. just think, we'd still be in the tail end of the CP3 era. |
Probably with 2 or 3 more titles. |
Given Kobes and Paul's health issues, it seems just as likely to me it could have been a winless and frustrating too |
Since we're already deep in what-if territory, I think that the presence of CP3s eases Kobe's workload, so probably no achilles tear late in 2013. |
Exactly |
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activeverb
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| panamaniac wrote: | | activeverb wrote: | | danzag wrote: | | SuperboyReformed wrote: | | trablos wrote: | | Basketball reasons screwed us so bad. |
ain't that the truth. just think, we'd still be in the tail end of the CP3 era. |
Probably with 2 or 3 more titles. |
Given Kobes and Paul's health issues, it seems just as likely to me it could have been a winless and frustrating too |
Since we're already deep in what-if territory, I think that the presence of CP3s eases Kobe's workload, so probably no achilles tear late in 2013. |
Erasing injuries that actually happened takes this a little too deeply into fantasyland for me.
If you go that direction, you can pretty much what-if any outcome you want for any player or any team.
Lots of players have a whole drawer-full of that type of what-if rings. |
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Mr. Zero
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I miss Pau.
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RobinInHood
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| Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder how this team would fare in today league... |
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