Kobe Bryant's Sirius radio interview pretty much confirms what I've been saying...

[troy]

http://blog.siriusxm.com/hear-kobe-bryant-talk-about-his-new-book-during-exclusive-interview-on-siriusxm/


I've been saying this on this board for several weeks now. Fans on LG panicking, acting nervous, hating on their own franchise, falling for the clickbaits from all those ESPN hacks and other Laker-hating sports media germspreaders.

It wasn't Magic.
It wasn't Palinka.
It wasn't Jeannie.
It wasn't Lebron.

It. Was. Injuries.

Yeah, the FO wasn't perfect. And Lebron could have done things differently. But the Laker failed season was due to a clog of injuries that derailed the momentum this Laker team once had.

Thanks, Kobe for backing my point. I'll take the opinion of a 20 year career Laker Legend/Hall of Fame NBA superstar over a handful of Nervous Nancy, overly frustrated fans on LG.

Moving on to the off season...

[joeblow]

I've been saying the same.

[Baron Von Humongous]

Why would Kobe bad mouth Magic, Pelinka, or Jeanie in a radio interview?

Anyway, none of that matters. What matters is that Kobe is going to be dragging Smush Parker until the day he dies.
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[adkindo]

[hype]

Besides a few extremists on here I would say the vast majority of the regular posters here are pretty smart when it comes to basketball and injuries is a pretty blatantly obvious reason for the struggles and I doubt anyone really says otherwise.

The thing is though, when things get dark or go bad people start really showing there true colors.. They continued opening there mouths and sounding like amateurs from the coaching, to the front office right along with Jeanie Buss.. Even the self appointed King himself has had plenty to critique on and off the court this season. That along with the mediocre signings and bad trades have taken a toll after being promised things were supposed to be turning around.

Saying all that they absolutely have enough legit excuses and the money and resources this off season to completely turn it all around and field a legit contender next season. The problem is most people are having a hard time trusting this current front office to be able to pull off several really good moves in a row to get us to that point and I personally feel that stance is very Justified to this point. I'm personally somewhere still in the middle just holding hope they do but i'd def. be lying if I said I wasn't concerned. On top of that it's a bad look when your entire franchise is looking completely dysfunctional around the league when your next season is extremely dependent on signing a great player and some solid role players.

Plus Kobe isnt going to bad mouth his idol Magic, his ex agent and close friend or Jeanie whether he has negative thoughts or not.. c'mon now, that statement from him means absolutely nothing really.

It's up to them now to shut everyone up and prove there worth and I hope they do.

[AFireInside619]

Troy called checkmate on Kobe over Lebron Truthers...

[Jesusdelonla]

lol

[Japago]

Yes. He's a great former player, so he knows how to run an NBA team. It's the same exact thing as playing. There are no examples I can think of that can refute this logic.

[Theseus]

Did you really think Kobe would badmouth his former agent or Magic? Come on now.

[SuperboyReformed]

[troy]

Kobe seemed very sincere in his comments to me.

But hey, denial is a terrible thing, I know. By the way, notice how the superior Clippers and the incredible Zubac beat the Lakers tonight.

Um...

[Sentient Meat]

It's funny how you condemn others for hammering their agenda over and over again... yet here you are... making your own thread no less.

[troy]

[Sentient Meat]

[troy]

[DD20045]

[Baron Von Humongous]

[Sentient Meat]

[TMG]

Injuries was a big part of the problem.

I'd say injuries is what started everything else.

I dont believe the AD trade rumours would have gone out of control had we been healthy, there is just no way any reasonable level headed front office would think that would help the team in any way.

What we should have done is just play through. We messed this teams chemistry up so bad with those rumours it'll be hard to come back from.

Our core doesn't trust the FO and it doesn't help when Magic goes on interviews saying he's going to hug the players and sort this out...and suddenly hours later go back on everything he said.

What im seeing now game by game is a team having fun while the vets cheer them on. Slowly but surely this team is gaining chemistry again.

[dont_be_a_wuss]

[PartyMan]

We’re forgetting free throws and the early suspensions hurt too. Then our guys started dropping like flies. I think those are the biggest reasons we are on the outside looking in. Luke’s head scratching subs and rotations didn’t help either. I mean we were in 4th and had just demolished GS in their house.

The FO and ownership hate started when we started losing in large part to said above reasons. I think just about everybody is (rightfully) salty about Julius being let go for nada. We’ve seen DLo turn into an all star and lead his team to the playoffs, so there’s more fuel to the FO fire. And I don’t think anybody knows what on Gods green earth we were doing at the trade deadline, but that was a failure in every way imaginable. That’s why there’s so much criticism. Justified? Sure. Harsh? Probably a bit.

I’ll reserve praise or harsh judgment on them until we see how this plays out the next 10 months. They’ve done some good things and some not so good.

When we draft Zion number 1, all will be a clean slate.
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[ReaListik]

[PlantedTanks]

[captain jack]

Kobe has never backed down to no one except his wife. There are a few things the front office could have done better, but they didn’t sign any marginal players to long term ridiculous contracts to stymie the team. I’m fine if Walton stays, he should be given another opportunity. Lastly, harping on former players that are doing well elsewhere... simply continue to applaud their success — to the contrary if Zubac was going to be the next super center, nah why go there.

[DShotMaker1824]

I'm guessing that he means Lonzo's injury was the biggest. Without that guy, the Lakers turned into matadors.
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