Kobetards have never played this version of the Spurs

[SCdac]

It's not like the Spurs in the mid 2000s never kicked the Lakers ass

[PickernRoller]

It took them the biggest rig in history to win that series

More like the Kings choked - very apparent in game 7. More like Horry hit a clutch 3 and more like the refs started penalizing the Kings for f'cking up with Shaq in previous games and flopping left and right - game 6.

[PickernRoller]

It's not like the Spurs in the mid 2000s never kicked the Lakers ass

6 games it took actually. Played bad defense....old and tired after a 3-peat - hunger wasn't the same. That year is the definition of vulturing your way through the Finals. A Spurs specialty.

What actually happened the following year? The Lakers demolished the Spurs again and went to the Finals....

A decade dominance over a franchise like no other: Lakers: Phill and Kobe over the Spurs: Pop, Duncan, Parker, and Ginobili.

[SCdac]

6 games it took actually. Played bad defense....old and tired of a 3-peat. The definition of vulturing your way through the Finals.

What actually happened next year? Correct we demolished the Spurs again....

Eh, they beat up on each other. Just like the current Heat and Spurs. It happens. Spurs beat Shaq's Lakers in 99 too.

[Artillery]

What actually happened next year? Correct we demolished the Spurs again....

Needing four HOFers to beat a one-man Spurs team.

Every team the Lakers played in '04 were one-man teams that had no reliable 2nd or 3rd options. '04 Wolves, '04 Spurs, etc. As soon as they played a deep team('04 Pistons) they got their teeth kicked in.

[ralph_i_el]

Yeah beating prime Dunca, Manu and Parker is much harder than beating prime Leonard and Danny Green

you can throw out names and act like it means something when it clearly doesn't. Just because they were in their athletic primes doesn't make that team better than this one. I'm not a fan of any of these teams I just call it like I see it. Spurs walked through the league this season in an extremely tough west with basically no problem. They took teams apart like this all season. Them beating the Heat is not an upset.

It's a shame people's agendas and irrational kobe love prevent them from enjoying masterful basketball.

Lakers were irrelevant this season but nothing can happen in the NBA without everyone freaking out about how it impacts LA or Kobe's legacy.

[Artillery]

Eh, they beat up on each other. Just like the current Heat and Spurs. It happens. Spurs beat Shaq's Lakers in 99 too.

And Kobe's Lakers in 2013. Unfortunately, Kobe was too chiickenshit to show up. Didin't want to get dominated by Leonard. Basically let Dwight take the brunt of all the embarrassment.

[PickernRoller]

Needing four HOFers to beat a one-man Spurs team.

Every team the Lakers played in '04 were one-man teams that had no reliable 2nd or 3rd options. '04 Wolves, '04 Spurs, etc. As soon as they played a deep team('04 Pistons) they got their teeth kicked in.

Spurs were never a one man team - delusional but I expect that from a LeTard. The Pistons weren't deep, they just played great defense and they picked the right Lakers team to beat. A Laker team in total turmoil in the peak of the Shaq-Kobe feud and in the peak of the Colorado incident.

Nothing more, nothing less.

[J Shuttlesworth]

More like the Kings choked - very apparent in game 7. More like Horry hit a clutch 3 and more like the refs started penalizing the Kings for f'cking up with Shaq in previous games and flopping left and right - game 6.

series should have been over in 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjRcTiwVEwo

[PickernRoller]

series should have been over in 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjRcTiwVEwo

Same can be said for many "rigs" in recent history. 2012 Heat-Celtics WCF rings a bell....

We pick and chose rigs am I rite?

[Ne 1]

Kobetards are emotionally off people who probably don't have much going on in their life because they choose to worship Kobe like a god in a very irrational manner, so I doubt they have ever played any version of the Spurs. Or are any good in basketball. (I know the OP meant the Lakers, but I wanted to respond to the title.)

Kobe detractors are emotionally off people who probably don't have much going on in their life because they choose to diminsh and degrade Kobe Bryant like they're one of Kate Faber's ex lovers in a very irrational manner. Your girl was a whore, get over it.

[ThePhantomCreep]

Needing four HOFers to beat a one-man Spurs team.

Every team the Lakers played in '04 were one-man teams that had no reliable 2nd or 3rd options. '04 Wolves, '04 Spurs, etc. As soon as they played a deep team('04 Pistons) they got their teeth kicked in.

Prime Duncan, Parker (18/7 in playoffs), Ginobili, and Bowen (ATG perimeter defender) is a one-man team?

Nice job using the 2004 Pistons to prop up the 2004 Spurs. That's not weak or anything.

[PickernRoller]

Prime Duncan, Parker (18/7 in playoffs), Ginobili, and Bowen (ATG perimeter defender) is a one-man team?

Nice job using the 2004 Pistons to prop up the 2004 Spurs. That's not weak or anything.

Artillery is an alt of a clown here that has like 10 accounts. Dude is a massive LeTard that's already on the Duncan>Kobe bandwagon while his other alts do damage control for Lebron..... it's a simple game for him.

Kid is the worst piece of sh1t in this forum - one single poster. Basketball knowledge - none.

[ThePhantomCreep]

Same can be said for many "rigs" in recent history. 2012 Heat-Celtics WCF rings a bell....

We pick and chose rigs am I rite?

Kings shoot more FTs in 2002 WCFs = Rig job! Stern, Donaghy, biggest tragedy in sports!

The Pistons shoot 60 more FTs in 2004 Finals = Perfectly legit. Nothing to see here.

[IGOTGAME]

Maybe not, but the 2005 Spurs were better.