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    Default Re: 2001 Lakers vs 1986 Celtics

    Bird was in God mode in 1986

    Mchale was a master of the post

    Parish was a solid yet unspectacular player

    An aging Walton was effective off the bench

    Then what? ML Carr? They couldn't match up with LA. They would need three guys to guard Shaq. Mchale joked that when he saw the rookie Shaq that he knew it was time for him to get out of the league. The 2001 Lakers Swept, Portland, Sac, and San Antonio. Swept.

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    Default Re: 2001 Lakers vs 1986 Celtics

    Quote Originally Posted by eliteballer
    Better than Robinson and Duncan? HA...
    Probably not defensively, but Parish and Mchale weren't too shabby either on the defense. Since Parish guarded Kareem and Mchale was probably the Celtics best defender. And Parish and Mchale guarded their fare share of centers and power forwards. They guarded Kareem, Worthy (when he played pf), Hakeem, Moses Malone

    But what sets them apart from the teams that the Lakers face (except the Spurs a bit) were that they were great in both sides of the floor. Nobody on the Lakers team would be able to stop Mchale. And Parish could score as well. And nobody could stop Bird either. Then you have DJ and Danny Anige. While the Lakers were a good defensive team, the Celtics would overpower them because they had too much talent. Fisher wouldn't be able to stop DJ, Fox wouldn't be able to guard Bird, nobody could guard Mchale, and Parish would make Shaq to defend him. Anige is also a deadly shooter. Then you have the bench which the Celtics are also better.

    But what separates the Celtics from any team that the Lakers have ever faced was that they were stacked to the ground up. Five Hall of Famers were on their team, and three or four of them were in their prime.

    That would be way too much for any team to handle in the 00s to handle because most teams in the 00s are not stacked like that. They were like the 02 Kings or something, but the Celtics 1986 were better players in every single position. And that's insane. And that was the Lakers closest that they ever got to facing to a team like the Celtics. That or the 2000 Blazzers. And the Celtics are much better than those teams.

    With that said, the 2001 Lakers would have their hands full.
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    Default Re: 2001 Lakers vs 1986 Celtics

    So 2 players out of 12 that can score equals too much talent? Ha!

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    Default Re: 2001 Lakers vs 1986 Celtics

    Quote Originally Posted by Kobe 4 The Win
    So 2 players out of 12 that can score equals too much talent? Ha!
    Are you talking about the Lakers? That's what they were. Probably the best one and two punch. But outside of Kobe and Shaq, they don't really compare to the stacked teams in the 80s in terms of talent. Especially the Celtics which they could score in every position and cause problems for the Lakers.

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    Default Re: 2001 Lakers vs 1986 Celtics

    Quote Originally Posted by 32Dayz
    Shaq was a great closer.

    It was only on the occasional night that he shot very poorly from the stripe and teams "chose" to hack-a-shaq him
    (which was rarely) that he wasn't excellent in that role.

    He usually shot a high % from the line in 4th quarters and had multiple series in 01 and 02 where he shot 65-70% from the line.

    Shaq was an unstoppable scorer and he didn't get nullified in the 4th.



    Also are you forgetting LA has Kobe?
    They can let him close out the games also.

    Shaq will destroy Walton/Parish and turn them into Dust.

    2001 Lakers win.
    lol

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    Default Re: 2001 Lakers vs 1986 Celtics

    I don't buy the argument that the 1984 Celtics were better than the 1986 Celtics. And I don't think any player who was on both teams would agree with that. They all knew they were significantly better in 1986.

    Red Auerbach said the 1986 team was better than any team he was associated with. K. C. Jones was an assistant coach on the 72 Lakers and he said the 1986 Celtics were better than them. Bill Fitch said that was the best team he ever coached against...which includes virtually all the 70's teams and the 80's Lakers. Bird said it was the best team he was on.

    They went 50-1 at home that year. Parish and Walton were the best 1-2 punch at center in league history. Walton was number 1 in Defensive Rating that year and Parish was 6th. (With Bird they had 3 players in the top 6.)

    They could have won 70 games that year if that was what they cared about.
    In fact, most of their loses were to bad teams, when they took the night off.
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    Default Re: 2001 Lakers vs 1986 Celtics

    I don't buy the argument that the 1984 Celtics were better than the 1986 Celtics. And I don't think any player who was on both teams would agree with that. They all knew they were significantly better in 1986.
    '86 was better.

    - Bird and McHale were playing at a higher peak

    - Ainge was getting more pt and he was better than Henderson

    - Sichting had perhaps his best year as the 3rd guard

    - They may not have had Maxwell, but Wedman was great for this team in the role of the 3rd forward

    Last and mostly, Walton stayed healthy, and that made them almost unbeatable. It was the only time that Parish had a good backup, and it showed in Parish's game (no so much stats, but in rest and effectiveness that doesn't come up on the stat sheet).

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