Official 2005-2006 NBA Discussion thread!

The LA Fakers are gonna do worse then the Clippers again this season.

 

Suns> your team

Ba ha ha . Spurs > Suns

Suns have downgraded over the off season. They lost their run and their shooting. Which is what made them dangerous.

Sorry.

Anyways. Lakers will make the play-offs this year. Phil will get them back there, but I dont think they'll make it to the second round.

Miami will blow up, the ego problems are already starting. It's great

 

ho, don't be sorry for me man, my team's gonna win the championship this year.

 

Armenian_Jedi posted on 9/26/05 3:18am

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[color=red]Not a chance in hell.[/color]

 

Did the suns bring in anybody besides Boris Diaw? they lost Q-Rich and Joe Johnson...huge losses there.

Hopefully my Nuggets can put something together this year! Kenyon's healthy again, and I'm not on the team so we can't be that bad.

 

We'll see about that.

 

Andrew Bynum went to a school a town away from me...i didnt think he was good enough to go straight to the pros..just a big guy with a nice touch...he should have went to college to work on his skills

 

Did the suns bring in anybody besides Boris Diaw? they lost Q-Rich and Joe Johnson...huge losses there

Brian grant and another stiff from New York. They're not getting past the second round in my humble opinion.

 

This is a question for Dashy

I know its abit late, but what is your opinion on the Shaq/Kobe/Phil breakup?? Have a read of this




PHIL & KOBE TOGETHER AGAIN

BY ROLAND LAZENBY

EXCERPTED FROM THE FORTHCOMING BOOK, THE SHOW, THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SPECTACULAR LOS ANGELES LAKERS IN THE WORDS OF THOSE WHO LIVED IT, SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER RELEASE BY MCGRAW-HILL.

The telltale signs emerged way back in 1999 when the Los Angeles Lakers hired Phil Jackson for the first time. On the day the Zen Master was to be announced as the team?s new coach, 20-year-old Kobe Bryant slipped in the back door of Jackson?s hotel and made his way up to his room to greet him. In Bryant?s hand was a copy of Jackson?s book Sacred Hoops, which Bryant had read.

The Laker guard had long hoped that Jackson would be his coach and months earlier had taken the unusual step of initiating long-distance phone conversations with Jackson?s long-time assistant, Tex Winter.

Bryant wasn?t alone in his desire to greet his new coach.

Over the coming days, Laker center Shaquille O?Neal would travel to Montana to visit with Jackson at his home on Flathead Lake. Long known as a big kid, O?Neal took an immediate liking to his new coach, to the point of jumping in the lake and playing with the various water toys that belonged to the coach?s own children.

Obviously, both players were eager to please their new coach, and to curry favor with him.

Headed into his fourth NBAseason, Bryant had long been viewed as the annoying hid on the Laker block, always eager for more work, always ambitious, always running afoul of what his elder teammates thought he ought to be doing.

? The other players on the team wanted to make sure the earned everything he got, that the coach didn?t just give him something just because the fans wanted to see this young phenom play,? recalled Del Harris, Bryant?s first coach with the Lakers.

That was especially true of Shaquille O?Neal, the game?s dominant young center who felt immense pressure to win championships. Each season his dislike of Bryant had grown.

?What surprised me about Shaquille during our early days in Los Angeles was how frustrated he got,? said former Lakers GM Jerry West. ?He was not fun to be around. The shortcomings of our team and his teammates made him angry because he knew he was going to be judged on how much we won.?

How angry?

Just months before Jackson arrived, O?Neal had slapped Bryant during a pickup game at the Laker practice facility.

?It would not be forgotten,? former Laker guard Derek Fisher said of the incident.

When Jackson and his coaching staff began work in Los Angeles, they were caught off guard by O?Neal?s level of animosity toward Bryant.

?There was a lot of hatred in his heart,? Tex Winter said of O?Neal. ?he would speak his mind in our team meetings. He was saying really hateful things. Kobe just took it and kept going.?

Jackson had long been known for building an outstanding personal relationship with Michael Jordan in Chicago. That had been his strategy from the start: A great relationship with Jordan meant that everyone else on the team would fall in line.

Jackson astutely read that he faced a more severe choice in Los Angeles. The situation dictated that he could not be close to both Laker stars. So he made a logical choice, according to Winter. ?Very early in our time in Los Angeles, Phil made the decision to go with Shaq. And he made it clear to Kobe and the press and everyone else that it was Shaq?s team. He made it clear he was far more interested in accommodating Shaq than Kobe. And Kobe seemed to accept this.?

Winter, however, began to have concerns immediately. He said he told Jackson that he seemed intent on making Bryant his ?whipping boy,? the player on which the coach traditionally takes out all of his frustration. Winter told Jackson that making a budding young superstar a whipping boy wasn?t a good idea.

?Phil was trying to figure me out a little bit,? Bryant recalled. ?one of things I told him is, ?There

 

I Love the LA Lakers.....always have, always will. Especially in there dynasty run.

 

Anyone see the the New Orleans Hornets will be the Oklahoma City/New Orleans Hornets this year? Yep, that's their official name. They even changed the uniforms. The Hornets wear "New Orleans" on the front of both their home and away jerseys, but this year they're going to wear "Hornets" at home (home being Oklahoma City). Also there will be an Oklahoma City patch on the jerseys.

 

I've always been attracted to Lakers b-ball. They're so high-profile, they're watched more than anyone else, even when they're falling off like last year. The Suns are going to be CRAZY this year. Who cares about Johson? they'll be fine w/o him, and the Hawks will see that he is a role player, and not a team leader. I've been a Suns fan since they signed Barkley back in the day. It was great watching the Suns vs Bulls back then. Those were some of my fondest NBA memories. Those were the days of the original Dream Team. That makes me think. American basketball was really something else back then. It's just not that time anymore. I'm excited about the season this year. There are so many matchups I can't wait to see take place, and there are a ton of teams completely re-vamped in talent and character. The Pistons seem to have kept things relatively under the radar this offseason. That makes sense. They didn't do a whole lot to the core of the team. I just can't wait to see what good ol' Flippy can do with that offense. I'll have my eyes on the GS warriors too, if not for the promising highlights from their backcourt, then because JR is the man and he grew up just outside of my hometown. The Nets are going to run right out of the gym. IMO, they're the new Suns of the east, just give em some help inside.
There's just so much to talk about this year.... I'll save some for later lol

 

Yea the Nets look impressive this year...my Team in the east is defiantly the Nets...and in the west ill go Mavericks...but only because of Dirk and there high-vamped offense

 

I so wanted the suns to beat the spurs in last years West Finals. I was bitter when SA won.

 

It was Stackhouse's fault they lost.

 

How can you say that? Stackhouse can't do anything wrong... Just ask him. [extreme sarcasm]

 

I Love the LA Lakers.....always have, always will.Especially in there dynasty run.

Yeah, alot of fans around this time used to Bulls fans.

It was Stackhouse's fault they lost.

I love that argument. Suns were owned with him and without him. Maybe if a FRANCHISE player was injured, I would give a thought to that argument, but really, whats the point. He's a role player, who is going to be in over his head in Atlanta.

 

Stackhouse a role player....a couple years ago he led the league in scoring i think

 

The only reason he led the league in scoring that year was because NOBODY else on the Pistons could fill up the hoop. It was a sad, sad year for us Pistons fans. He will be much better if he isn't responsible for the majority of the scoring load and, in turn, making poor decisions left and right.

edit: he had over four turnovers per game that year as well.

 

Good point...hes always hurt too....I think Pistons are going to be great again this year

 

Why did the pistons get rid of Larry Brown?

 

Because A) they're idiots & B) he is the offical nomad of the NBA, he goes where he wants.

 

Hopefully he'll make the knicks good this year