LeBron Regrets He Didn't Meet Kobe In The NBA Finals And Disagrees With Durant

[Chris Cool]

Yeah, but the Lakers were also considered a favorite to go to the Finals in 2012 with that Dwight Howard/Steve Nash team that imploded.

starting 5 played 7 games together.

 

[Big Boss]

2009 would have been perfect.


Kobe trying to win his first ring without Shaq and Lebron trying to win his first ring period.

 

[Jplaya2023]

I'm still dumbfounded how they didn't beat Orlando in the ECF that year

1. Mike Brown (being an awful coach. Dude had 6'3 delonte west trying to guard 6;10 hedo. Dude had lebron "guarding" rafer alston and he was shooting 3s like kenny smith in 95)
2. Dwight howard going crazy
3. Orlando shooting 3's like layups

 

[Dwight Howard]

The media LOVES Kobe. Stans just hate the media because they never place him ahead of MJ.

Let's see..

-rape case
-blaming kobe for pushing Shaq out of town
-"Kobe is selfish"
-he'll never win without Shaq
- "nobody wants to play with kobe"
-"he forced Dwight out"

Etc...let's not pretend the media has always propped him up

 

[Goatpoacher]

starting 5 played 7 games together.

ANd lost how many :JJ: ?

 

[Big Boss]

The Cavs forwards could not guard Lewis or Hedo. Whichever one Lebron guarded the other forward would go off. Basically whoever Antwan Jamison guarded they ate his ass up.

Yep them nikkas was hitting everything like they were steph curry

 

[Originalman]

The Magic were the precursor to a lot of the teams you see now playing a SF at PF for spacing purposes, the Cavs weren't prepared to play that kind of team, their big men outside of Varejao were all old and slow. Zydrunas couldn't guard Dwight one on one, and Varejao couldn't get out on Lewis, and when he did Shard would put the ball on the floor. A better coach would have played Varejao at the 5, and Bron at the 4 but Mike Brown stuck with conventional lineups with 2 bigs on the floor even though 1 of them was always going to be in a mismatch.

That would have been a good matchup but still non of the forwards on the Cavs outside of Lebron could guard hedo or Lewis. The cavs were fukked period.

On top of that they stopped doubling Dwight and let Big Z guard him one on one. Problem was that dwight was kicking big Z ass. So much so he was going around him and dunking. When Dwight went to the hoop and got his shot blocked it wasn't big Z who was doing it or any of the Cavs big men. It was fukking Lebron blocking his shots.

Just showed how fukking pathetic that Cavs team was.

 

[malbaker86]

stop disrespecting Hedo

Hedo

Me and the homie @Yeahimcanadian randomly saw Hedo in the club in Orlando a few years back with some BAAAAAAAAD hoes around em. Some techno spot we stumbled into. We bounced with the quickness

 

[Ceazy]

I'm still dumbfounded how they didn't beat Orlando in the ECF that year

Lebron never showed up unless it was super front running also dumbfounded how they lost the finals to Dallas I will never get over that the game where wade hit that fadeaway in the finals game 2 and they were up like 15 celebrating with 6 min to go only to lose I cant get that

 

[malbaker86]

Yep them nikkas was hitting everything like they were steph curry

Yea they were on their 2013 Spurs stuff that series. They had the perfect floor spacing that series. It was beautiful

 

[Originalman]

Yep them nikkas was hitting everything like they were steph curry

Yep they were hot as fukk and the magic were running two man game with hedo and Lewis. Then on top of that were running pick and rolls with them and Dwight. Lebron just couldn't guard all those mothafukkas.

Stan just reused the old 1994 -95 rockets line up with using rashard or Hedo who were small forwards as PFs to stretch the court.

The 1994-1995 rockets did the same with Horry moving him to PF when they traded Otis Thorpe for Drexler.

 

[Bilz]

Let's see..

-rape case
-blaming kobe for pushing Shaq out of town
-"Kobe is selfish"
-he'll never win without Shaq
- "nobody wants to play with kobe"
-"he forced Dwight out"

Etc...let's not pretend the media has always propped him up

Lets not pretend he never deserved criticism either.

According to the media, prime Kobe was the smartest player, most clutch, best scorer, best defender for a guard (some said best overall), best overall player, most competitive, best winner. Yet he never stood out from the other top players. How do you reconcile that?

 

[Originalman]

Yea they were on their 2013 Spurs stuff that series. They had the perfect floor spacing that series. It was beautiful

Yep that shyt didn't work with the Lakers because Dwight could not dominate the center position because Bynum was quicker than big Z and Gasol forced either hedo or Lewis to play defense on the other end. Gasol pounded those midgets in the paint and got them in foul trouble.

Hedo or Lewis...whoever didn't guard Lebron didn't have to play defense against the cavs and could beat slow ass old Jamison off the dribble or to their spot for a jumper off the screen.

 

[FS4LFE]

"media has done a good job building Kobe up to the stature that he is'

this fukking idiot man.

no kobe did that not the fukking media.

if you think the media has been more positive than negative to Kobe then you're a fukking idiot

He beat a rape case and you rarely hear about it from the media when he switched to 24. Also he got a pass for publicly demanding trades/throwing team mates under the bus.

I would say the media has done good to him.

 

[Big Boss]

Yep that shyt didn't work with the Lakers because Dwight could not dominate the center position because Bynum was quicker than big Z and Gasol forced either hedo or Lewis to play defense on the other end. Gasol pounded those midgets in the paint and got them in foul trouble.

Hedo or Lewis...whoever didn't guard Lebron didn't have to play defense against the cavs and could beat slow ass old Jamison off the dribble or to their spot for a jumper off the screen.

Yea Gasol was putting that work in the 09 finals



Because in the 08 finals Gasol was