I came across this letter and wanted to share it. It is from a Laker hater who is all worried because the Lakers appear to be much better than he feared they would be. I think the shit is funny 
I must be objective and acknowledge that there was something missing in all of those comments that I made in my previous postings about how Kobe had ended any chance the L.A. Lakers had at winning the NBA title this season. What was missing was that I had yet to see the Lakersí new roster play in their first game together, and as a team.
The Lakers are much, much better than I had expected them to be, and with or without Kobe (hopefully without), they are going to be a very hard egg to crack.
Now that I have seen the Lakers play in the seasonís opening week, I have to take some of my previous statements back and say, with much regret, that all of us Lakers haters are in deep, very deep trouble.
The Lakers are going to be the toughest team to beat during the season, and after seeing the Spurs score 72 points in the game against the Nuggets, Minnesota and their upgraded cast drop a pathetic 61 points against the Nets, Sacramentoís ridiculous performance against Carmelo Anthony and the rest of the Denver Nuggets, and Dallas loose their season opening game against the Lakers in the first seven minutes of the first quarter, I have to say that unless the remaining Western powerhouse get their acts together, Shaq, Gary, and Karl will cruise to their fourth NBA championship in the last five years.
No, I am not a Lakers fan. I have to be honest with all of you and admit to the fact that I donít like the Los Angels Lakers. My name is Joaquin, and I am Lakers hater. Nonetheless, I am a hard-core fan of the game of basketball, and during the Lakers opening game against the Dallas Mavericks, Gary Payton and Karl Malone played a beautifully perfect game that I really, really enjoyed watching Ö even when the Dallas Mavericks were royally getting their butts kicked.
I never really imagined that Karl Malone and Gary Payton would click so well. Somehow, I thought that Malone would try too hard to become the all-time scoring champion, and that Payton and his hardheadedness would not fit in a team that already has the two biggest egos in the league, in the likes of Shaquille OíNeal and Kobe Bryant.
Before that first game, I was convinced that the L.A. Lakers were going to be the embodiment of that famous Murphy Law that states ìEverything that can go wrong, will go wrong.î
But then came the Mavericks vs. Lakers game. Malone and Payton played together maybe even better than Stockton and Malone ever did, and at one point, it seemed that Karl and Gary were the same player playing two different positions at the same time.
Karl Maloneís passing was stupendous, and Gary Payton, well, Payton did everything exactly right against the Dallas Mavericks. By playing in a way that clearly displayed complete disconnection from both the Kobe sexual assault issue and the family feud between Shaq and Bryant, Malone and Payton made it clear to the league that the Lakers mean business, and that they are completely focused in winning the NBA championship.
Nothing seems as important to the Lakers as winning does. For both Karl Malone and Gary Payton, all that is not related to Lakers basketball becomes a dead issue at tip-off.
The Lakers spoke loud and clear in the first week of the NBA season, and now Iím really wondering whether or not some other team will be able to speak as loud as the Lakers have done so far.
I still feel that the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs have the best teams in the league, as far as roster goes, but after one week of NBA basketball, neither the Spurs nor the Mavs have shown half the team chemistry the Lakers have. Anyone expecting to beat the Lakers will have to find a way to play at its absolute best every single minute of the game.
So far, no team is playing as good as Gary Payton, Karl Malone, Derek Fisher, and the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers remain undefeated. Still, if San Antonio looses its early season apathy, and if Dallas understands that Antoine Walker canít guard Shaquille OíNeal, the Lakers can be defeated.
Hopefully, at least for me, the Lakersí machine breakdown is waiting for that critical moment in which a total system failure can do the most damage. But if it is not, and the Lakers keep on playing in the same way they did during the first week of the 2003-2004 NBA season, then I have one thing to say to all my fellow Lakers haters:
We have a problem.
- Joaquin Fuentes
11/3/2003
Comments (5)
hey wil what time do we need to touch base 2-nite???
Posted by kino | November 5, 2003 11:03 AM
Posted on November 5, 2003 11:03
I hate the lakers because game 5 was bullshit!:angry Lakers and Phill Jackson can kiss my ass!:thumbsdown lOVE #1 SPURS FAN
Posted by kiss | May 16, 2004 2:05 PM
Posted on May 16, 2004 14:05
Spursfans are the biggest whiners there are. They piss and moan that somehow Game 5 was "bullshit" even though the last shot was reviewed by the refs and then the league (when the whining Spurs filed a protest :lol), and was determined to be a legitimate shot. Here is how it breaks down: Spursfans are upset because even though the NBA rulebook clearly states that you must have more than .3 seconds to be able to catch the ball before shooting it, they were all bitchy that Fisher hit a game winning shot with .4 seconds left on the clock. Spursfans contend that .4 seconds isn't long enough (in spite of the fact that the NBA has done tests proving it is), and felt that their own timekeeper started the clock a tenth of a second late and the shot should not have counted. The reality is that the replay looks like it was a good shot, and that even if it did take an extra tenth of a second or two, LA should have had .8 seconds to attempt the shot anyway, not .4 seconds. The reason is because the previous shot went in with .8 seconds left on the clock, but the Spurs timekeeper let an additional .4 seconds run off the clock. Here is a picture which PROVES this:
So take that Spursfans. Your team lost fair and square. The best team won, quit whining, you look like assholes when you do. As this article says:
If you’re like us — for your sake, we sincerely hope you’re not — you’ve been to plenty of golf outings and other events at which you buy a strip of tickets for the door-prize raffle after the dinner.
The way-too-effusive emcee — “Harry won a sleeve of x-out range balls! Put you hands together for Harry!” — starts calling out the numbers, and you keep getting the first four, but never the last one. And it seems as if you’re always one number off.
Again, if you’re like us, you shrug and order another refreshing beverage, because you know that missing by one number isn’t any different than missing by infinity plus one.
But if you’re like some people we’ve seen, when you get every digit but the last one, you think you were cheating somehow. You curse and pound the table, and, if you’ve really worked at being an idiot, you demand that the cheery emcee read the numbers again, because there must have been some mistake.
This the fellow I thought of when Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs filed a protest after Derek Fisher beat them with a catch-and-shoot 18-footer with .4 seconds left in pivotal Game 5 of their series with the Lakers.
The NBA says it is impossible to catch-and-shoot with .3 seconds left, but not with .4. The Lakers made the perfect play and Fisher the perfect shot. There was no question Fisher got the ball off in time — the refs checked it thoroughly before declaring the game over.
We know how much a loss like that hurts, especially when you have all summer to think about it. But we also know that Popovich and the Spurs lost the raffle by one number, and all the screaming, table-pounding, and crying isn’t going to change it.
At such times, people with even a shred of dignity accept their fate and move on. Whining babies demand a review of a play that’s already been reviewed and certified. We have always thought that the Spurs did things the right way, but in this case, they didn’t, which makes them out Whiners of the Week.
Shut the fuck up, whiny ass Spursfans. Your team wasn't as good as the almighty Lakers. They never have been and they never will be. Get used to it :grin
Posted by Yams | May 17, 2004 1:15 AM
Posted on May 17, 2004 01:15
I hope some robot out there scanning the web gets my email address and adds it to as many junk lists as possible. Here's my address for you: Demycd23@hotmail.com Please spam me!!
Posted by chris | June 15, 2004 10:40 PM
Posted on June 15, 2004 22:40
I saw that other Pistons fan posted here and wanted to get their email address out there for the spambots to find when they mine the web and I didn't want to be left out of the fun. Here's my email address too: usednuf@hotmail.com Please add me to all the junk list and spam me please!!
Posted by Nuf | June 16, 2004 2:10 PM
Posted on June 16, 2004 14:10