LAKERS: The REAL Big 3
Kobe Bryant
Pau Gasol
Lamar Odom
Kobe Bryant
Pau Gasol
Lamar Odom
This is Hollywood baby, we put on a show. Get your weak *** outta here.
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2007-08 NBA season discussion
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This is Hollywood baby, we put on a show. Get your weak *** outta here.
Hope the Celtics win it.
When was the last time you heard "Lakers vs. Celtics" in a finals? I remember playing Lakers vs. Celtics video games, without even knowing how good those teams were at the time (I was like....7 years old).
When was the last time you heard "Lakers vs. Celtics" in a finals? I remember playing Lakers vs. Celtics video games, without even knowing how good those teams were at the time (I was like....7 years old).
Hahaha. What a joke. The Celtics, obviously, deserved to win that game, but if you think Paul Pierce's little "stunt" was heroic, you need to understand the human body.
I understand certain things can be overstated and then work themselves out, but I have had knee injuries (from basketball), known people with knee injuries, and seen them happen, and there is NO WAY that someone who has to be carried into a wheelchair to be carted off into the locker room (after writhing in pain on the ground for three minutes) can come back in 5 minutes with only a little bit of a limp without significantly exaggerating the extent of the injury at first. Again, the Celtics deserved the W, but that was a bit ridiculous.
The NBA, where World Cup Soccer happens.
I understand certain things can be overstated and then work themselves out, but I have had knee injuries (from basketball), known people with knee injuries, and seen them happen, and there is NO WAY that someone who has to be carried into a wheelchair to be carted off into the locker room (after writhing in pain on the ground for three minutes) can come back in 5 minutes with only a little bit of a limp without significantly exaggerating the extent of the injury at first. Again, the Celtics deserved the W, but that was a bit ridiculous.
The NBA, where World Cup Soccer happens.
Paul Pierce is the last person that would fake an injury like that. There is no way he would leave the court in the Finals unless it was serious.
I mean, we're talking about a guy that got stabbed 11 times a couple weeks before the 2000-2001 season and then went on to play all 82 games that year.
I don't know whether it was deliberate or subconscious, but you just don't get hurt so badly where you're writhing in pain for three minutes, have to get carried by three people into a wheelchair, and then go into the locker room for FIVE minutes, then come out to score 15 points in the quarter. He had a great quarter, but there is NO WAY he was hurt as badly as he made it seem if he was back in five minutes. That just doesn't happen. Maybe some agony for 15 seconds, limping, ride the bike immediately, then come back five minutes later after "walking it off". But you can't walk off the amount of pain he was showing he was in.
Good game... it was neck an neck up until the final minutes. You could almost see the Lakers melt down. Not a big one,,, but a slow one. Good game thou.
Thanks doctor.
Give me a break.
Did I ever say I was a doctor? I'm just saying from personal experience, and from common sense, someone who is truly in that much pain does not....no....CAN NOT come back and play physically. The guy was carted off in a wheel chair after writhing on the ground for 5 minutes and comes back 5 minutes later?
Imagine Kobe doing that. Just try. His teammate falls on his leg, and Kobe is just collapsed on the ground while the medical staff is around him. He can't get up and has to be carried by three teammates into a wheel chair where he goes in the back grimacing. He comes back out 5 minutes later and plays, barely even limping. You think you'd just accept that? I wouldn't, with either player. It's unreasonable.
You obviously don't watch much sports then. Whenever an athlete gets a knee injury, they always take precautions. After Paul went down, the trainer came over, and would ask him "What happened?" Pierce is going to say "I heard my knee pop and it hurts." The trainer is then going to tell him not to put any weight on it so you don't cause any further damage, and they'll take him off. If that happens in football, they bring out the cart on to the field and take the guy off. In basketball since you're in a smaller arena, they use a wheelchair.
As far as pain goes, he was definitely in a lot of pain. You could see it on his face. They could have given him a cortisone shot or something. Depending on the injury, the pain could go away after a few minutes. I've banged up my knee playing football before where it's hurt really bad and I could barely walk for a couple of minutes, but after that it was fine despite it being a bit sore.
Brilliant rebuttal.
As they should.
Of course the trainer is gonna say that, but that is NOT why he was taken off and put in a wheelchair. He was showing so much pain, he literally wouldn't have been able to walk.
Pain is one thing, extreme debilitating pain is another. He showed like he had the latter. You simply aren't "good to go" after five minutes.
As a side note: I like Paul Pierce. He seems like a nice guy who has stuck it out on the Celtics. He grew up around where I live, and he's a great player. I have no animosity towards him, and truthfully, I really don't have any huge affinity for the Lakers. I simply don't like Kobe's personality and can't really root for him like I can root for Allen Iverson or Dwyane Wade. But ask yourself. If the situations were reveresed, and Kobe was down and out...and back in 5 minutes later, would you not think he was exaggerating after that display of pain?
You're the one interpreting it as 'extreme debilitating' pain. Zioxide's explanation is spot on. Also not so sure why you are so hung up on this.
Did you see him?!
Because if it were Kobe, you know that you would not just be accepting the incongruity between his display of pain and his playing five minutes later.
