the celtics had to suck for 2 years... before that they were a rebuilding team just like we are now. guess what they did.... they traded their young players before they hit their primes and ended up winning a ring. they used their mle to sign vets to fill out their roster, posey and house.... cassell was signed for the minimum after being waived by the clippers.
kobe is a great player but without pau or shaq he wouldnt have a ring. he would just be a great scorer who couldnt win it all by himself. a healthy tmac couldve won with gasol, lebron probably wouldve gone undefeated on that lakers squad. wade won a ring with shaq past his prime then couldnt make the playoffs without him. granted injuries played a huge part in that but still... the lakers lost bynum twice against the same team and made the finals twice. gasol is the reason why the lakers are champs. that team is the same team that lost to the suns 2 years before and had kwame as their center.
This is the most ridiculous post you have made, and you've made plenty of questionable posts. Please go back and read what you posted, and apply the same stilted logic to it that you apply to my posts and see what you come up with. Let me just say this. A team wins a championship not because of just one player. Having a great player like Kobe makes a huge difference though. It helps in recruiting other players. It helps the other players on the court when the defense of every team you play is focused on Kobe. But a team wins a championship because first and foremost because they're a TEAM.
Jordan, who is one of the greatest players of all time, couldn't win a championship by himself. He tried! But until Pippin and company arrived, He floundered just like Kobe did before Shaq, and now Pau.
To compare the LA market to the Sacramento market as though they're equal is pure lunacy. In order to get Webber to come here, we had to trade for him and then twist both his arms behind his back, while Joe Maloof personally offered to cut his lawn for him. Do you think that Jerry Buss would do that?
Your acting like a small child that throws a tantrum at christmas because he didn't get the toy he wanted. Life is full of disappointment, get over it. You say the teams sucks. The majority on this fourm happens to disagree with you. That doesn't mean we won't be critical from time to time. We just happen to believe that the team is finally headed in the right direction. Yes, it will take a couple of years for it to come together. I'm sorry if thats not soon enough for you. But your whinning isn't going to change that fact. You can either enjoy the process with the target in sight, or just go and be a Laker fan and enjoy the now.
By the way, the Celtic's won't look so good in a couple of years. They're an old team, as is San Antonio and Dallas, and the Suns. If there's a team that should be praised for staying on top, or at least close to the top, its Denver. They've managed to re-do their roster over and over again and stay competitive. True, they still haven't won anything, but they came close last year.
