Originally Posted by farkedup

remember what happened to Dallas? first seed doesn't mean shit... Look at all those years phoenix had high seeds just to run into a brick wall in the playoffs when shit changes! Stick a guy like Bowen on Kobe and he's not so much of a factor or roll back to when Detroit fucked up the lakers in the finals using tayshaun prince. Kobe simply can't play when there's a guy in his face all game long staying with him.

Anybody see the Lakers winning anything without Kobe putting up 30+ a night? Things get taken up a few notches come playoff time and the lakers just don't have enough toughness. The only thing that can save the Lakers is the refs going soft because of kobe (and all laker fans) being a whiny bitch.