darkhelmit54

is anyone secretly hoping they do very well over the next couple of years and make the rivalry that much bigger. I would love for the Blazer-Laker rivalry to be bigtime, and to be the upstart kids that give the vets in their prime trouble while taking the throne away from them.

I really don't want this to be just a fan rivalry, and that's what's made it so exciting to me that our guys get up to play them and there's even been some near fights with them the last couple of years. The acquisition of Gasol was moderately exciting to me too, seeing as how he's a player I hate, and now I have more reason to hate him and the Lakers. I really hate Odom for all his bullying, and I can't stand Kobe for all of the obvious pretty boy arrogant whiny reasons everyone else can't stand him.

But in saying all this, I'm glad they're good, because a Blazer-Laker rivalry is just much more fun than a Blazer - Clipper, Warrior, Spur, Warrior, Jazz rivalry.

Already you have some obvious rivalry factors:
Lamarcus - Pau (two finesse bigs)
Oden - Bynum (two big youngsters, if either get healthy)
Odom - major douchebag bully
Kobe - league wide *****

but I'm secretly hoping that the Lakers are able to pick up Calderon this summer...

he fits the triangle perfect as a big guard who can hit the three, he's great friends with Pau, he wants to be on a championship contendor, and his role in Toronto is murky already.

If we could get Rudy over this would set up a Spanish rivalry to play into all these others also!

However, I think Rudy will come, but not play much and be very restrained just as Sergio has become. It could become a big problem in the KP - Nate relationship, I hope as a preemptive strike KP gets rid of Jack, kind of forcing Nate to play either Sergio or Rudy at least in stretches.

Don't you think this could be fun?

Roy/Rodriguez
Fernandez/Jones
Webster/Outlaw
Aldridge/Frye
Oden/Pryzbilla

vs

Calderon/Farmar
Kobe
Odom
Gasol/Walton
Bynum/Turiaf

DaRizzle

Join the winning side while you can!

darkhelmit54

I'm already a blazer fan.

I anticipate over the next couple years you guys will win a few more battles than us (perhaps a title or two also) and infuriate me at multiple points, but that will makes things so much sweeter when we win the championship 4-6 out of the next 8 years afterward as your players (Kobe, Odom, Gasol) age into garbage.

We'll win the war.

LameR

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The Lakers are already going to be good. Very good. You don't need Calderon to make them more of a hurdle for us to enhance a rivalry that Laker fans don't always even acknowledge at this point.

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I wouldn't mind knocking them off their perch next year. This should become a very good rivalry.


I too hate Kobe and especially odom, but I do have one embarrassing dirty little secret, I like Bynum. I wish they would trade him so I could go back to hating all things lakers (except DaRizzle).

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NewAgeBaller

I see what you're trying to do but wow, you don't want the Lakers to pick up Calderon..

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zagsfan20

I hope they break the Bulls record for regular season wins and we play them in the playoffs next year and beat them in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals. It would be oh so sweet.

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..and then you lose to the Miami Heat - 2009 NBA Champions! :smoothcriminal:

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Talkhard

No. I hope the Lakers get blown out by the Blazers for the next 10 years. But maybe that's just me.

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Dan

Are the other 14 teams in the Eastern Conference going to fold, and the best players left go to Miami?

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Circle this date on your calendar.

You see, I agree with Talkhard. Amazing, my fingers didn't fall off when I typed that.

I don't secretly or overtly want the Lakers to be good, great, or even mediocre. I want them to be terrible. I want them to go 0-82. I want them to be blown out and to lose one point heartbreakers. I want them to lose in every way it is possible to lose a basketball game. I want them to play before small crowds. I want them to be booed mercilessly on their home court. I don't want a rivalry of equals, I want a butt-kicking. I even would be OK with them having off-court issues as long as they don't involve hurting others (dope charges OK, rape charges not OK).

The only thing I don't wish for is injuries, because even a Laker is covered by my humanism. I don't want to see any human physically harmed. Kicked out of office, yes, maybe put on trial but not harmed. (So maybe Talkhard and I don't agree. The world is still on its axis.)

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ZOMG, no Iggy/Miller!

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