To write an open letter to Lakers fans.

Currently Listening to: Tanya Morgan – So Damn Down

Tanya Morgan’s “Brooklynati” is my album of the year so far; it’s reached “Below the Heavens” status for me.  Just putting it out there.

I’m going to address the Cavs Magic series first.  Cleveland isn’t the better team, talent wise I would rather have Magic 9 out of 10 times because there’s more balance and Dwight can do enough to draw the D.  I think he has to stop relying on that jump hook so much and do what Shaq did and just post up and back down on all C’s out there because no one in the league can guard him, but that’s just me and I’m not the one on the court.  I think he can do it, but I don’t think he does.  That being said, I think their coach sucks. Hard.  I watch him in those little huddles and it makes me sad how no one seems to listen to him. I also think Lebron will never, and I mean NEVER let this team lose until the finals.  He’ll average 45/12/12 if he has to, and he can do it. I have no doubt that he can.

Now, to the issue at hand.

Click Here. Press Ctrl+ F and then search for “5 minutes”, read the question and answer, and then search for “Los Angeles” and do the same.

Dear Lakers Fans,

Stop whining when you think you don’t get the calls, because you always do.  The Lakers are a combination of both the Yankees and the Red Sox for the NBA.  They have a huge fanbase – which seems to include about 90% of Hollywood  stars (even if they’re from say New Orleans), they’re successful, they’re hated by about every non-laker fan in the league, and they have the commish’s silent blessing a la Boston Red Sox.  I’m sick of your complaints about refs, and I’m even more disgusted on how you jump on “bad calls” when the game/series is no longer in contention.

Ex 1.1 Lakers vs. Houston, when Ronny Artest got that technical in game 3 and every Lakers fans updated their status with the likes of “what a shit call NBA”.  Please, that team had 1/3 the payroll you have, no guy over 6′9 when you have two seven footers, and was a good 7, 8 men deep (albeit they took you to seven games.) Every rational mind would know that the Rockets  had no chance.  I digress; that series should’ve been over about five days before game seven but it wasn’t; and you all know it.  The only reason why you didn’t get upset at that one call; and that’s probably the only call you haven’t been upset at in the last 10 years, is because you all knew that.  Everyone knew that.

Granted, that game 1 was lost by the Nugs because the Nuggest have one George Karl as their coach, who – seeing as how I’m watching Game 2 right now, is as red as Violet Beauregarde was blue and is as incompetent in the clutch as SVG.  Those last three minutes were horribly coached and the Ariza steal should not have happened.

Granted, the refs like to play mind games.  I’m pretty sure commsih Stern has them making calls for the other teams for the first three quarters and then for the Lakers in the fourth.  You can say, oh okay that means they get 3 times the many calls we do, but no, the fourth quarter is by far more important than the first three combined.  If you get calls despite being down by say… 15, you can easily come back. Easily.  It means you can play more aggressively without getting calls, and you can miss shots with a greater chance to redeem yourself at the foul line.  In the fourth quarter, the Lakers committed six fouls, while the Nuggets committed ten.

In the last five minutes, the Nuggets committed five whereas the Lakers committed one (when the game was over; the one by Derek Fisher so that JR couldn’t let a three go.)  This includes the offensive foul on Melo drawn by Pau (weaksauce) and the one on Kobe when the game was tied at 99 (from what I remember, it was a drive and justified).  Really?  Really?

This, mind you, comes in a quarter when the Lakers took shots in the key only three times, and the Nuggets took six.

Let’s be honest.  Your team is mentally weak down low, your team plays with no passion, and save Kobe Bryant and maybe Ariza, no one seems to care about winning the Finals.  Pau doesn’t show up until he has to, Fish has secretly become more dirty than Bowen (um.. Scola anyone?; if Chauncey did that to Pau, you would be all over his ass), Bynum lost his confidence when he went down, both (or maybe all three if you include Brown) of your point guards are mostly confused on the court, no one, and I mean no one, outside of LA likes Vujacic, and your bench secretly sucks.  Hard.

At the half its 54-55, if the Nuggets take this game, the Nugs are going to the finals in six.  If not, the Lakers take it to 7 and win because Pau will finally care.  It’s really kind of sad.  The PTI guys made a good point, you cheer for this team because you think they’re good, but you hate to because they play with no passion.  The other three teams, they care.  Dwight cares.  Melo cares a lot.  Lebron cares like the Championship trophy is his only way to go to heaven, or New York, without any consequences.

So Lakers fans.  Please, stop whining.  Stop crying.  Stop yelling.  Stop bitching. You have a one in the win column.

- Kevin