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Kobe has quite a bit left in the tank. Granted, he's going to gradually slow down, but he's not going to retire for at least another 6-7 years. He takes such good care of his body, so he'll be around for a long time. But once he DOES retire...well, it'll be a sad day in the league. Hopefully by then the Lakers will have another franchise player lined up, ready to take over.

Posting here is a privilege, not a right. He lost that privilege when he was banned. If someone else is posting replies for him, he might as well not even be banned, controversial posts or not. I'm not going to sit here and deal with his posts. If he wants to debate about this topic...well, that's just too bad. He blew his chance. Don't post for him, period.

Shaq was above-average defensively. He did well in boxing guys out and using his size, but he sucked on pick and roll defense. Kobe was the one who initiated the offense, setting the triangle up. Yes, the ball was throw into Shaq and he kicked it out, but that's only one part of it. The biggest reason why we lost in the 2004 Finals was that the Pistons were constantly doubling and trapping Kobe, which completely disrupted our offense. He had a much harder time getting the ball into Shaq, and the triangle came to a screeching halt. I was a HUGE Shaq fan during the 3-peat. Huge. Even though I've lost a lot of respect for the guy over the years, I'm not denying the fact that he was a major reason for winning those championships. He just wasn't the only reason. Shaq was not the "main" guy. It was a dynamic duo, end of discussion.

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What is it with these road games? Man, its like we suddenly turn into a sub .500 team every time we play on the road, and we either struggle to get the win, and we barely win, or we lose like this. UGH.

He was trying to "prove" that Shaq was the best player in the league during those seasons using 1st place MVP votes. I was showing how flawed that reasoning was. Shaq dominated offensively, yes. There's no denying that. But Kobe ran the offense, played tenacious defense, and still scored his 25 or so points a game. That's not a second fiddle player. There was no "main" guy in L.A, it was Shaq, Kobe, and Phil.

Between the '04-05, '05-06, and '06-7 NBA season, Steve Nash racked up a total of 166 1st place votes. More than Shaq did during the Laker 3-peat. So using Diesel's brilliant logic, Steve Nash is better than Shaq? Nash was the best player between those seasons, because media voters gave him more votes than any other player? LOL. Diesel is forever banned from here, and I don't want to see someone posting for him. Don't do it again.

Woooooah. Niiice.

Nujabes...RIP.

Keep Mbenga in, please.

This, pretty much. OTR has been my sole basketball website for the past five years, so I wouldn't really even consider going elsewhere. This has been, and always will be my home.

Is it bad that I stopped watching this game at halftime? Pathetic.

Entry #2 Had our first major fundraiser for my trip last week...went pretty well. Hopefully the rest of our fundraisers will go smoothly as well. I've also been working the past week and a half, granted its been on and off, but some work is better than none. Trying to earn some spending money while I'm over in Poland. Would be awesome to pick up some souvenirs while over there. I also would like to get a small digital camera, I plan on taking a hundred million pictures haha. That's been keeping me pretty busy over the past month. That and school...which is meh right now, but I'm trying hard to just get through it. Oh, and I also designed a logo for our group that's going over. Turned out well I think. http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/5156/poland2010v2.th.jpg

I believe Ben is in Phoenix right now...be pretty cool if you guys ran into each other (no homo). Have fun with your trip man...enjoy it.

Why is Powell shooting 20 foot jumpers? Why is he even in the game? STUPID. Give the ball to someone else, please.

Awesome pass, Powell.

LOL I was just about to post one of Smush. I can't believe he was our starting point guard for two years...

A big disappointment? Ha. He's been one our most consistent players this season. Yes, he's still not 100% comfortable in the offense, but if you look at how he plays now compared to the beginning of the season, it's black and white. He's been very good for us defensively, and he's lost some weight during the course of the season to help improve his defense. There have been times where he had trouble guarding LeBron James, but come on, who doesn't? He's done everything we've asked and more. I'd hardly call that a big disappointment.

Hollywood has been pursuing a lot of anime and manga titles recently, but it doesn't mean that they'll get the green light to be made. A lot of different shows have been picked up by movie studios but are in limbo or dropped completely. Monster and Neon Genesis Evangelion were both slated for live action, but both of them have been in pre-pre-pre-production for quite a few years now. They could see the light of day, but it probably won't be any time soon. Death Note could work well as live action, if done right. Bleach...not so much. Bleach is a very Japanese show, and would have to be reversion-ed quite a bit for an American audience.

Haven't kept up with college basketball at all this year, but I filled out an ESPN bracket just for the hell of it.

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OMG can you please post that. I was looking for it the other day but I didn't know what the search for.

I know dude...it was the first FF game I ever played. Still one of my favorite games to this day.

Paul, when you were a teenager music hadn't been invented yet. I used to do this when I first started driving, but not anymore. Gotta be able to hear those emergency vehicles at those stop lights.

Odom. That's what we needed to hear, now let's hope that the words will be put into action.