Call me crazy, but I think the 2010 Lakers were an overrated champ

[ChrisKreager]

They were essentially a 5-man team with no bench that got all the benefit of the doubt because they were the Lakers, they were defending champs, they had Kobe, they had Phil, they were the biggest team in all of sports.

This was a flawed team that I think was basically Kobe and a bunch of big guys. They had one megastar, size, but not much else.

They used those strengths and home-court advantage (Outside the Utah series, they won only 3 road games combined in the other series) to just squeak by OKC at the end, beat deeper Phoenix/Boston teams.

I thought they were a little bit flawed, but because they were the Lakers of Kobe and defending champs, the concerns were shrugged off.

And let's not forget they caught a few breaks when they didn't have to face Denver (who gave them fits the year before), Dallas (who beat them the following year), and maybe old nemesis San Antonio

[navy]

Nobody rates that team highly, how can they be overrated?

[riseagainst]

inb4 Gasol was fmvp or something irrelevant.

[TheMarkMadsen]

They weren't a very talented or deep team.

But Kobe rallied team together and got the earn out of them.

Had a goat esque performance in the conference finals.

The series would have been over in 6 against Boston if anybody besides Kobe showed up in game 5

[dubeta]

They needed 7 games and Gasol and Artest to bail them out just to beat them

This is the same Celtics team that the Heat dismantled in just 5 games 10 months later :facepalm

[Lebronxrings]

phil jackson and gasol needed more help.

[JT123]

They needed 7 games and Gasol and Artest to bail them out just to beat them

This is the same Celtics team that the Heat dismantled in just 5 games 10 months later :facepalm
Shhhhhhh. Kobe stans don't like it when you speak the truth.

[Inferno]

They needed 7 games and Gasol and Artest to bail them out just to beat them

This is the same Celtics team that the Heat dismantled in just 5 games 10 months later :facepalm

Yeah Kobe's 29/6/6 in the 2010 postseason had nothing to do with it

[dazzer87]

They needed 7 games and Refs to bailed them out with 25 FT in the 4th qtr........
:facepalm
FIXED

[JT123]

Bus seriously I think OP is selling this team short. How many other teams could win a game 7 of the Finals with their "best player" shooting 6/24? :confusedshrug:
Any team that can overcome a choke that big is stacked to the ceiling! :eek:

[Magic 32]

They needed 7 games and Gasol and Artest to bail them out just to beat them

This is the same Celtics team that the Heat dismantled in just 5 games 10 months later :facepalm

And 12 months after that...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X-Iob_GY2gw/T8dyhoa-A_I/AAAAAAAACpU/USBJnY4moCc/s1600/Wade+Foul+Rondo+No+Call.png

4-1

[KBaller33]

No one talks about that team at all.

[stalkerforlife]

Who rated them that highly?

Kobe willed them to a title through shear greatness.

[HylianNightmare]

They had kobe

[Beastmode88]

They needed 7 games and Gasol and Artest to bail them out just to beat them

This is the same Celtics team that the Heat dismantled in just 5 games 10 months later :facepalm

celtics got robbed if u didn't watch the blatant no calls when they played miami

[JT123]

Who rated them that highly?

Joey Crawford willed them to a title through shear greatness.
Agreed.

[stalkerforlife]

Agreed.

Don't ever change my quote again. Ever.

Consider this your one and only warning.

[fpliii]

Don't ever change my quote again. Ever.

Consider this your one and only warning.
:lebronamazed:

[JT123]

Don't ever change my quote again. Ever.

Consider this your one and only warning.
:oldlol:

[LakersDaBEst]

They needed 7 games and Gasol and Artest to bail them out just to beat them

This is the same Celtics team that the Heat dismantled in just 5 games 10 months later :facepalm

The same celtic team that dismantled the Cavs and made lebron leave

[nightprowler10]

This is the same Celtics team that the Heat dismantled in just 5 games 10 months later :facepalm
And that same team took a better Heat team to 7 games the following year. Your point?

[COnDEMnED]

They were essentially a 5-man team with no bench that got all the benefit of the doubt because they were the Lakers, they were defending champs, they had Kobe, they had Phil, they were the biggest team in all of sports.

This was a flawed team that I think was basically Kobe and a bunch of big guys. They had one megastar, size, but not much else.

They used those strengths and home-court advantage (Outside the Utah series, they won only 3 road games combined in the other series) to just squeak by OKC at the end, beat deeper Phoenix/Boston teams.

I thought they were a little bit flawed, but because they were the Lakers of Kobe and defending champs, the concerns were shrugged off.

And let's not forget they caught a few breaks when they didn't have to face Denver (who gave them fits the year before), Dallas (who beat them the following year), and maybe old nemesis San Antonio
Your OP makes more sense if I replace the word "overrated" in the title with underrated. How can they be overrated if you yourself say the bold?

[riseagainst]

Don't ever change my quote again. Ever.

Consider this your one and only warning.

:roll:

[DaSeba5]

It's not like they are rated really high so IDK how they are overrated.

[fsvr54]

Don't ever change my quote again. Ever.

Consider this your one and only warning.

:roll: :roll:

:applause:

[SpecialQue]

Who the hell overrates them? It was a seven game series that had a close game 7 with both teams playing like ass.

[bballnoob1192]

2/3 > 2/4

[LakersFan626]

Shhhhhhh. Kobe stans don't like it when you speak the truth.

http://images.freshnessmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/kobe-latimes-6.jpg
http://lakersblog.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c506253ef01348073dec9970c-pi

More rings than LeBron.

The 2010 Lakers are not overrated... they're more underrated than anything as they were a team that NOBODY could match up well against due to their size.

[BlkMambaGOAT]

http://images.freshnessmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/kobe-latimes-6.jpg
http://lakersblog.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c506253ef01348073dec9970c-pi


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Gets me everytime.