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[QUOTE="OrangeDW, post: 3984553, member: 2458"]
Yeah and that’s an interesting “what if”, too.   What if the Lakers kept Nick and Eddie, fired Harris before 98-99, and hired a good coach(rather than firing Harris mid-season, hiring Rambis, bringing in Rodman, trading Jones...what a circus that year was)

They made it such a clown show, that paring down and bringing in Phil and all his “psychology” and veteran triangle guys became necessary.

What if they just hired another normal solid coach in 99 and ran with Shaq, Kobe, Eddie, Nick, Horry, Fox, etc.?

It’s crazy to feel like we left some meat on the bone when we friggin 3 peated.   But we didn’t get much back for what were prior to Shaq and Kobe joining, our two best players on very young, 50 win type teams.   And given that Shaq went on to win another title in Miami, and Kobe won two more an NBA lifetime later...I don’t think we got all we could out of that era.

*97-98 Lakers went 61-21 and made the WCF.   All of the panic, retooling, and drama wasn’t necessary.   Just calm down and let it happen.   My feelings both then, and now!
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