Down with the Lakeshow!

Does it ever irk you when a team with sooooo much talent decides that they are bigger than the league, and then picks and chooses when to turn it off and on? When we see this question, are we immediately thinking the 2009 version of the Los Angeles Lakers, now known as the "Lakeshow"?

To you Laker fans, cool it with the Lakeshow nonsense. Yes I know that even my Chicago Bulls championship teams decided to turn it off and on once in a while, just like the great teams of the Celtics, Lakers, Pistons, and even the Spurs probably did every now and then. But lets make something very clear, this version of the Lakers goes above and beyond anything else we have ever seen. They are pretty much toying with teams that have no business even beating them once (let alone 3 times) in a seven game series. As Charles and Kenny put it, its gotten to a point where they are almost disrespecting the league. Oh, and none of those other aforementioned teams named their brand of basketball as a "show".

Let me give you Laker fans a little bit of education here. If you want to be called a "show", the results don't always have to be the same, but the consistancy of effort and passion throughout the duration of the game, each and every time out, does need to be there. Any Tom, Dick, and Harry (or Tammy, Dianna, and Hiliary for that matter) can see this is not the case with the 2009 version of the Lakers. Also, win a championship before you proclaim yourselves as being "The Show", like the St. Louis Rams did before they were deemed "The Greatest Show on Turf".

Even if the Lakers get passed the "Baby Blue Machine", either the "Magic Triks" or the "Cavrabatics" will be next, ready and waiting, to put the reeling "Lakeshow" out of business for at least the rest of the summer, and hopefully, if Kobe has anything to say about it, forever! Just a thought.