About the OK combination can take a few championships, let go of the brain hole bold guess, we see the lower limit is three championships, then where is their upper limit about the championship? Today we have a reasonable guess.
First of all, the premise of this topic is OK not to break up. So why did OK break up? Some say it was Kobe Bryant who wanted to be the boss and squeezed O'Neill out. I define the person who can say this: I don't know the ball at all.
Because who you want to trade, it is not Kobe Bryant who has the final say, it is the team owner who decides. Even if OK has the fact that there is a competition for the boss of the team, but just because of this point to squeeze O'Neill out, the old Buzz does not agree, no one should think.
Jenny Bass and O'Neill also made the same statement, because the old Buzz did not want to give O'Neill more salary to the state, which led to the parting of the OK group, and it had nothing to do with Kobe. But because Kobe Bryant and O'Neill's palace fight drama is more appealing, the media deliberately amplified the matter only to attract more attention. So OK breakup is inevitable.
When O'Neal was asked in an interview how many championships you and Kobe Bryant could win without breaking up, O'Neal gave the answer of 7. OK breakup happened in 2004, two years later O'Neal won his last championship in the Heat, Kobe Bryant did not finally win two consecutive championships until five years later in 2009, especially the championship won by beating the Celtics.
If O'Neill's prediction comes true, it means that in the six years from the beginning of the 04-05 season until O'Neill's retirement, OK will have to win 4 championships to complete the goal of 7 championships.
I think that's simply an insurmountable task. Especially in the west where OK is located, since 03 years, the dominance of the big sharks has declined, and this Spurs with GDP has come to the top, it can be said that every year the Spurs are the biggest obstacle for the Lakers to impact the championship, so is O'Neill's seven championships in a blind fool?
I don't think it's a fool's errand, O'Neal should be making predictions based on Kobe's state. Since the Sharks' eastward journey in 2004, Bryant has demonstrated the personal dominance of horror, two consecutive scoring kings, 81 points slaughtering dragons, three quarters 62 points slaughtering cattle, 4 consecutive games 50+, 9 consecutive games 40+, a single month average of 40+, this horrible scoring ability.
Coupled with O'Neal's decline in form, the containment on the inside is still there, and it is not impossible for the two to join forces to win the championship again. Practice has proved that although O'Neill and Wade are the second in command, the two do win a championship.
And Kobe Bryant, gave him a Gasol, plus Bynum, didn't Kobe also achieve two consecutive championships? But since winning the championship in 2006, O'Neal's scoring ability has declined rapidly, and the number of attendance games has plummeted, until he left the Heat, the game only played 33 games, and the average score per game has dropped to 14 points, which is difficult to achieve kobe in the West, let alone the championship.
Therefore, according to the most optimistic estimate, even if OK does not break up, at most it will be 05-06 years or can achieve the championship, coupled with the previous three consecutive championships, it is absolutely impossible to exceed 5 championships.
In 2005, OK also had to face a combination of GDP in the sky, even if Kobe Bryant opened the same state, but Duncan inside the line to explode the Sharks, this is for sure, the Lakers still have no chance.
So ah, O'Neill said the 7 championships just think about it, don't take it seriously. In the end, even if the Peak Sharks meet the Spurs, it is basically Kobe Bryant who solves the battle every time, so Kobe Bryant may be Popovich's favorite player besides Duncan.