yessir, but I didn’t want to spoil it for yaMcKinney got injured early during the 1st season guessing about 10 games in and never won a championship
Westhead wanted to get back to a more traditional half court offense in 1982. Couldn't do that with two point guards. Magic got tired of it, asked to be traded. Then, Dr Buss bounced Westhead and put Pat Riley in as coach, Lakers go on to win the title in 1982 and then the Lakers got tired of the two point guard set and sent Norm to the Clippers for Byron Scott who ended up being the perfect 2 for the Showtime Lakers because he could shoot and run and play defense and didn't need the ball in his hands.
- Loved episode 4. Didn't feel slow to me at all though I still wish the show would pick up the pace. - I thought it was sad to consider Dr. Buss' family as fallout, especially considering how it may have really harmed Jeanie growing up. - I love Kareem and keep wanting more of him. Can a coach really force a 7'2 athlete into prolonged running? Yeesh. - Watching the Showtime offense gel for the first time was, of course, magical. - It's kind of hard to watch McKinney knowing what's coming. - Love seeing Riley like this. They're so clearly hamming it up just to make the evolution more dramatic. I fully support this. - Let's please get to the season already.
Showrunner is freaking brilliant I’m glad he is on this. Hopefully they stretch this out to at least 5 seasons. Then we start with Shaq-Kobe era, the two Jerry still leading the pack
This is a great show, just a lot of fun. When you take it from that point of view that it’s fictionalised and designed to be funny and fun, you can be a bit more forgiving. But they’ve definitely made simple caricatures of a lot of people. Jerry West got done the worst so far, but magic, the cap, dr Buss, all of them are simplified versions of themselves. But a real fun show! Watching Norm and Magic click in pre season was great to see
Someone told me The Godfather was too slow once. I got up, put my shoes on, went to the cabinet, got a cup, put the cup under my fridge water dispenser, filled the cup, drank the whole cup of water, then walked to my front door, unlocked the door, then unlocked the security door, then opened it and then nicely told my guest to get the f*** outta my house. If you are to slow to comprehend quality, then you can slow your a** outta my hizouse! Thank you for reading.....I hope the story wasn't too slow for you....
He was an a******. Listening to him talk to fans on Lakers Live was proof and it's public he used to chastise Stu Lantz mercilessly. But he was your everyday, ball breaking dude ahole. More than likely a perfectionist. I mean the guy announced 3000 freakin games in a row. He was a machine. McKinney eating s*** on that bike was brutal. The sound of his skin scraping the asphalt. Man, they don't f*** around with this show. Another great episode. Cap seems to be portrayed in a similar way his reputation has proceeded him. Seeing DOC as the Imam was really cool.
Brutal end for McKinney’s Laker coaching career but seem to have been credited as the brains behind Showtime at least at its earliest iteration. A Cap centric episode, not so fun as Magic obviously.
Kareem always wearing his games of death attire lol. I'm expecting bruce lee to jump out on the screen.
That was definitely the best episode since the first one. Kareem is such a fascinating person, this whole series could just be a Cap biopic and it'd still be worth watching. I also loved the basketball reenactments but that's probably just because I'm having "good Lakers basketball" withdrawals at the moment.
I keep forgetting to post these. True stories (or at least out of Perlman’s book) behind stuff on the show https://www.silverscreenandroll.com...abbar-magic-johnson-paula-abdul-jack-mckinney
