Lakers @ Spurs, 1990 (won in last secs)

2-20-1990. Rookie seasons of Robinson, Sean Elliott and Vlade.

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• lakers
• spurs
• magic johnson
• jordan
• larry bird

[Edd1e8]

thanks for the upload! The 1990 Lakers had the best record that year, right?

Although they were a very savvy veteran team, their trouble with small guards eventually eliminated them with KJ in the semis that year.

With Magic and Scott getting old legs, the last thing they needed was for Cooper to leave. That guard trio at 100% would've gave Chicago all they could handle in 1991. (I think the Bulls would've won anyway.)

[nonplayerzealot4]

I think Detroit may have had one game on them, just going from memory. It was disappointing how LA just started struggling in general right at the start of the playoffs. They didn't look very impressive against the Rockets in Rd.1 even before the Suns series. They played very hard that RS, perhaps burned themselves out. I don't have many games from that year where they were flat.

[Edd1e8]

@nonplayerzealot4 - agreed -- the RS and prior mileage from all the playoff games of the decade started to take it's toll. Riley perhaps should've used some Phil Jackson-like tactics where his veterans would get limited minutes until the playoffs.

This was also the year Riles felt he couldn't push the team anymore and some of them started to get burned out from his whip-cracking ways. He tried another memorial day masacre outburst in the locker room that only backfired.

[nonplayerzealot4]

I have a game in my uploads (@ Milwaukee) where I included a scene of Magic talking to the team in the final secs w/ Riley standing there silently looking at his shoes. He looked depressed. The ebb and flow of pro sports is all his firing was. He tried to visit the Laker locker room when he was working for NBC and he couldn't get in. He said that's when he officially knew past was past.

[thkalas]

@Edd1e8 in 1991, Lakers could have won the title but they were unlucky coz they lost the 3rd game in overtime, and in the 4rth game they lost Scott and Worthy. Cooper , their best defender, had already left before the 1990-1991 season , so...it was a very difficult battle against the bulls, but i still believe that if Lakers had won the 3rd game before it reaches the overtime, and if Scott and Worthy had not been injured in the 4rth game,they would have won the 1991 championship :)

[thkalas]

@Edd1e8 Magic was 31 and scott 29, there was no age problem, Magic was the 1990MVP , what old legs are you talking about?During the series against the phoenix in 1990, Magic scored 43 points in each of the last two games that Lakers lost.So..the argument of old legs isn't true.Besides..Cooper was present in 1990..so i don't know what went wrong, maybe coz they didn;t have a good enough center that year, coz Divac was a rookie

[cbaldwinjr]

Sounds like Pete van Wieren and Snapper Jones...when did TNT start broadcasting games?

[COU16058407]

David Robinson was a beast...so quick, athletic and agile

[Edd1e8]

I'm still trying to search for any of the 3 consecutive 40+ point games that Magic had in the semis against the Suns.

[popeyeisgood]

that move by worthy at 8:26 is quick and smooth.