Lakers at Spurs, 2004 WCSF, Gm 5 (Fisher 0.4 shot)
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- 5-13-2004. Semis 04, Game 5, series tied 2-2. The title was at stake here, but here's how it all unfolded that season. The West was stronger than the East again and the Lakers wound up defeating SA in 6 and then they went on to play the Pacers in The Finals again and beat them in 5. That's how it happened. Ladies and gentlemen, the 2004 NBA WORLD Champion Los Angeles Lakers!
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That red strip (which was much more indelible than the yellow one of today, they changed somethin that wasn't broken again) was added after the 2002 playoffs where there were a few questionable treys just before or after the buzzer. There was one by Reggie Miller at NJ, one by Baron Davis vs ORL, and Samaki's halfcourt trey that came after the buzz at halftime of the Horry for the win gm (G4, vs SAC). It was chiefly the Samaki shot everyone groused about because the Lakers won that game by a point. From 2002 and earlier, all they had was a red light bulb behind the basket. Very difficult to watch along w/ the ball, especially in the years prior to replay. It's a good thing that replay and the red strip was around for this shot or the refs may have discounted it on the spot -- w/o being able to change their call even if they were initially wrong. Think of that. Lakers did get beat in the light bulb era once in 93/94 vs CHI on a tap by Ho Grant that didn't beat the light bulb on TV (not ref) replays. If it could happen once, it could happen more than once. - Sport
if fisher's shot hadn't happened, we'd still be seeing highlights of that last shot by duncan. thank you d-fish
Its OK. Lakers got spank in the finals by detroit
@@st4r444 lol
@@st4r444and Detroit been getting spanked ever since whilst Kobe went to 3 str8 finals after
@@st4r444fishers shot to this day gets more recognition and praise then that whole run y’all had that year lol
I turned the TV off afterthat Duncan shot. I went to sleep but felt off. I went back later that evening and saw the highlights lol
Thanks for the uploads. This is my generation. I’m a millennial. I’m glad fisher made that shot because if he woulda missed that shot, we would have lost in six just like the year before. This just bring me back memories.
I remember that Spurs comeback and that Duncan shot at the end pissed me off so much. That was one of the luckiest, flukiest things I've ever seen in my life. Even watching it again 17 years later generates emotion. Fisher's shot was even more lucky but Duncan made another silly bank shot slightly earlier. Couple that with the fact that literally everything about the Spurs and Tim Duncan (who I deeply respect now and consider 1 of the 5-7 greatest players ever) was so unappealing to most of every NBA fan outside of San Antonio Texas.
Note that bleep Mario Elie talkin as usual after the shot. Glad to shut that punk up. The we shut down The Forum turd. It's even that much more miraculous that Fisher left handed that in. How did he even think to shoot it like that and how did he even get it to the rim w/ his off arm?
As awkward as it was, having followed his career Duncan made a lot of weird-looking fallaways moving to his left to avoid shot-blockers. Earlier in his career he'd just shoot a lefty hook, but at some point went with that weird-ass fadeaway w/ his right hand on occasion. It was ugly, but less lucky than it looks. Fisher's shot was amazing too, yep. He's not known for shots like that but he made his own luck. I credit both of em.
Rip Kobe 😥
This game was brutal for a variety of reasons.
- The score.
- The illusion that virtually winning the series that night essentially won the championship for us. Man, no one cared about the Pistons before they stomped us (Although you could say that having a healthy Malone could have won us one game in Detroit, maybe)
- Kobe's game winner should have been the end of it. No one - and I mean no one - should face an impending defeat at the hands of a lucky shot like Duncan's. Even your worst enemy. Hell, that was a shot - a fling - that could have crushed bodies and souls alike.
Yup. I remember thinking at the time when they won this series, they would cruise to a 4th 🏆 in 5 years. I was confident they'd beat Minnesota and whoever came out of the East between Detroit and Indiana. Even after the Game 1 loss against Detroit, I just thought, "OK this team lost Game 1 to Philly in the Finals before. They'll get it together." Kobe hit the big shot to save their asses in Game 2 and thought here we go, this is it. Game 3 was a living nightmare, like getting surgery without anesthesia. That's when I really felt something was wrong and Game 4 further reinforced it. In hindsight, the Lakers were living on borrowed time.
u are spot on my brother..
@@brandanevans7403 Yeah, more I look back at it, this San Antonio series exposed the Lakers' flaws in a major way even though they won.
Yup...99% of Laker Nation treated the T-Wolves series and the Finals as the epilogue of a great redemption story against San Antonio. But my late father warned me...and he was almost always right about sports...he said, "everyone's overlooking that Detroit team and they're gonna be a problem". He knew. For me, it didn't really hit until that 4th quarter in Game 4. Even after the Game 1 wake up call, the Game 2 scare and the Game 3 asswhoopin', I was still like, "okay, they'll find a way to get Game 4 and we'll get it back home in LA like '88". Except...the Pistons score 32 points in that 4th quarter and the Lakers best offensive showing in Motown that entire Finals gets wasted because they couldn't stop Chauncey or Rip when it counted. Kobe couldn't check them either. I knew it was over then...Shaq goes for 36 and 20 and we lose by eight. It was a wrap.
I'll remember that call until the day I die...
"They get it Fisher...HE SCORES!"
"OHHH MY GOODNESS!"
"DEREK FISHER! SCORES! AT...the buzzer!"
Wow the score was 42-35 at halftime, in today's NBA with no defense that score would be after the first quarter.
We see such games every day in Europe
If not for Duncan hitting the most YOLO shot of all time, Kobe would have had the game winner.
One of my greatest memories right here
0.4 D-FISH THAT SAVED L.A.
Devean George, Augsburg, division 3 school, that always gets me.
Basketball is Al Michaels’ 3rd or 4th best sport behind football and baseball but..
Al did way more basketball than hockey (Do you believe in miracles?) Al did basketball as a student at ASU, Lakers color for 8 games in 1967-68, high school and college basketball in Hawaii and UCLA and TVS basketball in the early 1970s. He also did a few college basketball games on ABC in the late 1980s.
The next time Al would do basketball were these years (2003-05) at a time the NBA on ABC was trying to find it’s footing. Al on the NBA wasn’t memorable but the call at 33:24 was one of the best he has ever made.
Al was (still is) a big Lakers fan, and you can see it in this game. Rarely did you see him call a game-winning play with such genuine joy. It's another thing calling a great game and another one calling a great game featuring YOUR VERY TEAM. This call easily at his top 5 in any sport he's called.
Ah, 2004. The days where a 62-53 score at the end of three quarters was not considered abnormal. Going from watching your mid-80s uploads to the Shaq/Kobe uploads is a shock. I'm pretty sure that would be a middle-of-the-second-quarter score fro Magic and the Showtime Lakers. The lack of ball movement is jarring after watching Byron Scott and Michael Cooper zip the ball around the floor.
Pocky! Ayy, how's it, homes? Lakers had 72-71 win in the 1st game against HOU this year. And of course the Lakers scored only 69 in a Finals gm, their lowest total in LA history, period, RS or playoffs. No other sub 70 pt gm ever in LA. And they own the lowest all-time score at 18 or somethin. They had that 18-17 gm or the likes in the MPLS days.
How you likin the lads thus far in the Suns series?
@@nonplayerzealot4 Lakers will repeat
62-53 wasn't abnormal because they actually played defense . Not much defense in the NBA now, which is pretty sad. Not the NBA that I and many fans grew up with. We are thankful for NPZ for uploading games from this era and earlier.
@@nonplayerzealot4 It's going well! Haven't been able to edit many videos lately, unfortunately. And yeah I think that 18 point game was the reason we have a shot clock nowadays. As much as those early-00s games were a grind-fest, they got nothing on the pre-shotclock days. You'd have thought that just by having Shaq and Kobe, the 2004 Lakers would be guaranteed to score at least 90 in every game.
If fisher doesn’t hit this shot, the spurs have 6 titles.
I don't know if they beat the Pistons
@@rooseveltdarbey9493 true. I think the spurs are most certainly in the finals at least
One of the funny things for me about rewatching this game is remembering the final score, seeing George hit another 3 at 19:45, and going “Damn, they scored 15 more points in a quarter and a half?? And four of them were in the last 11 seconds????”
I love that smirk on Phil Jackson's face (33:33)
I really enjoy when you leave the player interviews at the end. One lucky shot deserves another.
My boy D-george with the big game. Kobe was clutch that season. Shaq unusually quiet this game.
Shaq did outplayed Duncan in throughout the series tho.
This shot changed the league in so many ways
The 01 Lakers though fisher, fox, horry, Kobe, Shaq, shaw, Harper, Glenn rice the greatest team ever
1992 Dream Team is the best team ever. 2001 lakers is a close second.
I can't believe this game was 20 years ago. My entire sleepy neighborhood in the OC erupted when Fisher's shot went into the basket.
10:53 pm on the east coast here during Shaq's interview. Had to work. 10p-6am
What a game
That red strip (which was much more indelible than the yellow one of today, they changed somethin that wasn't broken again) was added after the 2002 playoffs where there were a few questionable treys just before or after the buzzer. There was one by Reggie Miller at NJ, one by Baron Davis vs ORL, and Samaki's halfcourt trey that came after the buzz at halftime of the Horry for the win gm (G4, vs SAC). It was chiefly the Samaki shot everyone groused about because the Lakers won that game by a point. From 2002 and earlier, all they had was a red light bulb behind the basket. Very difficult to watch along w/ the ball, especially in the years prior to replay. It's a good thing that replay and the red strip was around for this shot or the refs may have discounted it on the spot -- w/o being able to change their call even if they were initially wrong. Think of that. Lakers did get beat in the light bulb era once in 93/94 vs CHI on a tap by Ho Grant that didn't beat the light bulb on TV (not ref) replays. If it could happen once, it could happen more than once.
Bowen was so annoying. The only thing he did on offense was sit in the corners.
The poster Davo requested that I leave out all Bowen lites from future vids, haha. I'll do so, but he was too late as I did all 3 of these 04 series gms quicklike.
That was a left handed shot by Fish, btw. He wasn't left handed was he? I don't think he was just by memory. How much more difficult was that shit w/ his off hand as the dominant one? Prolly the only way it would've gone in and leave his hands quick enough was to just fling it up there, but still, he did shoot something approximating a jumper. It wasn't just a whatever fling. He held his wrist like he would w/ a jumpshot. Only he could make a shot like that, however, His unorthodox ways allowed for that. Kobe or Horry or Brian Shaw couldn't do that in the same situation imo. I know Kobe shot w/ his left at times, but not on crap like that at the buzzer. Kobz likely would've tried to shoot w/ his right hand.
Great video again but Fish was left handed his whole career though. I don't think I have ever seen him shoot with his right hand.
Lol so u’ve never seen Fish shoot? Haven’t u posted hundreds of games involving him? I assume u were teasing 😂
Fisher ran to Matt Barnes Wife, LMAO 😂🤣
Check Manu’s pass fake to Dee Brown before passing to Timmy. Great pass fake to move Kobe slightly over. Rest in peace Kobe.
2004 LOS ANGELES LAKERS: THE GLOVE GARY PAYTON, KOBE BRYANT, KARL THE MAILMAN MALONE, RICK FOX, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, DEREK FISHER, BYRON RUSSELL, HORACE GRANT, DEVEAN GEORGE, SLAVA MEDVEDENKO, &, MORE...
THE LAKERS VS SPURS RIVALRY: THE SPURS SWEPT THE LAKERS IN 1999/THE LAKERS SWEPT THE SPURS IN 2001/LAKERS BEAT SPURS IN 2002 4-1/SPURS BEAT LAKERS IN 2003 4-2/LAKERS BEAT SPURS IN 2004 4-2/
robert horry missed the game winning 3 in 2003 vs the spurs.. and the year after he lost game 5 against his former team a year before. hahahaha luckiest man
Lmao at 31:32 Shaq face aftrr duncan drills a shot over him
LOL Duncan's face every year he got eliminated by the Lakers that decade except 2003.
The piston won it this year
This was the real championship that yr for the Lakers. Getting revenge for the yr before.
THE 2004 WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS LOS ANGELES LAKERS WOULD HAVE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP IF THE MAILMAN KARL MALONE & HORACE GRANT WASN'T BOTH OUT WITH INJURIES.
Yes defensively they would have neutralized Rasheed Wallace.
@rooseveltdarbey9493 lmao no. Pistons won by double digit. Malone wouldn't have made much difference. He played in g3 and they still lost clearly.
biggest shots in laker history mostly shot by someone not named koby.
Why I'm watching most of these games in 2024??? Between 1997 to 2018.....always working. 🇺🇸🇵🇷🇲🇽🇧🇷✝️JW... they banned me from the world and my belongings to damage my life and career to protect AT&T. Now I'm watching all these game that I just watched in ESPN 3 MINUTES OF RESUME BACK ON THE DAYS...