Customer Reviews

2010 NBA Champions Los Angeles Lakers

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

While I am a HUGE Laker fan and I had a great time watching them this season (especially going to game 7), I found this DVD to be a good, but not great, re-cap to the season. I have no complaints about the main content, going through the season, the rounds of the playoffs and each game of the Finals, but I didn't like the extra features that were thrown in. They were very generic (Sounds of the NBA Playoffs) and not Laker-centric. I would figure that since this is the Lakers Championship DVD, all of the material would cover the Lakers. Unlike the 2008-2009 DVD, this one did not have ANY game recaps (hello...4th quarter of game 7 anyone?), no extras on the Laker members, coach Jackson, or Laker greats. It left me feeling a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the main content of this disc was great. But compared to the DVD from the Lakers-Orlando Finals of last year, I would figure they would've had so much more material to offer for a Lakers-Celtics Final.

This DVD has a running time of around 85 minutes and pulls material from the ESPN documentary The Association: Los Angeles Lakers. It gives an overview of the Lakers' regular season and then quickly dives into the playoffs, and there it rapidly checks off the Lakers' progression thru the western conference. The meat of this documentary - and this part lasts about 45 minutes long - is devoted to comprehensive coverage of the Lakers-Celtics Finals, followed by the post-game celebrations. We see clips of the Lakers Victory Parade over the closing credits. Somewhere during all this, we also get very nice personal pieces focusing, respectively, on Ron Artest, Derek Fisher, and Phil Jackson.

The 2009-2010 Los Angeles Lakers season, and what I remember: Kobe's memorable game winners and his playing thru injuries; worrying about Ron Artest and for months wondering if we should've kept Ariza; Bynum's showing what he's made of, playing his bum knee in the playoffs; Gasol and Fish, steady as bedrock; Odom becoming a reality show star, doing commercials; Shannon's stinking it up at the All-Star Weekend Dunk Contest; foam fingers being thrown on the Staples Center floor during that disastrous Christmas game against Cleveland; the first round scare against Oklahoma City, Kobe's amazing Game 6 performance in the Western Conference Finals and a pat on the bum of Suns coach Alvin Gentry; and the 2010 NBA Champs goofing around on the Jimmy Kimmel show. But can I talk about the NBA Finals Game Seven? That tooth-and-nail contested Game Seven?

I've never hated the Boston Celtics more, never respected the Celtics more. I went to this game, blew a paycheck and sat in the boonies way up high in Staples Center, and the tension was so unbelievably thick. Be careful what you wish for. Laker fans wanted Boston real bad for payback. Boston almost made Laker fans rue the day... again. Someone somewhere coined the perfect phrase right after it was over, remarking that this Game Seven was THE best bad game he'd ever seen, and I couldn't agree more. My heart palpitations couldn't agree more. This was one of the most grueling, most taxing, most nerve-wracking series I have ever sweated thru.

83 to 79, as low a final score as can be. And if you didn't already know who won Game Seven, you'd assume the Celtics took it. The outcome was predicated on stifling defense, and so it's even sweeter that the Lakers beat the Celtics at their own game. No one could buy a bucket, not even the Mamba who had a horrible game and would later admit that he wanted it so bad it got away from him. This game, if nothing else, illustrates that while the NBA may be star driven, it's the team that wins the game. Kobe's teammates had his back, everyone made crucial plays down the stretch, even Sasha. Geez, how clutch is Fisher? How crazy entertaining is Artest? How much does Gasol resemble a stork?

The bonus stuff on last year's 2008-2009 NBA CHAMPIONS DVD kicks this DVD's bonus stuff to the curb. Disappointingly, the bonus stuff here doesn't exclusively feature the Lakers, but rather the NBA teams in the 2010 playoffs. We see the very brief promotional pieces which ran thru the 2010 NBA playoffs as various NBA stars give sound bytes regarding this theme and that theme ("Belief," "Unity," "The Journey," and "Dream"). In "Sounds of the Playoffs" we get sight and sound footage of selected playoff teams as they go thru the 1st Round (00:04:42 minutes) and the Conference Semi-Finals (but no Lakers-Jazz, 00:03:52). And when we get to the Conference Finals, it features only the Boston-Orlando series (0:03:00); and then we get the top ten plays of the year, with Kobe garnering two of the plays (00:02:26). I was hoping Artest's disarmingly insane post-game interview at the dais would be included, or at least the immediate post-game interview he conducted with Doris What's-Her-Face in which he thanked his 'hood and his psychiatrist and then promoted his single... but nah. These are incredibly lame bonus features.

The content itself was good but most of the content that was in here was already showcased in "The Association" narrated by Andy Garcia with just the addition of the Lakers Parade and The Finals. I liked the narration by Andy Garcia much better than the DVD. Even the starting menu was low grade with the horrible background music. The quality of the video itself isn't even in HD and in these high tech times, that's horrible. I'm a big Lakers fan and this DVD fell short of my expectations.

The DVD is disappointing....sigh..... I expected so much more

The best way to describe this is that it's an upgraded re-hash of the special ESPN did on the Lakers during the 09-10 season with some Playoff/Finals footage. One thing that really surprised me about it is that it doesn't have the NBA holographic seal that all NBA products come with these days.

The picture quality is crap. If you have a HDTV it sits in a little box in the middle of your screen. Yes, I could have stretched it to fit the screen however I tend to watch things as they are (stretching the picture could decrease the quality).

The only reason is gets 2 stars is because, well, it the LAKERS and they beat boston for the championship. Had it been any other team it would have received the 1 star it deserves.

I just want to agree with the poster who gave this DVD 3 stars, the actual main content of the DVD is great...Suprisingly a lot of behind the scenes footage like Ron Artest trying to learn the Triangle Offense...Lots of great footage of each game and happy that this was not just a 60 minute review where they gloss over important games...Highlights from the Finals are awesome especially the behind the scenes with Derek Fisher after game 3...After all that though it is kind of a let down when the bonus coverage is just segements from the Sounds of the Playoffs which they show all the time on NBA TV...I wish they had put in actual game footage like last years DVD...Which takes me to my next, point when are they going to release actual games in their entirety like other leagues? I know this is the first project since NBA entertainment outsourced to Bombo but I hope they start releasing more dvd's of full games especially of the NBA finals from the last 2 years...

This championship year wasn't as smooth as the year before it but that made it sweeter. Especially since they took revenge on both the Suns and Celtics! I'm going to watch this DVD a 100 times just to see the faces of the Celtics players as they walk of the court crushed after they made tons of promises they would win game 7.

cheers!

As a Lakers fan who lives in Chicago, I don't get to see many Lakers games beyond the Playoffs. Thankfully, I recorded all the games, because this year's retrospective might be the weakest of all the Championship DVDs. The bonus features are a joke and barely have anything to do with the Lakers specifically. Still, the DVD does a good job of highlighting the arrival of Ron Artest and the importance of beating the Celtics. In all, this DVD seems rushed, but is still a must-have for any true Lakers fan.

Not much thought put into the video. Not as much video of the games and even less interviews with players and coaches.

As a long-time Laker fan, I know that any DVD on a successful season is worth watching, and so is this. But compared to the 08-09 DVD, this falls short. The 08-09 was more thorough, it contained highlights from a couple of top regular season games (CLE and BOS on Christmas Day), and even more fun, it had complete 4th quarters of a couple of key games. There were no such game videos on the the 09-10 DVD. If any 4th quarter was exciting, it was from game 7 against Boston. Shame on the producers for not including this. But, again, it wasn't bad, overall.

it was a decent recollection of this past season... The extra features were generic and not centeredaround the team at all. The league is making the videos for the champions now. I think that it would be better if they give that responsibilty to the franchise. They would have a familiar voice that fans could relate to and they would have more detail on the journey because they took it with them. Decent video but I have the previous 4 and this the worst.