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Let's be honest... It WAS kind of a lucky shot.
Just as lucky as josh powell chanelling his inner Horace grant.
Eh? He says it and u can clearly hear it on the telecast...
Let's be honest... It WAS kind of a lucky shot.
Just as lucky as josh powell chanelling his inner Horace grant.
I wonder if Kobe went to his "4th gear" last night
it looked like he went to 6th gear and tried to put it in reverse and maybe even broke his clutch
What is this "dance" people keep referring to?
There was a thread on this, but no video.
Ever so classy. Kobe.
Kobe just wants to win badly. He is awesome. Everybody says like that in the heat of the moment.
Can we get more spurs fans like this one ?
haha you guys act like he said the wrong things. He was right, it was a lucky shot and it was Mason that we needed to look out for. You guys are a bunch of over-reacting drama queens. oh noes! Kobe said something bad during a team huddle.
Kobe is an ass. But a compe ive ass.
Tim's shot was a bull shot. It still counts.
Don't really see anything wrong with Kobe's statement.
You kind of expect him to be a compe ive jackass like that in a game.
I think the comment was more about the "bull " shot, not his "thoughts on Duncan."
The " you" was about compe ion. That's how I see it.
We already know Kobe isn't a classy player. Is this news?
Yeah I caught that too. They didn't mute it, but you could barely hear what he said. It was during the timeout after Kobe hit the three. Further proof that he's a classless loser. Yeah ESPN, that's your league MVP and so-called team leader.
Mason did the same dance after he hit his game winner. You can see it in EricB's sig.
Also, I read an interesting quote that Kobe said after the game, almost saying the Spurs are just lucky. He said something along the lines of " I hope they run out of bullets early, they do not have game winners in them all the time. "
+1
Best post on this thread by far.
Go there http://forums.lakersground.net/ ...the kingdom of over-reacting drama queens.
He's an adulterer.
It's not like the dude has class in the first place.
I agree.Kobe just wants to win badly. He is awesome. Everybody says like that in the heat of the moment.
SAN ANTONIO -- He makes the big shots and gets the crunch-time call when he collides in midair with Derek Fisher.
Looks like Roger Mason is a bigger free-agent steal than the San Antonio Spurs had ever allowed themselves to believe.
So we have to talk about that first.
Remember that Mason dagger from the corner that beat Phoenix at the buzzer on Christmas Day? That was a yawn compared to the wild scenes of Wednesday night, when Mason was not only asked to replace Bruce Bowen as the Spurs' primary Kobe Bryant defender but also intersected in the final seconds with the most notorious Spurs Killer not named Kobe Bryant ... and out-Fishered him.
"Typical Spurs-Lakers stuff," Bryant said with a smile, trying to shrug off the crazy back-and-forth of a final 28.9 seconds that somehow left San Antonio clinging to a 112-111 victory.
"That's how it is," Kobe continued. "I hope they get it out of their system and there are no bullets left."
It was the first encounter for these teams since last spring's Western Conference Finals ... and it was honestly more than anyone could have hoped for. Except that the amazing ending to this game of ridiculously good execution and shot-making really wasn't so typical.
Not in this building. Not when Fisher's involved. Surely you're aware, if you've followed this Spurs-Lakers stuff with any regularity, that it's rare when the final play doesn't go Fisher's way at the AT&T Center.
Exhibit A for the forgetful: Fisher's crushing shot to beat the Spurs in Game 5 of a second-round series in 2004 after catching, spinning and shooting with four-tenths of a second on the clock. Exhibit B: Fisher landing on Brent Barry -- but avoiding a whistle -- on the last shot in Game 4 of the 2008 conference finals.
Asked to do a little reflecting after the crowd around his locker dispersed late Wednesday, Fisher conceded: "I guess I've been involved in some interesting moments here."
This, however, is January.
So ...
Sweet as it was for the Spurs to see Mason (18 points) shake free from Fisher near the baseline, gather Matt Bonner's hurried fastball pass and do what Barry couldn't -- initiate contact but also draw the foul as he banged home a long jumper that put him on the line for the decisive point -- there is only so much vengeance San Antonio can claim from a regular-season game. Even an extraordinary regular-season game during which Bryant, before Mason's magic, responded to Tim Duncan's go-ahead heave in the lane by splashing in his own 3-pointer from the left wing with 12.9 seconds remaining.
Which brings us to Part 2 of this tale.
That would be the part about the Lakers looking so good with three regulars out and dressing only eight guys Phil Jackson trusted to play on the second night of a back-to-back. (Fine: It's nine if you count Sun Yue's 82-second stint.)
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said something afterward about how "what goes around comes around," in an apparent reference to San Antonio's luck with Fisher, but Pop's words were a lot louder last week when he said of the purple and gold: "We're just not in the same league with the Lakers right now."
You have to wonder how he sees it after this.
Jordan Farmar, Sasha Vujacic and Luke Walton are sidelined by injury. Odom isn't all the way back after rushing back this week from a bruised knee after sitting out just three games. Fisher managed to suffer a groin injury during Wednesday's busy proceedings but was cleared to return for the finish after some quickie treatment from Lakers flexibility specialist Alex McKechnie.
Yet none of that stopped the Lakers, after winning the previous night in Houston, from finding the gas to erase San Antonio's 11-point lead with 6:55 to play.
"That was a big game for us," Jackson said. "This was a game that I was proud of the guys for coming back and playing like that. [San Antonio has] been here for three days waiting for us."
So Jackson could live with the Lakers' final possession, when San Antonio forced the ball out of Bryant's hands, only for Trevor Ariza to be hit with a traveling call as he drove to the bucket. He saw no need to chastise Bryant for what turned out to be a premature rendition of Sam Cassell's infamous celebration dance, after Kobe's 3 put L.A. up 111-109. Like Popovich with Mason, Jackson clearly enjoyed having options -- such as using the long-limbed Ariza to guard Parker or putting Andrew Bynum (18 points) on Duncan -- that he didn't have in May.
The comeback, even in defeat, might have made a louder statement about L.A.'s well-chronicled depth than anything we've seen all season. The rally actually gathered steam when Kobe found himself running side pick-and-rolls in crunch time with the little-used Josh Powell on back-to-back possessions ... both of them ending with Powell leaving his hand in the air to punctuate a drained mid-range jumper after rolling into daylight and getting the ball from the blitzed Bryant.
Let's be clear here: San Antonio should get a tangible boost from pulling this one out. Manu Ginobili scored a season-high 27 points -- which included a buzzer-beating 3 to cap an equally chaotic final minute of the third quarter -- with the sort of power in his legs that we never saw when the teams met in the playoffs. Duncan had two big buckets in the final 1:15 and quietly flirted with a triple-double (20 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists). The Spurs also indoctrinated rookie George Hill to the rivalry with 14 quality minutes and wound up enhancing Mason's growing reputation to the point that no one even remembered to ask Popovich why Bowen received only six minutes off the bench.
Yet it's no secret in NBA front-office circles that the Spurs, in spite of their limited trade assets, hope to acquire at least one more quality player before the Feb. 19 trade deadline. It would be tough, on this evidence, to dispute the theory that they'll need another big man or another scoring threat to move into what Pop is now referring to as the Lakers' league.
That's especially true if the Lakers -- given all of their health issues -- can bank on the following claim from Bryant as L.A. prepares for two more immediate challenges: Orlando visits Staples Center on Friday, followed by Cleveland on Monday.
Before racking up 29 points, 10 assists and seven boards in defeat, when asked in a pregame chat if he can withstand L.A.'s wave of injuries, Kobe said: "I feel as good as I've felt in a long time."
I would say you greatly misrepresented that quote in your earlier post.
Here's the quote in full context.
"That's the least we can do to return the favor after Fish '0.4'ed them," Kobe Bryant said. "Hopefully [the Spurs] got it out of their system so when the playoffs come around, they don't have any more bullets left."
http://www.latimes.com/sports/basket...,3243518.story
Kobe was hoping the Spurs would get that revenge feeling out of their system.
But thanks for trying to make Kobe look like a bigger than he really is.
Ya going back and looking at it, I did.
It's all good. No biggie.
One second late, quit crying and sticking up for your boy friend, I said I misinterpreted it.
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