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Kobe had a bum stomach and a fractured finger. Should've sat out. Besides, all games in this road trip are winnable even without him.
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Kobe had a bum stomach and a fractured finger. Should've sat out. Besides, all games in this road trip are winnable even without him.
I agreed with this EXCEPT ... You're not Jordan and you're not going to replicate his perfomance in Utah when he played with a fever.
What a selfish POS.
A "FAIR" post would not included this emo response from you. Kobe did not play well should have deferred more ...nuff said. You are not a fan of the Lakers ...why do you care so much?
All that being said. Kobe should be smarter about this, BUT part of his "warroior mentality" (LOL) won't allow him to concede anything. It's part of what makes him great ...
Jamstone normally agree with you. But I don't like the MJ refferences here in this thread. MAYBE...he is trying to be like Mike who knows and as a coach I agree he did not play "smart". I just dont like all of the pscho-analysis (this not at you in particular Jamstone or even Crichards) that goes on with sports nowadays...we are not mind readers and few here have psych degrees. I try not to put player's state of minds in my posts because I don't know what they are thinking and neither do most of yall ...
Say Kobe shot poorly, should of passed more and cost his team the game. Why he did this I dont know but he does this from time to time and this is not Kobe at his best ...or most efficient.
My point is many of these type of threads spiral out of control when MJ is brought up by Kobehaters or Kobe lovers. SO sometimes I bring up Mj's negatives (fights with teammates, gambling, his high volume shot games, and womanizing his bad games) to balance out the Mj propoganda....but I won't here ...cuz either way Kobe was wrong....just no need to over analyze the IMHO
Side note feel the same about Tiger. This "oh he wouldnt have done this if his dad was there stuff ...Tiger had his dad most of his life (many men don't) He made his choice (marrying early) made his mistake (cheating and getting caught) I dont overanalyze him. Now if we want to discuss why "men" cheat or that this story is overblown cuz he was with "white woman" let's discuss but none of yall "know what's in Tiger's head" either.
All right off my chest. Flame on!
EPIC FAIL on this thread. This is absurd. Every player has bad shooting nights.
Kobe will has always been and will always be a ballhog. No more, no lessMan, what a way to shoot your team out of the game.
Here me out here for a minute. Im not hating on Kobe. Ive always been fair to him but
Kobe shot 7/24 (1-9 3FG) the most ever taken by a Laker tonight. Thats freaking 29%!!!
The rest of the starters were playing great ball and very efficient at that.
Gasol 6/11
Artest 6/10
Bynum 5/9
Fisher 6/8
Thats 23/38=608%!!!
Why the did kobe kept shooting when
A. he has a bad finger
B. has a stomach illness
C. His teammates are shooting great
I hate to say it but this "He's a soldier" "he's a warrior" Bull is getting old. You're not Jordan and you're not going to replicate his perfomance in Utah when he played with a fever.
What a selfish POS. Lakers win streak is on the line. He could've fed the ball to his teammates and round up with 10 pts and 15 assists and still be great but the guy instead forced the issue. And they said this guy has the best IQ?
flamesuit on
But, he rang/sans Daddy, and there ain't a thing you can do ta change it.
Of course, he won the ring fair and square. I'm not trying to question Mr. Bryant's basketball ability because he will go down as one of the greatest. I just couldn't understand why he still has to ball hog ( 7/24 shooting ) at all when he has teammates who can score at will. This Laker team is ridiculously stacked and everybody knows that Kobe is the Lakers' alpha male, he doesn't have to prove it by shooting more shots than everybody else.
He ain't perfect. He's a wounded animal. Resisted, he acts out. A "broken finger" is taken personally, out of his sphere of control...Bryant is driven from his "safe place" where he controls it all...out into the unknown where he maniacally searches for the control again via the 24 shot attempts.
Colorado changed his body chemistry, his core mental state.
It can never be like it was.
The way I see it,
he can't win without all-star big men.
Gasol is top 5 big man in the NBA.
so, Shaq <--> Gasol/Bynum
still the same .
But, "you" set the bar for Bryant/us at >Daddy rang/sans Kobe< and then "you" hung him/us up by our Buster Browns for three years and broke his/our cracks near daily. When Fisher looked at Bryant after he'd stuck Nelson head first, straight into the earth, Bryant/us were delivered.
don't forget his embarrassing failure that is the 2008 finals
wasn't enough to have gasol, odom, fisher, etc, on top of that needed bynum + ariza
stacked team wins a championship, oooh what a surprise. big ing deal. he's still overrated.
I freely acknowledge the humiliating failure of 2008.
But, Bryant rang/sans Daddy, and you can't change that, or the parameters that drove it.
and you can't change he was a sidekick for 3 rings, so he really only has 1 ring as a alpha dog.
he's 1-2 as the alpha dog. yeah, 2004 counts.
nothin you can do to change that.
I don't qualify rings. It's my religion.
LMAO Wade can't win without Shaq
So, will kobe play tomorrow?
sons, wade.
nothing you can do will change the fact that kobe is 1-2 as alpha dog
Is it also your religion to not care about the age of the boys you sodomize?
....& to keep track of O & __. Yer at O & 41!
tee, hee.
Your Kobe hate/obsession is pretty sad. He got spanked in 2008 and quit in game 7 ... other than that the sidekick and all that other stuff is just hate. Magic, bird Mj and Wade all needed helped to win but no one got as umuch stern love as Wade in the HEat's ONLY le ...
I watched wade vs. La great player but as JVG he didnt run back, he hot poorly and kept shooting (though he had some nice assists) should I conclude he is overrated?
Wade is a great player and he had a great view of Kobe's game winner!!! LOL
LOL
Kobe has never shoot as high as 49% for a single season during his career. He'll be back at 45% one way or the other, that's what Kobe is - a 45.5% volume scorer for his career.
Why is this so shocking? Bryant is nothing but a scorer - always has been, always will be.
His basketball IQ consists of "Put Ball in Basket." Most of his passes are bailouts, and even though he has insane talent around him, he's still the same ballhog he's always been.
If you replaced Bryant with LeBron on the Lakers, nobody could touch them. But with Bryant, they're vulnerable because of Brant's deficiencies as a complete player.
Complete player...LeBron James averages 27-7-7 for his CAREER, people. It is in LeBron's DNA to look for other people first. It is a team sport, and LeBron is a team guy - if a teammate has an easier shot, that teammate gets the ball 90% of the time. With Bryant, that teammate gets the ball only if it is physically impossible for Bryant to get his shot off. Tell me that's not true, Laker fans.
Bryant plays the game as an individual as always has. It's as though he's playing one-on-one, fighting against himself. Colburn's take is very accurate - the guy is simply a bitter person who is not content, and he plays that way. It's blatantly obvious. It's also blantantly obvious when Bryant tries to put on the "I'm so loose and jovial" act for the cameras. Please.
Also, James is shooting 36% from three-point range this year, while Bryant is shooting 30%. But did that stop him from jacking up 9 threes with a injured finger? Of course not.
Another thing you ALWAYS see with Bryant is him scoring points during garbage time. The games are over, yet he's in there getting his numbers night in and night out. Guys like LeBron and Duncan would be on the bench resting, because they don't care about numbers. But Bryant is out there tunnel-visioned in 15 point games with three minutes left, still jacking up threes and banging into scrubs so he can get yet another whistle and shoot more free throws. It's embarrasing to watch, yet he's done it for 12 years now. Laker fans call that the warrior mentality. What a joke. It is nothing more than a selfish player doing whatever it takes to get his.
But, James is no sage. Kobe will see the fire and head to it, because he knows there is salvation to be gleaned there, and nothing to lose. He lost everything in Colorado. James will see the same fire, but, let Kobe go to it alone while he stays back, everybody in front of him, eating french fries and practicing with baby powder at home.
dear god, thank you for such a wonderful post.
This part is ESPECIALLY TRUE.
81 pt game anyone? Most of that , you see Kobe still on the court jacking up shots even though his team is going to win. LeBron, Wade, Jordan, don't do that garbage but Bryant does.
+10000000000000000000000000%
Kobe is such a ing pussy. He is a huge asshole inside, with a stick up his ass because he thinks his smells better, but he's afraid to show it because he knows people will hate him even more like they used to.
So he puts on this ridiculous "I'm down" show, when it's really ing obvious the guy is uncomfortable and would really rather sit alone in a corner rather than hang out with the guys.
Isn't that what Bryant did for most of his career? Laker teammates came out and said that Bryant would never spend time with teammates, but rather just walk around alone and act like he's God or something.
he tries his damndest to believe his own MJ hype, and the worst thing is HE CAN'T BACK IT UP. He's overrated like a mofo.
ugh, can't wait to see this turd out of the NBA.
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