Read it again. I wasn't saying his performance wasn't great.
I'm not knocking Kobe and this specific performance, because he was definitely on a ROLL and you WANT to see players take advantage of that. For entertainment value. I was merely highlighting the fact that I thought Kobe should have kept his mouth shut about the stupid "suspension" criticisms.
So then I merely noted that HIS LAST TWO GAMES HE DID LOOK LIKE HE WAS PLAYING FOR HIS INDIVIDUAL GLORY in mind.
It has nothing to do with dissing his skills, and his new record in history.
Nowhere have I said he was "ballhogging for the sake of it." He was hogging the ball technically on Friday. But he's shooting over 50 percent and given the greenlight. So you can't really complain. I even said that 4 in a row was incredible for stamina's sake later on in the post. Nowhere did I say that the record in itself isn't valuable. It is because you don't see players doing it every day. But I don't think I"m wrong in my personal view, in disagreeing with Kobe's reasons. I don't think he should treat his amazing games as a priority, like you would in the sport of Golf, or Tennis.
Now this isn't to you, but just a general statement to some of the comments on here.
Apologists on here, say they haven't started winning until Kobe started going ape . But that's bogus, it helps, but it's certainly not REQUIRED of him to force the issue of hogging the offensive load. They just got Lamar and Walton back shortly before they started winning again. With that logic, you can say their record in the first half of the season when they were an over 50 team. 15-7 Required Kobe him to score, 35, 8, 7 because they were winning when he was doing that right?...
Come on, you know the reason for the losses wasn't because Kobe was averaging 30 points and making 10 assists a game. It had more to do with the fact that they were shorthanded. So don't try to use the card, "HE NEEDS TO BE SCORING 60 points because they were losing seven in a row!" I'll admit that these recent wins had much to do with Kobe going nuts. At the same time, don't say stupid things like Kobe HAS to do this or THEY LOSE.
If he did, then he would have done it when Lamar and Luke were out, it'd make a lot more sense.
Kobe didn't start scoring 60 because he felt he had to DO this, he just went NUTS and hit a good week because he decided to step up his play and some of his stronger teammates made it that much easier for him to get in teh zone! Don't try to justify his recent 60 point outbursts as justification for the Lakers being better off with Kobe taking more of the offensive load and being the only reason why they're winning again. Otherwise Kobe should have been shouldering Lamar and Waltons offensive output, to prevent them from that 7 game skid in the first place.
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