About a month or so ago SportsCenter did a little piece on the most clutch player in the NBA. If my memory serves me correct LeBron or Dirk were at the top, with Kobe ranking either third or fourth. Since then, he’s been hitting these buzzer beater/clutch shots (three total this season) like they’re going out of style. He hit one about three weeks ago & the Sacramento Kings were his latest victim. The brunt of the blame has to go to Paul Westphal for not only putting Kobe in single coverage, but also not even trying to deny him the ball. Phil Jackson got him open on the screen, but we all know damn well Luke Walton (or was it Vujacic?) wasn’t getting the ball. You should have at least put two people on him. I’d probably go three, because 3/4 of the Lakers are genetically engineered to pass the ball to Kobe anyways.
Or perhaps the Kings wanted Kobe to hit the shot. He’d already broken their will just a week ago with this play, en route to another OT win.
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3/4 of the Lakers are genetically engineered to pass the ball to Kobe anyways.
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lol
While I like that the Lakers won the game, IT IS INEXCUSABLE to have to need a buzzer beating 3 pointer to beat the KINGS, AT HOME WITHOUT TYREKE EVANS. The Lakers are just becoming extra lazy in their effort.
I mean, they should be happy they won, but should feel shitty about how they played.
Not really, there are games in an 82 game season when teams take a break or a bad team gets it together. Plus some teams just match up well. The game they played last week went to overtime.
For the most part, the Kings have always played the Lakers well. I’m Team King, but Kobe is unreal. People don’t want to admit it, but pretty soon people will have to include him in the GOAT time argument.
“Don’t talk about it, be about it” is a message I always tell my fellow men and is something I wish was practiced more.
Plus some teams just match up well.
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See: GS warriors & Mavs a few yrs ago. GS got in that ass as an 8th seed
Kobe = The BEST!
Only more fuel for that Kobe vs. MJ argument.
Kobe vs. MJ is only an argument if your brain is on drugs.
Game Winners this NBA Season
Kobe Bryant 3
Rest of NBA 3
The fact that we have needed 3 game winners from Kobe this season, pathetic, but regardless, the dudes killin it lol
People don’t want to admit it, but pretty soon people will have to include him in the GOAT time argument.
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He’s been in that arguement for a while.
i saw a moving pick and a travel on kobe, but of course those refs would be fired faster than a rabbit gets fucked if they called either one
^bingo.
i saw a moving pick and a travel on kobe, but of course those refs would be fired faster than a rabbit gets fucked if they called either one
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C’mon son. Moving pick? C’mon son, GTFOHWTB. @EdLover
the fact that bron is rated ahead of kobe in clutchness is absolutely ridiculous. kobe has come thru in the clutch in the biggest of games time and time again. lebron hit one buzzer beater against the magic. c’mon man!
3 steps, but we don’t call those in this league anyway. $$$$
3 steps, we watchin the same game?? NBA is dead…
I hate to be the douchebag rulebook quoting dude, but he landed on two feet, which counts as one for some reason.
LeBron James often doesn’t let it get down to the last shot. When the Cavaliers played the Kings he put a straight jacket on Tyreke Evans in the fourth quarter and overtime orchestrated Cleveland shutting out the Kings in OT.
LeBron James often doesn’t let it get down to the last shot. When the Cavaliers played the Kings he put a straight jacket on Tyreke Evans in the fourth quarter and overtime orchestrated Cleveland shutting out the Kings in OT.
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This is a joke, right?
So instead of letting it go down to the last shot in regulation, he let it go to OT? And thats a better option?
lawlz
Who saw 3 steps? I saw him land on one then two at the same time.
I am no Kobe B., but if I shoved the little Kings player with all my might when the ref wasn’t looking, I might make a three, too. How can a player celebrate or sleep at night knowing what he did?