- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: klurejr
Posted by: MakaVeli4LIfe1
And don't pick a single game to support your fact; Kobe brought them through the San Antonio series, and even through the Timberwolves
A single game was enough to LOSE the championship.
FACT.
Kobe took the word team and flushed it down his gold plated toilet. You can't deny that.
I can
Explain to me who's gonna win the game in quarter number 4 of each game, it's Kobe. With Shaq shooting, or excuse me, throwing with one hand a brick for his freethrows, he doesn't exist in the fourth. That isn't exactly an argument I'd make to say how Kobe is better than Shaq, but it's something that I could use to explain to somebody why Shaq is less valuable
Shaq and Kobe both had horrible games - game 3, yuck - but to pin the entire series on a single player not only is wrong, but is said without merit from what can be seen from actually watching the games, and through an analysis of the stats
The Lakers lost as a team, and more specifically, they lost because they forgot how to play defense. Kobe and Shaq, for the most part, did show up on defense, but the rest didn't. GP became a ghost, Mailman was hurt (I guess), and people like Rick Fox seemed to have lost all of their game. Team effort