Kobe Wouldn't Have Even Flinched

Yea, Jackson's been super annoying. It's even affecting JVG.. JVG knows he [Jackson] is biased and sounds like he [JVG] doesn't want to step on his [Jackson's] toes.

 

I don't want Lebron to win, and I hope he fails at everything he does (basketball wise, I only have "sports hate" for him). Granted, I might be the only person on this site who thinks Lebron is better than Kobe (in their primes).

But this was an OBVIOUS flop. I've been cut pretty bad on a few occasions. I had my nose partially torn off in a football game (no lie), and I didn't roll around on the ground like that. He acted like a three year old who skinned his knee.

 

Kobe would've jacked off threes into the loose kitty like the juggler's knot he is.

 

That's mind bottling.

 

This IS LeBron in his prime, and if you still think he is better than Kobe ever was... I just ...

 

I do. I'm not drinking the media Kool-aid either. He is dragging scrubs along with him at this point. Lebron is leading a team that is brutally awful to a 2-2 tie with a team that won 67 games in the insane Western Conference. This team is worse than the Kobe led team that lost to the Suns. Who is their second best player right now? Tristan Thompson? He has been in the Finals 5 straight years. He is a one man team. I'm not saying he's more skilled. Put Kobe in LBJs body and he probably would average a triple double. But Lebron is such a beast who is also talented...It's just my opinion.

 

Think about it though: those Suns were the precursor to this Warriors team. Kobe was still fairly young.

If LeBron had played in the West he wouldn't have gotten to the Finals plain and simple.

Kobe was up 3-1 on those Suns. I think this is roughly what Kobe in 2007 would be doing except GS would never dare cover Kobe 1 on 1.

 

^Exactly, and really, outside of Odom, Cavaliers have a much better team. Mosgov is sooooooooo much better than Kwame. Tristan Thompson, Dellavedirty, Shumpert, and even JR Smith are much better than their counterparts (Cook, Smush, Luke, Vujacic, etc.).

 

The good Aussie in this series Bogut had his view:

Everything LeBron James does stirs debate – even an accidental fall into a cameraman.

The Cavaliers superstar suffered a cut to his head in the Warriors’ Game 4 victory, and Andrew Bogut believes it was James’ fault. After Bogut fouled him as he drove the baseline, James took two more stumbling steps before he fell into the cameraman seated courtside.

“I think he jumped into the cameraman,” Bogut said, via USA Today. “Yeah, I think he came down and took two steps and then fell into the cameraman. I definitely, definitely didn’t hit him that hard.”

When asked if that was what he saw, Bogut responded even more firmly.

“No, that’s how it was. If you look at the replay, you can see the two steps being taken and then him falling into the camera. That’s what we saw on the replay, and that’s what my teammates saw.”

 

Kobe's game by game stats (averaging as we go) vs. Suns:
22 pts, 5 ast, 6 reb, 33% FGs
25.5 pts, 5.0 ast, 8.0 reb, 42% FG
22.7 pts, 5.7 ast, 7.0 reb, 40% FG
23.0 pts, 6.3 ast, 6.3 reb, 44% FG
24.2 pts, 6.0 ast, 6.4 reb, 47% FG
28.5 pts, 5.8 ast, 6.8 reb, 50% FG
27.9 pts, 5.1 ast, 6.3 reb, 50% FG
Kobe started off slower, but he turned it on in that series.

LeBron
44.0 points, 6 assists, 8 rebounds, 47% FG
41.5 pts, 8.5 ast, 12.0 reb, 40%
41.0 pts, 8.3 ast, 12.0 reb, 40%
35.7 pts, 8.3 ast, 12.0 reb, 39%

James has been doing it less and less efficiently.

 

Kobe faced a much harder defense too. LeBron has been single covered the majority of this series. There's no chance any team would consider that strategy against Kobe.