I just totally expect Kobe to want to break it tonight against the Spurs. Arguably one of his greatest opponents in his career with all the battles we have had with the Spurs. Only fitting he does it against them with Tim Duncan (good friend/competitor with Kobe), Parker, and Manu looking on. Should be a very special night!
Kobe has to be more consistent with his shooting. I really think he can be a MVP candidate this season, he just needs to shoot the ball better. I'm glad he tore into his team though, it showed tonight.
Kobe played a good game besides the late turnovers. But we rely on him so much its disturbing. He had to bring the ball up down the stretch as well because Byron refused to play a PG.
Even if Kobe has MVP numbers I don't think they'll give it to him. 1) on a losing team and 2) it's Kobe....
His passing was ridiculously good, except for that weird homerun ball (where no one came to receive the ball). Look: I don't care if Kobe gets the ball in the high post and runs a play from there. I don't care if he catches it on the elbow and runs a play from there. I just want a f***ing PG to dribble the ball from the in bounds pass across midcourt. Is that too much to ask?
Kobe just gave a pretty blunt answer to Ireland about whether his practice trash talk lit a fire under these guys. Best response I've heard him give about it so far, seemed tired of being asked about it, and I would say it would shut up anyone asking it again.
This is what, i'm talking about. How many players nowadays could light a fire under a team as the bad cop and get a change. Even modern coddled players can smell authenticity. Maybe K.G could but he would be to hands on let's say. Could Melo - no , Could Harden and Howard hell no. Intersetingly I ask myself how many players from the past could light a fire playing the bad cop. I think Russel, Thomas, Jordan, Magic, Stockton with Malone. I even think Shaq and Barkley could lead though not as completely. We talk about leaders of men who can take you to war and all we get these days are Washington Generals.
You'd really have to see it, it was his facial expression, his sigh, you could tell he thought it was so overblown. Basically what he said though, was that this is the way he's done things since high school, and his leadership style has been pretty successful. He then flat out said "I have 5 rings". I took it as him kinda finally listing that accomplishment to tell people to shut up because they don't know better than him, as he's the one with the titles. Obviously he didn't accomplish that alone, and he had the best coach ever, but the point was valid to me.
I don't know, personally I find Swaggy P pretty damned entertaining myself. Sometimes as much if not more than Kobe even. Never a dull moment with Swaggy P around. As I've said before, I believe that if Swaggy P had been healthy for those first six weeks we'd have a .500 record now, which would be pretty darned good considering our strength of schedule was off the charts.
