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Ball hog? He is shooting over 50%. He is simply flat out the best scorer, most explosive player in the NBA. He only got 43 today but still. He is insane. I remember I believe 2 years ago he had like 12 games in a row with 40+.
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Ball hog? He is shooting over 50%. He is simply flat out the best scorer, most explosive player in the NBA. He only got 43 today but still. He is insane. I remember I believe 2 years ago he had like 12 games in a row with 40+.
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Kobe 43pts & 0 assists.. That shows how he wanted to be remembered more..
^Who cares. He isnt a "prolific passer" stop trying to find flaws. He is averaging .6 less assists then LeBron.
If he dropped a triple-double you would say "he shot to much."
And guess what, his team has been winning when he goes nuts and scores all these points so he isnt hurting the team.
If he dropped a triple-double you would say "he shot to much."
And guess what, his team has been winning when he goes nuts and scores all these points so he isnt hurting the team.
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I'm not saying that it's bad, but these 0 assists shows how he wanted to go to the history once again..James said:
They don't keep stats on how many passes he makes, or how many times he passes and his teammates miss it, an assist works 2 ways, you have to pass, and then your teammate has to be able to score, Kobe doesn't have many people to pass to that can consistently score. Yet he is still manging to have 5 assists a game on average.
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yes, he got teammates, whose misses wild open shots, but player, who gets the ball every attack & plays all the minutes & have 0 assists,he should got some reason..& that reason is - I repeat, he wanted to overtake Wilt
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It's just annoying to see people post crap they don't have a clue about. The guy obviously didnt watch the game and he's trying to pass his opinion off as a fact when it's clearly wayyyyyyyyy off base.
Same thing with Brady Quinn in the Browns thread...there were a couple of Irish haters and that's all they wanted to run with. No facts at all, just guesses. I proved the one guy wrong and smooth blew another one out of the water....
Its annoying, that's all.
Same thing with Brady Quinn in the Browns thread...there were a couple of Irish haters and that's all they wanted to run with. No facts at all, just guesses. I proved the one guy wrong and smooth blew another one out of the water....
Its annoying, that's all.
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Simply the best
No question that Kobe is NBA's best overall player
Posted: Monday March 26, 2007 3:40PM;
1. Who is the NBA's best player?
ANSWER: "We ask that question all the time," says an NBA advance scout. "When a bunch of us (scouts) are together, we say, 'Who is the best player in the league?' The answer is always Kobe.
"'If you needed one basket, who would you want to have shoot it?' Kobe.
"'If you needed to make one defensive stop, who would you want?' Kobe.
"If I was starting a team, he's the guy I would build around. He's the best player in the league, there's no question."
2. If Kobe Bryant is the best player, then why hasn't he won the MVP?
ANSWER: Because, as Bryant noted last Friday in New Orleans after scoring 50 points for the fourth game in a row, the MVP is awarded to a player from one of the best teams. The Lakers (38-32 as of Monday morning) are No. 11 overall in the NBA, 20.5 games behind Dirk Nowitzki's Mavericks.
Which is not to say that the Lakers can't become the rare underdog to cause a scare in the playoffs. As detailed here last month, and reiterated by coach Phil Jackson last week, the Lakers have played impressively against the contenders in the West (including 2-1 vs. San Antonio, a possible first-round opponent). The league's leading talent is capable of beating anybody in a seven-game series, as evidenced a year ago, when the Lakers took the No. 2 Suns to a seventh game. And Bryant has been even more impressive than ever this year.
3. How is Bryant improving?
ANSWER: More important than his four straight games of 50 or more -- a run last accomplished by Wilt Chamberlain 45 years ago -- was that the Lakers won all four. Their winning streak reached five as Bryant went for 43 on Sunday against the Warriors.
What Bryant has been doing the last two weeks brings the Michael Jordan comparisons back into play. I remember reading a lot of the tributes that were paid to Jordan each time he "retired," and most of them never quite put a finger on what separated him from everyone else.
It wasn't his athleticism, his killer instinct or his grasp of the fundamentals, because other Hall-of-Famers possessed those qualities to varying degrees. What made Jordan unique was his universal ability to lead the league in scoring while leading his team to championships.
Before Jordan came along, those two categories were the yin and yang of the NBA. There were scorers and there were winners. Everybody had to choose one or the other. Young Chamberlain led the league in scoring seven years in a row, but he didn't win a championship until 1966-67, when he wisely trimmed nine points off his average (to finish third overall with 24.1 ppg) and raised his assists to a career-high 7.8 per game in leading the 76ers to the title.
The Celtics won all 16 of their championships without a player who led the league in scoring. They believed you couldn't have it both ways, and for 40 years their view was confirmed -- with one exception. In 1970-71 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led the league with 31.7 ppg while his Milwaukee Bucks won the title. But he remained branded -- and criticized unfairly -- as a selfish scorer, even as he was winning five titles in the 1980s with Magic Johnson. Because in those days it was believed that nobody could be equal parts Chamberlain and Bill Russell.
When Jordan was leading the league with more than 30 points per game for four straight years without reaching the NBA Finals, he too was condemned as a me-first scorer. Then Jordan found harmony between his talent for scoring and the needs of his team. From 1990 to '98, he won six more scoring titles, and each year he walked away with the championship trophy. (In 1999-2000 Shaquille O'Neal would strike the same balance on behalf of himself and his Lakers.)
Bryant looks like he is grasping how to elevate his teammates without diminishing his own talents. This Lakers team has a 19-year old center in Andrew Bynum and an undrafted D-League point guard in Smush Parker. Also, injuries have sidlined Lamar Odom, Luke Walton, Kwame Brown, Vladimir Radmanovic and Chris Mihm for a combined 170 games. Yet they've beaten all of the best in the West.
Give Bynum another two years of experience and add a couple of veterans while keeping everyone else healthy, and Bryant will be more than capable of leading the Lakers to a championship. On top of that, imagine if they could entice Kevin Garnett to opt out after next summer for the midlevel exception.
The word around the league not too long ago was that no star would want to play alongside Bryant, but that critique no longer applies.
Jackson and O'Neal used to complain that the Lakers struggled when Bryant tried to score too much. Today, the Lakers are on track to win 45 games because Bryant is leading the league in scoring. It's a crucial shift, and it opens the window for Bryant to ultimately establish himself as one of the leading players in the history of the league.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/ian_thomsen/03/26/weekly.quiz/index.html
No question that Kobe is NBA's best overall player
Posted: Monday March 26, 2007 3:40PM;
1. Who is the NBA's best player?
ANSWER: "We ask that question all the time," says an NBA advance scout. "When a bunch of us (scouts) are together, we say, 'Who is the best player in the league?' The answer is always Kobe.
"'If you needed one basket, who would you want to have shoot it?' Kobe.
"'If you needed to make one defensive stop, who would you want?' Kobe.
"If I was starting a team, he's the guy I would build around. He's the best player in the league, there's no question."
2. If Kobe Bryant is the best player, then why hasn't he won the MVP?
ANSWER: Because, as Bryant noted last Friday in New Orleans after scoring 50 points for the fourth game in a row, the MVP is awarded to a player from one of the best teams. The Lakers (38-32 as of Monday morning) are No. 11 overall in the NBA, 20.5 games behind Dirk Nowitzki's Mavericks.
Which is not to say that the Lakers can't become the rare underdog to cause a scare in the playoffs. As detailed here last month, and reiterated by coach Phil Jackson last week, the Lakers have played impressively against the contenders in the West (including 2-1 vs. San Antonio, a possible first-round opponent). The league's leading talent is capable of beating anybody in a seven-game series, as evidenced a year ago, when the Lakers took the No. 2 Suns to a seventh game. And Bryant has been even more impressive than ever this year.
3. How is Bryant improving?
ANSWER: More important than his four straight games of 50 or more -- a run last accomplished by Wilt Chamberlain 45 years ago -- was that the Lakers won all four. Their winning streak reached five as Bryant went for 43 on Sunday against the Warriors.
What Bryant has been doing the last two weeks brings the Michael Jordan comparisons back into play. I remember reading a lot of the tributes that were paid to Jordan each time he "retired," and most of them never quite put a finger on what separated him from everyone else.
It wasn't his athleticism, his killer instinct or his grasp of the fundamentals, because other Hall-of-Famers possessed those qualities to varying degrees. What made Jordan unique was his universal ability to lead the league in scoring while leading his team to championships.
Before Jordan came along, those two categories were the yin and yang of the NBA. There were scorers and there were winners. Everybody had to choose one or the other. Young Chamberlain led the league in scoring seven years in a row, but he didn't win a championship until 1966-67, when he wisely trimmed nine points off his average (to finish third overall with 24.1 ppg) and raised his assists to a career-high 7.8 per game in leading the 76ers to the title.
The Celtics won all 16 of their championships without a player who led the league in scoring. They believed you couldn't have it both ways, and for 40 years their view was confirmed -- with one exception. In 1970-71 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led the league with 31.7 ppg while his Milwaukee Bucks won the title. But he remained branded -- and criticized unfairly -- as a selfish scorer, even as he was winning five titles in the 1980s with Magic Johnson. Because in those days it was believed that nobody could be equal parts Chamberlain and Bill Russell.
When Jordan was leading the league with more than 30 points per game for four straight years without reaching the NBA Finals, he too was condemned as a me-first scorer. Then Jordan found harmony between his talent for scoring and the needs of his team. From 1990 to '98, he won six more scoring titles, and each year he walked away with the championship trophy. (In 1999-2000 Shaquille O'Neal would strike the same balance on behalf of himself and his Lakers.)
Bryant looks like he is grasping how to elevate his teammates without diminishing his own talents. This Lakers team has a 19-year old center in Andrew Bynum and an undrafted D-League point guard in Smush Parker. Also, injuries have sidlined Lamar Odom, Luke Walton, Kwame Brown, Vladimir Radmanovic and Chris Mihm for a combined 170 games. Yet they've beaten all of the best in the West.
Give Bynum another two years of experience and add a couple of veterans while keeping everyone else healthy, and Bryant will be more than capable of leading the Lakers to a championship. On top of that, imagine if they could entice Kevin Garnett to opt out after next summer for the midlevel exception.
The word around the league not too long ago was that no star would want to play alongside Bryant, but that critique no longer applies.
Jackson and O'Neal used to complain that the Lakers struggled when Bryant tried to score too much. Today, the Lakers are on track to win 45 games because Bryant is leading the league in scoring. It's a crucial shift, and it opens the window for Bryant to ultimately establish himself as one of the leading players in the history of the league.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/ian_thomsen/03/26/weekly.quiz/index.html
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So sikaliusBD,
Kobe hater? or LeBron fanboy?
Kobe hater? or LeBron fanboy?