I've heard all of the critics. Some alluding to Kobe not trusting his teammates, dominating the ball and being to old to keep putting up great numbers night in and night out to carry this (weak) team. They allude to everyone being the "best" everything in the league but him, you know, Lebron is the best player on planet earth (after winning 1 ring with a dream team roster), Durant, Melo and several others follow as Kobe's greatness is always followed by "but" or "although", in the media's rank. If he goes off for a big scoring night, no matter how well he shoots its, "well they can't continue to win that way" or "he won't be able to continue that all season" or"he has to get his teammates involved"or "that wasn't a great team they played". Jordan dominated the ball, shot just as much as Kobe, and didn't trust his teammates anymore than Kobe but that was ok for MJ but not Kobe....huh? Side note...Kobe and MJ have something else similar, MJ has 6 rings and Kobe 5!! Its funny because when Lebron or Durant put up big numbers, "oh my goodness, what an unbelievable performance". The circle of NBA basketball analyst look for a angle to discredit Bean!!!
The truth is, in the last two games, games 77 & 78 of his 17th season, on his 34 yr old knees, Kobe Bryant, as he has done all season, showed that he is everything that an all-time great basketball player needs to be, scoring 23 of his 30pts Tuesday night in the 4rth qtr (14-27 fg and 10-11FT), over coming a deficit and going for 47pts including (9-18FG and18-18FT) from the free throw line against a young, athletic Portland team that was looking to spoil the Laker's efforts to make the playoffs! That's just this week. Kobe Bryant's numbers this year.... 27.3pts 6.0 ast and 5.6 rebounds per game, including shooting 46%FG and 84% FT. In March he avg. 7.1 ast and April 8.2 ast. Because of the lack of perimeter defense on his team, he works like a crazy man every night trying to put out Steve Nash and Blake's fire. He has had some of the most incredible performances since the All-Star break, in the entire league, literally putting the team on his back. Howard has played better as late, but struggled and was limited in many ways more than half of the year and when he gets a lots of touches, he is sent to the line where he is HORRIBLE. Nash has been out more than he has played this year with injury, though even when healthy, he can't defend my 11yr old son. Pau is actually the second best overall player on the team as far as presenting match-up problems and overall versatility but has also been bit by the injury bug a great deal of the season and bitten by the Mike D'Antoni "I can't coach two bigs at the same time"/ "I can't coach" bug. Everybody else on the roster is less than impressive...I mean really, they're roster is pretty weak. Everything that could go wrong has went wrong for the Laker's except that one constant that has been staring down opposition for 17yrs....and is still bleeding ICE COLD BLOOD, the Mamba!
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