Sun. 2/12 - Lakers @ Raptors - Predictions & Comments

KB24 wrote:unfortunetly now the Lakers feel like they played well, Kobe thinks he was clutch, Bynum thinks he was a force, Gasol thinks he was the most versatile player on the floor, Fisher thinks he limited Calderon to 30 points and Mike Brown thinks he had brilliant plays called to finish the game.

this game was awful and every frickin' player was awful. Blowing a 20 point lead against a punchless garbage team. Kobe was single handedly losing the game...but if you take a billion shots, eventually one will go in..now he certainly won't remember the misses and the fact that he never scores more points than the amount of shots he takes.

KB24 wrote:unfortunetly now the Lakers feel like they played well, Kobe thinks he was clutch, Bynum thinks he was a force, Gasol thinks he was the most versatile player on the floor, Fisher thinks he limited Calderon to 30 points and Mike Brown thinks he had brilliant plays called to finish the game.

this game was awful and every frickin' player was awful. Blowing a 20 point lead against a punchless garbage team. Kobe was single handedly losing the game...but if you take a billion shots, eventually one will go in..now he certainly won't remember the misses and the fact that he never scores more points than the amount of shots he takes.

biggestkobefanever wrote:

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote::man10: Kobe is so ****ing atrocious

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:Kobe just lost us the game against the Raptors

biggestkobefanever wrote:

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote::man10: Kobe is so ****ing atrocious

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:Kobe just lost us the game against the Raptors

the best_24 wrote:

lakers_09tv wrote:Kobe is costing us this game.

Kobe as a closer is so overrated.

you shouldn't be here. this is lakers forum and not lakers haters site.

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:

KB24 wrote:unfortunetly now the Lakers feel like they played well, Kobe thinks he was clutch, Bynum thinks he was a force, Gasol thinks he was the most versatile player on the floor, Fisher thinks he limited Calderon to 30 points and Mike Brown thinks he had brilliant plays called to finish the game.

this game was awful and every frickin' player was awful. Blowing a 20 point lead against a punchless garbage team. Kobe was single handedly losing the game...but if you take a billion shots, eventually one will go in..now he certainly won't remember the misses and the fact that he never scores more points than the amount of shots he takes.

Pretty much. You'll have a few idiots like the one above^^ who thinks Kobe is the GOAT now because he made up for the situation he put the team in while rational fans will still realize this team is god awful and blew an 18 pt lead against a really bad team. They still suck plain and simple.

the best_24 wrote:

lakers_09tv wrote:Kobe is costing us this game.

Kobe as a closer is so overrated.

you shouldn't be here. this is lakers forum and not lakers haters site.

trodgers wrote:

trodgers wrote:

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:0 for his last 6, 0 assists, 4 turnovers. I'm waiting for someone to defend him. Please.

When it's over, I will. Just wait.

So, if we're looking at stats, Kobe had only 1 assist, but how many times did he leave it off perfectly for guys only to see misses? I don't think he was 0 for his last 6; I think it was 0 for his last 5. He finished off hitting 6 of his last 12, hit the game-winner, came up with a key steal, covered Calderon on the inbounds that led to the 5-seconds, and hit a FT to make it a 3-pointer to win.

Kobe closed this one out.

BUT...I would've defended him anyway. Pau was 6-15. The bench wasn't able to hold their ground. Kobe wasn't great, but he didn't lose the game. Kobe should be able to drive and shoot and count on his bigs to get rebounds when there's not one player on D who's over 6'9. 26 boards from our bigs is nice, but they should've had more.

the best_24 wrote:

lakers_09tv wrote:Kobe is costing us this game.

Kobe as a closer is so overrated.

you shouldn't be here. this is lakers forum and not lakers haters site.

Ariza68 wrote:0 for 5 and a TO at the end?. Most than enough to lose a game. The rest of your post more or less the habitual bla bla bla about Kobe cannot do bad.

lakers_09tv wrote:

the best_24 wrote:

lakers_09tv wrote:Kobe is costing us this game.

Kobe as a closer is so overrated.

you shouldn't be here. this is lakers forum and not lakers haters site.

I'm a LAKERS FAN. I'm not a Kobe fanatic like you. Same way how you can criticize Pau, you should be able to do the same with Kobe.

KB24 wrote:unfortunetly now the Lakers feel like they played well, Kobe thinks he was clutch, Bynum thinks he was a force, Gasol thinks he was the most versatile player on the floor, Fisher thinks he limited Calderon to 30 points and Mike Brown thinks he had brilliant plays called to finish the game.

this game was awful and every frickin' player was awful. Blowing a 20 point lead against a punchless garbage team. Kobe was single handedly losing the game...but if you take a billion shots, eventually one will go in..now he certainly won't remember the misses and the fact that he never scores more points than the amount of shots he takes.

the best_24 wrote:with all due respect to Pau, who is he compared to Kobe?

the best_24 wrote:

lakers_09tv wrote:

the best_24 wrote:
you shouldn't be here. this is lakers forum and not lakers haters site.

I'm a LAKERS FAN. I'm not a Kobe fanatic like you. Same way how you can criticize Pau, you should be able to do the same with Kobe.

with all due respect to Pau, who is he compared to Kobe?
Kob did enough to not be judged by ecery fu cking bad position. you have no respect to Kobe, you think hes just another player in the squad. My advice to you (obviously you are not his fan), is - STFU and trust him.

and he is the best closer.

biggestkobefanever wrote:

KB24 wrote:unfortunetly now the Lakers feel like they played well, Kobe thinks he was clutch, Bynum thinks he was a force, Gasol thinks he was the most versatile player on the floor, Fisher thinks he limited Calderon to 30 points and Mike Brown thinks he had brilliant plays called to finish the game.

this game was awful and every frickin' player was awful. Blowing a 20 point lead against a punchless garbage team. Kobe was single handedly losing the game...but if you take a billion shots, eventually one will go in..now he certainly won't remember the misses and the fact that he never scores more points than the amount of shots he takes.

trodgers wrote:

Ariza68 wrote:0 for 5 and a TO at the end?. Most than enough to lose a game. The rest of your post more or less the habitual bla bla bla about Kobe cannot do bad.

Kobe "did bad." You can do better.

nameant wrote:

the best_24 wrote:with all due respect to Pau, who is he compared to Kobe?

Oh he's just the guy that made our franchise relevant again and helped Kobe get his last 2 rings.

biggestkobefanever wrote:

KB24 wrote:unfortunetly now the Lakers feel like they played well, Kobe thinks he was clutch, Bynum thinks he was a force, Gasol thinks he was the most versatile player on the floor, Fisher thinks he limited Calderon to 30 points and Mike Brown thinks he had brilliant plays called to finish the game.

this game was awful and every frickin' player was awful. Blowing a 20 point lead against a punchless garbage team. Kobe was single handedly losing the game...but if you take a billion shots, eventually one will go in..now he certainly won't remember the misses and the fact that he never scores more points than the amount of shots he takes.

LOL what a f'ucking hater! And most of the stuff you wrote is untrue. Kobe wasn't single handedly losing the game at all. He missed a couple of shots, shots that no one else in the team was willing to take. Kobe had a great second half except for that 2 minute stretch there. Meanwhile, nobody else in the team had played well in the second half.
He actually won the game for the lakers almost by himself.
He made a HUGE 3, which I'm sure no one here wanted him to take, and then applauded the make. Then, he stole the ball from Kleiza, and dished it to MWP for the wide open layup.
Calderon scored again on Blake (not Kobe, Blake, who you don't even mention for his questionable D on Calderon--> he gave him too much room to shoot, as though he was afraid of Calderon blowing by him, like he was a good driver or something).
What does Kobe do? He takes one of those "bad shots" people like you constantly critizise and drains it to bring the lakers up. (GAME WINNER)
The lakers put Kobe on Calderon and he never receives the ball. End of the game.

By the way, Kobe scored 27 on 23 shots, meaning he didn't score less points than shots attempted as you suggest he "always" does. This, actually, has only happened once this season I believe, and it was in Denver, one of his worst games ever. Not that long after, he "overcame" such a terrible game with a series of 40+ point games.

There is no way Bynum or Gasol will be satisfied with the game they had. If you believe they will, maybe you shouldn't be commentating on anything.
Fisher knows he didn't do well against Calderon and actually it was Blake who guarded him for the entire 4th quarter.

Everyone knows it wasn't a good game, but this post of yours is completely moronic.

the best_24 wrote:

lakers_09tv wrote:I'm a LAKERS FAN. I'm not a Kobe fanatic like you. Same way how you can criticize Pau, you should be able to do the same with Kobe.

with all due respect to Pau, who is he compared to Kobe?
Kob did enough to not be judged by every fu cking bad position. you have no respect to Kobe, you think hes just another player in the squad. My advice to you (obviously you are not his fan), is - STFU and trust him.

and he is the best closer.

trodgers wrote:

trodgers wrote:

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:0 for his last 6, 0 assists, 4 turnovers. I'm waiting for someone to defend him. Please.

When it's over, I will. Just wait.

So, if we're looking at stats, Kobe had only 1 assist, but how many times did he leave it off perfectly for guys only to see misses? I don't think he was 0 for his last 6; I think it was 0 for his last 5. He finished off hitting 6 of his last 12, hit the game-winner, came up with a key steal, covered Calderon on the inbounds that led to the 5-seconds, and hit a FT to make it a 3-pointer to win.

Kobe closed this one out.

BUT...I would've defended him anyway. Pau was 6-15. The bench wasn't able to hold their ground. Kobe wasn't great, but he didn't lose the game. Kobe should be able to drive and shoot and count on his bigs to get rebounds when there's not one player on D who's over 6'9. 26 boards from our bigs is nice, but they should've had more.

bruddahmanmatt wrote:He has a point. Your post comes off as Kobe love regardless of what took place out there, and you yourself admitted that you would have "defended him anyway".

Thing is, just because others play poorly, it doesn't mean Bryant should get a pass.

I agree with highlighting the positives in what he did late in a game which was only as close as it was largely because of what Bryant did (or didn't do rather) out there, but your post comes off as "homerish" when you cherry pick his stats ("six of his last 12" sounds better than "0-6 until he hit that three and that baseline jumper") and when you seemingly ignore that his ill-advised long-range three early into the clock at around 1 min. almost sealed the win for the Raps. Bryant ultimately saved a win for LA, but he was in a position to do so mainly because he had a large part in helping to put Toronto ahead. In short, "he played really good...right after he played really bad". Gotta look at bofe sides.