" bozak" <________bozak1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 11, 8:42?pm, darius <no...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Sure you win as a team and lose as a team, but when you're hurt and
your
>> teammates are producing and you insist on taking the shots down the
>> stretch instead of being the decoy and creating plays, the loss is on
>> you. ?Why didn't Phil run a play for Gasol or Odom or kickout to Fish
for
>> a 3. ?The guy only made 3 in a row. ?Somebody should've stopped Kobe. ?
>> Somebody on the Lakers, that is.
>>
>> For all the talk, when the chips are down, Kobe still trusts noone but
>> Kobe. ?He still doesn't get it. ?He'll never get it.
>>
>> Oh well, I guess you win and lose with the superstar you've got.
>
> Kobe is still the player I'd want the ball in the hands of in a close
> game like the one today.
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> as you could see it didnt make sense for him to do so while he was broke
> up...
>
> nobody including kobe wouldve blamed phil for pulling him out in
> overtime...
> he hurt the team continuing to play on at what i saw was a kobe at less
> than
> 50%...
Hindsight... he was good enough to bring them back from 12 down late --
shooting poorly but dropping dimes all over the place and he did have a
huge
3-point play with 1:25 to go. He scored or assisted on 15 points with
less
than 4 minutes remaining. Without "broke up" Kobe, they likely don't even
take it to OT.
It's a classic dilemma of Kobe being too hurt to be effective in OT and
the
team likely too disrupted without him to be effective. We know this now
because it happened... and obviously if PJ could go back in time, he'd
have
subbed for Kobe knowing how it went down... but with what he, Kobe, and
we
knew at the time, it was the right call IMO.
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