I have to admit though, I chuckled a bit after this game. The morons around Kobe Bryant are funny and clownish. It's very amusing to me.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Black Mamba @ Jan 27 2008, 06:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I want to hear Bill Walton criticize Kobe Bryant...that's all on Luke. Ugh, what a retard. Again, he proves his "high" basketball IQ. What a joke, how did that idea of him having a high basketball IQ come up?</div> I know exactly what Bill is going to say. LeBron played like a superstar at the end and put everything on his shoulders, Kobe should have done the same. We would not even be talking about this if the officials called Hughes for that clear foul when Kobe went up for a layup.
I know Luke messed up, but at the same time he shouldn't have even been on the court. Phil should be criticized today.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (huevonkiller @ Jan 27 2008, 06:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I know Luke messed up, but at the same time he shouldn't have even been on the court. Phil should be criticized today.</div> Yeah Phil killed our momentum 3 times in this game by subbing out the hot hand and the players on the court on the final play made no sense if the team planned on taking a 3 pointer.
I can't criticize Phil because IMO, he put us in a position to win this game when he benched Kobe. Kobe was baited into playing a one on one game with LeBron and he fell into it without getting the other players involved. The Cavs around LeBron were setting picks on Kobe and forcing him to roll off of LeBron when the Cavs were on offense. When Kobe was going up against Lebron, his teammates just sat there and watched him, they didn't move without the ball. Kobe proceeded for force up some shots, I thought it was very smart by Phil to bench Kobe and calm him down.
2-4 without Bynum now and losers of 4 out of our last 5 games. We have the Knicks next at home. This becomes a MUST WIN GAME. After the Knicks game we go on a 9 game road trip.
I'm hoping we beat the Knicks and please just please have a succesful road trip going better than 5-4 nothing worst either.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Black Mamba @ Jan 27 2008, 06:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I can't criticize Phil because IMO, he put us in a position to win this game when he benched Kobe. Kobe was baited into playing a one on one game with LeBron and he fell into it without getting the other players involved. The Cavs around LeBron were setting picks on Kobe and forcing him to roll off of LeBron when the Cavs were on offense. When Kobe was going up against Lebron, his teammates just sat there and watched him, they didn't move without the ball. Kobe proceeded for force up some shots, I thought it was very smart by Phil to bench Kobe and calm him down.</div> Well that was a little risky though, taking out Kobe for a few minutes. He could have just called a timeout and scare Kobe straight. He still shares a bit of the blame.
