Yes, I'm a T-Mac fan, but at one point being 1-19 is ludacris with a superstar like that. It WAS a joke, worse than any team I have ever seen. Nontheless, even with that crappy team, T-Mac was only shooting 42% and having less of a year than the past 2 years. I definately don't blame him 100%, as most of the blame is on his teammates. But, I feel he did a poretty crappy job leading that year's team (if you could call it that).Rockets situation is much different than last years Lakers. Period. But Kobe was only not injured for what, 1/4 of the year? Fact is at the end of the seaosn he had his worst statistical seaosn of career, and IMO he has to take a huge partn of the teams responsibility.Unlike T-Mac and Kobe, Bron had the greatest month of his career at the end of last season, and he was a triple double machine and scoring over 50+ for first time in career. Kobe and T-Mac on the other hand went in the opposite directions. All of these things goes into leading a team. IMO Kobe didn't do it last year (6th seed until Rudy T resigned blah blah blah) and T-Mac didn't do it in Orlando the final year. T-Mac last year proved he could and really pushed that Rockets team to their full potential, and if Kobe can do it this year with Lakers, I will give him that same praise.
When the lakers started losing Kobe was averaging 26-6-5 on 46% shooting. When they were winning he was playing horribly. Explain to me how that happened.I'll explain to you what happened.1 Kobe was the only person who could play triangle properly therefore his stats were going to be better2 Injuries killed usThat is why he's stats were up when we were losing. I think we could've still been an 8th seed if people were actually healthy. Kobe and odom missed a combined 34 games.
I still think memphis, Houston, and Denver would have beaten them out for 8th seed, but we will never know.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kingjamez @ Mar 1 2006, 10:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>When its all said an done with Kobe Bryants career, will be be arguably the best player to ever play the game? I hate Kobe, hes a rapist. But he seriously has some game. Hes won a few championships, hes dominated the league for a while, hes now looking like hes in his prime. 36 ppg? thats pretty damn good...Im not saying he will be the best, MJ is insane..but hes gotta have a high ranking.Where will he stand as a legend.. </div>You have no idea how ignorant you sound.
