Kobe Bryant did everything he could to help the Los Angeles Lakers win tonight and dropped a series and playoff high of. His teammates, Smush Parker especially, did not rise to the occasion and play well enough to eliminate the Phoenix Suns at home. The same player I praised a few days ago for manhandling Steve Nash on offense has gone into a serious cold slump. While most would say this is expected from a player no one had even heard of before this season, I didn't see it coming, at least not in this series. The struggles of Smush Parker are not because of the defense Phoenix is playing, so it has to be mental. If Parker is not able to get it going by the start of game seven it will be next to impossible to beat the Suns. Smush and the rest of his teammates have to play the best game of their lives on Saturday night. Kobe Bryant will no doubt be ready to put on a show, and if his teammates can step it up they will be headed home......to play the Clippers.
I haven't had a chance to read all the replies to this thread, post-game wise. My opinion though is that it was the Suns' early lead that really won the game. I think the Lakers got sucked into a "Oh crap we're behind, lets just get it to Kobe,he can do his thing". Which is pretty much exactly what PJax didn't want to happen I'm sure. What a great game though, even before the Suns won I was ready to say it was a good game either way with no majorly bad calls, etc. There were a couple minor things of course, but it's the playoffs. Game 7 is gonna rock.
Don't some of you have wished that raja was playing tonight? his replacement barbosa had a pretty good game. I think i became a suns fan tonight.
I might be the only person that thinks this, but I don't think the rest of the team lost the fire in their eyes at the end of the game, they just didn't really have many chances. I think Kobe took something like all the shots but 2-3 in OT. Kobe needs to stick with the gameplan if they want to win. Hes clutch, but him going crazy hurts the Lakers against the Suns, they are playing right into the Suns gameplan, which is basically let Kobe get his, but don't let others have big games. <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Franchise4Ever:</div><div class="quote_post">Wtf are you talking about? No one ever called Nash a complainer and what truth? That he tried to argue his case to the refs? Every single player in the NBA does that. Puh Please. Again I don't recall anyone calling Nash a complainer and if thats "all you have to say" then don't post if the sole purpose is to annoy and irritate.</div> Raja Bell is a crybaby though and same with all the Suns fans who blamed the refs for the first 5 games of the series. Does that sound familiar? If you call them crybabies, you have to take it like a man when the same thing happens to you guys.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting kobe4life:</div><div class="quote_post">excuse my language... But F*3K KOBE! What the hell is he doing? That must be the worse 6 seconds play I ever see from KOBE! WTF is THIS? Waiting for the clock to counting down and took a 21 foot desperate shot? It's not like it's a 1 or 2second left on the clock. DRIVE TO THE DAMn BASKET. I blame this game on NOONE BUT KOBE. MotherFu8Cke#, it's OVER! </div> It wasnt kobe's fault. That play was designed that way. Its the Lakers fault. They turned the ball over too much
I'm sorry but didn't any of you see kobe's shot into overtime? the problem with kobe is he's too predictable everyone knew he was going to take that shot, if i were him i would have tried to dump the ball off to odom or even kwame in the post that would have suprised everyone.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting kobe4life:</div><div class="quote_post">excuse my language... But F*3K KOBE! What the hell is he doing? That must be the worse 6 seconds play I ever see from KOBE! WTF is THIS? Waiting for the clock to counting down and took a 21 foot desperate shot? It's not like it's a 1 or 2second left on the clock. DRIVE TO THE DAMn BASKET. I blame this game on NOONE BUT KOBE. Other notes: forget about working Kwame in the post, he need to frigging practice on catching the ball. It must be the worse button finger hand on the planet! I hope Phil in practice, throwing this guy rock and tell him to catch it instead of real basketballl ball. And Smush? What the F**k is he doing on the court anyway? Looking at his him, I wanna smack his face. The guy didn't seem to enjoy playing on the court. For god sake, at least play some tough defense on Nash if your game is OFF! Lastly Walton, he needs to realize he ain't like his dad, Bill Walton. It's bullsh1t seeing him taking tough shot when the game is on the line. Either give it to Kobe or Lamar, how hard is that to do? MotherFu8Cke#, it's OVER! </div> I feel your pain bro. Kobe made some insane shots at the end, but he took some questionable shots in the 4th quarter and went away from the gameplan. One play which really pissed me off was when he got Tim Thomas to switch out on him, and instead of attacking him and getting Thomas his 5th foul, he took baseline jumper out of rhythm. The Suns came right down the court and scored off the long rebound. The Lakers have one last chance to make up for the last two losses. It's hard to beat a PJax coached team 3 straight. The Lakers will have their back to the walls and nothing to lose going into Phoenix. All the pressure is on Phoenix now.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Raja Bell is a crybaby though and same with all the Suns fans who blamed the refs for the first 5 games of the series. Does that sound familiar? If you call them crybabies, you have to take it like a man when the same thing happens to you guys.</div> Different. When Raja complains it was flops and obvious bull. Nash was never mentioned as a crybaby. Also the fans were crybabies. They were saying "OMG! THE NBA WANTS THE LAKERS TO ADVANCE". Thats just being a baby and a sore loser. I never once said OMG BIASED CALLS. I said no calls which is on BOTH sides, whether it be the Tim Thomas hack in game 1, the fake Raja flops, Fred Jones being held, or any other no call. To blame the NBA for a loss of your favorite team IS being a crybaby.
In the overtime, the Lakers scored 13 points (mostly by Kobe). That's enough to win. Yeah, it's nice to get everyone involved in the overtime, but it was the lack of defense that really hurt the Lakers, not the offense.
Turnovers hampered the Lakers attack. They gave the ball away 20 times. They never got into sync with opportunities squandered when the shot clock running down and a tough shot being put up to beat the buzzer.
The Lakers had the game and series wrapped up being up by 3 points with less than 30 second left to play. Youth and inexperience showed when the Lakers did not defend the three point line. Marion grabbed an offensive rebound and was in the post and the Lakers forgot about their three point shooters. Tim Thomas was open, let a flying Kwame Brown go by, and hit the three to tie. The Lakers had a foul to give, which would make the Suns take the ball out but it should not have gotten to that point. Up by 3, you guard against all threes even at the expense of an open two. with a two you're still up with time on your side and the other team having to foul. The Lakers did not execute defensively all night and at the most ciritical of times, they absolutely collpased. With renewed life, the Suns easliy ran the Lakers out of Staples and onto a plane to Phoenix.
phil jackson has never lost a playoff series up 2-1 nor has he ever lose a first round series, he will find a way BELIEVE GUYS, BELIEVE
If the Suns dominated us for game 1 than we can chalk this up to growing pain, better team wins. but we were close to eliminate them one god damn rebound away, that, my friend is difficult to dissolve.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Franchise4Ever:</div><div class="quote_post">Different. When Raja complains it was flops and obvious bull. Nash was never mentioned as a crybaby. Also the fans were crybabies. They were saying "OMG! THE NBA WANTS THE LAKERS TO ADVANCE". Thats just being a baby and a sore loser. I never once said OMG BIASED CALLS.<u> I said no calls which is on BOTH sides, whether it be the Tim Thomas hack in game 1, the fake Raja flops, Fred Jones being held, or any other no call</u>. To blame the NBA for a loss of your favorite team IS being a crybaby.</div> About the underline, they all look like you are complaining about calls going against the Lakers. About the bold, Isn't that what you did in your post here.....<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Franchise4Ever:</div><div class="quote_post">**** that, it was a terrible series with a **** load of no calls.</div> I'm assuming by saying a **** load of no calls means that you think that the Lakers, which happen to be your favorite team got shafted. I don't think you would be saying it's a terrible series with a lot of **** calls if you weren't hinting at the Lakers getting a lot of no calls.
