Kobe Bryant (50-8-5) 2006 WCR1 Gm 6 vs. Suns - Career Playoff High & Heartbreak

[jongib369]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6wm3ATSpAEc/hqdefault.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wm3ATSpAEc

Kobe Bryant Game 6 Stats: 50 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast, 3 stl, 0 blk.

Kobe Bryant 2006 Western Conference First Round Averages: 27.9 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 5.1 apg, 1.1 spg, 0.4 bpg

[IGOTGAME]

imo this was prob the best he has ever played in the playoffs as the man. Really sucks that Lamar Odom couldnt get that last rebound. Top 2 most devastating losses as a Lakers fan

[bigkingsfan]

Air Ball Be

[CuterThanRubio]

Watching clips from this game never gets old for me, I used to despise Kobe and the Lakers to an unprecedented degree back in those days.

Nash made Tim Thomas seem useful for a short while.

A good idea for a future thread would be listing the worst/most overlooked players to hit big shots/have huge outbursts in the playoffs, he's definitely on that list.

Did he truly quit in game 7 or did PHX clobber them so badly that there was no other explanation for his disappearing act?

That game was probably the pinnacle of D'Antoni's uptempo system, Barbosa was a one man fastbreak machine, one of my favorite moments for sure.

[MoBe1Kanobi]

Making shots curry wish he could even try to make

[SamuraiSWISH]

And then Tim Thomas ruined it. It was the one game he wasn't playing facilitator. Would've been a massive upset proving he was the MVP that year.

[Segatti]

I don't understand Kobe, 35ppg in the regular season and in the playoffs he decides to pass the ball. This is the only game in that series he scored more than 30 points.

[SamuraiSWISH]

I don't understand Kobe, 35ppg in the regular season and in the playoffs he decides to pass the ball. This is the only game in that series he scored more than 30 points.
Phil asked him to pay that way. For 3x wins it worked. Then the lack of talent came crashing back down to earth. Which is why Kobe was so pissed the second half of game 7 when he had 23 at the half because Phil told him to go back to passing.

[Overdrive]

Kobe Bryant Game 6 Stats: 50 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast, 3 stl, 0 blk.

Kobe Bryant 2006 Western Conference First Round Averages: 27.9 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 5.1 apg, 1.1 spg, 0.4 bpg

Still incomprehensible. They had a foul to give and enough chances to put on a foul on a Suns player and set the defensive, instead they watched Thomas tie it.

[STATUTORY]

Still incomprehensible. They had a foul to give and enough chances to put on a foul on a Suns player and set the defensive, instead they watched Thomas tie it.
it's what happens when Chris Mihm, Luke Walton, brian cook, and deveaon george gets regular play time

the fact Kobe took that series to 7 puts him in the top 10 of all time. Lebron with similar supporting cast was swept by Spurs in his prime