"But Kobe needs to pass the ball more for the Lakers to be successful"

[The Iron Fist]

So, why does the team lose when he has 7 or more assists lately?

[I.R.Beast]

So, why does the team lose when he has 7 or more assists lately?

because assists are overrated..... it's about moving the ball around and getting it done as a team.

[The Iron Fist]

because assists are overrated..... it's about moving the ball around and getting it done as a team.

But his detractors swear that, "If Kobe would pass the ball, the team would be more successful".

9 assists isn't enough?

[RazorBaLade]

I'd just like to see him stop going to artest and barnes and gasol so much, they are terrible, go to G lock and Bynum. Mostly bynum..

If kobe can get bynum 18 shots a game we'll be better than when gasol gets 18. Or hell. Get 18 for pau and 18 for bynum and dont let barnes shoot. IDK. But like tonight, I dont blame kobe at all.. But if bynum is 6/10 and pau is 6-18 then at some point in that game he has to realize that pau isnt getting it done and pass more to bynum. Feed the hot hand please

[KDthunderup]

Kobe often takes way too many shots and never gets the rest of his team involved as much as he should. He should try to take more high percentage shots, he often takes way too many of balance, tough bailout shots when he should be passing it to his teamates or playing off the ball.

[LiLharvard]

Kobe is still the boss, MVP and I'm adding goat hell shoot me I don't care, I just wish he was in green

[The Iron Fist]

Kobe often takes way too many shots and never gets the rest of his team involved as much as he should.

Yet, he somehow has more rings than anyone from his generation.


Can you please explain how this "Kobe pass the ball" system works?

Apparently, him facilitating the triangle and winning five rings along the way isn't successful.

[Whoah10115]

Listen people, stop posting shit all the time. You're trying too hard to defend Kobe. It's not relevant.



Just call the Lakers FO yourselves and let them know that Andrew Bynum is a black hole. Therefore, it is detrimental to individual players and the team as a whole, for the two of them to play side by side, on the same team as Kobe Bryant. Pau Gasol needs to go and they need a PG. Chris Paul, for example, is too ball dominant. You don't need him, but you need somebody. Now.



Mike Brown's offense doesn't help, but even the Triangle was going to have problems this year, with Bynum finally being healthy and ready to be a bigger piece.

[The Iron Fist]

Listen people, stop posting shit all the time. You're trying too hard to defend Kobe. It's not relevant.



Just call the Lakers FO yourselves and let them know that Andrew Bynum is a black hole. Therefore, it is detrimental to individual players and the team as a whole, for the two of them to play side by side, on the same team as Kobe Bryant. Pau Gasol needs to go and they need a PG. Chris Paul, for example, is too ball dominant. You don't need him, but you need somebody. Now.



Mike Brown's offense doesn't help, but even the Triangle was going to have problems this year, with Bynum finally being healthy and ready to be a bigger piece.

Defend Kobe?

He did exactly what his detractors say he should do, pass the ball and get assists.

He got 9, 8 the other night, and 7 a few nights before,

and the Lakers still lost.

So how is this "Kobe pass the ball" system successful?

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Yet, he somehow has more rings than anyone from his generation.


Can you please explain how this "Kobe pass the ball" system works?

Apparently, him facilitating the triangle and winning five rings along the way isn't successful.

How he is playing now isn't working though. It looks similar to the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons where Kobe was just gunning for scoring titles. Did the Lakers win anything then? Hell, right now he has an even higher usage rate than he did in 2006.

Guy just needs to stop holding the ball so long and get it moving. He along with Brown are the major reasons LA hasn't cracked 100 points this year.

[KDthunderup]

Yet, he somehow has more rings than anyone from his generation.


Can you please explain how this "Kobe pass the ball" system works?

Apparently, him facilitating the triangle and winning five rings along the way isn't successful.

Kobe has taken 135 more shots then the next player bellow him, how is that sharing the basketball? Kobe should be playing off the ball alot more, that way he would get alot better shots, higher % from the field and get his teammates more involved, now that Phil Jackson has left their is no way to keep Kobe in check with the offense, Jackson has been quoted many times saying that Kobe would just take his own stupid shots and play out of the offensive plan often.

[KDthunderup]

How he is playing now isn't working though. It looks similar to the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons where Kobe was just gunning for scoring titles. Did the Lakers win anything then? Hell, right now he has an even higher usage rate than he did in 2006.

Guy just needs to stop holding the ball so long and get it moving. He along with Brown are the major reasons LA hasn't cracked 100 points this year.

This whole post, I agree

[Maga_1]

If he has the assists its because someone is scoring in that possessions, just saying.

He just needs to improve his shot selection and be a less ball stopper for the team.

[The Iron Fist]

How he is playing now isn't working though. It looks similar to the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons where Kobe was just gunning for scoring titles. Did the Lakers win anything then? Hell, right now he has an even higher usage rate than he did in 2006.

Guy just needs to stop holding the ball so long and get it moving. He along with Brown are the major reasons LA hasn't cracked 100 points this year.

So the fault lies with the guy who leads the team in scoring and assists?




You've always been stupid, but this confirms it even more.

Since you clowns love to rely on FG% and try to make the Laker bigs into all time HOF big men,

chew on these numbers.

Pau 51%
Bynum 53%


Thats just terrible.

"But its Kobes fault"

Ok,

so is it Kobes "fault" when they win?

[KenneBell]

How he is playing now isn't working though. It looks similar to the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons where Kobe was just gunning for scoring titles. Did the Lakers win anything then? Hell, right now he has an even higher usage rate than he did in 2006.

Guy just needs to stop holding the ball so long and get it moving. He along with Brown are the major reasons LA hasn't cracked 100 points this year.

Actually it isn't and will probably be lower by tomorrow.

I think he's scaled back since the first Clippers game to get Pau and Bynum more involved. Whether than has worked or not is very debatable.