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Kobe ball reared it's ugly head late in the game.
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No it didn't.
Bad defense did rear its ugly head again. A 16-2 run is unacceptable. Against the suns, it's unforgivable.
MWP was 0 for 4 in the 4th Q; Nash 0 for 1; Kobe 3 for 8; Howard 0 for 1; Clark 0 for 2; Gasol 1 for 3; Jamison 2 for 2; Blake 0 for 1.
That's not "Kobe ball rearing it's ugly head". That's everyone sucking, Kobe sucking the least, and no effing defense. The end.
Stupid. That was the stupid loss of this ten game block. 3-1 in a need to get to 7-3 in the block. Two VERY tough games on the list...this should have been a win.
@ESPNStatsInfo: Kobe stopped passing in 4th quarter - 10 FGA and 9 assists in 1st 3 quarters, 7 FGA and 0 assists in final 12 minutes
Kobe shied away from what had worked the previous 3 games. There were plenty of open players during that stretch.
Don't mistake 0 assists for not passing.
is Kobe Bryant trying to ACTIVELY be a bad teammate and run Dwight out of town when he's a FA? I mean... what player have you ever heard of continually questioning another's manhood the way Kobe does Dwight on a regular basis? Yesterday he said Dwight's not playing because he doesn't have "experience" with injuries... uh... he played most of the year last year with a bulging disc before finally shutting it down and needing surgery... then came back EARLY this year wayyyyyyyy ahead of schedule even though he wasn't 100% yet... then suffered a TORN LABRUM which most doctors say requires surgery and should put him out 6 months... and has tried to play through that two separate times.
dude's a fantasic basketball player, but he's one of the worst leaders I've ever seen.
Mark Medina @MedinaLakersNBA
Kobe Bryant said he's not pressuring Howard to return."There's an urgency to be out there but not at the cost of making his shoulder worse."
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Mark Medina @MedinaLakersNBA
Steve Nash on Dwight: "I think everyone has got to play through some pain in this league"
Whatever, Dwight is garbage. He's a petulant child and fumbles the ball away more than Kwame Brown.
Dwight doesn't have experience playing THROUGH injuries. He's playing WITH injuries and that's a very different thing.
And Dwight never has had anyone pushing him, period. He hardly pushes himself.
If the Lakers don't trade him, they are making a mistake. You can't build around that guy. He is a finger pointer and lacks drive. And I really wanted him here, having coveted him since before he was drafted, but he's absolutely changed every concept I ever had about him.
Kobe will be gone in a couple of years, and Dwight is not the centerpiece of a team. Especially if he never recovers from the back injury.
Despite winning the three games Howard has missed, the Lakers (23-26) are 10th in the Western Conference playoff race. They also will be without star forward Pau Gasol, who could be sidelined four-to-six weeks with a tear in the plantar fascia of his right foot, an MRI revealed Wednesday.
"We don't have time for (Howard's shoulder) to heal," Bryant said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with ESPNBoston.com's Jackie MacMullan. "We need some urgency."
The interview with MacMullan came one day after Bryant publicly challenged Howard, stating that playing through an injury is "something that you have to balance out and manage."
Bryant also asserted that Howard is preoccupied with how he is perceived by fans and media.
"Dwight worries too much about what people think," Bryant told MacMullan. "I told him, 'You can't worry about that. It's holding you back.' He says, 'OK, OK, OK,' but it's always hovering around him.
"He just wants people to like him. He doesn't want to let anyone down, and that gets him away from what he should be doing."
Bryant also speculated that Howard, in his first season with Los Angeles, may not be accustomed to the Lakers' standards.
"(Howard) has never been in a position where someone is driving him as hard as I am, as hard as this organization is," Bryant told MacMullan. "It's win a championship, or everything is a complete failure. That's just how (the Lakers) do it. And that's foreign to him.
"When you think about it, there aren't many organizations that look at it that way. There are only two that can really honestly say that's what they live by -- Los Angeles and Boston."
Howard preached patience in a recent interview with ESPN's Stephen A. Smith, pointing to the fact that Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal needed three years before winning a championship with the Lakers.
But the 34-year-old Bryant, who is averaging 27.6 points per game in his 17th NBA season, is approaching this season with more desperation.
"We don't have three years," Kobe said. "We've got this year
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Whatever, there is nothing wrong in there. Dwight doesn't get it yet. LA didn't get him to smile and talk about how this is bananas, and doesn't even feel like real life. They brought him in to dominate. He has failed thus far. Kobe is pushing him, sure, but the LAKERS expectation is the huge push.
Try again, haters. While you are at it, light a fire under Dwight's ass, please, or he's going to be bounced.
Mike D'Antoni also informed us on @TWCSportsNet that Dwight's been cleared to play for awhile...tonight he just decided to play...
Ginormous ***.