Kobe Bryant Shooting Too Much? No...?
148473
Definitely Not.\nHe is the best player in the NBA.
1043456
Kobe is in a whole different league then them. I mean come on 81 points in one game. A.I or Dwade couldn't do that if they wanted to.
39366
He's been okay.. I guess.. He's been only scoring around 14 ppg because kobe's been scoring 30+ ppg. (that's been the largest gap between a team's laeding scorer's in a few years) He's just not been a prolific enough scorer that's why kobe needs to take all those shots.
358059
I think you mean MVP, but I don't think he should, because, even though he scores a whole lotta points per game, they don't necessarily guarantee wins. Just a couple of days ago, he scored 51 points, but his team lost by the score of 100-93 (I think). If a player's efforts don't contribute wins the majority of the time, he shouldn't be MVP. Steve Nash, Michael Jordan, Kevin Garnett - when they got their MVP's, they clearly elevated ALL of their teammates by their play. Not so for Kobe.
966908
idk. i love the lakers & kobe bryant. he is a great player even if some people think hes a ball hog. i love him. and people shouldnt constantly rag on him.\n\ngo lakers.!
990012
Kobe can score however many points he wants. Nobody can stop him.
651267
LeBron, this kid is phenomenal. He's averaging 33 points a game, he's keeping his composure, keeping his teamates involved, not allowing himself to take the game into his own hands, he's aware that there's 4 other men on the court with him to get the job done. His awareness of his other teammates is great, it's like he's got a 3rd eye, he has that Jason Kidd thing going on without the alley-oops.\n\nKobe......still has some growing up to do now that he's on his own. He has to learn to trust his teammates when he can't get a good shot off. He has to learn that just because you're compared to Jordan, that doesn't mean you possess the same skills as him. Only Jordan has been able to take an entire team upon his back and deliver in nearly 75 games a season, Kobe must learn to help build up the players around him before he even think of doing it all on his own.
567325
phil jackson called him 'un-coachable'.  that means something.  i think he likes to score 50 pts because he thinks it'll win the game.  i think he does choose to be selfish and make all of those shots but i dont think he does it with a mentality of thinking that he doesnt care if he wins\n\n---i am not a kobe supporter---he's not a team player
1056550
You damn right !!!!  And if anybody doesn't agree with that then there just full of it and need to wake the hell up !!!!!!  Kobe's the best scorer since " His Airiness" and nobody can take over a game like he can since MJ did it.  He's not better than Jordan, but he's the closes thing, and that's why everyone hates him.  When Jordan was the same age as Kobe he was called selfish and a ball hog too...  and everyone told him scoring kings can't be champions...  Well, six rings later here we are.  Don't hate Kobe, congratulate him, he's the true air apparent.  And he will soon make fools out of all his naive critics, to the point where they don't even exist.  And I'll be there to taunt and reticule each and every one of them.  (people are just to impressionable) !!\nI bet that if Duncan, T Mac, or Kobe  were in the finals right now, everyone would be on their jocks and nobody would be talking about Wade.  Its funny to me how blind people are.
489984
No Raja, no problem. It's time to defend themselves on the paint. Kobe, with no doubt, will score 50 tonight (5/4) with 10 rebounds. A must see win tonight duh!
1108663
NO!\nhe shoots, he scores! 2 points\n\n\n\nHEAT
452799
I have to agree with you all the way. Lebron isnt even close to kobe. Kobe might end up getting 5 rings. Lebron might end up with 0 or 1. Kobe is the most talented. He has better passes but the only problem is that he has no1 to pass too. Also when you're that good you want to shoot a lot. He wins games single handedly for his team. WHen Kobes career is over he should be considered the best that ever played th game. Kobe MVP this seasonand I'm all the way for lakers, even though i live in MI i hate pistons and lakers are ma n*****
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The thing is that a player has to decide when its time to hogg the ball and when itz time to play team ball. Like d wade. when he had to he took all da shots for miami when they were down by 13, but u can see that at the beggining of each game he takes less shots then in later quarters. Maybe kobe was telling the truth. He jsut made a bad decision. Thier wus a point when he had to tell himself hey these guys jsut arent gonna get this time ama have to be 81 point kobe. Unfortionately for the lakers he didnt. He stayed to hes gameplan and in basketball thats bad. You have to constantly make adjustments. Just shows that shaq was THE MAN at LA.  Kobe is one of the greatest in scoring but he decision making sucks thats why he needs another star on hes team, but u know when they were down 45-60 at halftime kobe must have looked into those guys eeys and realized that he was gonna lose. Frustration could of been a factor. The phoenix are like that. They just dun stop scoring. He did take them to 7 games , but at the end hes decision making cost him the game.
621957
Kobe has major issuses as a player in this leauge.   Ol' boy commented that people criticize Kobe when he has 81 and tries to do it all--- and those same people criticize him when he has 1 pt in the 2nd half and tries to get everyone involved/  that's exactly Kobe's problem.  Thats not how the game is played; look at LeBron,  you dont see him either score 50 or get score 10 and get everyone involved, he goes out every night and plays an all- around game like he should--- like everybody should.- Why is Kobe the only player who has problems with these kinda decisions? He isnt the only super star player who has ever played with sub par teammates in the history of the league... but its always something with him;  I thought he had matured a few years back= thats what analyists were saying right
652234
nah kobe and garnet are two huge stars it woul.d not work with kobe taking 50 shots a game
335892
definalty, who wouldnt want to be on the court when kobe can drop 60+ on any given night. You would definalty get some open looks, he doesnt always shoot. Kobe will make u better, look at smush parker, he was nothing, now he something.
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I watch almost every Lakers' game, so I'm used to their comebacks (even if it doesn't lead to a win).\n\nBUT, KOBE'S 81 POINT GAME LEFT ME SPEECHLESS. SPEECHLESS.  JUST PLANE AMAZING AMAZING. I STILL DON'T HAVE THE WORDS TO EXPLAIN IT.\nAMAZING AMAZING AMAZING .. TRULY A STAR .. \n\n41 MINS\n28-46 FG %60.86\n7-13 3PT %53.8\n18-20 FT %90\n6 REB\n2 AST\n3 STLS\n1 BLK\n81  PTSSS\n\nAMAZING