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Originally posted by rockyroad
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Originally posted by TravelinMan
IRpalmer and rockyroad - easy, don't lose your cool guys. Rockyroad you are arguing by instance ... "he didn't play good defense the other night" This is specious reasoning; over the course of the entire season, Kobe is a first tean defensive player. In fact, hmmmmmmm..I believe he was voted first team this year.
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Lose my cool??? Don't think I did that...simply stated that I don't like his defense - and it's not just one game...in this series, it's been every game...whoever he is guarding consistently goes back-door on him and gets easy shots...Larry Brown knows this and is exploiting it...and as far as being "voted" first team defensive team - please...you should know that those "votes" are about popularity - not necessarily actual facts...Kobe is a tremendous scorer and very acrobatic - but defense??? I think Detroit is showing him what real defense is...
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I don't know about all that. Kobe may be suffering a bit off ball, but i think that has more to do with the other guys that he is covering for. On ball, he is pretty solid. Two years ago he completely stifled jason Kidd in the foruth quarter of games 3 and 4 - not a chance to get past Kobe. And last night, Kobe shut down whoever he was guarding. The Lakers simply don't have any other guards who can D up on whoever Kobe doesn't have.
Mon Jun 14, 2004, 01:35pm
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