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Originally Posted by timzerofive

It's sad you can't enjoy this moment with the rest of us. I feel for you. If you'd like to manipulate stats and numbers to show how bad of a player Kobe is, and that if we were to replace with any other player, this Laker team would be doing better... go right ahead. The fact is, watch the game and you know this Lakers team has been riding on his back. Can the other MVP candidates in the league carry this team any further than Kobe? Let's examine.. Lebron James? He has a better team surrounding him and they're tied 2-2 in the series... against a much worse team then the Suns. Dwayne Wade... not even close, tied against the BULLS, WITH Shaq! Elton Brand couldn't carry the Clippers to the playoffs without Cassell and Mobely. Steve Nash, he probably would come the closest, but I doubt he can carry a team with starters such as Kwame, Odom and Smush. Even if his percentage of making game winning shots are only 30.6%, tell me who else in the league has a better percentage? Carmello? I wouldn't trade Kobe for that kid in a 100 years. Lebron? He doesn't even have the guts to take that shot, or he travels when he does. 1 in 3 chance Kobe will win the game? I'll give it to him as that's a better percentage then anyone else on the team, or in the league.

"You knew he was going to shoot it," said Sun Coach Mike D'Antoni, sighing. "And you knew he was probably going to make it." You knew it's going to happen because he did it so many times before. Seriously, you would rather have Odom taking that shot? Hating Kobe is one thing, but now you're just hating greatness, and honestly, it's pretty pathetic.

Thats not even my site, and Im MANIPULATING the stats? Hold off man, do you realize that this is the same SUNS team thats lost their whole interior defense before the playoffs! Youre acting as if this is a steaming hot team with 1 (Arenas) first options and three (Butler, Jamison, Daniels) second options that Lebron has to face in the wizards! Who do ythe SUNS have? Barbosa, Diaw, House, Bell, J. Jones, Thomas, Marion? With the exception of Nash and Marion (2nd option), none of those guys are even third option guys; they are ROLE players.

"Hating Kobe is one thing, but now you're just hating greatness, and honestly, it's pretty pathetic."

Greatness? Youre giving him that title already? Maybe I should sell you some snake oil.