Missed seeing the game, so only got to read about it in this morning's newspaper article.
The article said that after Walton's miss (LUKE took the last shot? How strange), that POOR Kobe just "walked off the Pepsi Center court dejected, shrugging his shoulders as if wondering why he didn't get the ball."
I can't imagine POOR Kobe reacting that way, can any of you?
LOL was JoMaL the writer of that article. I love how Kobe cannot walk off the court disapointed they faught back into a game but ended up losing in OT without it being because of him not getting the ball. Once again only furthers the point Ive been trying to make around here :nod: We all know how unbias the Sac Bee is when it comes to anything Laker related. Sometimes I wonder how long alot of the residents are going to stay bitter towards the Lakers.
Gee, wk, it is nice of you to think that the SacBee is so rich and is so devoted to anything Laker they would actually send a reporter to Denver to cover a game between LA and the Nuggets.
But no. It turns out the pro-Sacramento Kings/anti-anything Laker AP wire reporter put that tidbit in the article. Which apparently was picked up by other users of the AP service, such as the Internet sports pages, which, sorry, provided a bit more information on this little POOR Kobe post game antic:
Bryant, whose four-point play sent the game into overtime at 99, walked off the Pepsi Center court dejected, shrugging his shoulders in frustration at not getting the ball and the chance to match or upstage Anthony.
"That's a good, astute observation. I wanted the shot," POOR Kobe said. "I always want the ball in my hands. They had me covered. I wish I could have gotten a better screen on the play."
Is it possible that his Laker teammates purposely denied giving POOR Kobe a decent screen, thus preventing the in-bound pass to come his way? Did the refs block his view, poised in a "T" stance, ready to let him 'have it', in a non-favoritism way, if he smirked in their direction? Did Walton miss because he was looking at POOR Kobe out of the corner of his eye, anticipating the shrug and smirk?
I'm tearing up right now over this tension.