According to Jim Jackson, Kobe Quit in Game 7 of the 2006 Playoffs Because..

[darryl]

These nikkas who look up a cross country dikkriding fakkit can't relate. Dumbass nikkas talking about a "Kobe PR machine" when Kobe himself literally went on TV to discuss the thing right after it happened.

Thread backfire. Kobe still the realist while Klutch is a passive aggressive conglomerate of fakkits.

Breh will you calm down you came in here gunning for LeBron who has nothing to do with this topic

 

[PHamm]

Once vs Sacramento to prove a point

Blazers too

 

[Sccit]

THIS HAS BEEN DISPROVEN TIME N TIME AGAIN

IT WAS ORDERED BY PHIL

SAME EXACT GAMEPLAN AS IN GAME 4, WHERE KOBE LITERALLY DIDNT SHOOT IN THE 4TH QUARTER UNTIL THAT FINAL GAME TYING FLOATER AT THE BUZZER...

WHY?

THE IDEA WAS THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS TO GET OTHERS GOING .. SO KOBE TOOK ON THE ROLE OF FACILITATOR .. PHIL TOLD HIM STRAIGHT UP THAT THERE WAS NO WAY HE WAS BEATING PHOENIX BY HIMSELF

IN GAME 6 HE SCORED 50 POINTS!!!! AND LAKERS STILL LOST... SO THEY SWITCHED IT BACK UP

THE ORDERS FROM PHIL WERE "DONT WORRY ABOUT UR SHOT.. GET OTHERS GOING AT ALL COSTS. ITS OUR ONLY CHANCE."

ANYONE WHO WATCHED KNOWS HE CLEARLY FOLLOWED THAT GAME PLAN, WHICH IS WHY JIM JACKSON HIMSELF COULDN'T TELL IN REAL TIME

IF U THINK KOBE QUIT U DONT KNOW KOBE N U DONT KNOW BASKETBALL

 

[360Waves]

In reality people just respected kobe more, it's that simple. Kobe didnt hire a media team to spin narratives and hold organizations hostage . This is all organic which is why you bron stans in your feelings

It’s actually the very opposite of organic. Which is why you and his stans continue to bring him up everyday, shyt on players who’ve surpassed him, and insert him into conversations where he does not belong. It comes off very desperate, as though repeating the same things over and over again will make it true.

Let me explain how propaganda actually works.

Player A is characterized as a “killer” and the guy you want taking the last shot. But his career clutch shooting percentages are terrible especially in the playoffs. He has exactly 1 career playoff game winner.

Player B is characterized as a choker with no killer instinct but he shoots a significantly higher percentage in clutch time and is the all time leader in playoff game winners. He has 5 buzzer beaters and one go ahead bucket.

Can you guess who is who?

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

Cued to start of the 4th quarter

Score was Phoenix 90 Lakers 65


the game was over at that point

That's only a 25 point margin. Why couldn't he bring his team back?

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

THIS HAS BEEN DISPROVEN TIME N TIME AGAIN

IT WAS ORDERED BY PHIL

SAME EXACT GAMEPLAN AS IN GAME 4, WHERE KOBE LITERALLY DIDNT SHOOT IN THE 4TH QUARTER UNTIL THAT FINAL GAME TYING FLOATER AT THE BUZZER...

WHY?

THE IDEA WAS THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS TO GET OTHERS GOING .. SO KOBE TOOK ON THE ROLE OF FACILITATOR .. PHIL TOLD HIM STRAIGHT UP THAT THERE WAS NO WAY HE WAS BEATING PHOENIX BY HIMSELF

IN GAME 6 HE SCORED 50 POINTS!!!! AND LAKERS STILL LOST... SO THEY SWITCHED IT BACK UP

THE ORDERS FROM PHIL WERE "DONT WORRY ABOUT UR SHOT.. GET OTHERS GOING AT ALL COSTS. ITS OUR ONLY CHANCE."

ANYONE WHO WATCHED KNOWS HE CLEARLY FOLLOWED THAT GAME PLAN, WHICH IS WHY JIM JACKSON HIMSELF COULDN'T TELL IN REAL TIME

IF U THINK KOBE QUIT U DONT KNOW KOBE N U DONT KNOW BASKETBALL

"At all costs"

 

[Black Hans]

To prove a point. So they gave up a 3-1 lead and he stopped shooting because he got in his feelings? Ibrons this the "Mamba Mentality" you guys like to spew?

Something like this happened in 2004 when the Pistons beat the Lakers 4-1 in the Finals. He did not shoot the ball. I remember people blaming HIM back then for losing that Finals, too.

 

[Ozymandeas]

This was a big topic at the time. Ppl keep forgetting Kobe wasn’t really liked like that until the generation that watched him when younger got into the league

If I could neg you

 

[staticshock]

Do you understand gameplan? Phil was instructing bean to facilitate . You are not winning a game 7 on the road with that shytty roster and Kobe taking a shyt load of shots . We needed Smush and company to have big games to have a chance .

I was thinking the same thing. This was no secret. It wasn't so much Kobe giving up, but when you have dumb teammates or a strategy that isn't working, he wasn't about to try to bail them out. "Y'all say I shoot too much? Ok, I'ma play team ball."

 

[The_Dread_Dormammu]

I have no stake in the shyt either way, but some of y’all overdoing it with the excuses knowing damn well if other stars had similar circumstances , you’d be singing a different tune..

Not trying to disrespect Kobe but y’all gotta start being objective lol

 

[RedBull]

In game 6 Kobe scored 50 on 20-35 (5-8 from 3) shooting and we lost by 8 in OT, and Phil had the audacity to criticize Kobe after Kobe followed his instructions in Game 1-5. We had a W that series where Luke had more points than Kobe because that's what Phil wanted (Kobe to be a decoy). Then when he pivots to going off in G6 to try and finish off the series (which he almost did, took the game to OT) , Phil bytch ass wanted to say something.

There was nothing Kobe could do at that point. Feel like he could've handled it a different way, but he had to let Phil know to stop with that BS. Kobe had Smush, Luke and Kwame actually being productive most of that series. Pushing the Suns to 7 was the most that team could do.

I think Phil disliked Kobe and it’s a wonder how they went to 3 straight finals. Kobe really dialed himself back to, “get along and go along”, for the betterment of the team. However, there were times when Kobe was doing too much and was being a prick, but I don’t remember him putting the team at risk to prove a point. But Phil? He definitely had to prove points at Kobe’s expense, and no one would dare question him except for Kobe, which apparently Phil hated. They had to win Phil’s way. To be fair Phil left Kobe and came back because he knew Kobe was HIM (and Kobe matured too) and he owed it to Kobe. Weird relationship. I’ll never blame Kobe for that Suns series. I blame the Suns more than anything. The Lakers were in over their heads and the Suns woke up. Game 7 was evidence.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Everyone knew this and spoke on it when it was happening.


People ALWAYS spoke on Kobe being like that emotionally. That's why he was never on Jordan level because he stayed expressing his anger and frustration in games, interviews, etc.

He still top 5 tho.

 

[big bun]

It is well known Kobe would do shyt like that back then.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

he didn’t quit on his team. Phil’s game plan was for Kobe to get his teammates involved . There was no way you were going to keep up the pace with the suns if you weren’t :

A) slowing the pace down with a half court offense

B) relying on one scorer


That was the plan from game one.

It’s not Kobe’s fault Odom sold on his defensive assignment against Tim Thomas . We were one defensive lapse away from advancing . Lmao look at the roster he played with.

Certain fanbase and their player is operating from insecurity with all these recent media outbursts .

They still seething from Caruso shytting on that fake open run ring

Yeah this is @10bandz lover

Two homo goofballs

Just look at all this shyt this gay loser typed defending Kobe not shooting on purpose

 

[Joe Sixpack]

nikkas are losers. We were only up 3-1 in the first place because Kobe was facilitating. He scored 50 in G6 and Phil wanted to talk shyt. So yeah, Kobe proved a point in G7.

And they were the 7th seed. Not like he was winning 66 games and getting his ass beat in the playoffs like Bron in Cleveland.

Also funny how nikkas talk about Kobe's "PR machine" when Bron literally created an entire company for it.

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