Remember when kobe got out played by austin croshere in finals

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Yes I do want to play this game. Because it's amazing how Kobestans will always find a morsel of food in every turd. It's like the 2004 finals when Kobestans ignore Games 1, 3-5 and focus on Game 2's game winner

If you ignore every bad game kobe's had, then you'd realize he's never had a bad game his entire career. :troll:
like i said, you dont want to play this game. you just moved the goal post my friend. now we're leaving the topic cause you got manhandled. and now changing years.

2004 when he lost to detroit?

where we saw him being doubled all game long while they had another guy or two behind that defense just in case he escapes. not how they plan Bron with one man(iggy) and thats enough. You better put two dudes on kobe and have another man or two behind that line. its like having a defensive line, then the LB's just in case he breaks past them. and you expect kobe to ball out in that scenario. no normal sized scorer can defeat that. kobe is normal at the sg spot at 6'6 215 or so. Bron is oversized at SF due to his weight

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XWTzoPB9bCQ/maxresdefault.jpg



Look at sheed not even guarding the other man. straight out 2-3 zone. he's going to slide over to jump shaq if need be, but if kobe(who is passing it to shaq) tries to drive. he's going to step up to help on that two. while ben wallace is still behind shaq. kobe would have to beat a ZONE after beating his man. lebron is tasked with destroying one man right now(iggy) and he cant do that. at least not yet.

like i said. 2 on 1. while fouling him for no calls

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/gallery/2004/nbafinals2004/3princekoberip.jpg

and ben wallace/ sheed is waiting on him after he split this trap.




At 6-9 and with the arm span of a 7-footer, Prince has posed all sorts of problems for Bryant. That has gone a long way in disrupting the Lakers' offense and putting them in a hole that no team has ever escaped, down 3-1 in the Finals. Bryant is shooting 39.1% from the field and getting to the free throw line 3.5 times a game, very un-Bryant-like numbers.



Thanks to his length, Prince can contest a jump shot while playing about a half step off Bryant, making it more difficult for Bryant to drive by. Prince forces Bryant where he wants him to go, usually into other Pistons. That results in Bryant throwing up ill-advised shots and keeps Bryant out of the lane, where he usually can create fouls.

"I've never played against somebody that long before," said Bryant, who at 6-6 normally has a size advantage over the player guarding him. "He does a good job of utilizing his length."

^^^kobe doesnt have to be ashamed of those numbers. They single covered shaq pretty much all series to focus a zone on kobe while also trapping him and running 6'9 with a 7 footers wingspan at kobe.

agian kobe is a normal sg height/length. not so with bron. he's the giant of his position. he's bigger than iggy. and yet iggy is giving him fits. it exposes the fact that bron isnt all that skilled on the offensive end. he just isnt.

what happened to all of that post game talk. his post game is suspect at best. am i glad he at least added a little something? SURE. but lets not lie about the man because he's the face of the nba. the man's post game is suspect. he really only uses 2 moves. turn around fade and a dropstep. if you stop those two. he starts to switch his pivot(travelling) and trying to ram his shoulder into you(illegal OFFENSIVE FOUL). so basically when bron cant get a free lane to the rack or he cant bully ball you on the drive. he's done.
 

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Kobe single handily shut duwn Iverson when he started gaurding him in Game 2 and hit every clutch shot for the Lakers during that run...

bottom line, u LeBron fan boys are upset LeBron about to be 2-4 in the Finals :mjlol:
let me remind them of this game just to prove your point of how he did AI dirty on the defensive end before.

Statline: 18 points, 7 assists, 5 blocks, 7-15 FG, 4-5 FT

One year ago at the same arena against the same Philadelphia 76ers team, Allen Iverson had embarrassed Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers dropping 41 points while leading his team to a 105-90 victory. Kobe tried to make sure it would not happen again. However, Bryant picked up 2 early fouls in the 1st quarter guarding the speedy Allen Iverson. With Kobe in foul trouble in the 1st quarter, Iverson went 4-7 with Derek Fisher guarding him. Even though Bryant came back in the 2nd quarter, he did not guard Iverson the remaining of the half in order to not pick the 3rd foul. Iverson took advantage and scored 16 first half points on 7-14 shooting. Kobe Bryant made sure he would never score again in the 2nd half.

Tightening up the screws, Bryant chased AI everywhere on the court denying him the ball at every possible chance and forcing him to pass the ball when he did get it. Bryant played remarkable defense in the 2nd half on the superstar putting up 4 blocks (5 total, 4 which were on Iverson) and frustrating him into 0-11 shooting. His defense held Iverson completely scoreless in the 2nd half. When he wasn't playing defense, he was making clutch baskets down the stretch including a game tying assist to Shaquille O'neal to tie the game at 81, a clutch fadeaway over Ratliff, and a go ahead runner to put LA up 85-81. It was back to defense afterwards. After Eric Snow hit a three to close the gap to 1 and the Lakers came up dry on the next possession, it set the stage for the biggest play of the game.

Allen Iverson, known for his 4th quarter play, had the ball on the very final possession with 11 seconds remaining in the game. Driving in the lane he went up only to have his shot spiked away by none other than Mr. Bryant who just had his 5th rejection of the game. Frustrated, Bryant was pushed out of bounds by Iverson and extended the lead to 3 (87-84) with 2 free throws. Attempting to bring the game to OT, Iverson had his final attempt blocked by Shaquille O'neal ending one of his wosre games of the season. Iverson, who shot 7-14 in the 1st half, finished 7-25 from the field overall thanks to the sticky defense of Kobe Bryant. This season was arguably Kobe Bryant's best defensive season overall. Although Bryant didn't have eye popping stats in the game, his defense in the 2nd half was the difference maker in the game.


now lets take a look




^^LOCKED UP.
 

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Either directly or indirectly, it seems to me that 60% percent of these threads either begin as, or morph into, LeBron vs. Kobe debates.

Let's simply appreciate the greatness of both these fine players gentlemen.

Thank you,
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. you just moved the goal post my friend. .

Why do people love using this notion without understanding it? What was my original "goalpost" and how did i move it?

It's like how everybody used to say "triple entendre" to everything without understanding a double entendre was in the first place.

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