Lakers better off without Kobe?

[RelaxImaPro]

SportsCenter just ran a graphic where the Lakers are scoring 100 PPG with Kobe out on the floor, 105 PPG with him on the bench.  Defense was allowing 114 PPG with him on the floor, 95 PPG with him on the bench.  All stats per 48 minute basis.

 

Holy poo what a difference.  That point swing can literally change a season.

 

All you hear from Kobe nut huggers is how garbage his teammates are and they're better off with him fading away with 5 defenders in his face rather than pass it to one of the many other open players.

 

I like Kobe, but it's been a sentiment that I've shared for a while while that he hurts his team more than help them.  As long as he gets his though, I guess.

[†William Moore†]

Kobe is a shot-chucking cancer who has too much of an ego to realize his time is up. The Lakers looked very Spurs-like last night as the ball never stopped moving and they took good shots. That would never fly with Kobe. He would have put up 25 on 31 shots and they would have lost. 

 

[RelaxImaPro]

SHOTS FIRED!!! BY HIS OWN TEAMMATES NO LESS

 

 

 

 

Golden State its fourth loss in 27 games left the younger Lakers feeling pretty chesty and they opened up a bit about whether they might be a better team without the Mamba.

 

“Some guys just played like ‘Django Unchained’,” Nick Young said (via ESPN), admitting he was feeling “Swaggalicious” after the 115-105 win. “They were free tonight.”

 

Minus Bryant, who had been averaging 35.5 minutes and shooting a mere 37.2 percent, the Lakers were led by Carlos Boozer’s 18 points and the team had 28 assists. Wayne Ellington, who started for Bryant, pointed out the obvious, that the victory was a group effort. Not that he meant anything by that. “We can hoop. We just showed that we can hoop. We’re a good team when we all come out together.”

 

Tom Haberstroh        ✔ @tomhaberstroh Follow

Without Kobe, the Lakers passed the ball 313 times last night. They averaged 273 before last night, 3rd-fewest in the NBA per SportVU.

 

9:07 AM - 24 Dec 2014

 

Granted, it was just one game, but the murmurs about whether the Lakers are a better team without Bryant are growing louder, With him on the court, the team is averaging 100.3 points over 48 minutes; without him, it’s 104.3. And without him, the team’s field-goal percentage improves from 42 percent to 48 percent, according to ESPN stats. Lest anyone miss the point about the 9-19 Lakers’ win, Swaggy P wasn’t finished. He was still thinking about movies. And Kobe.

 

“Pretty much going to have to tell Kobe to pass me the ball, pass us the ball,” Swaggy P said. “Tell him to take the backseat for a little bit. He can be ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ and I can be Miss Daisy and drive.”

 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/12/24/unchained-from-kobe-bryant-lakers-pull-off-upset-over-warriors/

[RelaxImaPro]

Yeah Kobe fanatics, go ahead and defend that.  It's the same poo that's been said forever, but now it's his actual teammates that are tired of it and saying it, knowing his old ass will be gone soon so they don't have to worry about the hammer coming down on them.

 

Top 5 player tho.

[teeray]

Kobe should probably hang up the sneakers. Truth is he isn't doing sh!t for his teammates, not the other way around

[Mojo]

That's why I love Nick Young. Kobe has been killing that team woth his awful shooting and one man army ball hogging.

[CharlottePanther]

Lance for Kobe straight up, problem solved.

[FuFuLamePoo]

Same story back in like 2012 or so when they had Dwight

[MichaelNewtonII]

Jeremy Lin did it big for his team this christmas

[MichaelNewtonII]

Kobe Sucks

[Kevin Greene]

Swaggy 1-6 and a 20 point blow out.

Time to be a Pro Nick.

[Rise of The Hive]

They should have cut that bum and saved money!

[Proudiddy]

Like I said before, Kobe is not a winner. He hasn't carried any team himself, and when he was counted on to carry a team himself they look like this. Losers.

When he won championships it was with other superstars. And with Shaq, Shaq was the better player of the two. MJ was always the alpha dog, and it was clear that Pippen was a distant second.

Is Kobe talented and entertaining to watch? Sure. But he's not who he has constantly portrayed himself to be.

[MV%doe]

Just like the hornets are playing better without lance.

so carry the one...... lance = kobe or trade lance for kobe. Problem for problem = solved problem........