Re: Thunder Series Thread
yeah, I can recall a few games where Kobe didn't shoot for at least a quarter. He fucked the lake show in game 3, and didn't play up to standard in game 4.
but that wasn't the question i posed.
i've seen tobe stick to the game plan once every blue moon.
the question i asked was have you seen tobe not take a FGA in 15 consecutive minutes of a game.
i can meet you part of the way. i think the supersonics played with a lot more energy, intensity and urgency. i think part of the fakers' (as a team) problem stemmed from them sensing that one of their starters was sand-bagging.
i can meet you part way again on this.
there was a stretch where lamar odom committed a sequence of personal fouls. you could see at that point that he just didn't give a fuck anymore.
but pointing out that ron artest was struggling from the field is a non-issue in my book. ron artest has been struggling the entire season. this is nothing new. he doesn't completely grasp the triple post O, and he's faced with the confounding factor of player an overlapping position in the O: simultaneous SF with tobe.
edit: forgot to address your view that the whole team played like ass. it's easy to make an entire team look like ass when you have one individual who is willing to tank a game to sabotage the group goal.
yeah, I can recall a few games where Kobe didn't shoot for at least a quarter. He fucked the lake show in game 3, and didn't play up to standard in game 4.