[WideRight05]

I'm sorry...
I missed the part where defended the number of shots he took.
You must have imagined it when you saw someone say something good about Kobe and had to come in attempt to bust some balls and set the record straight.

I've come to realize that you can't say anything positive about Kobe on here without someone coming out of the woodwork and going in another direction.

Kobe is a career .453 shooter and this year he shot .430 from the field.
I don't see that as a huge dip in production and the only thing that I said was that he has had his best statistical year since 07-08. If he would have played in the last game of the season he would have been the scoring champ. He has two or three good seasons left in him and when the Lakers won championships he has always taken a lot of shots.

2000 - 18.0 FGA
2001 - 22.2 FGA
2002 - 20.0 FGA
2009 - 20.9 FGA
2010 - 21.5 FGA

This year and last year he was at 20.0 and 23.0.
Those numbers are very comparable to the ones put up in seasons that ended with LA winning a title.

So I know you have everything figured out and there is no way that anyone else can be right....

but let it be known that you said Kobe takes too many shots, is selfish, and the Lakers won't win another title with him playing like that - even though they have 5 rings in which he has shot the ball just as much and at a similar clip.

Kobe may have five rings, but with the talent that has come through the organization he should have seven or eight. Kobe wants to be "the guy," and that has hurt him and his team during his time in L.A. He didn't want to have to share the role of being "the man" on the team with Shaq. Gasol and Bynum are both superstars, but they are not a threat to Kobe like Shaq was. I would love to see Bynum and Gasol demand a trade, as a previous poster mentioned. Kobe takes a lot of difficult shots that he doesn't need to. If the Lakers ran the offense through Gasol and Bynum, the Lakers would do better as a team and Kobe would probably make up for taking fewer shots with a higher field goal percentage.