Kobe Just Shut Down Westbrook and Went God Mode in the Clutch Today

[TheMan]

yeh, he is so great. he shot 26 FGA to get 26 pts at 35%.

suck on that retard.

[NugzHeat3]

There's the gift and the curse with Westbrook. You're absolutely right, but he was also the guy taking it hard to the hole and drawing fouls (and knocking down the free throws) late in the game when OKC couldn't hit the side of the barn. Durant missed some easy J's that he normally knocks down but that's the time when you need to do what Westbrook did and take it to the hole and draw fouls. As much as Westbrook is a volume chucker, that team needs him and last night showed why. Without Westbrook, LA wins without needing to go to overtime.

If only Durant wasn't so in love with the J...

Kobe deserved credit cause he definitely grinded out the win today. Durant missed easy shots while Kobe made some tough ones. That one legged shot got him going and OKC (Durant) kept settling for jumpshots when they should have been attacking the hole.

Agreed on all counts. I didn't understand why the last play at the end of the 4th as well as the first OT wasn't called for Westbrook. KD settled on the first play taking a stepback three which was a terrible shot and at the end of OT, the ball ended up out of bounds off of Ebanks with KD crossing over and Westbrook was forced to a really tough shot on the inbounds play. He was the only one really attacking the rim and pressuring the defense albeit he did make some bad decisions. At least his confidence didn't look questionable unlike KD's who seemed a bit hesitant. Who knows, they might've been trying to get KD a nice moment perhaps to boost his MVP chances.

[SlayerEnraged]

Kobe was on westbrook every posession when he was in. Perkins set some illegal screens which may have made some1 else end up on him. Westbrook missed some open shots but its cause 80-90% of the time he wasn't getting good looks at all.