kobe bryant destroying the 01 spurs in the POs

[riseagainst]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyfR2pDOt3k

and most of the plays in the video are him getting double teamed.
haters gon hate.

[ShackEelOKneel]

Do you know what a double team is? There are times where he goes to the basket and there are other people there, but double teams were rarely sent to him in that video.

[I Love the Game]

Do you know what a double team is? There are times where he goes to the basket and there are other people there, but double teams were rarely sent to him in that video.

Oh come on Kobe feasted on the Spurs that year, semantics ain't gonna change that.

[Mr. Jabbar]

feasting on duncan, another day at the office for top5be

[pegasus]

Playoff Scoring:

Player A: 35.8 (on road)
Player B: 23.6 (on road)

Player A: 27.3 (at home)
Player B: 35.8 (at home)

Can you guess who these were?

[Big Cheese]

I never got to watch that series but can anyone explain to me why the spurs got destroyed so badly that series even with homecourt advantage? Did they have some kind of injury problem?

[NBASTATMAN]

KOBE STAT PADDING IN THE FOURTH QUARTER ALA LEBRON

[LoneyROY7]

It's a shame Kobe stans are for the most part a bunch of retards, because Kobe truly is/was a boss.

[huskerdu]

I never got to watch that series but can anyone explain to me why the spurs got destroyed so badly that series even with homecourt advantage? Did they have some kind of injury problem?

Spurs were missing their starting SG in Derek Anderson who was a big part of the team that year. Lakers were the better team anyway, but considering that the 2001 Spurs weren't great offensively, losing one of your most dyanmic scorers in the backcourt hurt a lot.

[Leroy Jetson]

As a Spurs fan, Kobe used to scare me in a way Lebron never did.

[toxicxr6]

Watching the video as Kobe pushes the ball up the court the Spurs team are already collapsing towards shaq almost every time..
Must be easy making all those open shots and layups because shaq was such a threat...

[riseagainst]

Watching the video as Kobe pushes the ball up the court the Spurs team are already collapsing towards shaq almost every time..
Must be easy making all those open shots and layups because shaq was such a threat...

i think you have your jimmies rustled. None of what you just described is in the video. Stay mad.

[West-Side]

Watching the video as Kobe pushes the ball up the court the Spurs team are already collapsing towards shaq almost every time..
Must be easy making all those open shots and layups because shaq was such a threat...

Riiiiiiight.

That's why Shaq continuously lost in the playoffs (and swept) before Kobe's emergence.

[Doranku]

What an incredible scoring arsenal. At such a young age too, only 22.

[SOD 21]

San Antonio came into that series with the best record and also the top ranked defense in the league that year. This series was easily viewed as the real NBA championship by most people.

One of the things that helped the Lakers significantly in the series was the hot shooting of Derek Fisher from the three-point line, which I believe he made 15 of his 20 fga's in the series. But overall, it was a combination of the Spurs having injuries on the perimeter, hot shooting from Derek Fisher and Kobe Bryant simply playing superb basketball. Kobe had a tendency to play better on the road during that time and Shaq would do more domination at home, mostly because Shaq would regularly get into foul trouble on the road due to his bruising style.

It was remarkable to hear Shaq call Kobe the best player in the league during/after that series given their tumultuous history together, especially with Shaq being the MVP just the previous year.