Kobe went 15-1 in the 2001 NBA Playoffs.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Kobe was the best player for all 5 of his championships too.

-Stanley

[ImKobe]

Dude, Kobe is one of the top 13-15 or so players of all time, and a perimeter oriented offensive specialist. You don't think the attention paid to arguably the most dominant low post player of all time will benefit that type of player maybe a teensy eensy little bit?

This is the problem with stans like you. You're smart enough to know that it's basic basketball that the interior, when manned by a low post beast, is going to draw the most attention and that perimeter players as a result will benefit significantly. Since you're a nauseating stan, however, you won't admit it and instead refuse to provide any context to the numbers.

Who's shit alt are you?

Watch the games and tell me that Kobe wasn't being defended. Stop making shit posts with your shit alts with your backhanded compliments. Every all-time great that won titles benefited from the team around them.

Kobe only had Shaq, the rest of the team was role players
Duncan had Manu, Parker, Kawhi
Lebron had Wade, Bosh, Allen
Steph has Klay, Green, Iggy, Bogut

So Kobe doesn't get credit for winning a title while putting up superstar numbers but every other player does? Magic had a 38 year old Kareem win a Finals MVP over him when Magic was in his prime, does that mean he was carried by Kareem?

Use your brain and stop posting the same nonsense with all of your alts, it only makes you look worse.

[stalkerforlife]

Kobe's 2001 playoff run is the most underrated run of all time due to him playing next to Shaq.

Another reason Kobe is easily a top 5 player of all time.

[Mr. Jabbar]

#neverforget

[dazzer87]

Kobe went 15-1 as the 2nd option.

[Mr. Jabbar]

Kobe went 15-1 as the 2nd option.

Lebron went 10-0 as the 3rd option

[ImKobe]

Kobe went 15-1 as the 2nd option.

Didn't know 2nd options led the team in field goal attempts and assists.

[jstern]

15-1 and didn't win Finals MVP, while not being the main focus of the defense. For other players wouldn't that be an *?

[Hey Yo]

I think the problem the Pacers, Philly and Nets had was that they didn't have two bigs to throw at Shaq at the same time like the WC teams did. So they gave Kobe more attention in hopes of pressuring him into turnovers/bad shots because they couldn't stop Shaq if they tried.

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So obviously those teams focused on stopping Kobe and if Shaq got a great look they tried to foul him, I remember him having 39 FTA in one of those games against the Pacers

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[choppermagic]

Didn't know 2nd options led the team in field goal attempts and assists.

And closed out games. Kobe wasn't a liability at the FT line or hacking defences.

[HurricaneKid]

This is a myth. Shaq wasnt facing more defensive attention than Kobe in the western conference. Definitely more against Philly tho

And you know this because you were 2 at the time? GTFO. Kobe was great in the 01 postseason but pretending that Shaq, at the height of his powers, wasn't fundamentally changing what defenses did is the kind of idiocy a 2 year old comes up with.

[Aiolos]

[TheMarkMadsen]

01 Kobe led the lakers in scoring and assist through their 11-0 conference finals run. Led the entire league in 4th quarter playoff scoring & 2nd half playoff scoring. Had the highest (+/-) of all time while Shaq was a net negative (stupid stat but Lebron stans use this all the time) had b2b series averaging 35/9/4 and 33/7/7, led the team in assist for the entire playoffs had Phil Jackson saying shit like this

"I've always held the bar up very high for Kobe and he's not only reached that bar, but he's jumping over the top of it right now," Phil Jackson said. "It's the best that I've seen a player of mine play with an overall court game."

"I never asked Michael to be a playmaker," Jackson said. "That's the greatest player I ever had, that I could consider the greatest player in the game. Yet I never asked him to be a playmaker in those terms. I asked him to be a playmaker when he was doubled or tripled. Kobe has to set up the offense, read the defense, make others happy and he's doing a great job of it. Kobe has become the floor leader on a basketball team that was looking for that player who can not only be a scorer, but also be a playmaker who can consistently make big plays at critical times. It was very important for Kobe to step into that role he was envisioned at."

While averaging 29/7/6/2/1 for the entire playoffs and these bitter ass haters still don't want to give him any credit.

MEANWHILE ON ISH LAST WEEK

These same people were ready to jump all over Lebrons nuts for averaging 23/8/7 while potentially going undefeated through a pathetic conference.

[bigkingsfan]

Only the finals matter. Isn't that the theme around ish.

[branslowski]

Dude, Kobe is one of the top 13-15 or so players of all time, and a perimeter oriented offensive specialist. You don't think the attention paid to arguably the most dominant low post player of all time will benefit that type of player maybe a teensy eensy little bit?

This is the problem with stans like you. You're smart enough to know that it's basic basketball that the interior, when manned by a low post beast, is going to draw the most attention and that perimeter players as a result will benefit significantly. Since you're a nauseating stan, however, you won't admit it and instead refuse to provide any context to the numbers.

Posters like you obviously didn't watch those playoff runs and Finals or, your ability to give Kobe no credit what so ever leads you to say dumb sh!t because Kobes man wasn't leaving to double Shaq. Shaw getting doubled benefited players like Horry, Fox, and Fisher, not so much Kobe who wasn't a spot up shooter wat so ever.

"Well Shaq was tripled thats why Kobe scored cause he's always open, that helped Kobe more" Meanwhile Kobe has a 35ppg season with Kwame at Center, so I guess that means Kwame was getting quadrupled team then..