According to foxsports.com, the Warriors easily beat the Lakers 111-77 as Kobe Bryant had his worst shooting night ever.
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Kobe Bryant’s tough night ended with him watching from the bench. “He tells me when he is exhausted and he tells me when he’s not exhausted”.
Over the last few days, we’ve written in more detail about Kobe Bryant’s shooting troubles.
In the game against the Golden State Warriors, he only managed to score eight points, and grab four rebounds. We accomplished it, and now we have to make sure that we don’t drop off and give a game away just because we broke this record.
Coincidently, the Lakers are the last team to have won 33 games in a row. We’d be what, 3-11?
Bryant added that even if he averages 35 per outing, the Lakers’ 2-12 dismal record will not be that better. “The shots that I could take, pull-up shots, jumpers, and contested jumpers”. “I think his role is pretty defined for us right now. Like I’ve been saying, everybody’s a great one-on-one player, but we’ve got to work on team ball”. After 20 seasons, more than 55,000 minutes on the court, and coming off two major injuries, Kobe clearly is not the same player everyone admired for so long.
After not playing in the fourth quarter of the Lakers’ blowout loss to Golden State on Tuesday, rookie point guard D’Angelo Russell sounded firm on where he stood on that issue. “In fact, Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said that Kobe told him “this is it” Hollywood Life reported. When Kobe Bryant is given free reign to use up 28.5% of the team’s possessions while tying the lowest assist per-100 possessions he’s averaged since his third season in the league, you are going to have a passing problem.
“A lot of winners have played in this league, a lot of great teams and nobody has accomplished what this team has tonight, so, we’ve got to be proud of those kind of moments”, Curry said.
Kupchak said the Black Mamba is frustrated with the way Lakers campaign is going.
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ESPN’s real plus-minus, which measures a player’s impact on team performance per 100 possessions, placed Bryant 379st in the National Basketball Association and 73rd for small forwards, the position that Bryant has largely played this season.
