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dockingsched wrote:i think its more about the all time scoring list than a scoring title.

doozyj wrote:I think he may want to prove doubters/haters wrong that a old man 16 years into his career, can still do what these young guys are doing, even logging hefty minutes. To be honest I grow tired of the whole Kobe is old, father time bull as well. The dude is in probably better shape than 99% of the players in the NBA, that is why he plays so many minutes and still never ever looks winded or tired.

Gek wrote:I think he just wants to be really well rested tbh. Something clicked that he realized we could actually win it all this year. He's just saving up for the push. Take that Paul Pierce!

Cares wrote:

Gek wrote:I think he just wants to be really well rested tbh. Something clicked that he realized we could actually win it all this year. He's just saving up for the push. Take that Paul Pierce!

You mean we got Ramon Sessions?

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“Alright let me give you a Black Mamba answer. The fact that the question is even asked to me after all these years is silly to me. People, listeners, or whoever thinks that Kobe is really concerned about scoring, stats, or about individual play, just look at the facts.

Just look at the facts over the last whatever, decade and a half, nobody has won more championships than I have and you can’t be a selfish player or individual player and win that many championships, it just can’t work. Does that answer your question?”

“Me and Metta had a conversation after the Clippers battle that we had at the Staples Center, there were like 100 scuffles in the game and Metta was involved in pretty much all of them. We were talking after the game at dinner and I said ‘Metta do you know, first of all World Peace is a hot name, it’s a dope name.’

Then he started looking at me out of the corner of his eye and was like ‘okay where are you going with this?’ I said ‘some people believe for us to achieve world peace the only way that can be achieved is through sheer will and through force of nature so sometimes you just have to go and conquer the territory and that’s when you establish world peace.’

He’s looking and he’s like ‘huh?’ I said ‘man you go out there and kick butt and then you establish order.’ He’s like ‘okay, I’ve got it.’ He’s playing extremely well. The biggest thing for him was getting into game shape. Once he got into game shape he dropped his weight and his foot speed is a lot faster, his hands are incredible and he’s shooting the ball extremely well.”

crazy8ights wrote:

“Alright let me give you a Black Mamba answer. The fact that the question is even asked to me after all these years is silly to me. People, listeners, or whoever thinks that Kobe is really concerned about scoring, stats, or about individual play, just look at the facts.

Just look at the facts over the last whatever, decade and a half, nobody has won more championships than I have and you can’t be a selfish player or individual player and win that many championships, it just can’t work. Does that answer your question?”

microfib4thewin wrote:

crazy8ights wrote:

“Alright let me give you a Black Mamba answer. The fact that the question is even asked to me after all these years is silly to me. People, listeners, or whoever thinks that Kobe is really concerned about scoring, stats, or about individual play, just look at the facts.

Just look at the facts over the last whatever, decade and a half, nobody has won more championships than I have and you can’t be a selfish player or individual player and win that many championships, it just can’t work. Does that answer your question?”

Which really explains why he's shooting so much this year. Jordan was a selfish player when he won titles. Kobe was also a selfish player when he won titles. What rational people would think that being selfish is mutually exclusive to winning? As long as one is good enough to pull it off, it doesn't matter what style he wins with. Unfortunately he can't play selfish and still play winning basketball anymore.