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[kevin_405]

What a garbage article with a misleading title.. Amazing to see how people like to find faults in greatness instead of appreciating it..

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-4 ... Dunks.html

Kobe Bryant's Best All-Time Dunks
September 17, 2009 5:34 PM
That's what the video is called, and it is, of course, majestic.

The first two are amazing. The dunk 1:43 in, in the open court, is worth watching again and again. The dunk 1:15 into the video, on an alley-oop pass from Brian Shaw, against the Sixers, is one of my favorite dunks ever, by anybody.

But allow me a moment to also totally miss the point of the whole video.

Yes, it's perfect, as a snapshot of athletic and creative greatness. But I know I wasn't the only one who was struck by all the open big men in this short video. The pattern plays itself out three times in just ten dunks.

In the third highlight, 20 seconds in, we see Bryant beat his man on the perimeter. Tim Duncan shuffles over to help, leaving Shaquille O'Neal wide open under the hoop.

The basketball gods, and Tex Winter, all want Bryant to hit O'Neal with a pass for the dunk.

When people talking about making the right basketball play, that's what they're talking about.

Duncan will be either absent or late in trying to stop it, and may well get himself a foul. But there's no way the Lakers aren't getting two points.

Instead, Bryant elevates over Duncan and makes a very tough shot (and video highlight history). It's great! But if you run that play 1,000 times, it's better for the Lakers if Bryant passes.

About a minute into the video, Bryant is approaching the hoop and Steve Nash runs over in an attempt to take the charge. Yes, Bryant can jump over a man that size. But Kwame Brown could not be more alone under the hoop. Rather than dishing, however, Bryant scales the little Canadian infomercial celebrity.

Near the end of the video, just before the two-minute mark (in a Wizards game against the Wizards in Las Vegas!) Bryant draws three defenders, creating two open teammates ... neither of whom he seems to notice.

It's not like Bryant doesn't understand basketball. You could come up with as many highlights or more where he does make this pass

[LakerZombie]

I didnt know Bill Simmons ghost wrote other peoples columns lol

[fareweatherfan]

LMFAO...right, hit no-hands Kwame instead of dunking the basketball yourself.

[CowsMoo]

I read this last night too. Didn't want to post it because I figure trolls/baiters would do something. Also didn't want my fellow Laker fans to have their blood boil.


The instances where he talks about the possibility of passing is kind of out of the question. He is already in flight, and if 2 points is there for the taking, why not. Henry Abbot has taken a step down from what he used to be. That's why I don't go there that much anymore.

[LakerZombie]

LMFAO...right, hit no-hands Kwame instead of dunking the basketball yourself.

Ya no kidding.

The majority of those highlights were all games where we NEEDED kobe to score otherwise we'd LOSE.

The season needs to start already...you can tell BSPN is already hitting that wall of nothing to write about.

Next story?

"Bynum still mad at Kobe for parking lot comments"

[TonyMontana]

LMAO.............. Who ever wrote this B>>>>>>>>>>>S article is clearly a *** . Skip em [/thread]

[That Nicka]

what a dick

[iamworthy]

This decade long hate on kobe may be the dumbest thing in sports history.

[CowsMoo]

I don't know how to deal with it sometimes. Like sometimes, you meet someone who has pretty good bball knowledge, and the convo gets interesting. Then the subject of Kobe comes along, and he's the devil. You can't even get some people to acknowledge he's good. I've been interrupted in a resturaunt because I was talking about Kobe. The other table was talking about how he cheated on his wife. I'm talking basketball. Drives me nuts.

Then there's some women who are just full of hate and there's no point in trying to convince them otherwise. The crappiest part about it is, they don't even watch that much basketball or know much about it.

And then there's RealGM, NBA general board.

[kevin_405]

This must be the drive for Kobe to win another ring and put a fullstop to these garbage arguments..

Basketball is a selfish sport.. everything that players do is for statistics.. Assist leaders want more assists.. scorers want more points, shot blockers want more shot blocks.... passing to someone else is not always best option when the person throws bricks even fools know that...

Kobe is a shooting guard not Point guard.. so he does his job to perfection..

Coming from a expert this is blasphemy...

[Mamba Venom]

I hope Kobe reads this article.

THe more hate the better he plays