Laker's supporting cast - over rated ?

[TonyMontana]

Because they didn't give him the ball. He's one of the best low post scorers in the NBA and he only got one post up opportunity that I can recall. Apparently Kobe's twisting fadeaways are the preferred shot in L.A.

Seems to be the trend amongst Bryant fans. Whenever the fakers lose, and the rest of the starters shoot well over 50%, they are still blamed for the loss. In those games, Bryant normally goes his usual 12-30 FGA.

Kobe's been great in the Conference Finals though. I'm not taking away from him...but Gasol needs more touches in the post. He's gotten more since game 1 when I was complaining about his lack of touches, but he still needs a bit more IMO.

What's he shooting, 63%? That's ridiculous. Nene and Birdman look like high school kids trying to guard him. They should play through him in stretches and see what happens.

I agree.

[guy1]

Blowing a 14 and 23 point lead respectively isn't exactly one of the worst supporting cast. Maybe it has to do with the dribble-dribble-dribble 3'point fadeaways like he did at the end of the 3rd quarter last night. When on the other hand Cavs had a great thing going through ball-movement. Maybe yes the Cavs supporting cast isn't good like the Lakers offensively, but defensively it's another story.

Its not? Does Lebron take 3s all the time? Thats as unfair as the people saying Kobe does the same thing. They are clearly not as good as the Lakers offensively. Defensively, they're better, but they haven't been good this series due to horrible matchups. And some of the people that were saying that Lebron's cast was better then Kobe's cast were using mental toughness as a reason. Does anyone seriously think Lebron's cast is mentally tough now?

And the Lakers outside of Ariza, Gasol, & sometimes Odom aren't exactly a thing of beauty of supporting cast you know! Maybe you should watch Fisher, Sasha, Bynum, Farmar play basketball sometimes.

But they are still one of the best in the league, if not the best, and they should be enough for Kobe to win a title, if he's good as people hype him up to be. At this point, I don't think the same can be said for Lebron.

And Kobe playing bad? He has had a good series, he's not dominating the ball and still coming clutch in the game, especially in game 1 and 3. By the way, Kobe is averaging 1.25 Turnovers and Lebron is averaging 4.50 Turnovers

Kobe's played great in this series and the playoffs overall. But he has had bad games, and they were still in or acutually won the game with a ton of help from the supporting cast. On the other hand, Lebron can't really depend on his supporting cast as much.

We were crowning the Cavs as the NBA Finals Champs when the playoffs started, and now some Cavs fans are comparing the same team to the 06 Lakers in other thread.
LOL

Well, Laker fans were doing the same thing at the beginning of the season, and now Laker fans themselves were betting against them in this and the last series. I agree though, comparing this Cavs team to the 06 Lakers is stupid.