Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:01 pm Post subject: Most underrated play with Kobe and Gasol
It was hard to even find a clip of this on youtube.. but this play will forever be one of my favorites. Kobe driving 1 on 4 and doing a 360 spin and finding a trailing Gasol with the over the shoulder pass.
Some of the other plays like the fisher 3 pointer gets all the glory but if this play wasn't made we might have lost this game.
I'm happy that Gasol is doing well, welcome back to LA!
I think most of us guessed what it was based off the title. I think it's a situation thing. Sure it was amazing, but as a fan you're in game mode thinking okay play good D and hit a 3 for OT. I'm not sure if Kobe was thinking shot until Dwight swooped in, but only Kobe can make that play with 4 defenders converging like that. We take for granted stuff like this.
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:20 pm Post subject:
I agree. Maybe because it was the way Mike Breen unenthusiastically called it -- just a simple "pretty pass", like he was just having a conversation with someone.
I wish it was called more jubilantly, but I'd understand since the Lakers were still down by 3 at that point.
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:51 pm Post subject:
Amazing court vision.
That's how you average 5 dimes a game as a SG year after year. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
_________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
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I think most of us guessed what it was based off the title. I think it's a situation thing. Sure it was amazing, but as a fan you're in game mode thinking okay play good D and hit a 3 for OT. I'm not sure if Kobe was thinking shot until Dwight swooped in, but only Kobe can make that play with 4 defenders converging like that. We take for granted stuff like this.
Yes. Kobe is an all time great in the paint passer. _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
Nice! First one that came to my mind was the pass in the paint against Boston. Kobe told Pau to drop lower and he did just that. It wasn't so fancy, but sealed the game.
On another note, how incredible was Kobe on that play?!?!
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