With a chance to tie the NBA Finals at 2-2, the 2007-8 NBA regular season MVP, playing at home, had 17 points on 19 shots and his team blew a 20+ point lead in the early stages of the 4th quarter after blowing their wad in the first.
Dont even try to blame the shit on Kobe. He did what he does best when the Lakers win and facilitates the offense. He shot 5 shots the first half I think. Then the second half comes around. Odom slows down, the Celtics play great great defense. Kobe doesn't start attacking til the 4th quarter and it worked for the most part, he went 4-8 and got fouled numerous times. Lakers couldn't get stops and Lakers had some bad turnovers. Posey and House come in and clinch the game with their shooting. Not to mention Vujacic, Luke, Radmanovic, and Farmar go 6-26 for the game. Also the Lakers have won and can win with Kobe doing less. 6-19 isn't MVP shooting but 10 assists shows what he was doing. He didn't play a great game but he shouldn't have had to, especially with that lead. The Lakers as a team collapsed, it was sad. The Celtics are fucking lucky Rondo goes out with an injury. He has been the weakest starter on the squad and the Lakers realized that and said fuck him. Kobe is roaming the first half and Celts can't do shit. Then he goes out Eddie House comes in and shots start falling and the floor starts to spread. That coupled with amazing defense and you have the biggest comeback in Finals history. Fuckkkkkkk.
I still think the Lakers can win this. Look at this first half from this game. They can play better than the Celtics they just have to do it, each guy has to step up and do his job and right now it's not happening. They haven't played a good game yet in the Finals, credit Celtic Defense, and also bad play by the Lakers.