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While Kobe Bryant retirement is something many critics point to as the solution to the Lakers problem, coach Byron Scott insists he hasn’t lost faith to his player. He is shooting a career-worst 31.1 percent from the field and 19.5 percent from beyond the perimeter.
In a humiliating 111-77 loss to the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena, Bryant shot 1-of-14 from the field, including 1-of-7 from 3-point range, and scored four points. “It kind of got the better of me”. “My shooting will be better”. We have to play as a team. We’d be what, 3-11? The Lakers basically knew coming into this season that this was going to be a re-builiding year yet Scott made a decision to consistently play 29 year old journeyman Lou Williams over the rookie Russell at the ends of games.
Stephen A., hit ’em with the sad truth. Right now. As in, during the season.
Kobe Bryant’s impending retirement is dominating chatter at water coolers and barber shops across the nation. But it is over.
A Western Conference team player, whose named was not divulged in the report, also had the same take. “His skills have diminished”. I believe it is over. I’m not so much anxious about Kobe.
So far this season, Curry and company have continued where they left off last season, when they Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2015 NBA Finals to win their first championship in 40 years.
Walton played most of his career as an National Basketball Association player playing alongside Bryant in LA. I don’t think the way we approach things here is for everybody. They’ll be favored in just about every game they play, but don’t come up against an elite team until Christmas day when they play LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. “It’s just not worth it anymore”.
“He just wasn’t making them…I got faith in Kobe that he’ll be okay, but tonight he was really struggling”, Scott said as per Laker Nation’s Serena Winter.
“We’re going to approach it like it is, but that doesn’t mean it is”, Buss said of Bryant.
It is not a one-man show for the Lakers, so Kobe wants to clear the air in their team. He sets off and tries hard, but he fails most of the time, and that’s okay because he’s Bryant. So can they make it, Kobe? “We’ll celebrate a little bit and then look ahead to Friday night”.