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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  3145 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Historic Night to watch the NBA

I think he means the Jazz let him score





user-inactivated  ·  3145 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They didn't. At least, not 80 percent of the time.

There's a five minute video of all of his points floating around though, no one needs to take my word for it.

Deltron_0  ·  3144 days ago  ·  link  ·  

During the game an interview with the Jazz's head coach revealed they were guarding him conservatively - aka not physically fouling him. If the Jazz hadn't been knocked out of the playoffs before tipoff - the headlines might've been different than they are now. Regardless, Bryant made some nice defensive plays to start the game - got his shooting touch going, and the second half was pretty competitive. Kobe made a handful of difficult (signature black mamba) shots.

I grew up watching Kobe - he's been in the league as long as I've been watching NBA... If he'd gone for 30 I'd have probably still made a post😂