"...alright..Shy Evil, m5, sunko lota...i can tell that none of u know anything about basketball..so shut the F*** up. " Dude, you're full of shit. Kobe is one pompus, selfish player who can never win without Shaq. I have been watching basketball for 14 years, since the days of Isiah and Magic. I have never seen such a player who tries so hard to be a team player and yet it is so obvious that he doesn't want to. Yeah kobe got 23 on Raja in the first half, but if you pay attention to those, they were all tough shots that kobe made. Raja made him work for every single shot. He didn't give him any lay ups or dunks and a lot of those shots were taken with the shot clock winding down. You can't shut Kobe down, but you can make him work for every single shot, and that way he can't get this team involved and they lose. Ok, a lot of pro laker people are saying hey if Tim Thomas misses the three in game 6, we wouldn't even be talking. What??? Tim Thomas' three didn't win the game for the suns. The Lakers had every chance to win in OT. No one seems to remember that. The Suns put up 21 pts on them in OT. 21!!!! what happened there? It's not like Phoenix miraculously made a three, they were leading througout the game and deserved to win. Speaking of these whinings, hey if Robert horry doesn't make that 3 pointer in game 4 against the kings, the lakers woudn't even have won 3 titles. If Portland didn't self distruct in the last five minutes of the game in game 7 of their western conference finals with LA, and give up a 16 pt lead, the Lakers would have only won 1 title. ITs about time that other teams got the breaks, that LA got throughout their championships runs.