I noticed that the Lakers bench often outplayed the starters. It makes you think how Scott decides who he should start and why. BTW, if Kobe was right, the Lakers shouldn't even do any spectacular game introduction. The players should just hang their heads walking out to the court because they were such a bad team. Anything else, according to Kobe logic, is not a winner's attitude. And Kobe, according to his logic, should be ashamed of himself for taking money from such a sorry team and be part of it.
Yall have to remember that these segments are scripted or at least discussed prior to going out on stage so they can make it work. Kobe knew what he was going to be watching and they probably all told him it would get the most laughs if you act serious and unimpressed. Kobe is a a big time faker when it comes to his emotions. He always tries to be what he isn't. Acting like he wasn't happy for them was BS though they were acting like fools I am sure he was glad when the got an extra W under their belts.
As much as I hate Kobe, that's the correct reaction to that stupidity. Hill and Young embarrassed themselves.
Hey Kobe...lets get real here...when you go to work...you take off your pants ,you wear a short, sleevless shirt and you go shoot some balls , so you can't be so serious. If you don't like that then find another formal's job
Lakers are tanking. And Kobe shouldn't give a ****, if he wants to at least get back to middle of the pack their best hope is to get their pick, sign a few half decent players, and perhaps put on the floor a team that can at least show up from time to time. Although the Lakers only brought back Kobe because its the best way to keep fans coming to games whilst rebuilding their roster. He is immensely popular in LA, and Lakers are still top 10 in attendance so they're doing a better job attracting fans while sucking than the Sixers or T-Wolves are.
I dont think is that bad, right now players like Nick Young are still young, and they think they can worry about getting to the playoffs, and now just enjoy the rest of the season, its ok if they celebrated one victory, if they did this after a loss would have been bad. Kobe cant be in a rebuilding team, and wants to go to the playoffs in his last season, but Lakers are going into rebuilding mode.
Nick Young turns 30 in a couple of months. That's right, 30. Player Bio: http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/3243/nick-young
You know this for a fact? Personal experience or just from what some disgruntled ex-teammates have said?
It was an overtime win against the Celtics, snapping a losing streak-- a game which Byron Scott told the players he really wanted to win because he hates the Celtics (80's rivalry and all) and a game in which the home fans really got excited cheering on this bad Lakers team. Maybe the celebration is excessive, but whatever-- these guys worked for it. They actually tried on defense and played like a team to earn the win-- which Kobe failed to do most of this season. It's just weird to say that player can't get excited about winning. Are Kobe and Byron now gonna tell Lakers fans not to cheer too loud and get too happy about wins, too?
Jeremy Lin Playing Great Makes Byron Scott & Kobe Bryant Unhappy Posted on 25 Feb, 2015, by Greg in Basketball The title is misleading in a way. Why? Because Byron Scott and Kobe Bryant didn’t make grumpy faces about Jeremy Lin. They were angry at the way Jordan Hill, Carlos Boozer and Nick Young behaved after the Los Angeles Lakers finally ended their losing streak. As if players on a terrible team aren’t allowed to celebrate. The Lakers are taking partially because of the whole situation with Kobe Bryant. Not his injury, but his salary, and his leech like attachment to the team, sucking the vitality out of it. Bryant loves showing off his title rings, work ethic and serious demeanor. But just because he forgot how to have fun on the floor doesn’t mean the rest of the players who are actually playing and forced to get toyed around by an incompetent coach need to drown themselves in depression and self pity. And Byron Scott? His criticism over the whole thing seems ridiculous. Yes, the Lakers are in full tanking mode, and Scott is complying with the company line. He’s making idiotic substitutions, using the weirdest and worst lineups possible, the timing of his changes is intentional to kill off any momentum and hurt the confidence of the team’s leading players. And he seems surprised that the players were actually happy to taste victory after such a long time? We get that Scott and Bryant have championship rings. It doesn’t make them any more helpful at the moment. It just goes to show something most of us already know about tanking: Players don’t do it. Teams decide on it, and coaches comply. Players want to win and play well, all the time. Sometimes it clashes with individual desires of seeing your own name on the headline of a newspaer or the title of a post on a website, but no player actually wants to lose or do badly on purpose. After losing seven games in a row, it was only natural some happiness was going to be shown. Lin was in the middle of that celebrating group, but didn’t do much but smile. He did his talking on the court with a terrific performance in overtime and the fourth quarter to carry the Lakers to victory over the Celtics. You could see by the way the fans reacted they were just as delirious and happy with what was happening on the court. Tanking, sadly, is a legitamate way of handling your franchise in the NBA, but no one said the players need to try and lose each time and look sad from now until the end of this season. The injury to Ronnie Price might force Scott to put Lin on the floor more than he’d like to, although there were quite a few games with Price getting ignored completely. If only Scott had ignored Price from the beginning of this season, maybe the Lakers would be in less of a histrocially bad situation. But that’s in the past. The future is more interesting. Losing doesn’t have to be the only thing on the players’ mind. There’s nothing wrong with seasoning it from time to time with a win here and there. Bryant cares about himself. About his legacy. About his ring. About some false sense of Lakers pride he’s wearing on his frown each time he shows up on TV, trying to educate the world about how Laker players should behave. But he’s part of creating this mess, and has no right to criticize players for celebrating. Scott has an actual role on this team and what the coach says should be how things go, but when you’re coached by someone who shouldn’t be allowed to stand and give orders from the sideline, it’s not surprising to see such elation from players knowing their being held back by his own incompetence.
I don't think the reaction of fans to winning is equivalent to the reaction of players to wins and losses most of the time. Fans can afford to be up or down with wins and losses all the time while players can't. Obviously some wins are special and some losses are devastating to players but it's not an every game thing like it is with fans.
One thing I find interesting: Only Byron Scott talked at practice yesterday. No quotes from any of the players. Would be interesting to hear what they have to say.
