I find it funny when Gasol challenged Kobe to pass the balls, all the kobe wankers came up and said Gasol is soft. Is it related to the topics? When kobe was out few games before the All-Star, you could see Gasol was playing aggressive basketball without Kobe and the lakers were actually winning. Why is it when Kobe came back and Gasol became passive? Simple, if you ever played basketball and one of your teammates hoggin the ball most of the time, you will lost interest as well!
As I stated in the 3/7 games thread: The Lakers don't even try to run an offense in crunchtime. Yeah, we all know about the "Get Kobe the ball and get the hell out of the way" strategy the Lakers usually employ late down the stretch but letting Kobe do what he wants while everybody stands around is hardly the ONLY strategy the Lakers should consider using. Especially on that last shot. EVERYBODY in the building knew who was going to take that last shot and the Magic's defense reacted accordingly. Do you mean to tell me a designed pull-up shot fake turned pass to a cutting Gasol or whoever wouldn't have worked on that last possession? Letting one of the game's best ever take extremely difficult shot after extremely difficult shot hardly involves any strategy. At some point a coach needs to step in and draw up a play. Of course, you would think I'm talking about some Mike Brown type here and not arguably the league's greatest coach of all time.
I wouldn't be surprised if he force-passed the ball to Gasol every time he had the ball just to prove a point.
