I love how your eloquence allows you to get away with bullshyt and picking and choosing. I find the whole thing amusing that's why I sit back these past couples of months and watch people argue with you. It's really a marvel of how diction and structure can mask glaring bias and bullshyt. If I didn't know any better I'd think you were a Republican strategist.
This guy points out that Kobe was 7 points PPG down in the 2011 playoffs while ignoring that Kobe and Bynum were the propellers in the Hornets series. He ignores that against the Mavericks Pau was horrible offensively and defensively. He got abused by Dirk offensively while not making him work defensively. He was frail and passive to the point where people were questioning whether or not he was heart broken. OF COURSE he will get more blame and notice than Kobe. I love how you went and googled up those numbers to try to prove a point. It's comical that you would remotely try to equate the two (Kobe and Pau).
I mean really, in that Mavericks series, there came a point where Pau went from second option to damn near fourth and you have the audacity to name that as an example of Kobe being bulletproof? A series where a SG shot a higher percentage than his PF in damn near every game? Are you kidding me?
How was Kobe invisible in 2012 down the stretch? Kobe had the ball in his hands and had to be the playmaker and lead scorer while the Lakers had absolutely no ball movement. The Nuggets games became blowouts because Kobe demanded a double-team. Where was Pau Gasol in that Thunder series? Where he was the third best player behind Kobe and Bynum. You know that "no defense playing Kobe" who James Harden couldn't score on. The very reason the Lakers were fukking up at the end of those games was because Bynum and Gasol were getting pushed out of the paint AND no one could make a pass into the post when those guys allowed themselves to be fronted.
Kobe had some TOs in those Thunder games but the guy with 38 points is hardly the one to blame. You guys sit here and act like Pau Gasol wasn't the second option for a near-dynasty and then wonder why he gets criticized so damn much. It's obvious, no ever had to question the first option desire and intensity and effort. Pau was getting punched in the chest. Get out.
No they're not you lying piece of shyt....Barkley is prominent because he's an outspoken HOF'er...Holinger because he's the NBA's top advanced stat geek...Simmons for being the top "everyman" sports writer/blogger in america...these guys are all high profile mainstream nba media members...i didn't even mention those other lessor known writers that are known primarily for bashing Kobe, you did...this asinine argument that kobe is bulletproof from criticism is not supported by the facts or actual reality in general, and is some bullshyt you've conjured up in your head to try to justify your pathetic decade plus blood oath to hating on the dude....kobe's in the latter stages of a consensus top 5-10 all time career, and still gets criticized as if his legacy is in the balance on a game by game basis...
Pringles had used up all his scapegoating capital by the time he got to Melo. He had already scapegoated Nate robinson, Marbury, larry Hughes, Darko, Jordan Hill, Corey Brewer, etc and humiliated them for not "fitting his system"...when he tried to turn Melo into some point forward, spot up for the three, you're just one of the boys Josh Childress or Shane Battier type, and Melo told him to go to hell, when D'antoni tried to get Melo traded Dolan was like
....how about you just go.
idk should I pass more shoot less shoot more pass less idk brehs as they blamed him for everything. Pringles would be sitting back letting Wack ass toney Douglas keep running out there sucking
you really acting like Duncan has the same amount of fans /Stans as Kobe. Kobe fans comparing him to Jordan 
He's the 2nd best player at his position in history (and top 10 alltime player overall), who else would you compare him to than the person that's considered the best at that position...people call duncan the GOAT pf with NO argument, it's not even contested....he just gets the automatic nod over every great 4 in history...malone, barkley, mchale...hell most people would put near the top of all big men period, over most centers...comparing him to bill russell...and gets ZERO blame or criticism for pretty anything, ever....whatever gap there is between fanfare between him and kobe is faaaaaar eclipsed by the canyon between the criticism they get
Guess that's why he couldn't get his Big Boy pants on.
Kobe finna let his idol f*ck up the Lakers. Hopefully for the big homey Kobe they get it together over there. No Gasol, no pick and roll. Not to mention how many marquee players gon' accept to play second/third fiddle? The only person I could think of would be Kevin Love, and I don't see the All White Everything team trading a younger Gasol who can shoot the 3 and rebound for an older version who's makin' 20M per year with about 3 years max left in his prime ( and some are saying his prime is already gone 
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