When has Kobe ever not been shytted on for something or another a single solitary season the lakers have failed to win a championship...that's false fukking narrative...dude is one of the more consistently criticised superstars in sports history...kobe got killed this summer like he always does when the lakers lose (hell, kobe got people that hate enough that hate and downplay him when he wins)...a steady diet of "he's washed up...age has caught up to him...he killed the lakers with turnovers in the playoffs...he's never gonna win another championship...he's not even a top 10 player in the league anymore...etc." Blame "passing over" kobe bryant is nothing you EVER have to worry about...
Besides that..."blame", in the context of losing basketball, ain't some quantifiably finite and mutually exclusive thing that either goes to one of two players...more often than not, when things go bad there's MORE than enough blame to be doled out....star players and coaches both have things they're responsible for as far as winning goes and both get criticized for different things...to that end:
Yes, Lebron was killed for that all time bizzare disappearing act in his last series with the Cavs in which they were favored to win the chip...
Yes, Mike Brown was "on the hot seat" for a great amount of the time as coach in Cleveland and it is there where his reputation as an offensively incompetent doofus of a coach entered the basketball consciousness...and has followed him to this day
Yes, Mike Brown has been looked at skeptically at best and with overt disdain often in his tenure as Lakers Head Coach
Yes, Kobe was killed the past two offseasons the lakers failed to win a championship ....and
YES Kobe will be killed by his usual dedicated crowd of detractors the moment he has first 6-24 shooting performance...or shoots a last second shot and misses (wait, he was already killed for doing that this year...IN A PRESEASON GAME :rudy)...
And none of these things absolve the others...
at y'all seriously believing that if this lakers team ultimately doesn't win a title kobe will be "skipped over" with blame....the whole shyt is ridiculous