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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Interesting take on Kobe's misleading crunch time rep

As solidified as Kobe's reputation is for being a "clutch" player, here's ESPN writer Henry Abbott's take that may change the way you look at it:

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/24200/the-truth-about-kobe-bryant-in-crunch-time

Basically, his high confidence during crunch time situations has almost hurt his team as often as he's helped them.  Henry points out that he is quite predictable - in that he almost always takes every shot during crunch time situation and takes his teammates completely out of the equation.  What happens when you predictably take every shot?  The picture below says it all.

Kobe Bryant

1 comment:

Nathan said...

way to be lazy on this one...and lay off kobe already

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