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It is not a 2 man race, LeBron is the MVP without a doubt.

you guys are taking this waaay to seriously and lol at the gasoft comments. if it weren't for that 'soft POS' , there's no garuntee Kobe would still be on this team now. the Lakers almost definately would still have 14 titles.

Gasol is correct but he picked a bad night to complain as he and Bynum weren't working for the ball, their legs were dead in a b2b in the getaway game of an 8-game road trip. Kobe has to share the ball more, there are games when he shoots well like last night, games where he can't hit the water from a rowboat, it still applies as a general principle - he must take fewer shots and keep moving the ball. You have a roster built on a 3-man power rotation and that has to be fed. On a team with no point guard it defaults to Kobe and he has to make the effort to get everyone involved. There are legit excuses for Bryant, but the principle remains. He can say they aren't working for the ball, that he was hitting, that it falls to him to take late in the 24 shots and create something out of thin air when the triangle fails. All true. However, the team needs the ball too. You can't expect bigs to establish a rhythm without the ball, and if you keep jacking up shots you're going to alienate players into no longer working for a ball they don't expect to see. Chicken and egg. Bryant goes vortex, bigs no longer work for the ball and it feeds on itself. I don't care if the excuses are legit or not. Kobe must share the ball more. One of the billion reasons why they need a new point guard asap is that Kobe defaults to the 1 role but doesn't think like a 1. A point would know instinctively he has to get the bigs involved, Kobe doesn't think that way and they pay a price for not having the 1 mindset on the floor. Alas if Boston deals Allen for Hinrich and whatever, there goes LA's best and maybe only chance at getting the two-way point they need desperately. If no point is added to this team I don't have much faith they repeat.

Its fun to watch Nash's amazing athleticism.