Kobe Bryant isn’t above being criticized.
As long as it is done in an impartial way, he should be taken to task for his play at time. But, what many despise about Kobe is what makes him so great.
When you can miss 18 shots in a row and have zero hesitation in draining a three that wins the game, that tells me it doesn’t matter what Mike Brown, the media or the fans want, Bean is going to do what he is going to do.
More times than not it will be successful, but Kobe didn’t hold his tongue on how he feels about people who question him.
So he said he didn’t approach the Lakers’ game against Golden State on Sunday as a chance at redemption, or anything so trite as that. “That’s not going to happen,” he said. “I had an 81-point game. That’s just not going to happen tomorrow.” […] The doubters don’t bother him, he said, not even hearing the criticism they offered in analyzing Saturday’s near-debacle. “It’s interesting to me to hear people talk after a game like that, that I’m done and all that stuff,” he said. “The amount of idiots that live out here, after 16 years, is baffling to me. I guess people just get dumber over the years.” Including those who carp about his efforts.
”We’re all surrounded by idiots. All of us,” he said. “We’re all surrounded by idiots.” Not a diplomatic way to treat the fans who are paying the ever-increasing freight to see him play. Or did he mean the media gathered around his locker? “Take it as you wish,” he said. “The only thing that people need to know, even if I told them I’d come out here with a sprained ankle and all sorts of stuff, they know after 16 years I’m going to go out there and do my job and I’m going to perform. And whether I struggle for 31/2 quarters or whatever the case may be I’m going to play hard. I’m going to put my team in a position to win.”
There are a lot of idiots, but just because someone is critical of Kobe doesn’t make them an idiot. He needs to be careful about the blanket statements.
The idiotic statements from fans and media are easy to spot.
But after 16 years in the league we are just talking in circles in regard to Kobe, in the immortal words of Ray Charles, Kobe is going to “do what it do” and doesn’t care what anyone thinks.