Lakers Need a Group Effort to Help Kobe Bryant

2008/06/13 00:20:21 @NBA.com: News

In the BOSTON HERALD, Kevin Ding writes "when Kobe Bryant was just a boy shooting balled-up socks - two pairs rolled into one worked just right - at a crayon mark on the wall for a basket, it was a whole different ballgame. Now that he's the marked man of the NBA, defenses stack up between him and the basket in an even more imposing way than Bryant's mom announcing it was time for bed. He no longer has the simple life, especially in the current NBA Finals against Boston's league-best defense that openly uses the term "wall" in reference to protecting its basket. The Lakers lost the first two games before Bryant decided to turn his motor on and leave it on Tuesday night in Game 3. He got where he wanted and needed to go. He scored 36 of the Lakers' 87 points. He won."
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