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Originally Posted by BayMoWe335
The Lakers are so bad, even with Utah demoralized, they were still losing. Utah knew they were done and basically let Kobe go off in the 4th.
Not like Kobe had an efficient game anyway....50 shots to score 60 is garbage.
To put it in perspective, Dirk scored 48 points on 15 shots in a playoff game against the Thunder.
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It's not the 22/50 that he shot to get 60 points that's impressive (though 44% shooting is not too shabby, given the volume of shots and given that he started 0-5 in the game), but the 5/5 FG, 4/4 FT and 1 assist in the final 3 minutes AND brought the team back from 10 points down in the final 2:30 of the game that was vintage Kobe. THAT was the most impressive.
Now, if you say that Utah played terrible defense during that stretch, here's a video of Kobe's final 5 shots. Tell me where Utah could have improved on defense (and don't say, "Utah should have quadruple-teamed Kobe because we all knew Kobe was going to shoot the ball." Teams are trained the whole season to play team defense in the context of normal regular season game.).