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Originally Posted by Kid Robb
Want to beat the Lakers? Let Shaq get his points, but keep him off the boards and close down on Bryant, Malone, Fisher, George, Payton and co. It was the same with the Bulls back in the day, let Michael get 50, but don't let anyone else get off. Sometimes it wasn't enough, but against the Lakers I reckon it would be. If Shaq gets 20 and 20, there's no way in hell anyone will beat them.
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ROFLMAO...close down Kobe....good one.
Kobe had zero points in the first half and pretty much woke up just long enough to put the game away in the 4th. There's nobody on the T-Wolves that can shut him down. Even in the blowout, he was scoring pretty much at will in Game 2. Your Bulls analogy is faulty because if you let MJ get his, the player you had to shut down was Pippen. Scottie Pippen is nowhere near the level of player Kobe Bryant is.
Game 3 was ugly, but I think since the T-Wolves said in the media they were going to foul Shaq, this was the referee backlash, as has been said before. And Joey Crawford is an idiot. Both team were pissed at the end of the game when he just stared at Mark Madsen as he ran down the court hugginq Shaq. He was obviously fouling him intentionally, he was even yelling it. Crawford had no right to make a "judgment call" on an obvious, intentional foul and if the NBA had any brains they would suspend him for the rest of the playoffs.