Phil: Kobe screwed up the game - Laker Nation

Phil: Kobe screwed up the game

Definitely uninspiring play from the Lakers but you can’t blame Kobe for putting in work when no one else was doing anything.

ESPN: “We get behind early on in the third quarter on some stupid plays — poor passing, poor transition defense — and then Kobe has to screw up the game and start energizing the team by going one-on-one and that takes the rest of the guys out as a consequence,” Jackson said. “That didn’t bring us back in, but it did give us a little run, we got the game back a little bit but we couldn’t sustain it and we just went right back and made the same mistakes again.”