Basketball Sports News:Kobe banks over Miami
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Does Kobe Bryant live under a lucky star? Well, that is not my theory or at least not all of my theory, but we will get to that in a moment.
Is this a case of good things happen to good people? One thinks not, but
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Does Kobe Bryant live under a lucky star? Well, that is not my theory or at least not all of my theory, but we will get to that in a moment.
Is this a case of good things happen to good people? One thinks not, but that might be a part of it anyway.
Los Angeles Lakers 108 Miami Heat 107
So what happened anyway? The Lakers were behind the Heat in a Kobe vs. Dwyane Wade duel and the score was 107 – 105, when Kobe got the ball and slipped and had to throw up the last second shot. He started double teamed on one side of the court and wound his way towards the middle to take a twisting fading high arcing jumper over his defender. That defender was Dwyane Wade.
“When I released the ball, I thought, ‘No (bleeping) way,’” Bryant said. “I didn’t think the ball was going in. It felt good, but I didn’t think I was going to make that shot. – I liked my chances if I had squared up. I wanted to, but I slipped, I was doubled and all I could do what shoot a runner. I just couldn’t believe that ball might go in.”
Bryant scored 17 points in the fourth quarter, besting Wade, who had 12.
“To win that ballgame you have to be lucky, and we were tonight,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said after the team improved its league-leading record to 15-3.
“I thought he had really good balance and he was setting up really well. What do you want me to say about it?” Jackson joked when asked about Bryant’s winning shot, the last of his team-leading 33 points on 12-for-25 shooting.
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You can see the shot more than once in this YouTube video. Warning, the sound is kind of muffled.
If you are Kobe, it isn’t just good luck it is good probabilities when he puts up a shot late in the game with the game on the line. That shot has been practiced over and over in practice and attempted many times in other games. Maybe the shot was not exactly like this one, but it was the same enough to allow his mind to calmly put the shot together and release it. Now the fact that it banked in was a bit of luck, but there have been others that did not go in that were great shots but just a little bit off.
Good things for good people, not exactly, but more like good things for prepared people that keep persisting in their efforts and have great talent.
The Lakers win again and Kobe Bryant is the star again, even if he was a bit lucky.
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