Kobe Bryant offered this to fans: Shut up already. The Los Angeles Lakers five-time champion addressed sharp criticism from Staples Center fans and the media after an 0-2 start.
While Steve Nash and Dwight Howard are in and Andrew Bynum out, the Black Mamba's Lakers are under fire to win their first game.
Bryant said in a post-practice interview:
“I just...I don’t understand the city here...for me not trying to bite my tongue and not calling them dumb, which I kinda just did. They’ve seen us win multiple championships here, playing an offense that was tough to learn, that was a sequence of options that weren’t set plays that took five guys being on the same page of working together. They know how that stuff works. For them to be so stupid now. They say, ‘Well, let Steve [Nash] dribble the ball around and create opportunities for everybody. And let Dwight [Howard] post up and let me iso.’ It’s ... I don’t want to say idiotic, but it’s close.”
Of course, Kobe doesn’t want to play at home with the Staples Center having empty seats, but his rant against impatient Lakers fans, telling them to shut up, could hurt their feelings.
But Kobe was right.
Everyone should give the team time to develop familiarity among themselves specially that most of the starting five are newly-acquired.
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