Got a request? Leave a comment here. ask.fm/gearmast3r The best highlights from the 2008 Western Conference Finals Game 5 between the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers.
the time goes by so fast.. I watched this live when I'm 3rd year college and all of a sudden all of these players are not in the league and the most saddest moment was Kobe is not with us today..
This Spurs team was the defending Champions and swept Lebron in his first Finals trip. Kobe was hungry and lucky because he has now the right pieces that compliments the triangle. RIP Kobe
@@bumblebity2902 to me MJ was the greatest player to ever do it behind kareem. I really think Kobe was more skilled from range and post game. Imagine Kobe with Jordan's hands and body frame 🔥 Imagine Kobe or Jordan with Lebrons size!!! 😨
Its actualy common everywhere except in the US. Remmember the game USA - Nigeria... Tyson Chandler fell after a contact with a Nigerian player. The Nigerian player helped him get up.. I will never forget the facial expression of T.S... He was mockingly trying to hide laughter and giving his teammates looks like the Nigerian player is some kind of fool. When I was a kid my coach taught us always to help opponent players, as you would your teammates.
@@Each1teach2 Sir Kobe played 20 seasons bruh he was the first guard in NBA history to reach that goal. He had consecutive seasons with a bunch of nobody's on his team after Shaq before Pau got there so his attempts was gonna be high through those years. Yet what player in league history has hit more difficult game winners than Kobe? In this common era where teams can triple team a player anywhere on the floor if they want too and Kobe has hit multiple game winners over double and triple teams.
Nearly perfect, and flawless basketball execution. This was the game play I loved. Almost forgot how efficient Tony Parker was as a point guard during the mid late 2000s. However, both squads were amazing during this time period.
@InVictus GamingThe Lakers were supposed to barely make the playoffs that year. Instead they got to the finals. Great year overall, and the springboard for two NBA championships.
@@spitshinetommy3721 Things changed for the Lakers once they acquired Pau Gasol in Feburary of that year when Bynum went down. Once Gasol came over from Memphis, the Lakers were favorite to win the finals, along with Boston. Unfortunately, the Lakers did lose to Boston that year, but as we all know, won in 2009, and 2010.
@@gickdjoud8892 nah u didn't start watching ball till kobe start playing. Kobe is the second greatest sg of all time and a top ten player but he's not the goat. Not as great as jordan and sidekick to shaq for three rings!
@@gickdjoud8892 nah former sidekick, snitch on shaq and has never been out of the first rd without shaq or gasol. Great Great player tho but he ain't jordan especially the 85 -93 version .
Hard to believe Kobe went 4-1 vs the spurs since 2001-2008 and the only year he lost to them was due to a Horry miss 3 and Horry shooting 5% from 3 in the playoffs and fox being out....he beat San Antonio as the defending champions without shaq 4-1...eat your heart out LeBron fans...now Duncan was not in his prime and in 2001-2004 shaq was the main guy in all 4 series but still...
@@razkable exactly my man, against real defenses like Spurs and Boston, Kobe shows his greatness compared to LeBron who only gives up and blames teammates
back on this days Western bracket are way difficult on eastern bracket, the thing is, the path of kobes career in 20 yrs is much greater than lbj. but must respect the greatness of both.
+Garth Andrews Best in the NBA at the time. But they really missed Andrew Bynum, just to even give them a physical presence inside against the enormous frontline of the Boston Celtics.
Kk Jj Andrew Bynum was an absolute beast of Shaquille O'neal proportions in the weeks leading up to his injury. Just the presence of his 7ft, 300-Lbs. frame would force the Celtics to have to put Kendrick Perkins + a body on him every time down floor, freeing up so many available rebounds for Pau Gasol & Lamar Odom, who were both playing out of position in that series because of the absence of Andrew Bynum. The whole Lakers frontline was so absolutely getting pushed around and abused by the enormous physical frontline of the Celtics w/ Kendrick Perkins, Kevin Garnett, Glen Big Baby Davis, Leon Powe, Scott Pollard & PJ Brown under the basket the entire series, making Pau Gasol look like an oversized woman who should shave off his beard & put on a mini dress.
+Zeke2g Cool story, who did the spurs have? An aged bowen and a bunch of other dudes no one remembers.. TP Manu and Timmy were ballin' and had just won a ring the year before. Lakers obviously had more weapons at the time.
only the Lakers have a winning record against the spurs since the Tim Duncan era. i know Kobe and Shaq got swept once, but they bounced back and win 3 peat. and the fourth straight season, when the Lakers failed to make a 4peat, you could youtube Derek Fisher's impossible buzzer beater against the Spurs with 0.2 seconds on the clock. overall, a Kobe Bryant team at full strength is the only team to have a winning record. and oh, if people could remember how the NBA coaches led by Greg Popovich protested against the acquisition of Pau Gasol in 2008, and we know it wasn't like teaming up with Dwayne Wade and Bosh, a superstar and an all-star, but the coaches know that it'll be impossible to stop the mamba if he has someone to pass to and someone who can cleanup mess. Kobe doesn't need team USA to play with him.
The Lakers really deserved to win the championship in 2008... that was the best Laker team that entire decade... every game that year in '08 with the Lakers was INCREDIBLY epic & great to watch.... Glad they made up for it the next 2 years tho!! MVP Kobe
Game 6 was a blowout both in 2008 and 2010. To make definitive statements about the two series based on those games is silly. If 2010 was close then 2008 was as well. In fact 2008 had more close games leading up to the game 6 blowout..
It really makes me laugh when ppl say Duncan is > Kobe.. Watch all these plays where Kobe 1st beats his man or a double team and then takes it right in Duncan's mug and scores it
@Peter Felton Please stop calling Duncan equal to Kobe Bryant. Duncan has never carried a franchise. Duncan was always part of a big three. He has Stellar Talent from start to finish. Started off with David Robinson... Play with two Hall of Famers... Went out with Kawhi Leonard. Kobe did not have that type of talent for his duration of his career... Yet he managed to get the same amount of rings as Duncan.... Very big difference. I mean for God's sake Duncan isn't even top 20 in the all-time scoring list.... Kobe's in the top three!
Munkhkherlen Enkhsaikhan Duncan has Ginoboli, Parker, Robinson, Kawhi - the reason why he has 5 rings. Spurs never won a back to back and the Lakers smacked around the Spurs and even swept them. You forget Kobe was all team first defense too?!
@@cameronnebraska6049 If you watch the 2000's games you should know how much Duncan carried that Spurs team. The only big man capable matching Tim Duncan back then were Shaq and KG. Right after 2006 the Spurs change their game and shift the primary ball handler to Tony Parker, he sacrificed his role for the team, something Kobe wouldn't do. You might need to remember that Phil was scuffling with Kobe back then because Kobe was a ball hog. No disrespect to Kobe, he is great, top 8 players ever, but upholding Kobe too much because he was a scorer is truly asinine.
This is one of my all-time favorite Kobe games. I remember watching this and I feel like this and Lebron’s 2012 Game 6 ECF performance were two truly Jordan-esque performances I have seen in the last 20 years.
Phil Jackson said in his book 11 Rings, the victory in the game 1 was pivotal. The Spurs had a long serie before in 7 games, and they didn't have a good break before the game 1, they were very tired in the game 1. The Lakers went back in this game 1, and stealed the game at the end...
@@ChromeMan04 Because he always had a better team. Robinson, Kawhi, Parker, Ginobili, and bevy of good role players led by the 2nd greatest coach in modern basketball. But '00-'10 I'm taking Kobe. 7 Finals appearances in 10 years is pure dominance. Duncan may have never missed a playoffs, but during this span he lost to a Kobe led team 5 times. Other than one year during the decade (2003), Kobe was destroying the Spurs almost every series. Any time Kobe had just one other all-star to play with he never lost a Western Conference Finals.
The crazy thing is the spurs were better than the Lakers and Kobe stepped up and Lakers won. Replace Kobe and put Lebron on this Lakers team I don't think they win
this was a dam good Laker team and it got smoked by the Celtics. Boston that year was on-point and no Ariza or Artest to guard Paul Pierce was a advantage to Celtics.
Plus, no Bynum to protect the paint, provide rebounding, low post scoring, and take some pressure off Pau. Had he and Ariza been healthy and playing, Kobe would have 6 rings right now.
Crazy to think it's 2022 and Pop is still not only coaching...but still the coach of the Spurs. Dude has been at it since Michael Jordan was 33 years old.
What's crazy is that Kobe and the Lakers beat the Spurs 4-1. Sane what they did to the Heat in 2014 but they were way older and still owned them. Lol kobe had less of a team than lebron and has beaten a better spurs team
+Nate Rivers This 2008 Spurs should've lost to the New Orleans Hornets in the Semis, but Cheap Shot Bob got away w/ a hard knee to the ailing back of David West.
S Ross What did he do except for getting swept in the finals,getting his ass saved by Ray Allen ,also lets not forget he lost to them in the finals also as a Cavalier and this year he also turned the ball over 2 times in the last minute in a game vs the spurs ... Ye ,hes been doing great !
