...was out those 9 games? Did you? I loved watching the lakers when kobe missed those first 6 games. When LA went 5-1 and our loss came to Boston by 1 point (of course if we had kobe for the last shot..), i loved watching the lakers run their offense through gasol as the #1 option... beating tough teams on the road like Utah and Portland, so it got me thinking, was watching the lakers for a small stretch without kobe funner than watching with kobe? Don't get me wrong here though, i love kobe like crazy, favorite player, but it was cool watching players like odom and farmar take 3 times the shots they normally do.