But playing under the influence of the frustration of seeing the Lakers' lead slip away, Bryant seemed to find a new gear: call it Gatling Gun mode, because while the Kings were taking the lead, he quickly fired up three extremely difficult shots -- including two long 3s -- that had little chance of going in.
His body language said, we're winning or losing this game on my terms, like it or not. He took six of the Lakers' first seven shots in OT, making only two. Basically, he shot the Lakers right out of the game.
At what point do we stop inventing things like 'Gatling Gun mode' and just call it 'Kobe Bryant'. These two paragraphs could just as easily have been written about the entire 2004 Finals, which Kobe almost single-handedly won for the Pistons.
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And to bicker with the analogy some more, what's distinctive about a Gatling gun is not that it fires quickly -- lots of guns do that -- but that it has multiple barrels so that it won't overheat. Unless Kobe is taking all these shots with different arms, the analogy seems inapt.
And Gatling guns do not have particular long range. What we need is an analogy that captures selfishness and long-range, as well (perhaps) as inattention to accuracy.
'motor mode'?
How about "Iraqi mortar mode"?
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