Shaq carried the Lakers we seen it in real time man. The stats don't tell the story. The stats don't show how shaq opened up the entire floor cause they were trying to put multiple people on him. They even had Dummies put in just on shaqs behalf. Someone to foul him but was no contributor to offense, so they could foul out and it be no harm to the team. We seen it. He got all those Finals MVP's for a reason. Kobe benefited off the double team. Kobe was allowed to grow.