MarShon Brooks is one of those players who grew up worshiping at the altar of Kobe Bryant. A member of the new generation who eschew Jordan fanaticism in favor of a guy with a fro.
But if you model your game after Kobe, and aren’t as talented as he was, things aren’t going to be so easy for you. Not many teams are in the market for a single-minded scorer who enjoys nothing more than using possessions on fancy isolation moves. He’s been underutilized since his rookie year.
But now by some cosmic intervention, he’s been placed on the one team that has a desire for Kobe-like services. And since Kobe is disabled/dead, there are minutes for MarShon to try and convince the Laker faithful that time travel is real and he is actually Frobe. He did a good job of this against the Kings, scoring 23 points, almost all in the last fifteen minutes of the game, on a variety of drives and jumpers.
He has the remainder of the year to get his chucking in, because once Kobe comes back the Lakers have no use for him. And since no other teams seem to want him, he’d better enjoy this while it lasts.