No matter how much he passes, the team won't win unless the other guys actually MAKE the shot, and can run the offense on their own. In the Toronto game, no one else was executing besides Kobe. Therefore he took over. There have been a lot of games like that this season, can you really expect lineup of Smush Parker, Chris Mihm and Kwame Brown to consistently produce for you every game? All of them are inconsistent. The bench is no better either. Lamar Odom, the Laker's second best player doesn't know when to be assertive, sometimes he shows up and sometimes he doesn't. So that leaves Kobe as the lone guy that shows up every night for the Lakers.
If Kobe passes and there's no one there to produce from his passes, then damn let him shoot. He isn't a Steve Nash, he's a scorer and he'll keep doing it as long as it keeps the Lakers winning.