[SI] Kobe Bryant's Twilight Saga

Dave_78 · Aug 25, 2014

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Watching some of the games they have been playing on NBATV, I wonder what he would do in today's NBA. Just filthy in the Shaq/Kobe era.
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What's so different about the early 2000s' NBA and today's NBA?

Keyser Soze · Aug 25, 2014

Dave_78 said: ↑

What's so different about the early 2000s' NBA and today's NBA?
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I see a **** more ton of handchecking out there. Doug Christie was literally draped over Bryant and the degree of difficulty on those shots. My goodness absolutely pure.

Dave_78 · Aug 25, 2014

Keyser Soze said: ↑

I see a **** more ton of handchecking out there. Doug Christie was literally draped over Bryant and the degree of difficulty on those shots. My goodness absolutely pure.
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Maybe but he was still in his prime five years ago when the league was basically identical to today.

Keyser Soze · Aug 25, 2014

Dave_78 said: ↑

Maybe but he was still in his prime five years ago when the league was basically identical to today.
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True, but definitely a different animal in 00-03

CantGoLeft · Aug 26, 2014

Extra stuff that didn't get into the article.

Kobe on... Friends in the NBA (and Dwight Howard)

Bryant: “If you go back and look at the guys I’ve gotten along with, they’re all cut from the same cloth. All of them. Then you look at the guys I didn’t get along with, or might have had some ups and downs with and they’re not. It’s a consistent thing…and I’m fine with that. It’s okay.”

Q: "So then how do you deal with those guys who aren’t like you? It’s not like pick-up ball, where if you don’t like playing with a guy, you can just wait a game and get a new team."

Bryant: "You’re right. Can’t do it."

Q: "So what do you do?"

Bryant: "In the past, in my younger days, I’d just run all over them. I’d tell them to go sit down, or stand over in the corner, we’ll figure it out without you. Over the years, particularly starting in 2008 on, I started to understand more that we all have [that drive] in us, but those buttons haven’t been pushed yet. There’s something in that communication that you have to learn about that person, that can maybe trigger that focus and trigger that passion for those areas. Maybe they won’t be able to carry it for an entire season, but maybe you can trigger it for important stretches of the season. So it became more about, ‘We all have it, it’s my job as a leader of this team to figure out how to pull it out of everyone’…as opposed to going, ‘Oh it’s his dumbass fault! [laughs]”

Q: "Okay, so remember when Nate Robinson dunked over Dwight and I asked you about it and you said “No f—king way’ you’d ever let someone do that to you?"

Bryant: "I still wouldn’t have done it."

Q: "But then Dwight comes to your team and everyone’s wondering, how that will work out…"

Bryant: "We figured it out. It goes to what I said before, if you look at the second half of that season, what we accomplished? Ri-dic-ulous. We were five games out of the playoffs going into the All-Star break. Dead water, in the west. But we managed to figure that s--t out and put ourselves in the No. 8 spot and unfortunately an injury happened but we were playing so well. Going into the end of the season, anything could have happened. So even though on the surface it didn’t work, [Dwight] figured a way to do what we needed him to do, and I figured out the best way to reach him.”
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Raven · Aug 26, 2014

He's going to be a volume shooter chasing Kareem's record. That's it. Everything else is just PR BS.

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