teach what you preach Kobe.... You haven't been a good example of what hard work and dedication is.... you've been coasting on this farewell cruise, which is fine if it was limited... you're limiting the development of Russel and Randle.,,,
Wow, Kobe has some nerve. He's been playing like he don't give a flying you know what all season and he's getting on the young guys too? We've become the Cleveland of the western conference without the wins. Kobe owns the Lakers and Boron is his lackey. This season can't be over soon enough.
When it's all said and done, Kobe won't be here next year and neither will Byron. You'd hope that the kids would just focus on drawing wisdom from Kobe while he's still here, but any unhelpful stuff should honestly just be ignored.
Kobe has bum legs. He was constantly one of the best defenders in the league until he became old. These youngs kids have no excuse. Especially when they only play 25-30 minutes with not much of an offensive load.
Thank you. He may not play much D any longer, but that does not invalidate his message to commit to D. If he can't say "Do as I do", he can for sure say "Do as I always did".
So bad legs excuses his indifferent play all season? Kobe is in no place to criticize anyone's defensive effort. I guess bad legs is why he yells at the refs instead of getting back on defense. Plus there's nothing to commit to. We have no defensive scheme to speak of. With a broken scheme, no one will look good.
Yeah, I think it is unrealistic to expect Kobe to play D like he did when he was Randle and Russell's age. I agree that our defensive "scheme" is laughable, whatever it is, but, I'll just disagree on the commit to D thing. You don't need a scheme to focus on guarding your man and make a consistent effort to play that side of the floor.
Exactly, It's like saying a coach can't coach because he can't physically play defense, in his prime Kobe was one of the best wing defenders in the league so I can see how it frustrates him when young legs don't put in the work.
The rookies are making rookie mistakes. No mystery there. The problem remains the same. The team only holds a couple of guys accountable while everyone else stinks it up. I'm not going to put the numbers up again but If you aren't going to criticize Lou and some of the other guys for their D then I really don't want to hear at this point. I said earlier the team has made it clear that they aren't committed to developing them so here we are. They don't need speeches. They need to be coached.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...e-sucker-punched-him-over--100-213438549.html Super random story from Samaki Walker on Kobe. Pretty funny in retrospect though. I could only imagine the Mamba punching him in the face with the classic Kobe underbite expression
So simple. What a jerk. Honestly THAT is the kind of thing you get after 20 years, not an entire offense/season dedicated to you.