Kobe Bryant Discussion: Mamba Out!

Made 81 jump shots in honor of Kobe Bryant today.

Thought of kobe and how much he meant to the Laker's community.

Also with new healthy (never injured) physical elite he faced each year in the NBA, his achievements are not just physical, not just strength of will but cerebral. He was always looking for an angle.

And every time an NBA team was prepping for him, he was prepping for them even harder. He was always looking for an angle, that seam or that crack.

A very simple example. I remember Kobe driving to a big (from the Hawks) knowing he could not get out fast enough to to cover him when he went to his jump shot. In doing caused the Hawk big to act as a screen for a faster more mobile Hawk defender and he got off essentially an open shot by using the opposition player as a screen against his own player. Little things like that mean more sometimes than the dunks over Yao Ming or Dwight Howard.

Did not know you at all Kobe, but everything you wanted to say to me you said on the court.

Miss you from one mamba to another.

 

Kobe broke that Pippen defensive mystic

 

do we know what the statue will look like, i forget?

 

Doubt it. Vanessa probably does and maybe had input >> am wondering if Gigi will be involved?

 

Good collection, but his dunk over the monstrous Yao Ming should have been in there. I still can’t believe he pulled that one off.

 

I still have a hard time looking at this page. Probably will never get over it or find peace with it. It just is and it sucks.

 

Some really good quotes and memories from prior Lakers


That's why he's Kobe

 

That artist's rendering of the statue looks real.

Will Gigi be part of it? It would take a pose like that which is pretty darn nice TBH vs a Kobe signature action move.

 

Looks more like LGJ than Kobe.

 

We need to rock on the regular