Kobi Ruthless...

The winner or the hunter of personal statistics? A player who crawled his way or a pitiful imitation of Michael Jordan? Vanquisher fighter on the ground or the greatest desperate defeat who guilty of guilt?

Argument for all these claims has progress. After 17 years in the league, Kobe Bryant's mystery may be bigger this season than ever ...
You expected to hit the title especially after bringing Dwight Howard and Steve Nash. Many were skeptical of the coaching skills of Mike Browne and highlighted his year in Cleveland as an example of being not a person for great results. Still, Brown should get at least the NBA Finals with Nucleus Bryant, Howard, and Nash and just to rest the rest of the team every night in front of the Staples Center? No.

Brown was fired even though he tried to install Princeton's attack by bringing one of the experts to the system - Eddie Jordan to refresh his attacking ideas, which were generally considered - rudimentary. The current Lakers season threatens to grow into the worst ever, even according to their standards. The instructors say there are at least 15 different quarrels at the moment.

For years you've learned that it's never boring with Lakers. Regardless of whether they are generally expected to fight for a title or tremor in mediocrity, the Lakers are a proud franchise, and the media interest in this team is so much that each and even the smallest bit that smells to the start of a controversy ends on the cover pages .

I grew up following Magick, Kareem, Worthy, Scott, Perkins, and comrades. The elderly will recall that Sedale Threatt suddenly fell into the top of interest when Magic was infected with HIV and became one of the main NBA stories (later we will find out that Threatt had 14 children with 10 or 11 different women and that none of them paid alimony). Threatt's identical statistics, such as Millwall or Dallas, would mean almost nothing, but in the LA Times, there were enough articles on how "it is not easy to walk with Magic rates, but a guy named Sedale doing quite a good job."

(When I first saw David Rivers in the Olympiacos jersey, I shook my head from where I was known for days. Then, looking at the tape of the Lakers from '89 after a controversy and an assist without seeing the Magic of Byron Scott, I saw Rivers play a frenetic towel at the end of the bench in A sign of approval. The Lakers Rivers player was good only for towering a towel.
When it comes to Kobe Bryant's name, lately I always remember his sentences from the book "Last Season", in which Phil Jackson split one of the best players of the day into free hands, then returned and led him to two titles of the NBA champion (To I guess only Phil can pass).

During the match with Utah Bryant had major problems with the realization. Phil took him out of the game and tried in a nice way to draw attention to ... "a large number of non-sonic shots." Bryant snapped through his teeth: "Coach, just to kick me, j ..... their mother !!" This sentence and that shot from the game against Orlando when Matt Barnes tries to shake the ball to face scare Bryant, and this cold as ice keeps watch without a blink are two things that for some reason have always been going with Kobe's name lately .

I met Kobe in the 2008 finals against Celtics and stayed to the end positively surprised. I've never met a bigger star who knows more about other Bryant players. Although the NBA finals were in progress, although he had fiercely tormented the Celtics defense, Kobe was already a bit watching the US opponents at the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. He looked at Spaniards in a game against Portugal and then, dead and cold fired: "That type of Echo (the man is eating Evora) is extremely powerful. It's a very nasty player."

The very fact that someone like Bryant knows the starting center of the Portuguese national team is telling Kobe how much is basketball nerd and how much it differs in that segment from other big stars in all sports. Very often encounters with such people are disappointments, because interviews are a notion of dryness and response to which you better not come. It's simply not the case with Bryant.

When he appeared, they were all stunned by one of his traits - an unbelievable self-confidence, which often went into almost ruthless arrogance. Bryant, as a 17-year-old, had an individual training session for Lakers on which he played against Michael Cooper. Jerry West, who left the training after 10 minutes, told his assistant: "I've seen enough. It's better than every bull we currently have in the team." Bryant destroyed Cooper in the field, who in his time was one of the best defenses.
All those who follow Kobe are remembering those four air balls that fired in a playoff against Utah in the eliminating game for Lakers. "There are not many players who have a loop to kick those balls", years later, he was acknowledged by his most likely enemy, Shaquille O'Neal.

What a player can at the age of 18 be in the most important the game of the previous career miss in the turning point of the game four times, and the complete basket construction and then the next season will return stronger and without any psychological consequences. Only Kobe. What is the mental power of the 18-year-old boy who is debauched in his debut on the biggest scene and does not shake it, on the contrary. Kobe gave a part of the explanation last year ...

"I do not play to like the critics, I play from my enjoyment and love for basketball, I play for victory, these are the things I live for. When an uncertain game, many players are afraid of pressure. other people tell about them if they make a mistake or fail, I do not have that fear. This allows me to quickly forget the bad moves and failures and continue to play and play my game. "

(Man really curses a lot in his statements. What to do.)

When Bryant means everything to win, I immediately recall the words of one of the greatest basketball minds, legendary Tex Winter ... "Kobe knows how to play basketball in the right way, but often does not want to play that way. For him, winning is often not a win if did not come as he had imagined. "

Here we come to a mystery that has been going on for 17 years. Does Bryant give everything to win his team, even if it means doing other things besides rampant shooting and attempts to destroy a direct guard. Very often the answer is no. After all, he was the main reason for the departure of O'Neal and Phill Jackson from Lakers who could easily rule the league for the past 10 years. Bryant wanted to be the first violin, which, after all, was directly acknowledged by Phil Jackson in their last interview at the end of the 2003/04 season. During that period, Bryant began a row with Ray Allen, which continues today. Reason is the next Ray's statement ...

"Bryant will play very selfish this season (2004/05), and he just feels the need to show people in this league and fans better go without Shaq." Kobe is now unclear that he needs two and a good player along with him to make the team good in the playoffs and possibly attacking the title of the champion. In a year or two when he sees he is not going, he will call Jerry Buss and look for reinforcements or will ask him to change him to another team. "

Ray gave this statement in October 2004. However, Lakers managed to bring Pau Gasol for two bags of sweets and won two championship titles five years later. In the meantime, Bryant was the top scorer of the league, Lakers missed the playoffs or dropped out in the first round. And yes, Bryant asked for trade on several occasions because he was not surrounded by "adequate and capable" players.
"There are only two real basketball killers in this league."

Kobe spoke this exactly 11 years ago. He thought of himself and then a member of Washington Wizards, Michael Jordan. Bryant is, regardless of all the arrogance contained in this statement, really. An authentic, merciless basketball killer. Kobe is first ruthless towards himself, then to his parents, teammates, coaches, journalists and so on. During the summer, Bryant's trainings are known at three or five in the morning. As the elder constantly strives to improve his playing life by correct diet (81 points Torontu put it in after pepperoni "pissed" pizza and took a liter of coke cole). He went to Germany for experimental knee therapy to solve the chronic pain he suffered from the game in the match. Bryant played continuously with two broken fingers on his right, shooters hand.

His ability to blur the external influence and play at the highest level in times when the world is ruining is something he only possesses in the new generation of players (I will remember that forever. The way the playoff was played between appearances in the courtroom during the famous rape charge The man appeared on the match against San Antonio literally half-warming and then destroyed Spurs, as if he was healing all the frustrations. Look at these games. His play and cold-blood is fascinating.)

Again, this toy ruthlessness generally manifested itself in the worst form in all situations outside the field. Bryant was in one way or another fighting with the majority of his teammates. He overcame Samaki Walker. You know everything about Shaq's relationship. He broke with Carlo Malone, with Phil Jackson. He became the only superstar against which his coach wrote the whole book. He did not talk to his parents for three years because he wanted to marry his current wife, Vanessa, for which his mom and dad opposed. He did not even call them for a wedding. He publicly criticized 90% of Lakers administration and his favorite targets Pau Gasol (mostly for no reason) and Andrew Bynum (mostly justified). For some bizarre reason he still leads a media war against Smash Parker !? (You've seen Parker look like a gynecomastia in the Cibona jersey. Why Bryant is showing him every little bit, he remains unclear.)