Throwback Thursday - Kobe airballs 4 shots vs. the Jazz

[Railgun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH6ERLyiVXw

[TheMarkMadsen]

damn you got mad quick :roll:

one of my favorite Kobe moments tho, 18 YO kid with the balls to take the last shots over prime Shaq and the 2 other all stars on the team

the way he bounced back from this just adds to the legend :applause:

[Railgun]

damn you got mad quick :roll:

one of my favorite Kobe moments tho, 18 YO kid with the balls to take the last shots over prime Shaq and the 2 other all stars on the team

the way he bounced back from this just adds to the legend :applause:
If you replaced Kobe with Penny they win more rings.

[Keno]

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=328777

[Railgun]

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=328777
Ah. My bad.

[Keno]

Ah. My bad.

no problem. lots of people use the same picture/video multiple times as a throw back thursday, i guess it would not hurt to do it again.

:cheers:

[TheMarkMadsen]

If you replaced Kobe with Penny they win more rings.


i remember just a few months ago you were trashing the thought of Penny being anything other than a fondly remembered nostalgic trip and now you're rocking him in your avy :roll:

BTW, Penny & Shaq made a finals..didn't win a single game.

anyways, as Keno reminded you, this very same Kobe hate thread was made just a few days ago!!

Step up your game Jammer :applause:

[Railgun]

i remember just a few months ago you were trashing the thought of Penny being anything other than a fondly remembered nostalgic trip and now you're rocking him in your avy :roll:

BTW, Penny & Shaq made a finals..didn't win a single game.

anyways, as Keno reminded you, this very same Kobe hate thread was made just a few days ago!!

Step up your game Jammer :applause:
what the hell are you talking about? i have NEVER trashed penny.

[Uncle Drew]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BqbK3wrZHPE

tbt

[Eric Cartman]

Kobe is one of the greatest players and my personal favorite. But damn that was terrible since all those were good looks. Guess it was just one of those horrible sequences. Probably was a nervious wreck over his head that game.

[kobeef24]

http://i.imgur.com/yAoMi0P.jpg

Kidding aside, I'm a Kobe fan but that was a terrible performance. :oldlol:

[longtime lurker]

If you replaced Kobe with Penny they win more rings.

Stop pretending like you were even old enough to have seen Penny. You were nothing more than a glimmer in your father's ******* when he was playing. Leave the basketball discussion to the adults and stick to watching tentacle rape

[Bandito]

Stop pretending like you were even old enough to have seen Penny. You were nothing more than a glimmer in your father's ******* when he was playing. Leave the basketball discussion to the adults and stick to watching tentacle rape
Actually Jameer you were born after Kobe was chosen in the draft...:roll:

[Black Mamba's B]

No wonder why original OP was banned

[20Four]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH6ERLyiVXw
You sir are one mad mutha phvcka....

[Levity]

anyone who tries to defend jam jam at this point is a fcking retard.

[ImKobe]

This is one of the biggest games of his career. It's what made him Kobe. It's what motivated to be a much better player. It's where he got his work ethic from. He was just a little kid and he wanted to prove he could be as great as anyone but failed, that moment against Utah was a turning point in his life/basketball career.

Thank you for posting one of the most pivotal moments in Kobe's career, OP.



Spring of 1997 and Bryant sits alone in the visitors' locker room at Utah's Delta Center. "Why?" he asks himself. "Why did I miss those shots? Was I nervous? No, I don't get nervous in games. I don't get afraid in games. So what happened? The shots were right on line, right on target. Why did they come up short?" He is a rookie who just unleashed three air balls down the stretch of an overtime playoff loss to the Jazz that ends the Lakers' season. He is packing for his first offseason when the answer dawns on him. "I was going from 30-something games in high school to 100-something in the NBA on an 18-year-old body," Bryant says. "I went right back to L.A. and changed my whole weight training program. I had to start lifting during the season so what happened in Utah would never happen again." That summer Spike Lee begins filming He Got Game, a movie with Denzel Washington about a basketball prodigy named Jesus Shuttlesworth. "I want you to be part of it," Lee tells Bryant. "Thank you but no thank you," Bryant says. "This summer is too big for me." Ray Allen lands the role as Shuttlesworth.