An example of how Kobe's mental game was miles ahead of his foes

[no pun intended]

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"There would be certain teams that had a player they just signed to a max contract, and a supportive player who was up for free agency who hadn

[Mr. Jabbar]

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"There would be certain teams that had a player they just signed to a max contract, and a supportive player who was up for free agency who hadn

[tpols]

kobe learned this from larry brown because thats exactly what he did to kobe and Shaq.

[Dray n Klay]

Kobe's mentality almost landed him in jail

[warriorfan]

Thats like when you talk to the second hottest girl at the spot in front of the hottest on purpose and then chill, after the hottest will feel some type of way and approach you

Next level type shit by GodBe :applause:

[Mr. Jabbar]

Thats like when you talk to the second hottest girl at the spot in front of the hottest on purpose and then chill, after the hottest will feel some type of way and approach you

Next level type shit by GodBe :applause:

What a pimp example right there

The fukn Playboy has spoken.

The Panty dropper.

:pimp: :pimp:

[warriorfan]

What a pimp example right there

The fukn Playboy has spoken.

The Panty dropper.

:pimp: :pimp:
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[Mr. Jabbar]

:pimp: :pimp: :pimp:

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[KiiiiNG]

He learned from experience, no surprise the NBA's greatest cancer knew how to divide people :oldlol:

[SpaceJam]

Kobe's mentality almost landed him in jail

Can argue his mentality got him outta jail too

Mamba :bowdown:

[SwayDizzle]

what a sexy man

[34-24 Footwork]

what a sexy man

This.

[I<3NBA]

kobe learned this from larry brown because thats exactly what he did to kobe and Shaq.
:yaohappy:

[keep-itreal]

kobe learned this from larry brown because thats exactly what he did to kobe and Shaq.
:roll:

[ArbitraryWater]

kobe learned this from larry brown because thats exactly what he did to kobe and Shaq.

:roll: :roll:

[retaxis]

Kobe could have won 3 more championships with Shaq but his mentality also cost him big time. I guess he is his own worst enemy like most trolls on ISH

[paksat]

He learned from experience, no surprise the NBA's greatest cancer knew how to divide people :oldlol:

lol this

I wouldn't want kobe on my team no matter what i don't care how much talent he has

the most selfish "all about me" sports icon that has ever lived.

you gotta be some kinda special ahole for phil jackson to call you "uncoachable" in a book

[BigKAT]

lol this

I wouldn't want kobe on my team no matter what i don't care how much talent he has

the most selfish "all about me" sports icon that has ever lived.

you gotta be some kinda special ahole for phil jackson to call you "uncoachable" in a book

That's a bit of a stretch isn't it?

There's not a single player in the top 30 that I 'Wouldn't want' on my team.
But then again, my team missed the playoffs since going to the WCF in 04'.

So yeah, I'll take any help we can get.

[paksat]

That's a bit of a stretch isn't it?

There's not a single player in the top 30 that I 'Wouldn't want' on my team.
But then again, my team missed the playoffs since going to the WCF in 04'.

So yeah, I'll take any help we can get.

there's only 2 players in the top 30 I wouldn't want and 1a and 1b are both kobe and lebron

both players that must beyond any shadow of doubt have everything go through them whether it benefits the team or not

mj might be the greatest ahole that ever lived based on stories, but at he least he figured out that he must play as a team and within a system to get where he wanted to be at.

[bobopenguin]

lol this

I wouldn't want kobe on my team no matter what i don't care how much talent he has

the most selfish "all about me" sports icon that has ever lived.

you gotta be some kinda special ahole for phil jackson to call you "uncoachable" in a book

that's why u stay losing.

[BigKAT]

there's only 2 players in the top 30 I wouldn't want and 1a and 1b are both kobe and lebron

both players that must beyond any shadow of doubt have everything go through them whether it benefits the team or not

mj might be the greatest ahole that ever lived based on stories, but at he least he figured out that he must play as a team and within a system to get where he wanted to be at.

I dunno man.
Unless your team is currently in the middle of a 3-peat, I don't see any reason not to want either of these players.

Yeah, Super-teams don't always work, but Prime Kobe? come on. Who wouldn't want that. Even moreso when it comes to Lebron, GM's will sell their daughters for that. Prime Lebron, and to a lesser extent Prime Kobe, change the history of franchises. It's like drafting MJ or Hakeem, you never say no to that.

[moongaze]

He learned from experience, no surprise the NBA's greatest cancer knew how to divide people :oldlol:

Lol

[egokiller]

Kobe could have won 3 more championships with Shaq but his mentality also cost him big time. I guess he is his own worst enemy like most trolls on ISH

That's the difference between guys like kobe vs guys who share lebron's mindset like yourself. Kobe was so alpha that he said "fvck it, Ima get my own without Shaq since the haters are saying he carried me. Then he won 2 more rings in alpha fashion. No one could stop him. Not wind defenders, not Christian Thompson, no one!

[Jasper]

Can we rest Kobe in his retirement grave :confusedshrug:


The guy has two chips leading a team , and three with Shaq. /

end all threads of Kobe , guys that do start up threads use other retired players.

[PeroAntic]

I love me some Kobe, but that quote is pretty dumb and its no way to win games really. What if the guy who isn't signed (and in all probability hes a great player) goes off because the strategy is based on off field bs? Lakers lose, other team wins. and then the next game, nobody does that strategy anymore against said team so it doesnt have any impact on the long run on the chemistry between the two stars. Am I missingg something here???

[CuhGetsBucks]

kobe learned this from larry brown because thats exactly what he did to kobe and Shaq.
:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:

[tpols]

:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:


why do you guys find that so funny lol ?
LB is one of the greatest coaches ever and all great players have learned from great coaches.

:biggums:

[jstern]

kobe learned this from larry brown because thats exactly what he did to kobe and Shaq.

:lol

[scm5]

why do you guys find that so funny lol ?
LB is one of the greatest coaches ever and all great players have learned from great coaches.

:biggums:

It's cuz they love to hate Kobe and will cling onto anything they can and use it against him.

Kobe is very clear and straightforward with how he is. He's unapologetic about anything and he's said many times that he's not here to babysit players and once he can't be a legit first option, he's retiring. These are the very reasons why he said he wouldn't make a good coach and would never consider coaching. He made this shit very clear.

Now they're calling him a cancer for giving the fans what they wanted. He went out each night and took shots, tried to put on a show, not for himself but for his fans in every city. He didn't always deliver, more often than not he had a poor game. This worked to LA's advantage in ticket sales as well as landing us the #2 pick.

In every Kobe thread now, you see these haters try to cling onto anything they can to hate on him. Most of this is from twilight of his career where his body was breaking down and he downright sucked. After it's all said and done, Kobe is still in their thoughts constantly despite being retired and having nothing to do with the NBA anymore.

So yes, Kobe's mental game is indeed miles ahead of his foes.

[CuhGetsBucks]

It's cuz they love to hate Kobe and will cling onto anything they can and use it against him.

Kobe is very clear and straightforward with how he is. He's unapologetic about anything and he's said many times that he's not here to babysit players and once he can't be a legit first option, he's retiring. These are the very reasons why he said he wouldn't make a good coach and would never consider coaching. He made this shit very clear.

Now they're calling him a cancer for giving the fans what they wanted. He went out each night and took shots, tried to put on a show, not for himself but for his fans in every city. He didn't always deliver, more often than not he had a poor game. This worked to LA's advantage in ticket sales as well as landing us the #2 pick.

In every Kobe thread now, you see these haters try to cling onto anything they can to hate on him. Most of this is from twilight of his career where his body was breaking down and he downright sucked. After it's all said and done, Kobe is still in their thoughts constantly despite being retired and having nothing to do with the NBA anymore.

So yes, Kobe's mental game is indeed miles ahead of his foes. tl;dr
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[Rooster]

It's cuz they love to hate Kobe and will cling onto anything they can and use it against him.

Kobe is very clear and straightforward with how he is. He's unapologetic about anything and he's said many times that he's not here to babysit players and once he can't be a legit first option, he's retiring. These are the very reasons why he said he wouldn't make a good coach and would never consider coaching. He made this shit very clear.

Now they're calling him a cancer for giving the fans what they wanted. He went out each night and took shots, tried to put on a show, not for himself but for his fans in every city. He didn't always deliver, more often than not he had a poor game. This worked to LA's advantage in ticket sales as well as landing us the #2 pick.

In every Kobe thread now, you see these haters try to cling onto anything they can to hate on him. Most of this is from twilight of his career where his body was breaking down and he downright sucked. After it's all said and done, Kobe is still in their thoughts constantly despite being retired and having nothing to do with the NBA anymore.

So yes, Kobe's mental game is indeed miles ahead of his foes.

This.

Kobe did it on his own way and went out on his own way. :applause:

[brownmamba00]

kobe learned this from larry brown because thats exactly what he did to kobe and Shaq.
yep very true

Larry brown was a great coach as far as the mental aspect and preparation for the game goes. Good motivator. 6'9 Ben Wallace was holding down Shaq and locking down the paint in the PnR w/ Kobe. Worst year of the Kobe-Shaq Dynasty but I still think we'd have won if it wasn't for Malone's injury. Sheed had it easy that finals vs Medvedenko.

[moongaze]

It's cuz they love to hate Kobe and will cling onto anything they can and use it against him.

Kobe is very clear and straightforward with how he is. He's unapologetic about anything and he's said many times that he's not here to babysit players and once he can't be a legit first option, he's retiring. These are the very reasons why he said he wouldn't make a good coach and would never consider coaching. He made this shit very clear.

Now they're calling him a cancer for giving the fans what they wanted. He went out each night and took shots, tried to put on a show, not for himself but for his fans in every city. He didn't always deliver, more often than not he had a poor game. This worked to LA's advantage in ticket sales as well as landing us the #2 pick.

In every Kobe thread now, you see these haters try to cling onto anything they can to hate on him. Most of this is from twilight of his career where his body was breaking down and he downright sucked. After it's all said and done, Kobe is still in their thoughts constantly despite being retired and having nothing to do with the NBA anymore.

So yes, Kobe's mental game is indeed miles ahead of his foes.


Let it go, bruh. Kobe was the aids

[Smoke117]

lol this

I wouldn't want kobe on my team no matter what i don't care how much talent he has

the most selfish "all about me" sports icon that has ever lived.

you gotta be some kinda special ahole for phil jackson to call you "uncoachable" in a book


http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/alonzo-mourning-heat-upset-then-realization.gif

[CuhGetsBucks]

why do you guys find that so funny lol ?
LB is one of the greatest coaches ever and all great players have learned from great coaches.

:biggums:
Mfs who can't take a compliment are the worst.

We laughed for a numerous amount of reasons
A) The thread was made to commend Kobe's mental game, and then you said he learned it from someone else who did it to him. Thus making it funny because it's not "alpha" to copy another man's strategy like Kobe fans like to say.

B) If you really think LB double teamed Shaq and Kobe because of their contracts and not because of their all time great scoring abilities you're crazy. So it was funny there too.

Overall it was a funny joke, you knew people would laugh to so idk why you're tryna act righteous like you were trying to compliment LB, you were most definitely coming at Kobe.

[GimmeThat]

as to the practicality of this strategy, the questions being asked, are, what are the possibilities for the supportive player to disrupt the momentum of the game? And whether if a player can utilize the seconds being passed by, to let where the salary of each player balances out

Well then, either teams and players start going with a one championship route, or teams start saying, 'well, as a team, we've paid you this much money, so we get to "insert objectives"' I wouldn't be one bit surprised if this was how the Bird Rule came along

[tpols]

Mfs who can't take a compliment are the worst.

We laughed for a numerous amount of reasons
A) The thread was made to commend Kobe's mental game, and then you said he learned it from someone else who did it to him. Thus making it funny because it's not "alpha" to copy another man's strategy like Kobe fans like to say.

B) If you really think LB double teamed Shaq and Kobe because of their contracts and not because of their all time great scoring abilities you're crazy. So it was funny there too.

Overall it was a funny joke, you knew people would laugh to so idk why you're tryna act righteous like you were trying to compliment LB, you were most definitely coming at Kobe.


lmao i wasnt coming at kobe .. why would i do that ? everybody learns from others, thats life. just made simple statement and only bran fans found it funny i guess because it seemed like it was shade at bryant ? (oh goodie we know how you guys love that..)



yall reachin.

[jstern]

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/alonzo-mourning-heat-upset-then-realization.gif

That's cool gif. He's having a conversation in his head.

[Rooster]

yep very true

Larry brown was a great coach as far as the mental aspect and preparation for the game goes. Good motivator. 6'9 Ben Wallace was holding down Shaq and locking down the paint in the PnR w/ Kobe. Worst year of the Kobe-Shaq Dynasty but I still think we'd have won if it wasn't for Malone's injury. Sheed had it easy that finals vs Medvedenko.

Yeah that was the key, Sheed can do whatever he wants and score whenever he wants. Most of the games were not close, otherwise Shaq would have switch on him in the last 5 minutes or so. Malone was the glue guy because that year, they have worst feud.

[ArbitraryWater]

Mfs who can't take a compliment are the worst.

We laughed for a numerous amount of reasons
A) The thread was made to commend Kobe's mental game, and then you said he learned it from someone else who did it to him. Thus making it funny because it's not "alpha" to copy another man's strategy like Kobe fans like to say.

B) If you really think LB double teamed Shaq and Kobe because of their contracts and not because of their all time great scoring abilities you're crazy. So it was funny there too.

Overall it was a funny joke, you knew people would laugh to so idk why you're tryna act righteous like you were trying to compliment LB, you were most definitely coming at Kobe.

this, I thought tpols was kinda saying that tongue in cheek tbh

[CuhGetsBucks]

lmao i wasnt coming at kobe .. why would i do that ? everybody learns from others, thats life. just made simple statement and only bran fans found it funny i guess because it seemed like it was shade at bryant ? (oh goodie we know how you guys love that..)



yall reachin.
The thread was created to prove how "alpha" Kobe was. It's not very "alpha" to lose in the finals to someone who essentially played a mind game on you, then to use that mind game on others and not explicitly say where you got that from.

Your comment was funny, sorry if laughter hurt your feelings.