Random game from the forgotten Kobe season.

[Kblaze8855]

05 is his version of Lebrons…probably….2008. Roughly prime versions having seasons never really talked about because nothing happened worth talking about.




https://youtu.be/B4IhSytEVyc


Just random ass dudes and Kobe. Jumaine Jones out there missing the **** outta clutch layups. Kobe Kobeing:


https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HandsomeAppropriateHarborseal-size_restricted.gif




His only prime season outside the triangle I suppose.


I still feel like they should have kept Chucky Atkins. Chucky always seemed to play well when I watched.

[warriorfan]

To be honest it might of been a blessing in disguise for Kobe to earn his chops in the more physical NBA. He wouldn’t of developed the skills to allow him to drop 81 if it wasn’t for it. It made him into the special player he was. And we will never see another because of it. In the days of advanced stats and efficiency triumphing everything we have lost a lot of the heart and soul of basketball which Kobe embodied.

[1987_Lakers]

I remember using those blue jersey's everytime I played NBA Live '03.

[Kblaze8855]

https://youtu.be/3h2aNzQ5SL4


Giving AK47 hell. The jazz….in theory…should have been a good team to stop him. He just got hot making those Kobe heat checks.

[Kblaze8855]

Different jazz game same year…


https://youtu.be/ECchgskD1Zk


Jump to 4:01.

[1987_Lakers]

There was a game I vividly remember from that same season that I think aired on ABC where Chris Mihm got injured and Kobe just had this look of disappointment.

[HunterSThompson]

lakers were 24-19 that year before Rudy T quit for health reasons and kobe/Odom had their issues that kept them our 20 games each. they easily make the playoffs like 06 and 07 had everything went right

kobes 04 and 05 seasons were basically sabotaged from the start from off court shit and injuries to him and his teammates

and now lebrons finding out how it feels in 2019, 21 and 22 (and probly woulda had more bad luck in 2020 if not for the bubble bath 5 month break Disney shit with no fans)

[FilmyCogTurner]

It's easy to forget how good Kobe was during his prime years. There were so many historic nights were I almost became desensitized to it. Kobe dropping 40 was just another night of basketball.

[Axe]

The first season he didn't have either phil or shaquille which ended up for his team missing the playoffs.

[Indian guy]

05 is his version of Lebrons…probably….2008.

This is a poor comparison. 2008 was LeBron's best season up until that point of his career. 2005 on the other hand was Kobe's worst since like 2000. LeBron's version of Kobe's 2005 would be....2019. His worst in a while, marred by injury and no playoffs.

[Kblaze8855]

I meant in terms of nobody caring it happened. Nobody bring up Lebron 06, 08, or really 2010. Just years without much noteworthy happening.

[HunterSThompson]

kobes 05 is like lebrons 2019 year. 2021 and 2022 seem to be like kobes 2012 and 2013 seasons

[1987_Lakers]

I meant in terms of nobody caring it happened. Nobody bring up Lebron 06, 08, or really 2010. Just years without much noteworthy happening.

In a few years, people wont care 2019 happened, it's just brought up more because it's recent.

[1987_Lakers]

kobes 05 is like lebrons 2019 year. 2021 and 2022 seem to be like kobes 2012 and 2013 seasons

'19 LeBron was still above and beyond '05 Kobe as a player before his injury.

[Kblaze8855]

I…don’t know about that. 05 was prime Kobe regardless of numbers in a new system. I don’t think players are just the numbers they average in a given season. Kobe wasn’t worse at basketball to me.

[HunterSThompson]

https://i.ibb.co/x1ND4Vq/Screenshot-20220202-102108-Gallery.jpg


https://youtu.be/IRjwbrP9wKw

[3ba11]

To be honest it might of been a blessing in disguise for Kobe to earn his chops in the more physical NBA. He wouldn’t of developed the skills to allow him to drop 81 if it wasn’t for it. It made him into the special player he was. And we will never see another because of it. In the days of advanced stats and efficiency triumphing everything we have lost a lot of the heart and soul of basketball which Kobe embodied.


Boom

Today's wide-open lanes and neat, organized spacing lanes produces a gather-step, one-legged takeoff and stand-still jumper skillset (kickouts)..

open layups and threes skillset

So you're spot-on - what a travesty it would be if Kobe's wildly diverse scoring skillset was reduced to that.

Thank goodness he grew up in the less-spacing, physical era that produced pure-scoring, off-the-cuff ability and vastly superior contested shot-making ability on 2-pointers.