Prime Kobe with this Squad?

[AirTupac]

I just dont see this team not being top 3 seeded MINIMUM with a Prime Kobe.... AND KUZMA...Ingram...Lonzo.... like jesus christ. Add Rondo off the bench, Kobe would be laughing all the way to a top 3 seed.

[PickernRoller]

You give Kobe a guy that can give you 30 easily + fresh legs to defends.... boy.... 2006 would have been a straight sweep of the West.

[AirTupac]

You give Kobe a guy that can give you 30 easily + fresh legs to defends.... boy.... 2006 would have been a straight sweep of the West.

He's got a go to scorer in Kuzma.

Lonzo the best PG defender.

Ingram an elite wing defender.


Its fking nuts. And you wouldnt see Kobe taking days off like tonight...

[STATUTORY]

current Kuzma might be the 2nd/3rd best player Kobe's EVER played with. Let that sink in man

[Real14]

Definitely top 4 in west. Maybe top 3.

[ImKobe]

current Kuzma might be the 2nd/3rd best player Kobe's EVER played with. Let that sink in man

And Rondo would be the best PG he's played with.

[Gus Hemmingway]

“I almost won an MVP with Smush Parker and Kwame Brown on my team,” Bryant told the Orange County Register. “I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it to Chris Mihm or Kwame Brown.”




Smush: 11.5ppg, 3.3reb, 3.7apg, 47%fg

Lonzo: 9.9ppg, 5.4reb, 5.3apg, 38%fg


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Ingram: 16.9ppg, 3.9reb, 4.0apg, 59%fg

Kwame: 11.9ppg, 7.4reb, 1.5apg, 47%fg




Toss in a few of these....

[NBASTATMAN]

“I almost won an MVP with Smush Parker and Kwame Brown on my team,” Bryant told the Orange County Register. “I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it to Chris Mihm or Kwame Brown.”




Smush: 11.5ppg, 3.3reb, 3.7apg, 47%fg

Lonzo: 9.9ppg, 5.4reb, 5.3apg, 38%fg


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Ingram: 16.9ppg, 3.9reb, 4.0apg, 59%fg

Kwame: 11.9ppg, 7.4reb, 1.5apg, 47%fg




Toss in a few of these....

ether..ETHER.. ETHER

Kobe went 2-17 when the Lakers lost Odom in 2005 which was KOBE'S PRIME..

[BigKobeFan]

Kobe also wouldn't have forced a trade to dump zubac for some random shooter. He also wouldn't force ingram to play in a different position.

He would have a team

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[3ball]

“I almost won an MVP with Smush Parker and Kwame Brown on my team,” Bryant told the Orange County Register. “I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it to Chris Mihm or Kwame Brown.”




Smush: 11.5ppg, 3.3reb, 3.7apg, 47%fg

Lonzo: 9.9ppg, 5.4reb, 5.3apg, 38%fg


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Ingram: 16.9ppg, 3.9reb, 4.0apg, 59%fg

Kwame: 11.9ppg, 7.4reb, 1.5apg, 47%fg




Toss in a few of these....

Lamar was similar to ingram at the same age, but Lamar fell off a lot by the time Kobe got him..

Btw, I don't know why you guys keep posting the Olympic pics, because after 2000 they started sending 2nd tier players, not a full team of top guys like before.

And Kuzma >> any teammate that post-shaq Kobe had outside of Gasol, and that small gap is closing by the second.. Kuzma/Ingram compare to Pau/Odom, and I don't see any rondo, lonzo, hart, pope, lance.. lance would take smush's spot so fast.... hart destroys vujacic, etc

[Gus Hemmingway]

perhaps misunderstood


are we talking PRIME 05'-06'ish Kobe?


insinuating he has to be at his pinnacle age to actually deliver?


Or we talking a 34yo equivalence prime Kobe?






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[AirTupac]

34 year old Kobe dragged THAT team to the playoffs as well....

[Gus Hemmingway]

2004 Lamar Odom: 17.7ppg, 9.7reb, 4.1 ast, 48%fg


But hey lets not forget, D'antoni/Nash 05-06 era was much MUCH harder to score back then compared to Zo/Ingraham ref treatment. No?


adjusting for modern day inflation


2019: Odom 25, 15, 7 on 60%ts











And yet even with the plethora of talent acquired from Shaq trade....


Still couldn't sniff Pau's Grizzleys or Elton's Clippers in W's


JRich/Dunleavy's Warriors were no joke!

[PickernRoller]

You gonna do OP like that by spamming? Be careful now baby boi....

Plenty of your subject matter out there to hijack.

Troll fairly.

[Gus Hemmingway]

Triple edit that time, yikes


Don't blown a vein champ, the first draft was just as corny the fourth .