Rondo On Battling Kobe Bryant In The 2010 NBA Finals

Hello what's going on? I just want to thank you all for watching our channel. Hit the subscribe button when they were talking earlier about trying to beat the other trainer. They were playing against the other coach, yes, and not against the players when they competed against LeBron in the. Eastern Conference, he was the, he was the coach, he was the guy you competed against, yeah, I mean, him, yeah, he AB, absolutely, yeah, and then the same thing with Kobe. I would say the same thing with Kobe, yeah, yeah, those two guys, if I can somehow. How to get out of the game with those guys we had.

I felt like we had to win and that's how I dealt with it. I didn't feel like I was going to do it alone, but in my mind you when I went to sleep at night. Before the games I was like, "If you could put my fingerprint or fingerprints on this game Pi, I think we'll have a chance to win if I can do this, if maybe I could talk to p a little bit more on the radical pick and cover." if I could tell K to stay and show a little more about LeBron like it was always with something obviously like boxing, that's why I love boxing so much, it's always about counting and who can figure out who's the fastest and make adjustments , you guys won, I wouldn't say easily, but it was OB.

I think it was obvious at least to me and maybe it's different, but in 2008 I felt like you were the best basketball team in

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, we played against you guys, we had the. home field advantage in the Conference Finals and we had beaten them the previous year with kg remaining. You guys went up three, won six games and you're going to play that series for me is one of the most fascinating series I can remember. which in the modern NBA we don't talk about it much um a lot of things happened including Kendrick Perkins getting hurt in game 6 and not being available Rasheed Wallace playing to the point of exhaustion in game 7 Pal Gasol potentially traveling I'm just I said at the end of the game on that layup, right, yeah, the feet may have touched the ground.

I'm just saying Kobe had a horrible Game 7. He shot well, horrible game 7. There was so much, what are your memories of that series or even that playoff? run even against us, but that

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race, um, you guys lost in the seventh game, uh, it was heartbreaking, um, I'm sure I think the doctor said it somewhere about how he put um $100 on the roof of the locker room, um. in the middle of stap at that time and we were going to pass to get that money, but I felt like I played my best basketball that particular season, I mean that Series in the

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and I felt like if we had won, I had a great chance.

Being in the MVP of the final, that's how close I felt, we were as a team and I was playing individually. It was a great year for us, but obviously we didn't get the dub and if you had told me, you know two years before. that Kobe shot, I think it was like four for 18 or something, crazy number, but he affected the game in a lot of other different ways, you know, he outplayed me and what I do and what I bring the most to the game. I think he had a lot of rebounds that he had, I think he had at least more than 18 rebounds that he had, I think more than 10 assists, so he affected the game in a lot of other ways that it wasn't with his scoring that he made the assists. , you know, he may not get credit for the assist but he made the Swing Swing pass where a LED guy took the shot, he made the three, no, so Kobe Kobe in the seventh game he was six for 24, 0 for six for three , but he got to the free throw line 15 times and had 15 rebounds, four offensive. but that game seven in particular I'm trying to remember right now, but that might have been the last game of the

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that was so ugly.

I don't remember which one it was, I think it was 8379. I don't remember a game that was this ugly in the last 13 years it was old school basketball it was old school basketball um I want I want I want to end with just your like I like to ask them the guys how they viewed their own career, whether while you're still in the middle or whether it's at the end and I talked about maximizing before and I felt like I always felt like I was maximizing my career, um and there's this whole discussion about you having to do it that day, the first.

Here, there's this whole discussion about Legacy and tearing up a level one guy, level two guy, whatever when you look back, especially as Prime Rondo, how would you categorize, summarize, your impact on the game on Prime? I was Prime, um. I thought I was easily in the top three in the game. I mean, I think the guards didn't want to play against me. I didn't affect the game by 30 per game, so the ways you had with me are unconventional for a point guard like me. to box out, but you had to box me out, you know, guards that I played against, you know, at that particular time, it wasn't a big deal to box out, so if I got four or five offensive rebounds, I'm affecting the game.

I'm affecting the game in ways that you don't really know how to control, whether it's manipulating the game, to the extent that a guy can have two fouls, I can run into him and commit his third, you know, things that I really don't. they show up on the stat sheet, but at that particular moment we can go on a run of 80 now because our players were out of the game because either I fouled myself, I went to that guy or we attacked, we attacked him as a team to get it. it took him out of the game, so it was fun, obviously, having an amazing supporting cast, if you know whether to say it was behind me or in front of me, however you want to categorize it, with the big three and then along with our role players, You know, I say they were all stars in their ranks and that's what I was proud of, you know, I didn't want to be or have to be the superstar or the guy that got all the praise or the knowledge or the time on television. but you were going to compete, you know, there was no telling on the off nights as to how you were going to control me and if you did, I feel like we would pretty much get the win if you played the game that way or if we approached with that mentality because we were dogs. at that particular time and everyone wanted to play, we were really Scrappy, we had a lot of fights that year, as far as practice goes, because the way we competed against the first and second unit is just the games were a lot easier for us, you know, the games were easier for us and this cliché is to say, but the way we practiced and the way the doctor had our mentality throughout the games and uh, and those in particular, that particular training camp we went to.

Rome and Italy made the games in that particular season those years much easier for us on the court.