The Specific Rules When Guarding Kobe Bryant

Tell me, what do you remember most about Kobe during those Western Finals? He was just a dog and he was relentless and his mental approach to the game like the one we played that year and he knew my minute structure, so he had to watch. Enough film to know that George Carl played with me for the first six minutes of the first and the first six minutes of the third and it could be difficult for me. I'm not going to play any fourth quarters because George wouldn't play a Duke. guy in the fourth quarter said that to my face like you did with Duke.

I see, I'm not picking on you, but you guys are my favorite, but you're not going to play No Force for me, so. He knew my Min structure to the point where he would just ease that I wanted to deal without anything physical, he wasn't going to fight me or get no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he talked, no, I didn't say anything crazy, he would just facilitate if you were talking, if you were talking to him, no because you weren't even trying to, no, he was everything to me, like MJ CLE Ren, like I said AI, like those, those are my four.

I'm playing as hard as I can because that's how you show your respect to people you admire like you. I'm never going to back down, so I wanted it. I wanted to gain approval from him as if he were a competitor. so no, we, we, he never, he never said anything bad to me, we never liked him, we never talked crazy to each other, both of us, he was physical, he would compete

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he came out of the game, then he would go to Jr and Anthony Carter and then. When I came back, he would pick his moments and stuff, but he would never like to attack completely because he knew that's why I was just there, hmm, what was the reason?

I remember those battles and those games were fun while he was growing up as a Lakers fan, but I want to know what the Scouting Report was like. How did you prepare for Kobe? Was there a Scouting Report or just go out there and do your best? Were you trying to do how you were trying to win that battle? Each player has a correct rhythm and has a path and, as you said, he has favorite moves and he has counterattacks, so you have to be physical with him to not leave him. get to his spot to try to control him a little bit to make him hustle, just to make everything difficult and then like most of the things you can see from me and the reason Lakers fans hate me to this day today is that you just had to wear him down because he's going to take a lot of shots, they're going to use him a lot, so we had different

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than we have now, so we had rewards for them and he couldn't score a layup because my teammates would curse me, George Kenyan, huh, big shot, if he got a layup without me fouling him knowing I'm only going to pay 18 minutes or not, like they're going to totally curse me, yeah, that's why you see me like that. ultra aggressive hit me once and I pushed him and him back, but in my mind it wasn't to hurt him but it was you doing the repercussions, no so they didn't bench me, no, no, no, no , so as not to be benched. but the only other option was to go for the ball and really hurt him and knock him out of the air or just catch him before he gets off the ground, so I like that he's about to take off. him and he goes out of bounds and it's like "why are you doing what you're doing?" but he doesn't know I have to do it or I'll get fined.

I got pictures of me, Chanty, Kenyan and Melo arguing because I wasn't physical enough, they liked it, they had me on a leash and they just ruined it, yeah I'm fine, people look at me like I'm crazy now, yeah now that I think about it, makes sense. Inver Nuggets uniform because that was my role. It worked for everyone. K Kenyan, that was Ken, that was Kenan's role. It was like he was the bully. He controlled everything, even he had to protect. Dirk like he had to get physical and that was our level of basketball, we're going to be physical, we're going to use people now because the big shot came from Detroit and that was theirs, so it gave us an identity, we got our scores, we got our man gu we have our general but we will be physical we will wear you down we will fly around we will have fun and we will talk we will talk crazy and that's what we do even in that like and it worked like for that year it worked we had an identity and people were afraid to play with we M So Co come like that's dirty Co it's a fine line like we're physically a different game it's a different level of physicality that was allowed and if GNA fouls you we'll make sure you feel like you have to go to the floor and yes, we don't like G to kick you, but if I do, it won't be a hand.

Like you feel it, you're going to get your free throws and I'm going to say I did it, I'm not going to act like I didn't do it, but the intention is for you to be that way over time, yeah, yeah, over time. time like he had enough, like he was going to stop going to the painting, let us settle for a couple of jumpers, yeah, yeah, yeah, and we make you settle and then, since the paint was somewhere, we didn't want You came, you got into painting. You have to know that you are going to commit a strong foul or we like to have us come.

I have no one behind me. I've got Kenyan behind me like they're trying to block shots and then we're going to get physical. Our physical traps. A physical ball pressure. We just wanted to do it. be physical any time we could and we wore teams down that way so things with CLE were fys going his post up to him on the ball he would get the paint like he couldn't make a play and it was like four or five times where I couldn't really make a play like I had to make sure he didn't shoot well and that's where you see some of the things come to light and like me, I loved him more as much as you or anyone else like that.

It was like it was basketball. I know Co is so good at masking, whether they were getting to him or not. I know he's as good at, like you know, the righteous Warrior mentality as any time you guys. like yeah, we got it, we got it, we got it, we got it, no, there was no point in having it under control, no way, okay, and he and I were the same agent, so like I worked with Coob on the summer. most people don't know, like he's been to Santa Monica, St Monas, one on one, U Cory MTI, so I know Coob and I've raced against Cole right now and I know he's not going to give up. he might have a game where he goes through 32, he's coming, he's still going to shoot, he's still going to be aggressive, he's still going to control the game like an elephant, yeah, like you can't really shake him, so we never, ever thought about that.

We had them nervous by no means, we just knew we had those games to the point where we had games where we made mistakes at the end of the game, like

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