Jeremy Lin on Kobe emphasizing players to practice defence
For all who say Kobe was a fraud defender, I think it’s cool to see he practiced defence and treated it like a skill. Not just offensive skill work, but dedicating training to defence.
Everyone should know this, he has like 15 all defensive team selections and was notorious for being a perfectionist, Kobe wouldn’t have let himself be bad on defence
DarkPhantom2497
Didn’t Phil Jackson say Kobe was overrated on defense in his book or am I tripping?
-Agrat-bat-Mahlat-
That’s a fantastic mindset and he was absolutely right to demand effort from them, but Idk about the part where he destroyed his teammates psychologically during practice. It seems a bit excessive.
jacobrude
Sorry. The other thread already determined Kobe hated Jeremy Lin
Kobe was def telling them to take those transition 3’s cus he knew that was the only shot they were gonna get alongside him
Key_Interaction6305
Jeremy Lin is awsome, we are still talking about him years after he is no longer in the NBA.
icecubepal
He asked advice from vets like Gary Payton on how to play defense. He wasn’t ashamed. He wanted to get better. Gary Payton talked about how players nowadays don’t ask for help. Like they are too good to ask. He brought up how Kobe asked him how to play better defense, and Payton showed him. Then he started making first team al ldefense for years.
DroppedNineteen
I’m honestly just confused how this could possibly have been an entirely new concept to an NBA player….
Longjumping_Kale3013
TBH getting paid 100k/week to do defensive drills for 50 minutes a day sounds like a dream job.
Nowadays the average nba salary is closer to 200k/week.
TuqiDuque12
He wasn’t a fraud defender, he peaked as one of the best perimeter defender of all time, his longevity as a defender was what was grossly overrated.
He became a part time defender when Shaq left (still able to lock up guys in 4th quarters but wasn’t consistent at all), he basically never ever guarded opposing stars when Ariza emerged and then when they got Artest and then Barnes. Which is FINE at the age he was, but what wasn’t fine was he kept getting all defensive team award over guys like Sefolosha who were CLEARLY better those years.
He was complete defensive liability post injury, which again is totally fine at that age.
j4thewin_1
This is what NBA general managers believed in 2011 about the league and Kobe. They pretty much thought he was the best perimeter defender, and that’s arguably not at his defensive prime, it’s probably an opinion from the most credible people for that job and not a random internet or media casual [NBA GM Survey: 2010-11 edition | NBA.com](https://www.nba.com/news/nba-gm-survey-2010-11)
LarBrd33
Lot of press for a decade old Laker team that won 21 games. Kobe was a 1-man Human Tank job his last 3 honorary all-star seasons and this one where he jacked up 20 shots per night shooting 37% from the field and 29% from three was definitely one of them.
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Everyone should know this, he has like 15 all defensive team selections and was notorious for being a perfectionist, Kobe wouldn’t have let himself be bad on defence
Didn’t Phil Jackson say Kobe was overrated on defense in his book or am I tripping?
That’s a fantastic mindset and he was absolutely right to demand effort from them, but Idk about the part where he destroyed his teammates psychologically during practice. It seems a bit excessive.
Sorry. The other thread already determined Kobe hated Jeremy Lin
[Kobe had really quick hands](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMLASbQJNI4)
Kobe was def telling them to take those transition 3’s cus he knew that was the only shot they were gonna get alongside him
Jeremy Lin is awsome, we are still talking about him years after he is no longer in the NBA.
He asked advice from vets like Gary Payton on how to play defense. He wasn’t ashamed. He wanted to get better. Gary Payton talked about how players nowadays don’t ask for help. Like they are too good to ask. He brought up how Kobe asked him how to play better defense, and Payton showed him. Then he started making first team al ldefense for years.
I’m honestly just confused how this could possibly have been an entirely new concept to an NBA player….
TBH getting paid 100k/week to do defensive drills for 50 minutes a day sounds like a dream job.
Nowadays the average nba salary is closer to 200k/week.
He wasn’t a fraud defender, he peaked as one of the best perimeter defender of all time, his longevity as a defender was what was grossly overrated.
He became a part time defender when Shaq left (still able to lock up guys in 4th quarters but wasn’t consistent at all), he basically never ever guarded opposing stars when Ariza emerged and then when they got Artest and then Barnes. Which is FINE at the age he was, but what wasn’t fine was he kept getting all defensive team award over guys like Sefolosha who were CLEARLY better those years.
He was complete defensive liability post injury, which again is totally fine at that age.
This is what NBA general managers believed in 2011 about the league and Kobe. They pretty much thought he was the best perimeter defender, and that’s arguably not at his defensive prime, it’s probably an opinion from the most credible people for that job and not a random internet or media casual [NBA GM Survey: 2010-11 edition | NBA.com](https://www.nba.com/news/nba-gm-survey-2010-11)
Lot of press for a decade old Laker team that won 21 games. Kobe was a 1-man Human Tank job his last 3 honorary all-star seasons and this one where he jacked up 20 shots per night shooting 37% from the field and 29% from three was definitely one of them.