Kobe Restarted U.S. Gold Rush

[Buddy Mignon]

No. 4: Kobe restarted U.S. gold rush (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bryant-725521-team-game.html) — Carmelo Anthony is the team leader, now playing in his fourth Olympics. Kevin Durant is a driving force. Paul George and Kyrie Irving and Draymond Green and the rest are all key parts. But USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo still credits Kobe Bryant with changing the culture and attitude of the club and getting it back on the gold track, according to Dusan Vranic of theAssociated Press:

“His work ethic, approach and how he appreciates the game is infectious,” Team USA forward Kevin Durant said last month in Las Vegas. “He’s someone who loves to play so much. He’s competitive when he steps in between those lines. He wants perfection.”
Bryant logged ridiculous hours in pursuit of that perfection, just weeks after having poured himself into an NBA regular season that ended with a six-game loss to the Boston Celtics in the 2008 NBA Finals. Watching Bryant work left Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh shaking his head, mindful that the future Hall of Famer had just logged extended minutes during that playoff run.
“I thought I was working hard,” Bosh said. “Now I have to get back into the gym.”
After training for three weeks together before heading to Beijing, former U.S. Olympic teammateCarlos Boozer noticed the entire roster had adopted Bryant’s routine.
“We all clung to it,” said Boozer, who later played with Bryant as a member of the Lakers in 2014-15 and recently agreed to a deal to play in China. “It soon became our workout, not just his workout.”
Before Bryant signed up for Olympic duty, doubts emerged as to whether his heavy focus on scoring would resonate with a team of fellow superstars.
So shortly after Bryant posted a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors on Jan. 22, 2006, Colangelo met with Bryant and asked him a pointed question.
“What if I said to you, I want you to be a distributor and not a scorer?” Colangelo asked.
Bryant answered exactly how Colangelo hoped he would.
“I’ll do whatever it takes,” Bryant said. “I just want to be on that team.”

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2016/08/13/morning-shootaround-aug-13-3/#Lakers

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

yep

[DMC]

Too bad he didn't have that attitude on the Lakers in the past 4 years, eh faggots?

[ambchang]

Wow. If he worked that hard and still couldn't make the playoffs in his prime, missed the most shots in nba history and became the first laker to ever miss the playoffs for three straight seasons, he must not have been that good.

[Raven]

That's very impressive.

[Spurtacular]

All that "hard work" paid off: Worst season in NBA history. :lmao

https://i.imgur.com/MvUneEI.png

[Leetonidas]

Too bad he doesn't have as many MVPs or Finals MVPs as other all time players

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

Too bad he doesn't have as many MVPs or Finals MVPs as other all time players
Anybody can get an MVP or finals MVP. (see. Andre Igoudala/Steve Nash)....Not everyone can obtain olympic gold...

[Raven]

Anybody can get an MVP or finals MVP. (see. Andre Igoudala/Steve Nash)....Not everyone can obtain olympic gold...

:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol



Carlos Delfino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Delfino),

Andrés Nocioni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Nocioni),




Gabriel Fernández (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(basketball)),

Fabricio Oberto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabricio_Oberto),




Emanuel Ginóbili (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Gin%C3%B3bili),

Juan Ignacio Sánchez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ignacio_S%C3%A1nchez),




Leonardo Gutiérrez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Guti%C3%A9rrez),

Luis Scola (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Scola),




Walter Herrmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Herrmann),

Hugo Sconochini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Sconochini),




Alejandro Montecchia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Montecchia),

Rubén Wolkowyski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Wolkowyski)

[Will Hunting]

Anybody can get an MVP or finals MVP. (see. Andre Igoudala/Steve Nash)....Not everyone can obtain olympic gold...
:lmao what? Christian laettner, Michael redd and Carlos boozer all won Olympic gold

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

:lmao what? Christian laettner, Michael redd and Carlos boozer all won Olympic gold
Not Duncan...

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol



Carlos Delfino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Delfino),

Andrés Nocioni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Nocioni),




Gabriel Fernández (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(basketball)),

Fabricio Oberto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabricio_Oberto),




Emanuel Ginóbili (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Gin%C3%B3bili),

Juan Ignacio Sánchez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ignacio_S%C3%A1nchez),




Leonardo Gutiérrez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Guti%C3%A9rrez),

Luis Scola (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Scola),




Walter Herrmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Herrmann),

Hugo Sconochini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Sconochini),




Alejandro Montecchia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Montecchia),

Rubén Wolkowyski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Wolkowyski)



Duncan is in that not everyone category.

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

But in the international game, Duncan never got the star treatment that every franchise player in the NBA receives. He may as well have been Angola's sixth man.

:rollin

[whitemamba]

Theodore Bronze

[Fabbs]

Why don't you Laker posters celebrate Kobes gold medal coatailing with a group party?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoNgLnjzVg

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

ATHENS -- Tim Duncan wore a haggard look as he emerged from a locker room of bronze medalists. Hardly an emotional guy, he mumbled that his international basketball career is "95 percent" over and that, oh yeah, "FIBA [stinks]."

:lmao fucking quitter

[Will Hunting]

Not Duncan...
So are you saying Christian laettner is better than Tim Duncan? What's your argument here?

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

So are you saying Christian laettner is better than Tim Duncan? What's your argument here?
That it's pathetic those guys got gold and Duncan couldn't.

[Koolaid_Man]

Too bad he doesn't have as many MVPs or Finals MVPs as other all time players


Does Tim Duncan ever wear his bronze medal?

I know when Kobe does promotional shots, he likes to wear his gold medals so I was curious if Duncan does the same?

[Fabbs]

Does Tim Duncan ever wear his bronze medal?

I know when Kobe does promotional shots, he likes to wear his gold medals so I was curious if Duncan does the same?


Rubén Wolkowyski likes to wear his gold.
What are you wearing to the sausage party?

[Koolaid_Man]

ATHENS -- Tim Duncan wore a haggard look as he emerged from a locker room of bronze medalists. Hardly an emotional guy, he mumbled that his international basketball career is "95 percent" over and that, oh yeah, "FIBA [stinks]."


:lol

[Silver&Black]

Can't make the playoffs in.....

:lol Today's NBA

[Koolaid_Man]

Duncan walked out of that locker room Saturday night at Olympic Indoor Hall and figured, "Enough already. This just isn't worth it."

:lol

[Koolaid_Man]

Duncan never got the star treatment that every franchise player in the NBA receives. He may as well have been Angola's sixth man.

"How can you make sense of the officiating," said U.S. assistant Gregg Popovich, Duncan's coach in San Antonio.

"If Tim Duncan knew this is how the games were going to be called, he would have thought seriously about not coming."


:lmao

[Fabbs]

Does Tim Duncan ever wear his bronze medal?

I know when Kobe does promotional shots, he likes to wear his gold medals so I was curious if Duncan does the same?


Hey I wonder if Chrissy Laetner and Kobe wear the same outfits when they step out? :lol

[Fabbs]

Can't make the playoffs in.....

:lol Today's NBA
2nd worst record in the league. :lol

[Koolaid_Man]

:lmao

Duncan actually took pride in the bronze medal, happy to earn some reward for sacrificing two summers to the NBA's global marketing machine. While Kobe Bryant consulted his lawyers and Shaquille O'Neal was trying to reach a truce with his appetite

[Koolaid_Man]

Regardless, rules changes won't change what needs to be fixed back home. And nothing, it seems, can get Duncan to buy into playing for the United States again.

He was asked if his own misgivings about playing internationally would hurt the recruitment of other marquee players.


"I hope not," Duncan said. "I'll try not to share my experiences with anyone."


:lmao

[Koolaid_Man]

So who started the Bronze rush?


:lol

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

So who started the Bronze rush?


:lol
Theodore

[Koolaid_Man]

Backdoor Theodore

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

Backdoor Theodore
:lmao

[DMC]

Anybody can get an MVP or finals MVP. (see. Andre Igoudala/Steve Nash)....Not everyone can obtain olympic gold...

Fucking idiot, Andre has a gold medal.

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

Fucking idiot, Andre has a gold medal.

That's an indictment on Theodore.

[Spurtacular]

Anybody can get an MVP or finals MVP. (see. Andre Igoudala/Steve Nash)....Not everyone can obtain olympic gold...

:lmao Kobe jockers arguing his alleged greatness is based upon being a beta in a for fun competition!

[DMC]

That's an indictment on Theodore.
You say anyone can win an MVP and cited AI then acted like the same "anybody" was somebody more special for winning a gold. If he was so special after winning gold, why is he just "anybody" when he won Finals MVP?

[Leetonidas]

lol clinging to the Olympics like anyone cares:lmao immigrant confirmed

5/3/2 > 5/2/1. all that matters. spin it faggot

[140]

Stop making threads, you gay cartoon watching motherfucker.

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

lol clinging to the Olympics like anyone cares:lmao immigrant confirmed

5/3/2 > 5/2/1. all that matters. spin it faggot

Spurfan trying to deflect like they dont watch the olympics :lol

And you have plenty of countries wanting to beat the shit out of the U.S.

[Buddy Mignon]

Not Duncan...

Lol... nice setup.

[Double-Up]

No. 4: Kobe restarted U.S. gold rush (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bryant-725521-team-game.html) — Carmelo Anthony is the team leader, now playing in his fourth Olympics. Kevin Durant is a driving force. Paul George and Kyrie Irving and Draymond Green and the rest are all key parts. But USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo still credits Kobe Bryant with changing the culture and attitude of the club and getting it back on the gold track, according to Dusan Vranic of theAssociated Press:
“His work ethic, approach and how he appreciates the game is infectious,” Team USA forward Kevin Durant said last month in Las Vegas. “He’s someone who loves to play so much. He’s competitive when he steps in between those lines. He wants perfection.”
Bryant logged ridiculous hours in pursuit of that perfection, just weeks after having poured himself into an NBA regular season that ended with a six-game loss to the Boston Celtics in the 2008 NBA Finals. Watching Bryant work left Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh shaking his head, mindful that the future Hall of Famer had just logged extended minutes during that playoff run.
“I thought I was working hard,” Bosh said. “Now I have to get back into the gym.”
After training for three weeks together before heading to Beijing, former U.S. Olympic teammateCarlos Boozer noticed the entire roster had adopted Bryant’s routine.
“We all clung to it,” said Boozer, who later played with Bryant as a member of the Lakers in 2014-15 and recently agreed to a deal to play in China. “It soon became our workout, not just his workout.”
Before Bryant signed up for Olympic duty, doubts emerged as to whether his heavy focus on scoring would resonate with a team of fellow superstars.
So shortly after Bryant posted a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors on Jan. 22, 2006, Colangelo met with Bryant and asked him a pointed question.
“What if I said to you, I want you to be a distributor and not a scorer?” Colangelo asked.
Bryant answered exactly how Colangelo hoped he would.
“I’ll do whatever it takes,” Bryant said. “I just want to be on that team.”

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2016/08/13/morning-shootaround-aug-13-3/#Lakers



Quit riding his dick, he's done, so is your team, and your weak ass trolling attempts.

[Buddy Mignon]

Quit riding his dick, he's done, so is your team, and your weak ass trolling attempts.

He's done but I'm not. You guys are going to suck something major this year. Not like in years past... but major.

[poeticism707]

:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol



Carlos Delfino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Delfino),

Andrés Nocioni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Nocioni),




Gabriel Fernández (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(basketball)),

Fabricio Oberto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabricio_Oberto),




Emanuel Ginóbili (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Gin%C3%B3bili),

Juan Ignacio Sánchez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ignacio_S%C3%A1nchez),




Leonardo Gutiérrez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Guti%C3%A9rrez),

Luis Scola (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Scola),




Walter Herrmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Herrmann),

Hugo Sconochini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Sconochini),




Alejandro Montecchia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Montecchia),

Rubén Wolkowyski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Wolkowyski)



:rollin :rollin :rollin

[DMC]

Good luck in the lottery.. (4th rendition).

[benefactor]

He's done but I'm not. You guys are going to suck something major this year. Not like in years past... but major.

http://i.imgur.com/MGYeC.gif