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Translation:"Other players besides me are getting bull calls now, no fair!"
CHICAGO -- Kobe Bryant said it's been hard to watch the Los Angeles Lakers as they've struggled in his absence, but it turns out he doesn't like watching the NBA in general with the way it is currently being played and officiated across the league.
"It's more of a finesse game," Bryant said before the Lakers played the Chicago Bulls on Monday. "It's more small ball, which, personally, I don't really care much for. I like kind of smash-mouth, old-school basketball because that's what I grew up watching. I also think it's much, much less physical. Some of the flagrant fouls that I see called nowadays, it makes me nauseous. You can't touch a guy without it being a flagrant foul."
Bryant said that the hand-check rule that was introduced nearly a decade ago during the 2004-05 season has made it easier for less-talented players to succeed. Bryant said Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni is at least partially responsible for the shift in style of play across the league.
"I like the contact," Bryant said. "As a defensive player, if you enjoy playing defense, that's what you want. You want to be able to put your hands on a guy. You want to be able to hand check a little bit. The truth is, it makes the game [where] players have to be more skillful. Nowadays, literally anybody can get out there and get to the basket and you can't touch anybody. Back then, if guys put their hands on you, you had to have the skill to be able to go both ways, change direction, post up, you had to have a mid-range game because you didn't want to go all the way to the basket because you would get knocked ass over tea kettle. So I think playing the game back then required much more skill."
Of course, Bryant has scored close to 5,000 points on free throws since the '04-05 season, but he said he doesn't think the rule change has benefited his career in any tangible way.
"Probably not," Bryant said. "Us players, upper-echelon players, are going to do what they do no matter what the rules are. It's not going to make any difference."
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10325177/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-calls-nba-finesse
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Says the vocal flopper
I'm going to troll Kobmes agent and see if i can get Kobe to sign on for a fertilizer product endorsement.
Monkey ball rules the NBA now, sadly... Players without proper fundamentals can get into the NBA just because they can jump and hang from tree to tree. People pay for that product because the occasional dunks are visually enticing.
lmao "old school", Cancer loves the foodstamps
Rapist also basically admitting superstars will get away with whatever they want anyways. You couldn't touch Kobe in his prime, his ass would've been flattened ten years prior. Fortunately for him he worked the NBA machine better than anyone before him.
Duncan at 37: still playing at a high level, just came off a season where he was the best big in the league..
Kobe at 35: has become one of those bitter old, ex-athletes that complains about today's players
It's the playoffs, and Ron got ejected.
lmao "old school", Cancer loves the foodstamps
lmao "old school", Cancer loves the foodstamps- I know you don't want to talk about rough play. Look at this finesse :
-2 points son (like Tammy).
-10 points for deflecting
I don't see Timmy crying about how
-2 points son (like Tammy).
Face it, your boy Kirby wants all the foodstamps to himself, he can't stand watching from the sidelines as they get distributed to other players
Maybe not about rough play, but he had a few choice words for FIBA refs. He vowed to never play in the Olympics again. 2-Gold Medals later, I'm glad he didn't.
-10 points for deflecting
Caption this :
Manure taking that Gold Medal c
SA Clipper Fan coming in to defend Tammy's honor. That's cute.I don't see Timmy crying about how
Face it, your boy Kirby wants all the foodstamps to himself, he can't stand watching from the sidelines as they get distributed to other players
^ Got any pictures of Kirby from the '04 Olympics?
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why do you keep deflecting to Tammy and the Olympics??Maybe not about rough play, but he had a few choice words for FIBA refs. He vowed to never play in the Olympics again. 2-Gold Medals later, I'm glad he didn't.
this is Kirby talking about the NBA...
Oh yeah, Kirby said something stupid, time tothis
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It's a good thing he didn't play, we wouldn't have even won bronze with him shooting 4-13 against a bunch of starving Angolans
why do you keep deflecting to Tammy and the Olympics??
this is Kirby talking about the NBA...
Oh yeah, Kirby said something stupid, time to
It's a good thing he didn't play, we wouldn't have even won bronze with him shooting 4-13 against a bunch of starving Angolans
When Kobe speaks, Spurstalk listens.
" Heyhowheyhaho !!!! "
OP, what happened to your MJ troll account?
Defines biting the hand that feeds you. If it wasn't for these perimeter friendly rules, Kobe would be rated as another Clyde Drexler who shoots 38% from the field instead of a top 15 player of all time.
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