Re: 10/30 - 11/7 Games Discussion Thread.
Kobe has something to say for all you Armchair GMs, Coaches and people overreacting off of 2 games:
Shut. The. ****. Up.
Kobe has something to say for all you Armchair GMs, Coaches and people overreacting off of 2 games:
Shut. The. ****. Up.
"I've won so I can (tell people to shut up)," Bryant said. "For Mike it might be a little tough to say that so I'll say it for him: 'Everybody shut up. Let us work. At the end of the day, you'll be happy with the result as you normally are.' "
"I don't understand," Bryant said with a smile when asked about the distress the Lakers' poor start has created amongst the city. "And I'm trying to bite my tongue and not calling them 'dumb,' which I kind of just did.
"But they've seen us win multiple championships here in an offense that was tough to learn, that was a sequence of options that weren't set plays, that took five guys getting on the same page and working together.
"They know how that stuff works, so for them to be so stupid now, for them to say, 'Oh, let Steve dribble the ball around and create opportunities for everybody, or let Dwight post up or let me iso' ... It's, I don't want to say 'idiotic,' but it's close."
Reminded that Jackson's six titles in Chicago gave him more clout when he first sold the Triangle to the Lakers and Los Angeles than Brown has now, Bryant laughed and said, "Yeah. The message changes according to who is giving it. But it's a sequence of options, it's an equal-opportunity offense, the message is the same thing.
"The only thing that changes is that now you have Mike Brown telling everybody to be patient. Where back then, it was Phil Jackson telling everybody to shut up."
Asked if that was fair to Brown, Bryant said, "It's fair because Phil obviously won and Mike hasn't won yet. But you have to look at the philosophy. The offensive philosophies. They're the same type of philosophies. People have to understand that. It's kind of funny to me to hear the arguments. A lot of people took runs at Phil, too, about the offense. What are you doing? That tells you a little bit about some of these people
"I don't understand," Bryant said with a smile when asked about the distress the Lakers' poor start has created amongst the city. "And I'm trying to bite my tongue and not calling them 'dumb,' which I kind of just did.
"But they've seen us win multiple championships here in an offense that was tough to learn, that was a sequence of options that weren't set plays, that took five guys getting on the same page and working together.
"They know how that stuff works, so for them to be so stupid now, for them to say, 'Oh, let Steve dribble the ball around and create opportunities for everybody, or let Dwight post up or let me iso' ... It's, I don't want to say 'idiotic,' but it's close."
Reminded that Jackson's six titles in Chicago gave him more clout when he first sold the Triangle to the Lakers and Los Angeles than Brown has now, Bryant laughed and said, "Yeah. The message changes according to who is giving it. But it's a sequence of options, it's an equal-opportunity offense, the message is the same thing.
"The only thing that changes is that now you have Mike Brown telling everybody to be patient. Where back then, it was Phil Jackson telling everybody to shut up."
Asked if that was fair to Brown, Bryant said, "It's fair because Phil obviously won and Mike hasn't won yet. But you have to look at the philosophy. The offensive philosophies. They're the same type of philosophies. People have to understand that. It's kind of funny to me to hear the arguments. A lot of people took runs at Phil, too, about the offense. What are you doing? That tells you a little bit about some of these people
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