Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryantis an American retired professional basketball player. He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He entered the NBA directly from high school and won five NBA championships with the Lakers. Bryant is an 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. He led the NBA in scoring during two seasons, and ranks third on both the league's all-time regular season scoring and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 August 1978
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
We did a good job of digging in defensively. We just tried to keep them uncomfortable. Try to take them out of their sets and try and take them out a little bit of the things they like to do.
We didn't match it. We didn't contest their shots.
We didn't hit any shots tonight. And last night, it seemed like we were hitting every shot we took.
When somebody comes down the lane, you've got to hit him. You can't let them come down the lane and just finger roll and get easy baskets. ... That's just basic NBA basketball.
Expectations for us this season aren't very high at all,
We just wanted to tighten them up. They looked too comfortable in the first half. We just wanted to put a little more pressure on them and challenge them a bit.
My hand was bothering me. It was tough for me to shoot the ball. I asked the team to put up the steam a little bit.
Phil and I kind of have an understanding, ... A lot of things are said without being said. I'm the type of person, I can just move on from something.
Shoot, the guy schooled me. What do you expect?
Shaq is Goliath. I was just playing off him, ... They collapse on him and make it hard for him to breathe down there. Then that?s when I take over.
I was so frustrated with our last loss I said I'll fix it. Tonight I just wanted to attack and send a message. The reason I scored 62 points was because I wanted to win so bad. I just felt that I could continually attack these guys. It's a great feeling that I could do it here in front of our fans and give them an early Christmas present.
I was so frustrated by the loss the other night I was going to will us to victory.
Oh yeah? That's pretty good company -- excellent company.
We needed a challenge like this, ... I think we did a good job keeping our poise when they jumped out to an early lead. Everybody just kind of stayed with it.