Kobe's Low B-Ball IQ is being exposed badly now his athleticism's gone

[Jacks3]

the guy is air balling wide-open threes. that's not low IQ. that's just his legs being completely shot.

[JellyBean]

I still cannot believe he's chucking 3's like he's Steph Curry and settling on long range jumpers game in game out like he's in his twenties again.

High IQ players like Duncan, Kidd, Manu, Jordan, Magic, Dirk were all able to adapt while the so called most fundamentally sound & skilled player of all time is a liability and detriment to his team right now.

Wizards MJ lived on the post and paint while Kobe's taking 10 3's a game.

WT? Kobe has a high basketball IQ. Kobe has shot 3 pointers all of his career. Some good/some bad. He is a shooter. His four games this year, he did get a little crazy with the 3 ball against the Wolves (3-13ish) but for the most part, he his getting his normal 4-8 3 point FGA. That is his normal groove.

High IQ players like Duncan, Kidd, Manu, Jordan, Magic, & Dirk, all struggled as well as they got older, suffered an injury, or missed practice or a season. They didn't adapt. They got into a steady rhythm an improved. Kobe will get into that rhythm.

[JT123]

I doubt LeBron would still demand all the shots, demand max salary, demand all the attention, chuck bad shots, run every free agent out of town, b*tch to the media, talk smack to the younger players, stunt player development, hijack the offense, stop playing defense, give 0 effort, not accept a lesser role, and overall destroy team chemistry when he is 37


Noone is making fun of Kobe declining, the issue is that Kobe is literally cancerous to the Lakers right now, in ways no player in NBA History was ever.

PREACH.

[Lebron23]

https://twitter.com/DeionGottaSTFU/s...08495513276416

[Straight_Ballin]

Kobe doing more after 20 years in than bron will ever be able to do at 20 years in.

[Pointguard]

Which coach did Bryant get fired? The only guy he is rumored to have done that to is Mike Brown, and he wasn't "good" in LA. He did play a distributor role for a time alongside Nash. So? Nash was nowhere near being the player he had been at his peak and it wasn't a bad offense. Kobe Bryant analyzed the game and then developed his game to be one of the greatest scorers of all time. That's brilliance, whether you choose to respect it or not. His long list of career accomplishments has validated his approach.

I don't doubt his greatness or belittle his accomplishments which were indeed great... but if you are calling him a genius, you have ruined a right word for Bird and Magic.

If it's so easy why don't more players do it? You continue to trivialize the accomplishments of an all-time great. Any high school point guard can watch a video and mimic the UTEP two-step. Doesn't make them Tim Hardaway. Not that Kobe was Jordan, he wasn't, but he made the fadeaway an effective part of his arsenal of moves. He has a genius-level understanding of basketball.

One move isn't equivalent to being a genius in anything. I don't know of one offensive player that doesn't have one? And most players shoot better from the field than Kobe does. Kobe is an all time great in scoring but genius is for the players who are moves ahead of the whole defense. That can make the defense second guess itself because they see things that others don't. He's a great player but some things he isn't.

cmon, if youre going to rewrite history, at least make sure there arent posters around that know exactly what happened.

Nash had the reigns to the team as early as the season opener against dallas. he played decent, but was still adjusting to his new team and a supposed good pnr big man in dwight, who was recovering from back surgery, and couldnt catch or roll to save his life. result, a shitty loss

game 2, against portland, nash started to look pretty good. developed a nice high pnr game with gasol, but by the 2nd quarter, took a knee to the shin from lillard and missed the next month (?)

upon his return, he just couldnt do much on the ball anymore. had trouble beating his man, even with a screen, and every other game, some sort of injury occured. during all this time, kobe still preached that nash should be the main ball handler for the team, in fact, he was exited about not having to initiate the offense (similar to quotes hes said about russel), but nashs body couldnt take that kind of game anymore. resulting in changing his role to an off ball player, which he was surprisingly good at (thanks to his terrific shooting) and kobe taking that facilitator role, that wowed fans and haters.

If he passed more often DH would have stayed. He picked the weirdest time to be a PG and it wasn't like they were in contention. He should be passing more now to develop the young core. The team, himself and organization knows what he can do by now. He's been doing his weird stuff for years now and he's doing it for some personal aggrandizement. It isn't because Nash needed to be saved. The team hasn't been first for Kobe for years now. Its a reality....

[Bosnian Sajo]

[AirFederer]

Kobe had plenty ego, drive and skill.
He always lacked true bbiq, sorry. His skills, coach and popularity covered that.
That's the case here. Not knowing when it's ova.

[Gileraracer]

Time to pass the torch, bean. You had a great career, move on to some estate agent sh!t or something

[WallIn]

Kobe is a legend but he needs to step down and let a new team develop. That's the hard truth.

[MiseryCityTexas]

Lol even Grant Hill looked better after post career threatening injury.

[MiseryCityTexas]

Kobe is a legend but he needs to step down and let a new team develop. That's the hard truth.

Clarkson won't even pass him the ball lmao.

[I<3NBA]

Kobe's always had bad basketball IQ. he just had amazing athleticism to cover up for his idiocy.

[Real Men Wear Green]

I don't doubt his greatness or belittle his accomplishments which were indeed great... but if you are calling him a genius, you have ruined a right word for Bird and Magic.

There are more than two smart players in the history of basketball.

One move isn't equivalent to being a genius in anything. I don't know of one offensive player that doesn't have one? And most players shoot better from the field than Kobe does. Kobe is an all time great in scoring but genius is for the players who are moves ahead of the whole defense. That can make the defense second guess itself because they see things that others don't. He's a great player but some things he isn't.

You think Kobe Bryant only had one move? He had several he had an arsenal.

If he passed more often DH would have stayed. He picked the weirdest time to be a PG and it wasn't like they were in contention. He should be passing more now to develop the young core. The team, himself and organization knows what he can do by now. He's been doing his weird stuff for years now and he's doing it for some personal aggrandizement. It isn't because Nash needed to be saved. The team hasn't been first for Kobe for years now. Its a reality....

This paragraph is going in two completely different directions. You say he should have passed more for Howard but criticize the games he played like a pg (a stretch over which he had a number of games around 10 assists). Which is it? Which is the problem? The Lakers weren't on top of the league but back in the Howard/Nash year they did make the postseason. They underachieved but were still a good team, and up until he got injured Bryant was one of the best guards in the league.

[ImKobe]

Kobe is in a scorer's role. He's not playing point forward nor is he supposed to be bringing up the ball and running plays like he did last yr... he's just been ice cold in terms of making baskets..

Kobe played his way about 15 years, up to when he tore his achilles. He didn't need to make "high IQ" plays because no one could stop him from scoring. Now, teams are giving him the space to shoot the ball and he's been unable to make them pay for it because of his rust and not being as good as he used to be. His current cold spell is obviously nothing new, he had horrible shooting stretches all his career that brought down his overall averages almost every season IIRC.

He has a high basketball IQ, every basketball legend has praised him for being one of the smartest players of all-time in terms of being fundamentally sound, he never was the most athletic player in the league so let's not act like he relied on that to produce, he used to play better when he was dealing with certain injuries..

He's just old and can't produce on a level some of us expect him to on a consistent basis, he'll have a few vintage games but don't expect too many of them.