Can't believe 3 years of Kobe's prime were wasted

[Nick Young]

playing with Lamar Odom as his second best player

Between 05-07 Kobe was in his prime skill and athletics wise and putting up streaks of 60 point games and even got 81 points and almost carried Luke Walton and Kwame Brown past the Phoenix suns in the playoffs. Prime Kobe was a once in a life time event that will never be witnessed again


Kobe was the greatest in the league but his roster let him down.

Now Kobe finally has teammates befitting of his talent, but it is in his old age when he is worn down athletically. Too bad we will never get to see prime Kobe playing with teammates like this, unlike for example Duncan who had elite teammates for his entire career (and only has 4 rings to show for it )

[riseagainst]

[Rubio2Gasol]

That's the sole reason I'm not mad as hell at this BS. Wasted 3 years of his prime with Smush and Kwame

[Yung D-Will]

08 was the best Kobe I ever saw.

[fpliii]

08 was the best Kobe I ever saw.

this

[Nick Young]

08 was the best Kobe I ever saw.

08 Kobe was on a mission to win MVP, which makes sense seeing as it was a disgrace he didnt win MVP award the past 3 seasons before that, even his kids were showing up to games guilting the voters into choosing Kobe.

But 06 Kobe was a different animal, same beast. I don't think a player will ever get to the level of 06 Kobe again. Not only was he the best athlete in the league but he was hitting insane fadeaways with 2 hands in his face.

LUKE WALTON, CHRIS MIHM AND SMUSH PARKER WERE ALL STARTING AND KOBE STILL DRAGGED THOSE SCRUBS TO A WINNING RECORD.

[riseagainst]

2001, 2008, 2009 were the best Kobes I ever saw.

[Poetry]

Lamar Odom was a damn good swiss army knife player. He just never developed into the Scottie Pippen we all hoped he would. Don't mistake his current Kardashian output with what he once was. For some odd reason, i notice a lot of people underrating Odom on this forum. Odom was a solid second option. Teams would have killed to have him during 2004-2008.

[Nick Young]

Lamar Odom was a damn good swiss army knife player. He just never developed into the Scottie Pippen we all hoped he would. Don't mistake his current Kardashian output with what he once was. For some odd reason, i notice a lot of people underrating Odom on this forum. Odom was a solid second option. Teams would have killed to have him during 2004-2008.

In those days we needed a second scorer and some games Odom would put up like 7 points a game, others he would put up strings up 20 point games, exactly what we needed.

Until 2009 he was just too inconsistent, with his shooting, decision making and everything.

[Bigsmoke]

3 years

tell that to guys like Iverson, Garnett, Hakeem, Moses Malone, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and much more guys

[roffie]

Odom was pretty sick back in the days. One of the more unique players for his size and a pretty good ball handler too.

[ImmortalD24]

Yung D-Will
08 was the best Kobe I ever saw.

this

2006, 2007 and 2003 were all signifcantly better than 2008 Kobe Bryant. Notice how it's always non-Kobe fans propping up 2008 over 06-07.

[Kews1]

Kobe got put into a winning situation when he got drafted and it's his own doing that he had to play with trash in his prime since he single handedly forced Shaq out of LA right as he hit his prime. And how precious can you be? 3 years! Are you ****ing serious? What about Kevin Garnett? He had scrubs for 10 or so years? Paul pierce? Had trash. Lebron James? Scrubs 7 years.

Kobe has has a lucky career if he only had 3 years of mediocre teams.

[Kews1]

3 years

tell that to guys like Iverson, Garnett, Hakeem, Moses Malone, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and much more guys

Exactly!

[fpliii]

2006, 2007 and 2003 were all signifcantly better than 2008 Kobe Bryant. Notice how it's always non-Kobe fans propping up 2008 over 06-07.

based on what?