Paper Guilo City | With this article, I pay tribute to Kobe Bryant: You won't like the "Black Mamba"
On the night that Kobe Bryant threw four "threes," he flew back to Los Angeles overnight from Utah, landed at the Los Angeles airport and went directly to nearby Pacific Palisside High School, where he spent the night at the gymnasium.
Dribble, emergency stops, jump shots... That's what he did a few hours ago. At the crucial moment of the 89-89 tie, O'Neal left the court with six fouls, Scott injured his wrist, and Horry was ejected, and it was such a critical moment, first-year Kobe Bryant said:
"Coach, let me give it a try, I can throw that damn ball, coach, please trust me."
On the field, facing defense, dribbling, emergency stops, jump shots, "three not sticking", extra time.
In the next 5 minutes, Kobe Bryant made three more "three no-sticks" in a row, and the Lakers lost the series.
Kobe's stubbornness is engraved in his bones, which seems to come from his dad, Joe Bryant. West once said of Joe: "Born to perform, not to win." In the era of considering whether to ban dunks, Joe smashed Abdul-Jabbar in the face with a beautiful smash, and fancy basketball would be eliminated at that time, Joe still stubbornly chose to dunk.
And in the world of abusive professional basketball, Joe rarely married his girlfriend who had been with him since high school, from the beginning.
Joe Bryant was paranoid all his life, and he strictly obeyed and loved two things: fancy basketball, and his wife.
Paranoia is carried to the bone, dribbling, emergency stops, jump shots... Bryant repeated this action countless times that night.
"These shots let me know what I need to work on the most: my strength, and that's what 'Three Don't Stick' means to me. In that game, tension was not the problem. I just wasn't strong enough to throw the ball there. My legs are like spaghetti, they can't cope with that long season... I feel – I know – my future is undeniable and that no one, not just one person or one game, can spoil it. ”
Bryant reminisced about that game over and over again, repeating the shot over and over until the sun rose over California's coastline. Tireless, without rest, this is something that Kobe can do.
From last-minute bravery and poor shot choices, to reflection and punitive training after losing, this is the beginning of his extreme basketball career, and even the beginning of his extreme life.
Kobe Bryant is undoubtedly an extreme player, not one of them.
He is the most paranoid, the most withdrawn, the most fierce, the most cold-blooded, the most conceited, the most stubborn, the most extreme.
I've never been a Kobe fan.
I even disliked him a little when I first came into contact with basketball. At that time, there was a buddy in the elementary school class who played very well liked Kobe, so the boys in the class chased him, and they all claimed that they "liked Kobe", I dare to pack a ticket They haven't even watched a complete game of Kobe, it was 2014, Kobe TMD didn't play a few games.
Maybe out of jealousy of that buddy's excellent ball skills, or maybe it was annoyed by these classmates who always chanted the "Mamba spirit", I didn't like Kobe Bryant, I didn't like to be the majority at that time.
Later, Kobe Bryant's retirement, following the trend, true love, also made me disgusted. Until three years after Kobe's death, although I will still be touched on some days, I really don't want to click into it and read nine of Kobe's articles in ten articles.
Some articles use schoolboy-level sad words to deceive your cheap tears, or excerpt some Kobe Bryant's casual interviews and then add words and sentences to turn into inspirational chicken soup, believe me, this is definitely not a clever means to reflect Kobe's greatness and fearlessness.
In the words of Teacher Maosan:
"When Kobe Bryant was alive, you shouted 'how steel is made,' and after he died you tried to get him to play Paul Kochakin, and it's hard to find a worse whitewash."
The Black Mamba does not need "clumsy whitewashing", he is not like other poisonous insects or small mushroom flowers, and needs to remind you with bright and bright protective colors that he is deadly.
"But whether you like him or not, or whether you like to play with him, he's a fierce vicious dog and you know he's going to push you. When this happens on the pitch, it brings an intensity. ”
When Stephen Curry talks about Kobe, he uses "fierce vicious dogs" to describe him, and Kobe also uses words like "black mamba" and "beast" to describe himself. The animals are fierce and the beasts are ruthless, making the living creatures in the jungle fearful, terrifying, and making people change color.
Not everyone can be a beast, and when the beast enjoys the thrill of slaughter in the dark jungle, it is also necessary to always be wary of traps buried under fallen leaves at their feet, hunters' barrels in the dark grass, and hyenas and jackals waiting for sneak attacks to snatch the loot.
This is the price of the king of the jungle.
"When it comes to basketball, I have no fear... I'm not afraid of missing shots, looking bad or embarrassed because I always keep the end result, the long game in mind.
I'm always focused on the result I have to give something to get, and once I get it, I'll have one more weapon in my arsenal. If the price is a lot of effort and multiple missed shots, that's okay. ”
The price Kobe paid for his greatness is not only these "three immortals" and "iron strikes", the biggest price is that he lost the opportunity to be kind to others and the qualification to reconcile with himself.
If an extremely cold-blooded beast intrudes into your life, will you still like him? Or can you bravely dance with wolves and snakes?
Kobe Bryant is known to be ruthless to himself.
Shahan Amed has covered the Lakers for NBC's Los Angeles channel since 2012 and stood near midcourt the moment Kobe Bryant ruptured his Achilles tendon.
"I just heard him spew out a four-word profanity, but it wasn't anger, it was filled with helpless frustration. I'll never forget the only word he uttered at the time:! ”
And then, how does he do it? Kobe Bryant slowed down on the bench, stood up, and without anyone to help, staggered to the free throw line, endured the pain of hitting two free throws, and walked off the court himself.
Before that disastrous scene in his career, he had a dislocated finger and went to the sidelines to find a team doctor to continue playing; Have the experience of throwing seven kills in a single season with only seven fingers; There was an experience of dragging a scarred body and fighting the Celtics seven times.
Although the story of four o'clock in the morning does not happen every day, it happened to Kobe, and we all choose to believe it without thinking.
ESPN's Arashi Makács told a story:
In 2009, he went to Orlando to cover the finals, and when he returned to the hotel from a busy day's work, he met Bryant chatting with friends in the executive lounge, holding a bottle of Corona in his hand, enjoying his own leisure time in the evening.
"I went back to my room, but I had a bit of insomnia that night, and at four or five in the morning I got up again and walked around the hotel, and I saw Kobe come out of the hotel gym sweating, before the sun even rose. I've heard a lot of stories of Kobe Bryant's crazy training, but you'll always wonder if that's bragging before you see it with your own eyes. After I witnessed it all, the Lakers won the O'Brien Cup the next day. ”
Makács reporter said.
"Maybe when you get older, there are more injuries, you will relax in training,"
Kobe Bryant objectively analyzed O'Neal's sluggishness when asked about O'Neal's laziness in training, but he then changed the conversation:
"But I'm not going to back down because of an injury."
It's true, Bryant broke his right palm, tied in a cast and continued to practice with his left hand, and guess what he said, he said:
"God gave us two hands!"
Do you still like Kobe? No, you won't. You want to be O'Neill, most people want to be O'Neill, and so do I. O'Neill said, "Injuries sustained at work should be resolved at work." So I underwent surgery during the regular season and then recuperated at home.
We're all lazy, human nature, and you won't like Kobe's way of fighting off the body, because it's a beast, an extreme beast.
The second price of being a beast is losing your partner.
"The beasts of prey always go alone, and the cattle and sheep are in groups." Mr. Lu Xun's words have been quoted countless times, which naturally makes sense. Kobe Bryant will not be a friend and colleague you like.
Lakers reporter Mike Bresnahan has heard many stories about Kobe Bryant's "rage" with his teammates over the years, and it wasn't until he personally experienced that day that he had a full understanding of those legends.
"In December 2014, the team got off to a very bad start, but somehow the media was put in early on that day's training session, and we were able to watch the entire training session of the Lakers that day. Suddenly, Bryant roared in a very high pitch during training, and he shouted, 'Nick Young, you can't stop me!' Then he burst out one dirty word after another, and that was the day he said his teammate was "as soft as a piece of toilet paper." ”
Mike continued,
"I remember Phil Jackson used the word 'savage' to describe the way Kobe Bryant and his teammates got along, and now it seems to be a very realistic depiction of the training scene."
If the act of spraying trash talk on the pitch is acceptable to most fans and players, then you underestimate the aura of the beast, which is the aura that will push you on and off the field all the time.
Roy Hibbert joined the Lakers in the final year of Kobe's career, but Kobe's treatment of his teammates was not reduced by the fact that it was his "last dance" season.
Hibbert's famous style of play is "soft", unlike Gasol's "soft" look but tough, Hibbert's performance in the Lakers is really poor, so he will inevitably be scolded by Kobe.
The aggrieved Hibbert almost cried as he told his story at the Pacers in the locker room.
"If someone at the Pacers doesn't play well, teammates will sincerely say: 'Come on, I believe you!' ”
In a later game, when Hibbert was replaced by a coach for a poor performance, Bryant walked up to him, clapped, stared at him with wide eyes, and said with words in his mouth:
"Come on, I believe you!"
Kobe Bryant tore the pink filter of that heartwarming little story to shreds and mercilessly fell on Hibbert's shameful face.
Cruel, this is a beast. If you are Hibbert, can you have a strong enough heart to accept this taunt?
Old teammate Rick Fox also persuaded Kobe, as for such a hurtful thing? He talked seductively about how to maintain the friendship between brothers, talked about the workplace environment should not be so sharp, and finally came to a conclusion and message:
"I just want you to fit in with us."
Guess how Kobe got back to him? This nasty Kobe said mercilessly:
"If I'm successful the way I do, why should I change?"
“Friends can come and go, but banners hang forever.”
Brothers are like clothes, glory is like brotherhood.
Kobe Bryant took this phrase as a slogan of his own brand and practiced it throughout his career,
"He sometimes chooses not to pass the ball because he thinks, why pass to a guy who doesn't work as hard as you and is not as good as you?"
These are the exact words of Kobe's trainer.
Kobe Bryant has scolded and cried his teammates more than once, and triumphantly promoted these stories to the media because they didn't work hard enough and weren't strong enough.
Would you still like Kobe? No, you'll love Hibbert's heartwarming story.
Why should life make me accept everything as cruel as Kobe, you will carry the expectation and yearning for beauty, and then hold the soft and warm pillow in the midst of repeated failures, dreaming deeply, and I am the same. You'll love the kind, kind-hearted, kind-hearted old-timers like Rick Fox, telling you old stories and passing them on from generation to generation.
Life is bitter, there is no need to force to drink bitter medicine. For someone as good as Kobe Bryant who is still working hard, if he appears in my life, I will definitely scold "rolling up again", like meeting a stupid colleague who takes the initiative to ask for overtime when he is ready to leave work.
If you are Kobe's opponent, then you are even less likely to like Kobe, you will hate him and gnash your teeth.
Kobe is crazy, tenacious, or stubborn, he is the last opponent he wants to meet.
Bill McDonald is a neighbor of Kobe, and because the way home from work and Bryant are on the way home from the court, he hopes to have the opportunity to run a sports car with Bryant.
One day he came home from work and happened to meet Kobe's car, Kobe stopped on the side of the road, so Bill accelerated and rushed up, and then jokingly gave his middle finger to his neighbor Kobe Bryant, speeding by.
That's Kobe Bryant! He would rightfully drive up, and for the next 25 minutes, he and Bill were constantly alternating on the highway, of course he wouldn't lose, he had to win everything, and finally rushed to the door at the last minute.
Mike Trudel's last regret may be taunting Kobe, not on the basketball court, but at the ping-pong table. He said to Kobe Bryant smugly because he practiced table tennis as a child:
"Kobe, if you want, I don't mind making you the next underdog."
Kobe was not good at playing table tennis, but he still responded, and as a result, Kobe lost the game, and then he chattered and spewed trash talk at Mike, and for the next few minutes, Kobe watched every game of Mike from the side, and when everyone was about to leave, he asked for another game.
Mike still won Kobe Bryant in the replay, but this time the score was very close, and Kobe Bryant had a good chance to win, all because of five minutes of observation, which shows how focused he is.
Years later, Bryant asked Mike again, and this time he won. In the days after the first game, Kobe Bryant has been practicing table tennis hard.
Black mambas generally do not actively attack humans, they chase enemies and prey by moving at high speed in dangerous situations, and spray venom only to kill with one blow.
"Black Mamba" is still the female killer in "Kill Bill", her wedding was washed in blood, so she embarked on the road of revenge, asking the enemy to pay for it in blood.
We know what Kobe Bryant is in after 03 years, he gave himself the nickname "Black Mamba", the poisonous snake out of the hole, the snake fights, and the eyes will be rewarded.
(Some of Kobe's key balls in the 05-06 season)
Kobe Bryant averaged 35.4 points per game in the 05-06 season, what is the concept? This means that if a game is "only" scored 30 points, then you have to score 40 points in the next game to get back to 35 points.
Kill the red eye! This is the word that first came to mind to describe Kobe Bryant in those years.
In the seventh game of the playoffs against the Suns in '06, Kobe Bryant shot only 3 shots in the entire second half, scoring 1 point on only technical foul free throws, knowing that he just cut 50 points in the last game.
Rumors of "Kobe Bryant giving up the game" were rife, and Barkley even publicly criticized Kobe Bryant for being selfish.
What will the "Black Mamba" do? Eyes will be rewarded.
Kobe first texted back to Barkley, and then went directly to TNT's show to confront Barkley.
"In the fourth game, we were more than 10 points behind until the fourth quarter, but we executed the tactics. The crushing ball that tied the score was my only goal in the fourth quarter. ”
"Playing the Suns has to be defensive as a team, and throwing a few balls can lift your teammates' spirits, which is the only way to beat the Suns."
"There are teams where you can destroy them by exploding scores, but the Suns are not that kind of team, I scored 25 points in the first quarter of the Suns, but it didn't work, they came back and it was a three."
Bryant calmly and sensibly responded to every question Barkley raised.
Barkley was speechless, and he could only turn to attack Kobe's private life that year.
"Then why did you change your back number?"
But anyone who has learned about this will not ask Kobe such an impolite question in person.
Kobe stared at Barkley fiercely and gave the most "black mamba" answer:
"I really want to jump over this table and beat you."
As strong as Africa's "combat ceiling" Maasai, you must also be in awe of three points when you encounter a black mamba, so if you are an opponent, will you still like Kobe? Acquaintances will hide in the distance, praying not to touch him while acknowledging his strength, and if you don't believe it, you can ask the Celtics fans.
On January 13 , 2007 , Bryant had 43 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists in Garden. At that game, Boston fans first booed him, then laughed at his blacksmithing, and it wasn't long before they watched in a dead silence as they watched hollowly as Kobe threw one difficult backward after another.
By the time Bryant hit the last shot on Dronte West's head, the dead green silence turned into a sparse cheer, then louder and louder, and Boston fans shouted MVP in unison.
At the start of the game, they hated Kobe; The final whistle sounded, and they honored Kobe.
You won't want to run into the "Black Mamba", you won't like Kobe, he is an extreme predator, he not only has to defeat opponents, but also conquer opponents, and sometimes even humiliate opponents if necessary, an extremely fanatical lover of victory.
Kobe Bryant was paranoid to the extreme. For example, he will spend an hour practicing the game alone after losing the drinking game, while the others go to the stadium early; For example, in order to save Vanessa's sincerity, he put on headphones to listen to "Moonlight Sonata", auditioned one by one, and then learned it, just because he felt that asking a teacher to teach him seemed insincere, and more importantly, it was too unchallenging.
Yes, ask for your own suffering. Kobe just likes to ask for his own suffering. He enjoys the process of fighting, fighting all his life, fighting with heaven and earth and fighting with people, and having endless fun.
He couldn't understand what his father said, "Give me a good system, and I can become a magician." "Because in his opinion, how can a great player aspire to career glory because of a system? On the contrary, he believes that there is no good system, and it is more challenging to help the team build a good system on his own.
"If you really want to be great, you always have a way to get those things done."
This is Kobe's fighting spirit.
If Kobe Bryant really came to your life, would you still like his paranoia, isolation, and fighting with heaven and earth?
You will hate him and think that he is silly and stubborn. And what about him? Bryant will enjoy your hatreds, just as Nike and the league molded him as a "big villain" after 2003, and he will defeat those hates and then conquer his opponents.
When Kobe Bryant was at his worst, he said to the world, but also to himself:
“Love me or hate me，it's one or the other.
Choose to love me or hate me, either/or,
Always has been.
Always.
Hate my game，my swagger.
Hate my game, hate my pie,
Hate my fade away，my hunger.
Hate my back, hate my longing,
Hate that I'm a veteran，a champion.
Hate me for being a veteran, hate me for being a champion,
Hate that. Hate it with all your heart.
Hate me as much as you want, please hate me with all your heart,
And hate that I'm loved，
Hate me for being loved,
for the exact same reasons.”
The reason is exactly the same as your hatred.
May you be like Kobe,
Live tenaciously, live uniquely.
(Text/Grete of Los LaTownie 0663)