When Kobe Bryant is mentioned with a knife guard, it immediately comes to mind Lamar Odom, who is 2 meters 08 tall and fully armed, and has helped Kobe Bryant lead the Lakers to win two championships in the post-O'Neal era. Odom is extremely talented, unanimously recognized by many NBA professional commentators as a talented player, he got a terrible record of 30 points, 12 rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocks in his NBA professional debut, and became the youngest player in NBA history to get a triple-double, averaging 16.6 points per game and 7. The amazing results of 6 rebounds, the proper superstar base, can be said to be the peak of the debut, but Odom's career is only a short 12 years, others are bigger and better, the higher the status, Odom has been going downhill, from the main force to the sixth person, and then transferred to the teams are constantly cut, become free agents, semi-retired in 2013, a good hand played thin.
Odom can be said to be the most famous left-handed player, left-handed layups, passes, shots can be done out of the blue, accurate and weird, worthy of the title of left-handed magician, Odom's dribbling skills in the forward is one of the best, and even overshadowed many team defenders, which makes his play style very exciting, can play from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position, a proper all-round player. What's more, this guy is the pioneer of the organizational forward, is a character who rewrites the history of the NBA, as a forward, not only to attack the city, iron barrel defense, he is also good at reading the whole field, especially can play a role in organizing the attack in the frontcourt, his role in the Lakers Kobe Age is no less than the role of Pippen to Jordan, Green to Curry.
Odom also has great weaknesses in playing, unreasonable offense and high turnover rate of the team is not small damage, but also let him gradually out of the main lineup, after which he specialized in playing second-tier sixth man, became the Lakers' miracle soldier, reached its peak in 2011, won the league's best 6th man award. Odom also has a big heart, the bigger the game, the more stable he plays, he played more than 500 regular season games during the Lakers, shooting 49%, and in the playoffs, his shooting rate can still be as high as 48%, and what is even more incredible is that he played 16 Finals, and his shooting rate reached 51.6%.
Compared with the unparalleled basketball talent given to Odom by god, his career is short and pitiful, and after he left the Lakers in 2011, he was like a lost soul, going from team to team, averaging only 4 points per game, and finally had to retire as a free agent. Odom was actually ruined by his own stubborn personal habits, he once revealed that he had a strong sex addiction, and there were more than 2,000 women who had sex with him, the most famous of which was the kardashian family's third old Kohler, and the marriage between the two lasted only more than three years. Odom also has the vice of abusing alcohol and drugs. In the Lakers, Kobe Bryant has been supervising his daily behavior, in order to save Odom, Kobe Bryant did not hesitate to put on a good future to bet with him, saying that if Odom can change his bad habits and not win the championship, he will retire. After Odom left the Lakers, he began to be free and self-sufficient, receiving many critical illness notices, and the talent of a generation of superstars was thus polished into powder.