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Bryant had told reporters Friday night: “You have those periods during the season where you are kind of stagnant. The important thing is that when you hit those stretches, you don’t go backwards. You just kind of weather the storm, and you come out of it as a better ballclub.”
Jackson was also wary of saying much about Bryant’s words to the team but suggested Bryant’s point was that there is a “willfulness” that is necessary to be a great team that plays great defense.
I asked Jackson if he was glad Bryant spoke up, and Jackson said: “He wasn’t the only one.”
In fact, Derek Fisher and Pau Gasol stayed on the court long after all their teammates had wandered off, talking through more positional theories about defense with assistant coach Frank Hamblen. Josh Powell, one of the team’s connectors despite not playing much, also had more to talk through with Bryant and later with Fisher. Orlando runs a lot of pick-and-roll plays, this season leaning heavily on one with Dwight Howard and Vince Carter and increasingly using Carter with point guard Jameer Nelson lately.
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I bet Kobe told the team the stuffs he's been reading on Realgm and what's been bothering us about the team.

my first reaction is that kobe should look in the mirror and play some defense.

The thing is that we should be able to beat Miami and Charlotte without playing a lick of defense. However you're not winning much when your frontcourt caves in like it did on this road trip.

I'm surprised Josh Powell can address the team though. Sounds like a pretty solid guy behind the scenes.

j-far wrote:The thing is that we should be able to beat Miami and Charlotte without playing a lick of defense. However you're not winning much when your frontcourt caves in like it did on this road trip.

I'm surprised Josh Powell can address the team though. Sounds like a pretty solid guy behind the scenes.

^this

We''ll see if it pays any dividends come Sunday.

Give Bynum the ball instead of Pau and your good to go

KB24_ILLMATIC wrote:Give Bynum the ball instead of Pau and your good to go

We know how that worked out at the beginning of the season.

I don't really care about the season. I would like to win 60 plus games, but I would rather win 16 games in the playoffs, so wht I'm saying it that they can f the season away as long as they turn it the hell on in the post season.

dcash4 wrote:my first reaction is that kobe should look in the mirror and play some defense.

+1 and don't over dribble

hmmm seems it didnt sink in fellas...

It wont until we get to game 7s.

It don't really feel right with this team though ... you gotta admit that ... not as hungry as last year for sure.

if this team dosent listen up we could be without phill and kobe next season

blkmomba24 wrote:if this team dosent listen up we could be without phill and kobe next season

thats the real pink elephant in the room, this could be a "2004" year again, and to expand on that notion, all the cats here clamoring for a massive pg upgrade, need to understand that the means that the triangle is totally dead. because a traditional pg wont work in this system....maybe thats what we need , or really want, but that also probably means that phil retires, so careful what you wish for....

we need someone too knock down those open shots when KOBE and our bigs are doubled we miss you TREVIOR