Kobe Bryant

And then my body, my knees stopped hurting. I grew into my frame.

And then my body, my knees stopped hurting. I grew into my frame.

Then it was game over.

Then it was game over.

All of them.

All of them.

Every game.

Every game.

The whole game. No way. Yeah. So it started with me when I was a, when Phil Jackson's, His first year here with the Lakers, one of the assistant coaches, his name was Tex Winter, and I call him Yoda. I mean, he was like 82 when he got here. Wow. And he was responsible for teaching me the triangle offense. How old were you then? I was 21. So three years, four years in the league?

The whole game. No way. Yeah. So it started with me when I was a, when Phil Jackson's, His first year here with the Lakers, one of the assistant coaches, his name was Tex Winter, and I call him Yoda. I mean, he was like 82 when he got here. Wow. And he was responsible for teaching me the triangle offense. How old were you then? I was 21. So three years, four years in the league?

Yeah, so about my fourth year in the league. Okay. And so I go up to his room, and this is when there were no – iPads, anything like that, right? So when you're on the road, you have to call down to the front desk and have to bring up the TV with the whole, you know, the rolly thing and the VHS and the cassette tape and pop it in. And I thought we were going to watch what we call touches.

Yeah, so about my fourth year in the league. Okay. And so I go up to his room, and this is when there were no – iPads, anything like that, right? So when you're on the road, you have to call down to the front desk and have to bring up the TV with the whole, you know, the rolly thing and the VHS and the cassette tape and pop it in. And I thought we were going to watch what we call touches.

So watch all your touches when you have the ball, all the decisions you make, good ones and bad. No, we're watching the start of the game to the end of the game. And not like the TV feed. We're watching the in-arena feed, the layup line, the timeouts. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

So watch all your touches when you have the ball, all the decisions you make, good ones and bad. No, we're watching the start of the game to the end of the game. And not like the TV feed. We're watching the in-arena feed, the layup line, the timeouts. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

Rewinding, stopping, fast forward, rewinding, slow motion, every little thing, every game of that season with the 82-year-old Yoda. Oh, my gosh. Who is as brutally honest as you can get. What did that teach you that season? It taught me to look at detail. Look at things that they're smallest. Look at body language. Look at the energy between players, our team and the other team. Right.

Rewinding, stopping, fast forward, rewinding, slow motion, every little thing, every game of that season with the 82-year-old Yoda. Oh, my gosh. Who is as brutally honest as you can get. What did that teach you that season? It taught me to look at detail. Look at things that they're smallest. Look at body language. Look at the energy between players, our team and the other team. Right.

Look at the tactics, look at the overall strategy and look at how tactically things are manifesting themselves. And because I watched so much film, then it gave me the ability to see game in real time as if I was watching film. Wow. I can see because a lot of times the game starts moving really fast.

Look at the tactics, look at the overall strategy and look at how tactically things are manifesting themselves. And because I watched so much film, then it gave me the ability to see game in real time as if I was watching film. Wow. I can see because a lot of times the game starts moving really fast.

But if you train yourself to watch hours and hours of film, the game's not moving that fast anymore. You can really recognize who's doing what and why you can position guys in the right places in real time.

But if you train yourself to watch hours and hours of film, the game's not moving that fast anymore. You can really recognize who's doing what and why you can position guys in the right places in real time.