Kobe Bryant

And from there, I just went to work. I just stayed with it. I kept practicing, kept practicing, kept practicing.

I think that's when the idea of understanding a long term view became important because I wasn't going to catch these kids in a week. I wasn't going to catch them in a year. Right. So that's when I sat down and said, OK, this is going to take some thought. All right. What I want to work on first. All right. Shooting. All right. Let's knock this out. Let's focus on this half a year, six months.

I think that's when the idea of understanding a long term view became important because I wasn't going to catch these kids in a week. I wasn't going to catch them in a year. Right. So that's when I sat down and said, OK, this is going to take some thought. All right. What I want to work on first. All right. Shooting. All right. Let's knock this out. Let's focus on this half a year, six months.

Do nothing but shoot. All right. After that. All right. Creating your own shot. You focus. So you start. I started creating a menu of things. When I came back the next summer, I was a little bit better. Right?

Do nothing but shoot. All right. After that. All right. Creating your own shot. You focus. So you start. I started creating a menu of things. When I came back the next summer, I was a little bit better. Right?

And then 14 came around, back half of 13, 14 years old. And then I was just killing everyone. And it happened in two years. And I wasn't expecting it to happen in two years, but it did because what I had to do was work on the basics and the fundamentals. Well, they relied on their athleticism and their natural ability. And because I stick to the fundamentals, it just caught up to them.

And then 14 came around, back half of 13, 14 years old. And then I was just killing everyone. And it happened in two years. And I wasn't expecting it to happen in two years, but it did because what I had to do was work on the basics and the fundamentals. Well, they relied on their athleticism and their natural ability. And because I stick to the fundamentals, it just caught up to them.

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.