Re: '98 All Star Game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrhsvGIYNz4...l%20star%20game :HAHAHA: :HAHAHA: :HAHAHA:
Re: '98 All Star Game Kobe was 19 playing in his first all star game against the MVP. He actually played pretty good D on MJ in most of those plays. And I believe Kobe had something like 19 points in that game. I also think it shows courage for a young guy to come in and want to guard the best player in NBA history.BTWhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he0akllbsoUHe scored 55 that night.
Re: '98 All Star Game Key word Kobe owns the Wizards. MJ was what like 40? MJ owned Kobe in the all-star game and it's just typical for a Laker fan to come in and defend him. 19 year old Kobe got schooled by an ancient MJ.
Re: '98 All Star Game <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Diesel @ Apr 13 2006, 08:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Key word Kobe owns the Wizards. MJ was what like 40? MJ owned Kobe in the all-star game and it's just typical for a Laker fan to come in and defend him. 19 year old Kobe got schooled by an ancient MJ.</div>An ancient MJ who won the MVP with 29 points a game. Kobe averaged barely half of that with 15 ppg. And did you see what you just typed, MJ owned Kobe in the all-star game. You do realize that All Star games don't mean <Censored>, right?
Re: '98 All Star Game Damn I love MJ for this. Stupid Kobe. Damn, I wish T-Mac could do this all day.
Re: '98 All Star Game <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (dsounG @ Apr 13 2006, 06:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I had a feeling Lakers fan and just ruin the thread.</div>Well duh. Usually when there's a thread making fun of your favorite player, you defend him.
Re: '98 All Star Game MJ wasn't guarding Kobe during that Wiz game. Kobe WAS guarding MJ during that all star game, and you can just see he was playing D the best he could, yet MJ schooled him. Nothing wrong with it, so accept it.
Re: '98 All Star Game <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Apr 16 2006, 06:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>MJ wasn't guarding Kobe during that Wiz game. Kobe WAS guarding MJ during that all star game, and you can just see he was playing D the best he could, yet MJ schooled him. Nothing wrong with it, so accept it.</div>MJ couldn't guard Kobe. He was too old then. Just like Kobe couldn't guard MJ in 98, he was too young.
Re: '98 All Star Game Kobe wa sin peak physical condition and was starting to blossom into a very good player. MJ on the Wizards wasn't ahtletic anymore and physically couldn't guard Kobe. Kobe in '98 was faster and more athletic than MJ, but got taken to school.
Re: '98 All Star Game <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Apr 17 2006, 02:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Kobe wa sin peak physical condition and was starting to blossom into a very good player. MJ on the Wizards wasn't ahtletic anymore and physically couldn't guard Kobe. Kobe in '98 was faster and more athletic than MJ, but got taken to school.</div>He wasn't in peak physical condition. He was barely 200 pounds, sure he could jump high and everything but he wasn't yet a good defender, he'd try to take the ball in one on five, and he would get muscled around by every other guard in the league.
Re: '98 All Star Game Yes he was only 200 pounds, but he was faster and more athletic than Jordan. Mentally, he was just as good a defender as he is now. He was up on Jordan on each shot, but it just proves Jordan was that unguardable. Putting the Wizard Jordan on Kobe in 2002 would have been like me playing my grandpa one on one.
Re: '98 All Star Game <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Apr 17 2006, 07:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yes he was only 200 pounds, but he was faster and more athletic than Jordan. Mentally, he was just as good a defender as he is now. He was up on Jordan on each shot, but it just proves Jordan was that unguardable. Putting the Wizard Jordan on Kobe in 2002 would have been like me playing my grandpa one on one.</div>He was no where near the defender he is now, he started becoming a lockdown defender (he isn't one anymore) in 99 when Phil came and that became part of his role. He was an okay defender, but Jordan was the MVP that year.
Re: '98 All Star Game <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lakaboy42 @ Apr 17 2006, 10:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He was no where near the defender he is now, he started becoming a lockdown defender (he isn't one anymore) in 99 when Phil came and that became part of his role. He was an okay defender, but Jordan was the MVP that year.</div>Yes Jordan was MVP that year, but Kobe was an all star and outmatched Jordan athletically. He played very, very good D on MJ, and tried his best. Phil didn't make Kobe a better defender, he incorperated him into triangle and made him mesh with Shaq perfectly, but his defense has always been very good. Bottom line is MJ schooled Kobe, and Kobe never will get the chance to do the same to MJ.
