<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Sep 9 2006, 01:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He looks very similar to how he looked in 2002-2003, when he had arguably his best season, but he looks a bit more ripped now. As long as he doesn't have much fat on him and keeps up with his conditioning, putting on a few pounds of lean muscle is a great thing.</div>Not for Kobe's type of game. In 2003 it was okay because at least he had someone to lean on when he got tired and needed a break, he was buff in 2005, and it was just too much weight to drag around, he got hurt, he couldn't play defense very well, he could slash and dunk over people well, but it hurt his all around game. Look at his frame last year, he was skinny, but it got him 35 ppg and 1st team defense.
He was hurt from a pre-exisiting injury. And he scored 35PPG last year because Phil Jackson's triangle offense put the pressure of playmaker on Odom instead of Kobe. This allowed Kobe to spend more energy on scoring then getting other players to score, and it worked out brilliantly. And he was better than just ok...30/7/6/2.2 on 45% shooting, + that streak of 9 straight 40pt games. As I said before, as long as he has little fat on him and stays in shape with his conditioning, adding muscle can only make him stronger and withstand more punishment (and of course overpower more people).
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Sep 10 2006, 12:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He was hurt from a pre-exisiting injury. And he scored 35PPG last year because Phil Jackson's triangle offense put the pressure of playmaker on Odom instead of Kobe. This allowed Kobe to spend more energy on scoring then getting other players to score, and it worked out brilliantly. And he was better than just ok...30/7/6/2.2 on 45% shooting, + that streak of 9 straight 40pt games. As I said before, as long as he has little fat on him and stays in shape with his conditioning, adding muscle can only make him stronger and withstand more punishment (and of course overpower more people).</div>Well he has said himself that playing with that extra muscle tires out his body and makes it harder playing harder. His best weight is around 215-220.
Again,we don't know if he gained over 10lbs of muscle, nor do we know if he did that and lost 5lbs of fat. Personally I think him gaining a bit of muscle while keeping his conditioning up can do nothing but help him.
I remember a couple of years ago Kobe came into the season in amazing shape and he looked like he put on weight...etc...Seems like he's gotten back to it again.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Sep 10 2006, 03:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Again,we don't know if he gained over 10lbs of muscle, nor do we know if he did that and lost 5lbs of fat. Personally I think him gaining a bit of muscle while keeping his conditioning up can do nothing but help him.</div>He said all he was doing was adding mass to his upper body, since he couldn't condition because of his knee.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lakaboy42 @ Sep 10 2006, 10:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He said all he was doing was adding mass to his upper body, since he couldn't condition because of his knee.</div>Did he say gaining mass, or just working out upper body more? Because you can weight lift all you want, but it takes a lot more than that to gain pure muscle and little fat. He seems to have lost fat, along with gain about 5-10lbs of muscle. If that is so, as long as he keeps up conditioning, he can go just as long as he did last year without getting winded. But that would mean more sacrifice to his conditioning, which I am sure he will do.
