Kobe Bryant - Olympic Highlights 🇺🇸 (Defense)
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2023
- Kobe Bryant. 5x NBA Champion. 2x NBA Finals MVP. 2008 Most Valuable Player. 18x NBA All-Star. 4x NBA All-Star Game MVP. 11x All-NBA First Team. 2x All-NBA Second Team. 2x All-NBA Third Team. 9x NBA All-Defensive First Team. 3x All-Defensive Second Team. 2x Scoring Champ. SECOND HIGHEST SCORING GAME in NBA history. 4th on the NBA All-Time scoring list.
TWO TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST. Kobe has only ever worn 2 numbers in his professional career. Both 8 and 24 have been retired by the Los Angeles Lakers. The number 10, however, is the only number Kobe has ever worn to represent his country. Technically speaking, he also won a gold medal in the FIBA Americas Tournament. The United States needed to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and going undefeated in that tournament secured their Olympic berth. So across three tournaments (2007 FIBA Americas, 2008 Beijing Olympics, and 2012 London Olympics), Kobe and Team USA finished 26-0 en route to 3 gold medals.
This video was made simply to marvel at the magic of the Mamba. His primarily role on Team USA was that of a defender - he relished the idea of coming in and stopping the other team’s biggest perimeter threat. Defense is first and foremost about effort. Individual defense is all about hunger and desire. Kobe had those things beyond compare. Intelligence, communication, discipline and trust form the foundation of a great team defense. Team USA were interconnected in that sense. When the only player to have won a championship (at least in 2008) is the first player to dive on the floor, that sets the tone. Bryant’s brilliance shone brightly under the spotlights, but his work behind the scenes brought out the best in everyone. Practice was equal parts war zone and class room. Anything even remotely competitive became a battleground. The young stars in the league got to witness and absorb a masterclass in attacking the basics. Many would go on to have career years after their stint with Coach K and Kobe’s Team USA: LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, and Chris Paul finished top 5 in MVP voting (in that order). Carmelo Anthony would duel Bryant in the Western Conference Finals for the right to face Dwight Howard’s Orlando Magic.
The Mamba Mentality meant more than just offense. It was about being the first to whatever was up for grabs. Representing his country, Kobe tried to take the air from every opponent in front of him.
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I apologize for any roughness in audio/video quality. You wouldn't believe how many different places I had to pull clips from in addition to going through hours and hours and hours of the full games. Also, these aren't even all the games from the Olympics (either one) but I had to make due with what I could get. I even manage to pull one from a hard drive that was almost long since forgotten!
IF YOU'VE MADE IT THIS FAR, YES, THIS IS A REUPLOAD because they took the original down. - Sport
Sheesh, imagine being the best player in the NBA and going all out on defense every play! Gotta love it.
Hey, didn’t Giannis win a defensive player of the year & MVP in the same year?🤔
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@@AreYouFNQRAZIIGiannis didn’t guard the perimeter that’s a way harder challenge
I am here because recently i have been hearing "kobe was overrated defensively" a LOT lately.
He was not overrated, he was relentless defensively.
Love individual defense videos like this
I don't if we're that crazy or what but my brother and I are studying every Kobe Bryant's defense highlights videos.
Bryant has been labelled an overrated defender but haters don't know a thing.
We miss you, Kobe.
Theyll say anything to discredit kobe man. Dont let it bother you. We all know the truth and there is video proof. If kobe said no, it dont matter if your name is michael jordan or lebron james, youre not scoring, your best bet is ending up at the freethrow line because you were not getting off a clean shot to save your life.
I really miss Kobe it’s crazy. Love his highlights tho!
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I remember a story about Kobe wanting a scouting report on some scrub from a non competitive country he was guarding. When asked how detailed, he said he wants to know what the guy ate for breakfast.
one thing i noticed is how well kobe and lebron communicate on defense as well. calling switched and giving support at the right time.
I appreciate you
08,12 will always be the two best usa teams. The grit, unison, depth,and players made those teams great. There was a different pride those guys bought to the games. Hopefully nba culture gets back to this typa competitiveness
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best basketball youtuber of all time
Rip to the legend himself Kobe bean Bryant he’s a true warrior competitor and a hard worker determined to be great great scorer and very good elite defender ❤
good to see you back man and with a defensive video - gotta appreciate defence when its due
Please always re-upload this video if it gets taken down again (as long as it doesn’t affect the standing of your channel). Phenomenal compilation and caption as always.
At 0:44 peep how kobe squeezed between those two players to get the contest. Dude was different man 🙌🏾
”Mama, there goes that man again!" If you really want to see him play defense, watch him vs Bow Wow; it's one of my favorite videos of him.
Nice playing
Amazing 😮😮
3:27
miss u kobe
One of the reason Kobe joined team USA is to literally guard the best shooting guards around the world, and to win not focusing on himself but for the team. IMO Kobe was not using the "Mamba" mentality at that time, because he has full trust on each of them as each of them are literally the best the USA could offer.
FINALLY ITS BACK UP HERE I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO!!😆😆😆
the goat is back
Great content
Kobe was a different animal
This what happens when you don’t have to carry your teams offense.
I know this is me being a dick but... could you make one out of Wade's highlights? Him giving his all on Japan in 2006 and again in 2008 are two really underrated aspects of his career and he has an alley oop in one of the preparation games of 2008 that is really videogame worthy
@TeeKole haha, maybe beings dick was not the right word but I certainly didn't want to sound demanding
Aí vem os Henzos falar que o Kobe não está nem entre os 10 melhores da história, pqp. Pra mim ele sempre será meu jogador preferido.
So many of these would be a foul today (at least in the NBA). Someone needs to tell the league this type of effort on defense is actually entertaining because it leads to exciting transition offense.
Ps I love you
I always criticized Kobe''s style of play during his career--being young and thinking I had to choose between him and others--but there has never been any doubt about how obsessively competitive he was. This is a game they can win without him playing defense that hard, after he had already ascended to a plateau where he had nothing to prove. He's playing D like he's trying to make the HS basketball team.
Up by 18 in the 4th and forcing the ball out of the PG’s hands 36 feet from the basket..
Something leflop don’t know about!!!!
Him and LeBron set the tone definitely
No bro, it was Kobe and Wade on defense. Kobe was the undisputed leader of this team btw as evidenced by the Redeem Team doc. Stop giving LeBron credit where he doesn’t deserve it (he deserves a lot but not here). He was definitely not the one that came up huge against Spain in the medal game, it was Kobe and Wade.
Kobe wouldnt play defense like that if you have teammates ALL IN THEIR PRIME.
Huh? That's exactly what he is doing; playing defense with prime talent... Wtf are you talking about?
Kobe is VERY AGGRESSIVE on defense.
I would not like him guarding me.
great defense but kobe fouling the shit out of everyone lol. deron williams would not have been allowed to play that kind of defense.
No he wasn’t back then in fiba rules they were allowed to play more physical and they were able to hand check no fouls just tough great defense
@@oscargee1173exactly like the NBA used to be during MJs era. Wish they would bring it back and expose fakes like Curry.