Jeff Teague’s WILD take about watching Kobe Bryant play basketball | Club 520

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Jeff Teague’s WILD take about watching Kobe Bryant play basketball | Club 520


Jeff Teague discusses with the Club 520 guys how he wasn’t a fan of watching Kobe Bryant play basketball. Jeff explains why guys like Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and Paul George look more fluid offensively.

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  1. Personally, I get it. I mean, I can't stand watching Iverson and Harden play. I also straight up don't find SGA enjoyable to watch. But of course, I've been Curry pilled as a warriors fan for life. So my whole view of basketball as entertainment is permanently fucked lol. It might sound weird, but I find the most enjoyment from watching players that are borderline humorous outliers at skills or physiques, or I like to watch high end polish of fundamentals. I find Wemby super entertaining, I think watching Shaq is hilarious, MJ is near upsettingly perfect fundamentally with elite athleticism and I find it fun to see how much of his tendencies are reflected in the modern game, and on the W, I adore Caitlin Clark since I'm a massive Curry fan, I think A'ja Wilson is the most complete big to pick up a basketball since Tim Duncan (and she might even be more skilled with her dribbling improvements low-key), I find Paige Bueckers to be thoroughly satisfying to watch with her combination of size and refinement.
    I can understand how people might not find Kobe entertaining in the same way not everyone finds Melo entertaining. He's a bucket, you can't deny that combination of skill and IQ, but watching Kobe shoot the same fadeaway, from the same couple places, and get the same basket cuts, idk, there's almost a clinical sensibility to his film. It's kinda like how Jerry Rice ran routes. There's not much in terms of crazy moves, it's just knowing the right one or two moves every damn time and creating just enough space. I'd much rather watch the freight train Greek Wilt Giannis bulldoze through the lane and dunk on a 7 footer than watch Kobe Tom Brady dink and dunk to 50. It's clinical, it's fundamentally sound, and even if the decisions are selfish in some years, Kobe more often than not made the decisions right anyway.

  2. That's what the game was at the time. Guys like kobe, shaq, vince, garnett, even duncan. They all played with either a technicality or a ferocity fitting to the times. Now it's become a lot more finesse/graceful. The closest you'll get to that type of ferocity today is westbrook or ant man sometimes.

  3. I see what he's saying. Not saying others don't train but Kobe PLAYED like he trained all day doing that move over and over down to a tee. The others like Melo, KD, etc. had some grace to it a little more off the cuff

  4. Two things: the word that you're looking for regarding Kobe is 'forced". The other thing is that you guys should figure out how to get somebody to post pictures that you reference especially if you're you're looking at these pictures of items or things off camera… It could be really simple just like Joe Rogan and Jamie. Or you can do it in post.. add a picture somewhere on the screen above you guys under you guys in a corner of whatever shoe or item your referencing. As good as you guys are… And you're good at this podcast thing, that's a for sure improvement.

  5. To me it’s the opposite, he used to glide and even if he was blanketed, he would make it look so smooth. To me LeBrons game is more workman like. But to each their own.

    Interestingly, the ‘smooth’ players like TMac, Melo and even KD, are much less effective when it counts (playoffs.) (Not counting KD on the greatest team ever).

  6. Ik what he mean tho with the windmill. Like that shit hard to explain without sounding disrespectful. It's like he was forcing everything like he was tryin way too hard or something. Like he didn't let the game come to him idk like on some selfish little kid shit but no disrespect tho everything sound like we hatin 😂