There won't be a second Kobe

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There will never be a second Kobe Bryant!

No, it's not that his skills are unprecedented, but that there will never be a player as controversial as Kobe Bryant again. He is an angel and a devil, and as many people love him, as many people love him.

In 2007, Yi Jianlian was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with a sixth place in the NBA draft. That year, watching the green boy running on the other side of the ocean, I began to cheer for him and cheer for him!

And it was that year!

Bryant is still a semi-exile waiting to be traded; In the spring of 2008, he became the regular season MVP, and then in the summer, he lost to the Celtics, a dynasty that had risen rapidly in the same year, including a 24-point reversal in Game 4 of the Finals and a 39-point defeat in the final game.

"Second place is the number one loser!"

After the finals, facing the media, Kobe Bryant was full of slaughter!

The following year, however, the entire Lakers were overshadowed with a sense of revenge, with the elegant Purple and Gold aristocracy abandoning their reserves, just like the Spurs in the 2013 season!

We're not going to mess it up this time!

This summer, he became an Olympic champion. With that vengeful dream team!

A year after losing to the Boston Garden Arena, he is finally on top of the world once again. His fourth championship, his first Finals MVP, and his first championship. At the age of 30, he finally stood where Shark 2000, Duncan 1999, Big Dream 1994, and Jordan 1991 stood. His first overall victory. He came out of prison from the shadow of the whip that he couldn't reach for the champion.

In 2010, he became one of the most feared killers in league history, as evidenced by his six strikes in the regular season. He lifted his second championship. His 2009-10 winning title was a dream feat in 1994-95.

Then, he began to grow old!

He began to put away his teenage stride and make a three-pointer, and more and more of his screen jumpers around Gasol or on the spot after a tentative step. In 2010, he began to rely on his back singles infinitely!

Then came the 2011 swept by the calf, the departure of the Zen master, and the struggle in his later years.

Achilles tendon ruptured in 2013. Comeback, injury, comeback, injury, comeback, injury

When he was a teenager, he was the king of high school slam dunks flying in the sky, and the little prince with gorgeous face frames! Precise mid-to-long range throwing, large body forward direction change, unparalleled waist and abdominal strength and body flexibility, violent buckle lever, omnipotent!

In 2006, he returned to the ground, gained 7 kilograms, looked big and round, thicker than all the opponents, he gritted his teeth, as if venting his anger into the low position, eager to eat all the opponents alive! Then the whole world saw his fury, 50 consecutive points, scoring title, defensive first team of the year, 62 points in the third quarter, 81 points, and a league-wide bloody record of 35.4 points per game! He can do whatever he wants in his personal world, but the championship is far beyond his grasp.

Then in 2009, he studied under Da Meng, and he knew how to use elbows and arms better in the low position.

In his later years, he began to focus on the in-situ three-threat offense. Catch the ball with your back, step back to the basket, tentative step, mid-range shot. He's increasingly relied on his well-honed mid-range jumper. After receiving the ball with your back at any time, there is a threat to flip left and right or retreat to the basket!

To put it bluntly, every feint he makes can scare his opponents, because every feint he makes can become real immediately.

Even though he is old, with his perfect skills, he can still score 20 points in any game, but unfortunately, this is 2016!

The theme of this era is space, speed and three points!

Back-to-back singles and back-to-back jumpers are all prized dragon slaying skills. In 2016, it is unlikely that any team will be willing to put on a posture, pull out the wings, and let Bryant rub these fine two-pointers ball by ball with his waist crossed.

Kobe Bryant is like an eighteen-year-old martial arts proficient, martial arts, invincible peerless knight in the world, lonely survival in the era of strong ships and guns, gunpowder and flint, I know how powerful you are, but it is out of place in the times.

The classical era of flanking singles is a thing of the past, and this kind of loneliness is not only Kobe Bryant, Anthony, Rudy Gay, DeRozan, Beasley, and maybe Wiggins in the future.

Finally, Kobe Bryant, who has watched it for almost 10 years, has loved it and hacked it! But I really can't feel a little bit like watching the Lakers play without Kobe, maybe when I suddenly find out that Staples can no longer see the arrogant No. 24 next season, I will suddenly feel that something is missing

On April 3, Koji Wada passed away, and I regretted my childhood; And what should I regret today?

Maybe there will be a second Kobe, but I don't have a second youth to follow.

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