＂Kobe Didn’t Give Me Time＂ – Dwight Howard Gets REAL About Lakers Locker Room DRAMA
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In this episode, we discuss Kobe Bryant's impact on the NBA as a player, coach, and coach in general manager, and how he changed the culture of the league for decades to come. We also discuss Kobe's impact as a person, and the impact he had on the culture and culture in the locker room.
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observation so for me like it's it's all about uh it's all about you know watching how people
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handle rooms okay and i'm watching dynamics because from the outside you hear stuff
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and then you're in the locker room you're in the locker room so you're in the locker room who's the
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coach phil is the phil jackson's the coach i wish he was supposed to come and coach that year we
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can talk about that he was supposed to come and coach we had he wanted to do the 41 only home
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games and didn't want to go on the road is that the time well see what happened was he had he had
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was about to have back surgery he wasn't going to be able to travel and so he wanted to make sure
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that this doctor was was going to be okay with him coming back to coach we had just literally talked
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right before they made the decision to bring in um frank vogel wasn't he no it wasn't frank vogel it
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was um mike d'antoni it was mike d'antoni i literally was just talking the first time the first time i
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was talking to phil and he's like dwight i really want to coach you oh i remember because he said
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we're going to average 140 points game a night and we didn't need to do that yeah we didn't need to
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do that all we had to do was beat people up we got the greatest closer you got the two biggest big
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man in the paint pal gasol and myself who's going to stop us like but we tried to play a fast-paced
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game with older players i'm the youngest one and i just had back surgery and i just had a torn
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labrum so why not slow the game down and play the pace that we need we don't have to steve nash
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doesn't have to go crazy he just had back surgery coaches but this is the part dynamics my interest
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is on the inside so how many coaches coach you like if you put the big coaches you had d'antoni who
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else coached you stay at van gundy van gundy um why can't i forget all my coaches right now um
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oh what's the black guy what's the black guy it sounds like it really made an impact on you
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dude i can't take him to stay my face of mike brown i'm so sorry i know your coaches don't worry about
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you got this so many coaches oh my god brian hill when you're watching when you guys are in a place
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where there's a lot of conflict okay you don't hear a lot about d'antoni what was d'antoni's style of
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dealing with kobe like would he challenge him or he left kobe alone i would most likely leave him
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alone he wouldn't bother him he wouldn't say too much to him like i mean he was more so chill but i
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feel like it would feel our offense would have been in a better place the triangle offense would have
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suited us better um because you can keep the one side clear if kobe wanted to do his his thing
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and then that triangle that's going on on the other side of the court or whatever it may be i
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felt like that would have been something half court offense for us it would have been crucial teams
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wouldn't have been able to stop us in the half court so by us trying to play the fast paced game
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that wasn't us and then i felt like i was at a place in my career where i needed to slow it down and get
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in the triangle so i can understand offense and how to to move offensively a lot of times big man
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um they mature slower in the league because the game takes longer to slow down to them
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and i i was fortunate enough to play in different eras so when i first came in it was back to the
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basket big um the lane was a lot more packed and stuff like that boxes and elbows on defense
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and then it started to spread out you know year after year then to now it was like threes and
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half court but you know so back then a big needed time hakeem elijah one they was getting in their
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primes in their 30s their late 30s you know i'm saying that's when they're in their primes because
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they're now the game is slowed down so they can understand and see it more so i just felt like
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with a coach like uh dan tony the pick and roll and stuff was great for my orlando time so i think
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that's why they got dan tony but i felt for me to take that step to the next level
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it was time for phil what was the difference locker room kobe locker room lebron locker room
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you're in a locker room game's done you win you lose you had a sick game you know you showed up
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what is the vibe in a locker room with kobe versus lebron is kobe games over boom he's going
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him is lebron hey man good job then what's it they both go we win and they both lie
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um they both live in the locker room um man it's been so long with kobe uh that year was such an
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up and down year uh we had our wins we we was happy but when we lost we was pretty pissed uh
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lebron man he is a character he's so funny so after the games you know he's gone his locker room is
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crazy his locker room looks like your uh what is backdrop the whole thing he got everything
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got all the shit he got like two lockers shoes lined up all the stuff he got a special do rags
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everything you know so it's it's like the president's locker room it's pretty nice
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yeah so he had the biggest locker room inside of all the players he played against i mean well
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he just got two lockers most everybody get they won no spot but i mean it's lebron it's two lockers
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it would seem like i don't know if you can find this video of lebron locker room miami heat i mean
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they did a whole dance it would seem to me that kobe is way more serious than lebron i even heard you
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say something to the effect of yeah kobe's kind of an asshole yeah lebron kind of wants to be liked
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when i say kobe's the the asshole is like yeah he uh i've seen him like go off on you know autograph
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seekers you know uh for coming going yeah going crazy because his lady's like you guys out here
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just late you know asking for autographs so man he yeah i could see i've seen that side of him but
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at the same time you know i've always heard that you have to be a certain type of way to
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make it in life you know so i don't feel like he's that way with everybody i feel like
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that when it's time to be that person then he's going to be that person because he's trying to
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get to his goal whatever his goal is and he's not going to let nobody stop it who was who was uh
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between the two somebody like a favorite teammate i'm not even going to i'll you know i'll ask you the
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other question next but as a teammate who did you prefer as a teammate lebron or kobe uh it's a tough
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one that is a very tough one um i just feel like me and kobe didn't give each other time
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um uh to really mesh and we was in a place where emotionally and mentally i was fed up with
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the things that had happened in uh orlando that a lot of you know people don't know about
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and i'm coming into this new situation like man i want to turn it all around i'm in a new city new
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place i'm playing with one of the greatest players ever but i just came off back surgery i'm not even
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supposed to be playing this whole year i was supposed to sit out the whole season when i came to
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the lakers uh but i came back in four months i was supposed to sit out a whole year from my back
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surgery to got that much of my herniated disc the largest that they ever taken out of somebody's
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back so i was supposed to miss significant time came back early then tore my labrum
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continued to play and we um we made it to the playoffs that was the last time the lakers had
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made it to the playoffs until i came back and we went to the championship from 2013 to 2020 there was
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no playoffs for the lakers no yeah i remember that but that that's when he was averaging 35 forward
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that's when he had the streak of whatever eight or nine games of 40 what's up y'all this your boy
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