Impressive Performance
Posted on August 3rd, 2006 by
Kobe Bryant grabbed a seat about five rows behind the basket, close enough to admire the powerful dunks Dwyane Wade and Dwight Howard threw down in the third quarter.
Problem is, Bryant wanted to be playing with those guys, not watching them.
Knee surgery put that plan on hold. Instead, he had to settle for observing the U.S. national team’s debut Tuesday night. And he came away impressed.
“It’s amazing, it’s fun to watch,” Bryant said. “They come at you in waves. It’s nonstop, the pressure that they put on fullcourt, quick hands, quick feet that they have.”
If the Americans play as well as they did at times Tuesday, they might not even miss Bryant.
Even without the NBA’s leading scorer, the U.S. had several impressive spurts during a four-quarter scrimmage against Puerto Rico. Scores were reset at the start of each period, otherwise the Americans would have won 116-82. #
Well looks like team USA is off to a nice roll even without Kobe Bryant (league scoring leader), and Allen Iverson (leading scorer for the team), but whatever, since Iverson isn’t playing, I don’t really care how the hell they finish this year…
