http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_ballard/05/27/kobe0602/index.html?eref=T1 Kobe's well-honed killer instinct (因为要念书 所以不全翻 提重点跟我喜欢的片段） It's 1989, and Bryant is 11 years old and living in Italy, where his father, Joe, is playing professional basketball. One day Kobe bugs Brian Shaw, a Boston Celtics first-round pick playing in Rome because of a contract dispute, to go one-on-one. Eventually Shaw agrees to a game of H-O-R-S-E. "To this day Kobe claims he beat me," says Shaw, now a Lakers assistant. "I'm like, Right, [I'm really trying to beat] an 11-year-old kid. But he's serious." Even back then Shaw noticed something different. "His dad was a good player, but he was the opposite of Kobe, real laid-back," says Shaw. "Kobe was out there challenging grown men to play one-on-one, and he really thought he could win." Kobe小时候在义大利长大。11岁的那一年有幸遇到义大利打球的Shaw。Kobe一直缠着 Shaw来一场一对一。最後他们比了一场HORSE(有点类似环游世界的定点投篮比赛)。直到 今天Kobe仍认为他赢了比赛，但是Shaw笑笑的说我对一个11岁小孩会多认真呢？但是那 时候Shaw就注意到Kobe与众不同。他不断跟大人挑战，而且相信自己可以赢的。 （有点像泽北荣治 XD） It's 1995, and Bryant is the senior leader of the Lower Merion team, obsessed with winning a state championship. He comes to the gym at 5 a.m. to work out before school, stays until 7 p.m. afterward. It's all part of the plan. When the Aces lost in the playoffs the previous spring, Bryant stood in the locker room, interrupting the seniors as they hugged each other, and all but guaranteed a title, adding, "The work starts now." (Bryant remains so amped about his alma mater that when he taped a video message for the team a few years ago, it contained few of the usual platitudes and instead had Bryant reeling off a bunch of expletives and exhorting the boys to "take care of f------ business!") Kobe高中的时候就一直想着要赢得州冠军。他早上五点上课之前进健身房，下课之後继续 健身到晚上七点。当他高三（美国有些高中是四年制）的时候在季後赛输球，他在休息室 打断当时高四的互相惜别，当场保证明年要赢得冠军，并且烙下「一切从现在开始」。 时至今日，Kobe还是很关心他的高中母校。几年前他曾经录了一段影片回去给学弟加油 打气。然而，却不是预期的精神鼓舞，而是三字经连篇的疯狂激励文（请见原文） Bryant had already begun to coax teammates into staying late or coming in at odd hours so he could hone his skills. "We'd play games of one-on-one to 100, " says Schwartz. "Sometimes he'd score 80 points before I got one basket. I think the best I ever did was to lose 100-12." Imagine the focus required to score 80 freakin' baskets before your opponent scores one. And Bryant's probably still pissed that Schwartz broke double digits. Kobe那时候就已经开始诱导他的队友留下来练习或是在奇怪的时间练习，而原因是因为 这样子他才有对手可以练习自己的技巧。他的高中队友（原文前一段在讲说有一次练习 的时候他们比三打三抢十分。比赛九平的时候，平常都是暖板凳的Schwartz突然有个 大空档，但是上篮放枪没进，也输了那场比赛。结束之後Kobe追上他并且开始他的疲劳 轰炸，似乎刚刚那个放枪让他们输掉了州冠军）Schwartz常常就被Kobe拉去打一对一， 而且是比到100分。Schwartz回忆的说「有时候Kobe常常得到了80分我才得到第一分。 我记得我最好的一次是100-12输球吧。」你可以想像需要何等的专注力才有办法80-0吗 ，而且Kobe大概还在生气他竟然被得了12分吧。 It would be a pattern: Bryant bearing down on players he once idolized. At Magic Johnson's summer charity game in 1998 he went after Orlando Magic star Penny Hardaway so hard -- in a charity game -- that Hardaway spent the fall telling people he couldn't wait to play the Lakers so he could go back at Bryant. And, more famously, Kobe attempted to go one-on-one against Jordan in the '98 All-Star Game, waving off a screen from Karl Malone. Take your pick-and-rolling butt out of here; I've got Jordan iso'd! That one didn't go over so well with the Mailman. "When young guys tell me to get out of the way, " Malone said at the time, "that's a game I don't need to be in." 这情形对Kobe而言逐渐变成了常态（原文前一段说了他刚被交易到湖人之後，West要他 跟Michael Cooper一对一看看他的技巧，结果打了十球之後West就不用打了，并直言 Kobe大概是全队球技最强的）。1998年魔术的慈善比赛的时候，他超级认真的想单吃 一分钱Hardaway。结果赛後那个暑假，Hardaway逢人便说他等不及球季开始对上湖人 的比赛，因为他要回敬Kobe。另一个比较着名的例子，1998年明星赛。有一球Kobe尝试 要单打Jordan，结果老前辈Malone过来帮他设单挡，结果Kobe挥手把Malone赶走。赛後 Malone小不爽的说「当年轻小伙子叫我闪开的时候，这就是一个我不想参与的比赛。」 In Bryant's mind, however, no one is unbeatable. As a rookie with the Lakers, despite his coming straight out of high school, he approached Harris. "He said , 'Coach, if you just give me the ball and clear out, I can beat anybody in this league,' " recalls Harris. When that pitch didn't work, the 6' 6" Bryant returned. "Then he'd say, 'Coach, I can post up anybody who's guarding me. If you just get me in there and clear it out, I can post up anybody.' " Harris chuckles. "I said, 'Kobe, I know you can, but right now you can't do it at a high enough rate for the team we have, and I'm not going to tell Shaquille O'Neal to get out of the way so you can do this.' Kobe didn't like it. He understood it, but in his heart he didn't accept it." 在Kobe眼中，没有人不能被打败的。还是湖人菜鸟的时候，他跟教练Del Harris说「教练 ，只要你把球给我并且把其他人清开，我可以打败联盟内任何一个人。」当他的诉求没有 得到教练首肯的时候，他又跟Harris说「教练，我可以在禁区单打任何一个人，只要你让 我在禁区要球并且清开所有人。」Harris跟Kobe说「我知道你可以，但是现在在这个星光 闪闪的球队并没有办法让你这样子。我不可能跟欧肥说离开禁区让你在禁区单打。」Kobe 了解，但是内心深处无法接受这个事实。 It is 2000, and Bryant is an All-Star and franchise player. Still, after guard Isaiah Rider signs as a free agent, Bryant repeatedly forces him to play one-on-one after practice -- Bryant wins, of course -- to reinforce his alpha alpha male status. When six-time All-Star guard Mitch Richmond arrives the next year, he gets the same. "He was the man, and he wanted us to know it, " says Richmond. "He was never mean or personal about it, it's just how he was. " 2000年的时候，他已经成为明星球员以及球团招牌人物。但是依然的，在Isaiah Rider 签下自由球员合约加入球队的时候，他不断的强迫Rider跟他在练球结束後来比一对一（ 当然的Kobe都赢）以巩固自己球队一哥的地位。隔年六届明星赛球员Mitch Richmind加 入的时候，也遭受一样的待遇。Richmind说「他是一哥，并且他要我们都知道。他不曾 粗鲁或是针对个人，这只是Kobe在当Kobe而已。」 Not that Bryant never loses, but beat him at your own risk. Decline a rematch and . . . well, that's not an option. "If you scored on him in practice or did something to embarrass him, he would just keep on challenging you and challenging you until you stayed after and played him so he could put his will on you and dominate you," says Shaw, Bryant's teammate from 1999 to 2003. This included not allowing players to leave the court. Literally. "He'd stand in our way and say, 'Nah, nah, we're gonna play. I want you to do that [move] again,' " Shaw says. "And you might be tired and say, 'Nah, I did it in practice.' But he was just relentless and persistent until finally you'd go play, and he'd go at you." Kobe不是不会输球，但是要打赢他请自己承担後果。拒绝再比一次不是选择。Shaw说「 如果你在练习的时候单吃他得分或是让他出糗的话，他会不断的挑战你，直到你同意练习 结束之後留下来跟他继续比赛。这还包括不准球员离开球场！他会阻挡他们的去路并说着 ：不不！我们要继续比赛。我要你再做一次刚刚的动作。你也许累了然後跟他说我刚刚练 习的时候已经作过，但是他会坚持不放弃的要球你直到你同意，然後他就会想尽办法打败 你。」 "If he's a ruthless s.o.b., I kind of respect that," says Ravin. "Why should he be passing up opportunities? Why pass it to a guy who doesn't work as hard , who doesn't want it like you do? Ravin(神样之训练员，顾客名单包括Carmelo, Arenas, and Brand 被称为the hoops whisperer)曾说过「如果他是一个没有礼貌的混帐，我尊敬这样的评语。他为甚麽要 放弃机会？为甚麽要传球给一个没有你来得努力练习，没有你这麽想要成功的另一个人 呢？ "Even now, every little challenge matters to Bryant. Here he is at the end of a practice last week. Each Laker has to take a free throw. Everybody hits his except Bryant, who rims one out. The only shooter left is Derek Fisher, who shot 88.3% from the line this season. Bryant stands to the side of the basket , fidgeting. As Fisher's shot arcs toward the rim, Bryant suddenly takes two quick steps and leaps to goaltend the attempt. "Of course," forward Lamar Odom says later, "he couldn't be the only one to miss." Odom说「就算是现在，任何一个小挑战Kobe都当作是一回事。上个礼拜练习快结束的时候 ，每个球员都需要罚一球。所有人都罚进了，除了Kobe之外。还没投的只剩下Fisher。 要期待Fisher没罚进还蛮困难的。於是Kobe鬼鬼祟祟的靠近篮框。当Fisher投出的时候， Kobe突然上前两步并且盖掉那球，尽管已经勾天顶了。想当然，他不可能当唯一没罚进 的球员。」 （这时候就显现出欧肥的价值了 XD） -- 念书去 还好我不是Kobe的队员，或是他的同学 不然大概1000-0都不是问题吧... --

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