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people say that Kobe Bryant is an excellent one on one player, some other
say that he’s a selfish one. We love him or we hate him. One thing
is clear, nobody is indifferent. But he’s a great dunker and we’re
gonna describe this aspect of Kobe. |
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entered the league in 1996, when he was 18, his first big success was
his victory during the Slam Dunk Contest NBA in Cleveland in 1997. But
it’s not this victory everybody will remind for ever. Because Kobe
Bryant is much more an “in game dunker”. |
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Remember.
Despite the fact that Carter became the number one attraction when
he came in the league, it’s kobe, not “Vinsanity”
who brought back the Windmill and the 360° trend after Jordan
and Wilkins left the game. |
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He’s
a fantastic dunker and very few players can argue they did more different
dunks than him, not even Vince Carter, Jason Richardson or Michael Jordan. |
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was done by Kobe from the monstrous Yomahawks to the very elegant
flights. The range is wide, Windmills, 360° in breakaways
or in the paint with one or both hands, 180° of all types,
Reverse jams and incredible alley-oop. |
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We
told about his elegance but we can’t ignore the fact he can
be violent too. Kobe Bryant posterized the biggest and tallest Centers
and power forwards of the NBA. The list is impressive: Raef Lafrentz,
Dirk Nowitzki, Arvydas Sabonis, David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Jason
Williams, Detlef Schrempf, Kelvin Cato, Greg Ostertag, Vlade Divac,
Calvin Booth, Darius Miles, Shawn Bradley, Todd Mc Cullough, Theo
Rattlif, Victor Khryapa, or Chris Andersen.
We will even remind some of his dunks for ever like those over Ben
Wallace, Yao Ming, Radoslav Nesterovic and Dwight Howard.
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Beyond
this desire to humiliate the Center of the opposite team, Bryant has a
fabulous flair and is able to create dunks sometimes. His inspiration
is one of his most devastating weapons and he impresses us with some dunks
perfectly executed.
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think about this jam in particular against San Antonio in Playoffs
when Kobe takes off, first with the ball in one hand and finishes
with both hands. That’s a perfectly pure flush. And we must
talk about the great movement against the former Nugget, Vincent
Yarbrough whose face is only known thanks to the genius of the famous
number 8 of the Lakers |
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Nevertheless
the most fantastic fact is the complete side of the player. «
KB8 » is the most sensational dunker when we look at his different
ways to take off. About the technical side, we notice that Bryant
can perfectly jump off two legs, like a left-handed dunker that
is to say first the left foot then the right (this way to jump is
the original one for Kobe), off two feet like a right handed dunker,
off one foot and even off the right foot! |
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The
most incredible thing is to see how good the use of his right
foot is. Because you must know that most of the time when he goes
baseline from the right to the left, he uses his right foot when
he dunks and even for the most complex dunks like all the Reverse
jams or the Windmills. |
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us, Kobe Bryant is the ultimate dunker. |