Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant seems to be adjusting well to life outside the NBA. The recently-retired superstar’s short film, “Dear Basketball,” has been shortlisted for an Academy Award. And as he revealed in a recent guest appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” he’s also coaching his middle daughter’s basketball team.
But being an astute student of the game, Kobe isn't the type of coach that'll just throw a ball and let his kids run around and play. Instead, he's the type that's teaching a team of pre-teen girls how to run the triangle offense.
“We run the triangle offense. Yeah, we run the triangle offense. It's awesome. I sit there with my kids, the girls go out and I say ‘You're going against the zone, I need you to cross green, wing entry, hit the two-pass to the post, by-pass first cutter, second cutter, hit the third cutter.' And they'll go ‘Okay.' I'm like, man they did it!”
The triangle offense obviously has a special place in Kobe’s heart. He played Phil Jackson's patented system for close to his entire career and it was instrumental in helping Bryant win his five NBA championships.
However, it is notoriously one of the most complex and difficult offenses to master, and making young girls run it seems a bit excessive.
But according to Bryant, his girls seem to have a good grasp of the offense even at a young age, which is both a testament to his coaching and those girls’ amazing levels of comprehension.
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