By all appearances, Kobe Bryant is settling into retirement quite nicely. When he’s not offering sage advice and/or issuing Mamba challenges to the NBA’s brightest young stars, he’s taking a decidedly hands-on approach to his daughters’ basketball development.
Last summer, Kobe said that he’s encouraging them to use losing as motivation, and as a result, he claims his daughter Gigi has already developed that “Mamba mentality.”
With that foundation in place, Kobe has apparently moved on to the Xs and Os of the game. In a recent appearance on the Late Late Show with James Corden, Bryant said that as coach of his daughter’s team, he’s implemented the fabled Triangle Offense.
It’s an offensive scheme that obviously worked wonders for both the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s and the Lakers of the early-to-mid 2000s but has fallen out of favor as the NBA has progressively moved to a more uptempo style of play.
Still, it’s sophisticated enough for a youth basketball team that it will likely baffle their opponents. Also, it doesn’t exactly seem fair to the other team that KOBE FREAKING BRYANT is the opposing coach, especially if he takes the same monomaniacal approach that he did during his NBA career.
