Matt, do you agree with the premise who who's trying to take out of what what's going on here is up and down season.

Last year was more with the just the nature of the team in the environment of the team, you know, with Kyrie situation and Gordon Hayward coming back, I think that's where you saw a little, you know, Mitt possible, you know, die aggression in his game.

But to take Kobe at all.

I mean, you don't take if someone has Kobe in them, you definitely don't want to take it out of him.

Cadence.

A smart player is gonna be able to use his team.

But the skill work that Kobe, you know, helps all these players with you See, everyone's coming l A.

Now for these private Mamba workouts and and I really love the fact that he's passing his blessing on the some of these guys.

But like I said, I think last year's Tatum situation was less the Kobe ISMs and more of just the uncertainty of the team.

So let me ask you, this should mean do you think that to match point?

It was more about just look.

Kyrie was handling the ball and guys were like, Well, I gotta get mine because he's getting Hiss right?

And do you think it was more of that?

Or do you buy into the Kobe thing?

Well, I think first of all, let's say that look, Kobe Brown is one of the greatest students of the game we've ever had.

Yes, you know, I've watched film of him breaking down.

Oh, I got that from Oscar Robertson, right?

They did a split screen, him doing a move that he saw Oscar Robertson do exactly that.

And by the way, you could catch Kobe detail on ESPN.

Plus, it's only 4 99 months, so there's definitely value to his his basically his analysis of the game as a player, how to add things to your game.

The big issue, I think, is for Tatum and also hurt Kobe to Sometimes you're doing things that ain't the easiest way to get the job done.

The dribble Step back, fadeaway over two dudes from 18 feet.

Nice shot when it goes in, but it doesn't have a track record of going in a lot.

Not to say that you never need that.

Sometimes you need someone who can make that kind of shot.

I saw quiet Leonard doing a bunch, particularly the plant, in the playoffs last year.

But the idea is there are a lot of easy buckets to be had on the floor.

Straight forward buckets.

And that's one thing I like about quite letter.

It is you don't mess around with the ball a whole lot.

And I think for Tatum, he went from having a very quick, efficient game his first year.

The second you're trying to live up to Well, Kobe does this.

That's all right.

You do it every once in a while.

You do when the situation calls, where it's not something you do primarily.

So what I would say is it's not taking the Kobe out of the game and just let's let's balance the diet A little Matt, I guess, to a means point.

Is it Mawr that he should just take what the defense is giving him.

It's picking and choosing your spot.

And that's what Kobe learned over the years.

Just picking illusion spots.

I remember a quick store were on a flight one time, and he was over there drawing a bunch of different courts on the thing and figure out where we were going to be opened in the triangle.

You know, I mean, like, that's how sick he is with the game.

So it's just learning Jason Temple, with his third year, fourth year learning when time and place.

But to me, if you've got Kobe and you can take it out of you, thanks so much for watching ESPN on YouTube.