Amare Stoudemire on his battles with Kobe Bryant: We really couldn't stop him
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Jalen Brunson: Can you talk about the battles with the Lakers in the playoffs? Like it was like what two or three years in a row, maybe four. Amare Stoudemire: Yeah, it was tough, man. Cuz with Kobe you can't really game plan for him, right? We have a scouting report for Kobe and like try to contain force him to his left. We send a double team from the baseline. If he's in the post or from the top, we send we send a double team from the wing, if he catches the ball center court, top of the key. Other than that, Kobe knew how to avoid all double teams. He knew he had all the counter moves for every double team that may come his way. So, we really couldn't stop Kobe. We had all we can do is try to contain him, make it tough for him, get into his body on his shot. Small little details help maybe help change his shot a bit. And then for me, I had a battle also, one year got to go against Shaq. It was Shaq and Kobe. And then Shaq left and then we took over. Phoenix took over the West and then somehow they got Pau Gasol and then they got Andrew Bynum and then they had Lamar Odom. So I'm on the inside playing small as a five. Got to guard Lamar Odom who is 6-10. Got to guard Andrew Bynum at 7-1 and Pau is 7-1. And it's me on the inside.
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