So you're sayin in 6 months, or maybe a year from now his explosion will come back? Ok, that does make a little more sense.
However, also makes him older, getting closer to 36 in those 6-12 months. With the miles he already has on him. Explosion isn't coming back at 36 bruh.
You have never struck me as the most open-minded person in the whole wide world, so I'll not spend too much time on this, but the 36 you understand as a social norm is not the same 36 experienced by someone who takes care of their body.
Nash, at 40, is far more healthy than a large (pun intended) majority of the country's 30 year olds.
Yes, father time is undefeated, as Barkley reminds everyone every now and then. Eventually, Jordan won't be schooling anyone on any court. But for now? Year in and year out, we still hear about him schooling some newb. Despite his infamous partying, he's obviously taking SOME kind of care of his body, or else he wouldn't be schooling ANYONE who is 20 years his junior.
Totally get that. But he said Kobe would come back AS explosive, if not more than he was last year, or year before, etc.
And healthy or not, explosion does not increase at 35-36-37, no matter how in shape you are, or how great your enhancements are.
Mike absolutely can beat us all even at 50, zero question. He can absolutely get into shape, work really hard, be really good at some older muscle memory skills, no doubt about it.
Mike will NEVER get lift even remotely close to where he was at 35. Never.
And if Mike were to tear an achilles, and then try it, the result would be......?
Kobe is a freak, I know. He has help, I know. Best doctors/trainers in the world, I know. Works really hard, no doubt. But I'm sorry, his "explosion" is not coming back, at this age, this mileage, this injury.
If he was 35, but had missed over 450 games, played maybe 40,000 minutes, etc, maybe I'd see something.
He's at what, 60,000+ minutes of actual NBA gametime, 1,400+ games, not even counting the preseason time, practices, Olympics, etc. He has more miles at 35 than Nash does at 40. That's a big factor in what I'm getting at. It's not even about age. If Kobe was 32 with that mileage, same thing. If he was 37, same mileage, same thing.
It's not the age, it's the odometer, age is just an added flavor to it. 35 to 36 PLUS mileage = forget explosion. He's going to have that Paul Pierce explosion here real soon. Maybe Andre Miller if he's lucky.
