“It would be impossible for me to …

“It would be impossible for me to describe the look on a face, but you know the look of somebody that has it,” said Kurt Rambis, then an assistant coach for the Lakers. “It’s fear. It’s doubt. It’s hesitation. It’s they’re uncomfortable. They don’t believe in themselves. You can just kind of see that in a person when they’re going to the free-throw line in a difficult situation or they’ve missed the front end of two free throws or sitting on the bench. It’s just very clear to me with that look that they just don’t believe. You never saw that in Kobe. It was almost like indifference. It was like, yeah, f— it. You just knew it wasn’t going to bother him. You just knew that.”