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Kobe 4 Carpe diem On Court Performance Review
Feb 18, 2025
I was given the Kobe 4 Carpe Diem by KW and had a chance to put them through the ringer and here are my findings. If you're interested in picking up a pair, see the link below https://housakicks.com/performance-review/this-is-the-best-on-court-performance-review-of-the-kobe-4-carpe-diem-ive-come-across/
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hey what's going on guys this is Ty has
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kicks and I have a new pick up in the
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house Coury of KW these are the KOB 4
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carpet DM now the carpet DM this is the
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proor version now the original K4 carpet
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DM was released in 2009 and this is
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after the the Lakers um won their their
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Championship they beat my my Celtics and
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I was pretty mad about that and this was
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released in the Lakers colorway you can
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see the purple and gold in here now
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before I get into the rest of the shoe I
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want to talk about the design all right
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now the design is pretty simple now the
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Kobe 4 and the Kobe 6 is are my favorite
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silhouette and this one happens to be
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one of my favorite of course is the Kobe
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4 and they called a carpet DM for a
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reason now carpet DM is raw for what
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YOLO YOLO you mean you only leave once
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so leaving a SP the moment so that's
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what the carpet DM stands for now again
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what you have here as far as like the
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the built or the shoe you have leather
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on the 4T area then you have that glossy
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snake like pattern here this almost
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feels like uh I would say patter letter
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but it's not patter L it's just
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synthetic and snake snake snake skin
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pattern you have your holes you have
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mesh on the extension on the tongue and
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on the outside of the tongue you have
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this component here it feels a little
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like um it's synthetic some synthetic
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component and inside of it there's a
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layer of foam now on the outside of the
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tongue again you have the kpdm Nike logo
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it says 9709
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that's when Kobe entered the league if
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I'm not mistaken and after all these
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years he was still balling Kobe was one
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of my I'll say my Nemesis cuz I was a
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Celtics fan and I hated Kobe until 2012
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when he went and played in the Olympic
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that's when my love for Kobe started to
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grow now as far as the shoe again you
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have yellow on the swo logo here on the
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border you have purple in keeping with
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the Lakers colorway then you have more
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purple on the back and then the Kobe the
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number 24 his favorite number 247 cuz
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that's what he stood for playing every
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day and you have more of that snake skin
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pattern here and then here you have some
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textile component and the inside this is
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a dense layer of foam to cushion your
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ankle and on the inside you have your
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insoles there and then more uh KB for
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Kobe and then some more like zigzag
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pattern in here and then you have your
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fly wire cables and then your mid sole
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um again here you have your carbon fiber
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shank and then heading bone threads more
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purple and gold on the back side now now
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we're going to talk about how the shoe
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felt when I played now a lot of times
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when people want to do these oncore
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demos they do a lot of drills okay they
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extend the foot and they do all these
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things and this is I feel like this is
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prepared action because when you play
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basketball you don't know what you're
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going to do on the court so this is the
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best way for me to test this is to
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actually play so what I did was I played
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in these two days ago with my son's
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basketball team I'm one of the coaches
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there so I played in the shoe and I tell
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you exactly how I felt all right so see
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me on the
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court all right so I played for 2 hours
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with my son's team and I just kind of
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want to tell you how I felt when I
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played with them all right now the first
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thing is always like breaking them in
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how do they feel now it was
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instantaneous you put them on they feel
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just like an extension on your foot and
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that's what I want every time every shoe
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that I have it happened with the K sixes
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and it was almost similar with the Kobe
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4 now the sixes were a lot more smooth
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but this one was not as smooth but they
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were still great now as far as like
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sizing because a lot of people are also
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interested in sizing they Feit through
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the size I'm in size 13 and these fit
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right now Comfort was another story
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because I played in them and I was fine
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and then I played again last night and I
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played a little bit today and when I
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came back I started having a little bit
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of pain on the side of my foot cuz I
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have a wide foot so I would say Comfort
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I'll give it about 8 out of 10 because
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the side can kind of squeeze your foot a
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little bit and also because the
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ventilation is not optimal so
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ventilation is about 8.5 out of 10
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meaning your feet are a little bit like
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warm when you play and that causes a
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little bit of discomfort but other than
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that uh Comfort level is like eight out
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of 10 so it's still a great shoe as far
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as like comfort is concerned now the
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next thing that people want to know is
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pretty much cushioning cushioning is
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important right cushioning is important
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now with the prot trol Nike try to say
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that they had F length Zoom unit and
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that was not true because some people
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dissected the shoes and they saw that it
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was only a zoom unit placed on the back
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side which is the heel now on the 4ot
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you still have that soft foam it's
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really soft so they felt comfortable I
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was running up and down the court didn't
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have any problem and you can feel the
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soft cushioning is it absorbs a lot of
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shock I'm like 250 lb almost and this
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really helped now you have a little bit
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of rubber here and so the rubber kind of
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again absorb the shars there a lot of
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like foam all the way from The Backs
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side to the 4T section now the next
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thing I want to talk about is traction
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now traction is incredible you have
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those heading bone threads so Kobe did a
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lot of cutting to the basket he played
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off the elbow which I like to do I like
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to pwder my game after Kobe a little bit
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I'm a big guy I play in the I play in
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the middle but I also like to play off
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the elbow so traction was amazing
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because there was a lot of dust on the
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floor and when I use my regular Under
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Armour shoes oh my gosh I was sliding
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all over the places and I actually
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almost hurt my growing now this one was
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incredible no problem whatsoever now 3
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days down I felt like there's a lot more
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dust so today when I went to practice I
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felt I was a little bit not as like uh
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stable that's because I need to clean
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them up and that's it so indoor great
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now outdoor you can play with them
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you're not going to have any problem
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with traction but what you're going to
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do is this you're going to cause a lot
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of abrasion you're going to lose your
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Traction in less than three months you
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don't want to use this too much outside
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all right on the playground I would not
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recommend that now as far as like the
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carbon fiber shrink why is it here
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that's for tortional rigidity you see I
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can bend the shoe you want that because
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you don't want to jump land and then you
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twist your foot so that is great now
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support is is is uh incredible support
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is amazing you have your fly wire cables
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here it feels like suspension on the
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bridge right it's supposed to hold your
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foot together so support is amazing low
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profile and I love low profile sneakers
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I don't like high tops and this is
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amazing I'm a soccer player I'm also a
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basketball player so this is amazing
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support is incredible you have a lot of
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thing going on for you here you have
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that heel counter very sturdy so your
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foot is not going to wiggle when you're
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playing I felt very comfortable I didn't
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feel like I had to watch what I was
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doing I jumped I ran I was fine now the
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next thing I want to talk about and
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we're going to wrap this up is pretty
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much uh probably durability now I can't
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really say much about it because I've
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only used it for like 3 days but as far
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as I'm concerned there's no abrasion on
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the 4ot area nothing here right you
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don't see anything here like that now is
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this is this like Do's the tongue bother
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you it does not at all I played I was
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fine now play ability now who can use
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this shoe if you're a center you can use
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it if you're a guard you can use it Kobe
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was a shooting guard Kobe used this and
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he was fine so I mean cut to the basket
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play in in the paint running up and
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another the court I was doing a little
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bit of that cuz we ran this um this
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drill called hurricane and I was using
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it and that was fine so what would I say
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in some now in some if you put me put
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together the Kobe 4 and the Kobe 6es I
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would say I'll go for the sixes but the
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four is also a good backup great backup
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and I absolutely love this so again
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thanks to the people at KW they hook it
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up and I'm so stoked I can't wait to use
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them again and again and I see how the
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season is going to play out so if you
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want to buy one of these I have a link
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for you in the description again thanks
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for watching this is Ty from Master
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kicks and stay tuned for more stuff
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