“I think the sky is the limit for him,” Bryant said of Rose following the Lakers shootaround at the United Center. “You see now just with the improvement he’s made off his jump shot from last year to this year how much his game has really gone to another level. I think he’s just scratching the surface. He’s realizing now what a jump shot can do. Hopefully, he’ll continue to work on it and become a pure shooter.”
Bryant also said that perhaps one of Rose’s greatest assets is an intangible which comes in quite significantly at the end of games, as Rose has
strated as of late. It’s the so-called killer instinct, which as Bryant noted, can’t be acquired.
“I don’t think you can develop that,” he said. “You either have it or you don’t. [Rose] has had it since he was in high school.
“[Having the killer instinct] is what separates players, I think,” added Bryant. “With players of equal ability, it’s really about the engine that you have inside. It certainly gives him an edge.”
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