I'm not talking about the sort of chemistry that made Walter White piles upon piles of dirty money; the sort where compounds react to one another in (mostly) predictable ways.
Rather, I'm talking about human chemistry of the unpredictable sort with which the Los Angeles Lakers will have to concern themselves this season now that the personalities of Dwight Howard, Steve Nash and Antawn Jamison have been added to the already-volatile core of Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Metta World Peace.
Unfortunately for Lakers head coach Mike Brown, there are no easy solutions on Synergy Sports that might aide him in turning this "ragtag" bunch of All-Stars into the title contender that everyone's pegged them for on paper. Only people skills and the proper alignment of roles with personal archetypes can keep this glorious experiment from devolving into a freak show.
Not that it necessarily would if left to its own devices. Not even close.
For all of his grating, under-the-bus-throwing, public criticizing and generally harsh communicating, Kobe is a leader first and foremost. He's among the most intelligent players in the NBA and fully understands what it takes to win at the highest level.
Even if his more-than-just-occasional ball-hogging would suggest otherwise.
His supreme sense of self-confidence can be both his greatest strength and his most glaring weakness. The Black Mamba holds himself to the highest standard and, in turn, expects his teammates to measure up and/or fall in line behind him.
That part of Kobe's personality allegedly came to the fore during a phone call between the Mamba and Dwight Howard ahead of the 2012 trade deadline.
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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Los Angeles Lakers
