Kobe Bryant held a basketball academy where he taught kids the triangle offense and held a Q&A session.  They had some pretty interesting questions, one was to name his favorite teammate ( he had two) and the one thing he would change about his game.  He even joked about not passing the ball.

Who was your favorite player, that you enjoyed playing with, in all of your basketball career?

”There is two. [Shaq?] No it’s not Shaq. But I loved Shaq. Me and Shaq won the thing but I didn’t particularly like playing with him too much. [Laughs] It’s easy. It’s Derek Fisher and Pau Gasol.”

If you could change one thing about your game, what would it be?

”It’s a tough question, because I’ve been in the league for 20 years, and everything I’ve wanted to change about my game I’ve changed. About 2003, I felt like I had every aspect of the game, from that point it became about getting better at every single aspect. Physically if I could change one thing, …the one thing that Michael Jordan had, some of the other players [I played with] had, is massive hands. I have big hands but their hands were huge. It means you could grab the basketball, pick up the basketball, and hold it, and control it in the paint. Which is something I had to work extremely hard at, with my forearms, things like that. If I had to one thing, change one thing, I would have bigger hands.”

What was the one skill that you struggled to learn as you grew up?

”To pass the ball. [Laughs] I ‘kid’ I ‘kid’, but not really. … I think leadership is always a challenge, aside from just the basic things growing up, like using my left hand.”

”I had a parent, ask me, his son was left-handed, he wanted to teach his son how to use his right hand. What I used to do when I was a kid … in my case, I would play with one hand behind my back, just play with my left hand the entire time. When I went home I would eat with one hand, brush my teeth, everything I could with my left hand, including brushing my teeth, which is really hard to do, but then you get used to it, those are things I had to work on. Passing I’m still working on. Stay tuned.”

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source: Kobe Team