How does Bryant describe he views of the "basket" on the basketball court in the nonfiction book, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play?

The basket on a basketball court was, as Kobe describes it, both a target and something of an adversary. Getting himself and the ball to the basket was, as he describes his play, always the focus of what he identifies as an attack, a drive to get past the opposition and score his points.