Aki wrote:
the team started doing better because the lakers as a whole started playing passable defense coinciding with howard's back improving to level dwight could begin to look like the 3 DPOY he was.
Okay you ignored the portion of the quote of where I was directly responding to you, whatever.
I didn't say the Lakers improved play was only because of Bryant's play; Howard's defensive emergence coupled with Pau's later improved play and Blake playing out of his mind helped as well. But the Lakers still had difficulties even beating the weakest of teams; they need every bit of boxscore stuffing Kobe was doing at the time.
the lakers never had issues scoring
If that's the case, why do you have such an issue with the way Kobe plays. Offense is offense, right?
TS% scales from 0-150%, 150% if you shoot only 3s and hit 100% of them.
mid .600s = efficient, mid .500s = semi efficient. median = passable offense. we've been through this
No this is the first time you've explained what qualifies as efficient. So it's an arbitrary number like I said, that relates to nothing. Weird analysis, that means Michael Jordan was never efficient once in his career and that Tim Duncan's efficiency as a big man is embarrassing.
and this has what to do with this debate?
I was gonna open that topic after you elaborated on what is efficient, but clearly we have bigger issues before we can broach another sub-topic.
from the very first few posts, i've referred to lebron being efficient and kobe being semi-efficient. we've been through this
Right, his TS% as a benchmark. Not a PC where we're discussing who's better and why. Hence why this shouldn't be about Kobe vs LeBron.
MJ was the exception, not the rule. we can debate this to death, but big men have long dominated the game starting from george mikan
LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce/Ray Allen, Manu Ginobli/Tony Parker, Dwyane Wade, 2004/1990/1989 Pistons, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, etc. etc. etc.
This is the same thing like saying you need to be a defensive team in order to win a title. Yes there's plenty of support to it, but there's also plenty of support to the offensive side as well. It's the same thing here.
doesn't change the fact id rather build around big men over kobe.
Correct, big men. Like Duncan, Hakeem, Robinson etc. Pau and Lamar are not those players, so no I don't want to build around them over Kobe.
only one of the reasons we went 28 from 40 games to finish the season along with improved defense. if we'd had that from the beginning, we'd have been a 55 win team. more please
Has completely nothing to do with the quoted text. Yes if we would have been a good defensive team we would have had a better record. Who's arguing that.
physical ability aside, as far as stats go, this is still peak kobe
So aside from the other most critical part of being an effective basketball player, he's still the same, cool.
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