tsherkin wrote:Primedeion wrote:Meanwhile Kobe's scoring efficiency (104 TS+) was about as good as Larry Bird's (105 TS+). The hate and disrespect is insane.
I have never truly grokked how people thought Kobe was inefficient outside of the Finals. He had some shot selection issues, but he in his prime he was pretty consistently 2 or 3 percent above league average efficiency. And generally on pretty substantial volume, too. There are things to say about Kobe, but calling him an inefficient scorer certainly isn't one of them. He was one of the best scorers we'd seen to date in the league.
Because people want to compare him to MJ who was a bit more efficient than that. Kobe wasn't inefficient among volume scorers, just when people started to push him into the Jordan debates. And as we all know...Pippen wouldn't have even stayed in the league without MJ willing him to success.