KnixtapeH20 wrote:tsherkin wrote:FluLikeSymptoms wrote:The “Kobe would be a better shooter now” arguments don’t hold any water, nobody practiced more more than Kobe did and if he’d have been a better shooter he would’ve made more. The guy made 12 threes in a game fairly early in his career, he knew what threes were, he was just a streaky shooter and overall just not as great of a shooter as from anywhere as some make him out to be.
It's less shooting ability, and more his shot selection at the time. That might change, given the era-specific emphasis on those shots.
Ex **** actly
Ppl make me laugh when the bring up Kobes "stats" like %'s lol did yall not watch him play? He WAS the team during crunch time or end of Q, end of half's.... this man LIVED for that 1 v 1 back n forth.... AND he GUARDED the best player not shyed away from it like players nowadays where it's about matchups...
lol this young generation
The problem re: Kobe is the younger generation to me, millennials. Your real problem is the older generation, people like myself who are older than Kobe, watched a ton of Jordan, plus Larry and Magic before him, and knew exactly what they were seeing with Kobe, and banging our heads against the wall. Millennials wax lyrical about who Kobe was to them when they were kids. You can’t tell me what Kobe was to basketball, I know what he was. If you started watching basketball in 2000 you didn’t see good basketball until about 10 years ago. I have actual context, I’m not some 35 y/o who thinks he’s an old head and that the league started in 2000.
Nothing was ever going to change Kobe’s shot selection or his success rate. He got crushed back then for it. He wasn’t listening to anyone. All the discipline was in practice. There’s plenty of guys who live in the mid-range now, they’re just better at it, like there were better mid-range shooters before, and if he’d have been better at shooting threes he would’ve taken more and hit more. There was no planet where Kobe would play differently.