E-Balla wrote:NZB2323 wrote:E-Balla wrote:The Grizzlies went 17-9 without him in 05 lmao. The year they won 45 games it was in large part because Pau was holding them back. You're asking who's the 2nd best player like the Grizzlies ain't have a bunch of elite defenders around him and a top 5 defense in the league those years. Memphis was full of future NBA Champions.
... Ok this must just be Kobe hate lmao.
I mean I'm never going to say he wasn't on a stacked team. He was. And they performed like a stacked team. What does this have to do with Pau?
I never said he was MVP level lol. He was at least all league level though and Pau wasn't. Both Peja and C. Webb were better than Pau.
1. 17-9 is a winning percentage of 65%. From 2000-2004, the King went 63-20 without CWebb, which is a winning percentage of 76%. Not only is it a bigger sample size, but it’s a better winning percentage. There was some talent on the Grizzlies, but Webber had Bibby outplaying Nash in the playoffs, Peja(4th in MVP voting in 04), Vlade, Christie, and the best bench in the NBA.
2. It’s not Kobe hate to say you shouldn’t hate a on player who didn’t win a stacked West without a 2nd star. How many playoff series did Pau win without Kobe is essentially the same argument as how many playoff series did Kobe win without Shaq. I haven’t said anything hateful about Kobe in this thread, I have him ranked higher than most people on Realgm, and my original argument was that Kobe was a MVP level player from this era and players like Webber and Pau were not.
3. A team having a 76 win % without their star is crazy. Right now the Thunder are the only team with a winning % that good.
4. You’re right, that wasn’t you that said he was MVP level. That was @karmew32, which was the first post I responded to in this thread.
1. Ok? What does this have to do with what I said? Did I say C. Webb had less talented teams than Pau? No? Then what point is being made here? Also the 04 Kings had Brad Miller (an all star in 03 and 04) replacing C. Webb in the lineup. You guys keep using that team to make a point like he wasn't great. For all the RAPM and advanced numbers talk it's no one mentioning Brad Miller was a top tier guy in that time and he wasn't there before 04. In 02 (their peak as a team) they were 42-12 with C. Webb and 19-9 without him. Still great without him, but nowhere near as great as they were with a bonafide all star replacing him in the lineup.
2. I'm not hating on Pau for not winning in a stacked West. Did I mention him losing once? How did Kobe even come into this all I said was Pau was barely all star level pre Kobe and for damn sure wasn't MVP level so he shouldn't be mentioned with C. Webb and Paul Pierce. You decided to bring up Kobe for God knows what reason.
3. Ok? Like what do you want me to say to this lmao. Also you're a liar. They were 39-23 (.629) without C. Webb from 2000 to 2003 and 44-15 without him in 2004 (.746). You deadass just made up a number lmaoooo.
4. You going to acknowledge you made up numbers to make C. Webb look worse than he was?
I guess I got some bad intel from AI, but from from 2001-2002 to 2003-2004, the Kings had a 71.6 winning % without CWebb and a 70.8 winning % with him.
In 2001 he had a TS% of 42.7 in the 01 playoffs and 40.7 in the 99 playoffs. His career playoff TS% is 49.6% and his playoff TS+ is 95. Compare that to Gasol who has a playoff TS% of 55.9% and playoff TS+ of 105.
Kobe came into this thread because you brought up Kobe. This is you, the first mention of Kobe in this thread:
He was struggling to make the playoffs out West and was like a 1 time all star pre Kobe. He's gotten vastly overrated in hindsight because people don't want to give Kobe his credit.
And then you called me a Kobe hater for me saying that Gasol not winning without Kobe was like Kobe not winning with Shaq or Gasol, when it’s the same argument: a player not winning in a playoff series in the stacked West without another all-star.




