dockingsched wrote:Doormatt wrote:and bynum/pau do shoot the ball more efficiently with kobe on the court this season.
i would assume so.
my point was more related to people making this big deal about the shooting percentage these past 5-6 games without kobe when we have a ton more evidence of how they play with kobe off the court in the first 55 games of the yr cause kobe doesn't play all game.
i don't know the stat, but i'd assume both pau and bynum have shot way better with kobe off the floor in the first 55ish games that kobe played in than they have in this current kobe-less streak.
Kobe plays 40 mpg, the sample with either of them playing without him apis miniscule at best because he rarely sits.
Let's just play a game and look at the team without Bynum for full games this season clogging the middle. 5 game sample for five game sample
Kobe's shooting
11-23
10-24
8-17
10-17
10-16
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49-97 = 50.5%
Pau in those games
6-14
7-12
6-11
7-12
11-20
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37-69 = 53.6%
Points allowed - 88, 100, 71, 82, 87 ~ 85.6 ppg
Record = 3-2
That is efficent scoring by the two primary pillars. The team gave up 10ppg less on average without Drew. They also gave up less fastbreak points, as this current Kobe less stretch has saw every team we faced meet or exceed their fast break average despite there being "no long rebounds" from "Kobe's wild circus shots"
Thoughts? Dock I'm talking to you, and others who said the typical spill as you could use the 5 game sample to also say damn the offense from Kobe and Pau are more efficent and the team defense this season is much more restrictive without Bynum clogging up the middle or being exploited on pick and rolls. Are we better without Bynum. That could literally be a thread title I could throw up off the same sample size to dispute this thread.