BlunnTashiz wrote::nonono:
I don't even know how to respond to that. Ummm... Nash's production =/= team success, especially if that team is actively rebuilding.
PER also favors volume scoring which is exactly what Kobe was doing.
Uh... if you want to argue at least argue effectively. Kobe's game is very unconducive to producing good PER #s.
Now I am for trading for Nash if he's open to it, old rivalries and all. But I harbor no delusions that he is not in the twilight of his career. The reality is that so is Kobe. Nash is one of the premier PNR guys in the league and would both rejuvenate Kobe and probably add an additional productive year to his career as well as raise his eFG% at least 3% points.
Additionally, Nash is someone that you cannot simply ignore as a ball-dominant PG. It would allow Kobe to focus on rolling off screens as he is actually fairly adept at rather than taxing his wrist and mangled fingers trying to beat his man off the dribble. In limited doses, Kobe can beat his man off isolation quite well. The problem is isolation basketball is the most taxing style of basketball energy wise and when it is simultaneously your goto set, and is combined with Kobe's greater turnover frequency, it leads to some pisspoor fourth quarter gaffes. Kobe is growing older. He's one of the fittest athletes I've ever had the honor of watching. But he just ran out of gas too many times and his fuel tank will only shrink as he enters his oh-mod-god there's no more tread on his tires part of his career/
I love Kobe's abilities. But I hate his game. Detractors of Nash will just scream Kobe: 5, Nash: 0 nahnahnahnahIcan'thearyou but the reality is that Kobe's offensive repertoire, while absolutely riveting and beautiful is incredibly inefficient. In fact, he is one of the most historically inefficient high-volume scorers that the league has ever seen. Sign me up, even if only for a year or two of a four year contract, of Steve Nash. If we're truly going to try to get a ring at the tail end of Kobe's magnificent run, then let's go allin.
