Joao Saraiva wrote:Lakerfan17 wrote:Joao Saraiva wrote:
Well if you don't like to give credit to the East teams be my guest.
Kobe faced NJ as the #1 DRTG, Phi as #5 DRTG, Pistons as #2 DRTG, Boston as #1 DRTG, Magic as #1 DRTG, Boston as #5 DRTG.
By your own logic (not mine!) Kobe faced only one #1 DRTG team in his entire career, since East teams don't count. And he even lost against 2 of those teams who don't count. What a shame.
Next time you want to criticize LeBron that way, don't go about it on a blind basis. Because it will make your Laker player look bad. Try to find another way that makes Kobe look good and LeBron look bad, without having double standards. I know, it's difficult.
I have absolutely no problem saying Kobe's faced "only one # DRTG team in his entire career", because this should about the overall depth of defensive competition they faced, not just the absolute best defenses.
I should add that Kobe for his entire career had, almost always, a better team with him and a better coach than LeBron by average. It makes offense easier. Therefore, I will give the defenses he faced less weight. Specially until 05, Since Shaq was the best player on the Lakers. I'll only count the teams he faced as the man, on the same role as James.
See? We can go arround this hater talk all day.
(I obviously give credit to the defenses Kobe faced from the East and the West, and the ones he faced when he was with Shaq, or Pau or anyone. I'm just going with the easy discredit stuff, something you like to do against LeBron James. It's actually pretty easy to do this against any player. It's also called being biased as hell.)
Say Kobe would have a clearer edge because of all the Spurs teams he had to go through just to get to the finales. Not to mention played them before the rule change in 2005. As to who did better against atg defense is a different story i Thought Kobe did better against the Spurs and Lebron did better against the Celtics over all i need to look into the others.