TheDoors24 wrote:You know Basketball is more than just offense right? Kobes offense, defense, accolades and longevity along with a billion other reasons clearly shows he should be above curry.
I know you're a warriors fan so of course you're view is biased and thats fine it's absolutely natural plus you're also in the mist of watching Curry in his prime right now but most would agree that Kobe should be ahead of him. Honestly i would put Durant ahead of him as well.
When i was in the middle of watching Kobe in his prime i was like "omg this has to be the best player ever the stuff he's doing is stunning blah blah" but once you see things objectively and then you'll realize that current Curry over Kobe is silly.
Sure basketball is more than offense. It's more than just defense. It's also more than just offense and defense of a single player. It's a team game. Kobe had two seasons where his team ranked in the top 3 in defense. Curry has had three such seasons. People will claim that Curry's teammates are more responsible for the defense and that is probably true, but it is also true those teams wouldn't have had the same success defensively and overall without the offense Curry provided. Curry's offense allowed his teams to be great defensively.
What the billion other reasons that show Kobe should be ahead of Curry elude me. Feel free to start enumerating.
You may feel that Kobe is ahead and that Durant is ahead too but at least one analysis of their scoring, which is the calling card of both Kobe and Durant, based mainly on cold hard numbers actually concluded Curry was a better scorer than both. Invoking objectivity here is likely to help Curry not hurt him.
It's understandable if you have an attachment to Kobe and felt when watching him that "omg this has to be the best player ever the stuff he's doing is stunning blah blah" but you have to realize Curry has inspired the same awe for performances that were quite unlike anything seen before.
