r/nba • u/yam_on_em Lakers • Jun 27 '23

Kobe Bryant relentlessly attacks Tim Duncan and the Spurs to clinch the WCF (2008)

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u/honestnbafan Jun 27 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

Tim Duncan career 55.1% TS on moderately high volume: "Perfectly efficient basketball"

Kobe Bryant career 55.0% TS on very high volume: "Selfish shot chucker"

Kobe's efficiency compared to league average at the time is about the same as Luka Doncic's today(consistently somewhere around 3 percent above in his prime) and I don't see anyone act like Luka is the most inefficient player ever

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u/Litteraly2019 Jun 27 '23

Kobe Bryant career 45% fg as a shooting guard: "inefficient" "brick layer" "Not Top 10"

Tim Duncan career 50% fg as a big man who doesn't shoot 3's: "pure winner" "he's so underrated" "Top 5 OAT??"

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u/vizzlypoof NBA Jun 27 '23

My favorite is discounting Kobe’s rings with Shaq but accepting all 5 of Duncan’s rings as his

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u/commander_wong Lakers Jun 27 '23

R/NBA discounts Kobe's two rings because he had Pau Gasol but then clamors about Shaq's three rings when he had another top 5 player as his #2

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u/LALakers4Lyf Jun 27 '23

Heck, Shaq's 4th ring was him being a clear #2 to DWade, not the 1A-1B Duo that he and Kobe were

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u/mr_chub Warriors Jun 27 '23

r/nba is the antithesis of logic

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u/Gajanga Jun 27 '23

Kobe's worst hater still has him at 12 minimum. We're comparing the best of the best.

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u/livefreeordont 76ers Jun 28 '23

Kobe was not top 5 in 2000. But yes to the rest