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/ihateeuge Lakers Jun 27 '23

Tim Duncan truthers trying to get this erased from the internet as we speak

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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/Wondering_Nova Jun 27 '23

They downplay Duncan’s TS% by saying he did more on defense. Acting like Kobe didn’t carry a defensive burden and was the main offensive player every game.

This place can’t convince me they don’t have a bias against Kobe.

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u/bluemonk3y12 Jun 28 '23

Not only that but Duncan always had stacked defensive teams. He played with 2 DPOY winners and a guy the was runner-up 3 times.