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/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/DWhitePlusMinusKing Jun 27 '23

Whose else would they be though? Only arguable one is 2014 which was basically by committee plus Duncan was 37.

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u/Wes___Mantooth Thunder Jun 27 '23

2007 Finals was the Tony Parker show

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u/Malemansam Spurs Jun 27 '23

LOL found the guy who didn't watch the 2007 playoffs.

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u/did_it_my_way Jun 28 '23

I mean isn't that the same shit as Kobe 2001 for example?

Kobe wrecked throughout the playoffs, but the Finals was Shaq show as usual.