With respect, what shooting guard averages 12 assists per game?
Kobe's job is to get buckets and he's one of the best of all time at it. He should be shooting the ball a lot. While Kobe will occasionally forces up a bad shot, he passes the ball plenty. I swear Kobe is the only guy in the league that will get 5 or 6 assists per game and be called a ball hog. A lot of people have a personal dislike for him and they are in a hurry to find fault with the guy. Michael Jordan averaged 5.4 assists per game for his career and you never hear the ball hog shit when people talk about him.
first of all we need to merge these NBA threads.
Pau gasol should take as many shots as kobe now.
Kobe is a all-time great, but lets get back to basics, pau was a big piece of those championships, ofcourse his on the decline, but kobe should feed him more his a great mid range shooter.
Did you say people never considered MJ a ball hog? I may have read it wrong, I believe he was, but pippen cant shoot, Longley couldn't neither.
Who did Jordan pass too when they won one of those championships, I think it was Kerr or paxson, I bet kobe takes that shot, kobe Bryant Mr 6-24 in a finals game bailed out by metta world peace.
You are correct kobe is a shooting guard, his job is to shoot, but last year with him having a career year they barely and I mean barely made the playoffs, only cause Utah froze in the last week and lakers crept in. Im going off topic now cause im now comparing him to mj which is just ludicrous.
I don't have a personal dislike about Bryant, I have his jersey albeit the number 8 but I have no issue personally with him, remember during the rape case, he went to court and flew back to the games, he would blitz everyone, he went on a 40 point streak at one point, im a laker fan at heart.
I just don't like him telling the media " howard should play through a torn labrum" not in those words but I know you know what im referring too, he does rub teammates the wrong way.
I read shaqs book, some players you could yell at and they would just brush it off and get motivated, but some players like Penny and Nick Anderson will run away and cry, Jordan punched steve kerr and kerr played stellar, Jordan cause of his history commands respect, most people believe its shaq that propelled kobe, shaq was a dominant force he would get them in a position to win, but his foul shooting was fucked so kobe picked up the slack, thanks to shaqs dominance and triple teams, kobe gets triple teamed and will still shoot. BTW kobe's shot attempts to assist ratio will be low..
Kobe is a ball hog, like Carmelo is, yes there job is too shoot, but when your losing, you need to change your game, you cant do the same thing night in night out and expect a different result..even us as getbig analysts know that teams will target the volume shooter knowing his mindset.
I have said enough, so you go, but I have a feeling were just going to go back and forth, but its all good.