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LeBron: 34.5% on 6100 career threes
Kobe: 32.9% on 5546 career threes
LEBRON IS GUARDED FOR THE DRIVE & PASS
KOBE WAS GUARDED ONCE HE CROSSED HALF COURT
IF U THINK LEBRON IS AS GOOD A SHOOTER AS KOBE THEN U SHOULD STICK TO BASEBALL
IF U DONT UNDERSTAND THE GAME BEYOND NUMBERS THEN LOOK AT FT% .. THE ONLY SHOT WHERE THEYRE BOTH GUARDED THE SAME
This is such fukking cap. You don't even believe this delusional bullshyt.
Except Love is an ASS player in the post. He can't score down low because he had no hops and wasn't strong enough to bully anyone. That's why he was just a 45% shooter in Minnesota even though he was technically a "big man". Love got his scoring off of midrange jumpers, 3pts, and finesse finishes on Ricky Rubio pick-and-rolls, and mostly bulked up the numbers stat-padding in garbage time cause Minny always down 20 in the second half of every game. Also he lost weight mid-career and that made him even more ineffective inside than he was before.
Here's an article from 2012 before K-Love got anywhere near Cleveland:
Breaking Down Kevin Love’s Post Game
"Kevin Love is a shooter before anything else. Even though we would expect him, as a power forward, to be comfortable playing close to the basket, the centerpiece of Love’s game is his jump shot. He often struggles to score in the post, though it isn’t for lack of trying. According to Synergy Sports, Love posts up on 21.9 percent of his possessions — more than any other type of play this season. But Love shoots just 41.2 percent in the post and scores 0.881 points per possession."
In Kevin Love's last season in Minnesota before he joined Cleveland, he only took 25% of his shots at the rim. During his 4 years with Bron, he averaged 21-22% of his shots at the rim. First season after Bron left he also shot 21% of his shots at the rim and in the 3 seasons since then it's gone all the way down to 11%.
If it was Bron's fault Kevin Love wasn't scoring in the paint, then why the fukk didn't he score in the paint the season before Bron or the seasons after Bron?
Total bullshyt. Kobe took shots from Shaq and Pau in critical situations over and over and over again.
1999 WCSF. First year that Kobe had enough confidence to start taking a lot of shots. Even though he's only 20 and was a low-% shooter all year on a team with TWO elite scoring all-stars (Shaq and Glen Rice) who were both #1 options on semifinals playoff teams the year before.....
Kobe 76 shots at 45%
Shaq 67 shots at 50%
Lakers get swept in 4 by a team led by 2nd-year Duncan and a post-injury hobbled Admiral.
(Kobe tried to shoot the Lakers out of the 2000 Finals by going 4-20 and 8-27 in the final two games of the series, but thankfully Shaq's dominance was so great - 17-27 for 35 points and 19-32 for 41 points - that the Lakers won anyway.)
2003 WCSF: Loaded Lakers were on a roll with a three-peat but Kobe was feeling spicy that Shaq was getting all the credit as the clear #1. So he thinks he needs to take all the shots and shoots them right out of the series
Kobe: 159 shots at 43%
Shaq: 102 shots at 56%
Lakers lose in 6 to a team with Duncan and role players.
2004 Finals: Having seen what happened the year before, Pistons explicitly planned to goad Kobe into shooting his team out of the series. Kobe desperately seeking his first Finals MVP, obeys admirably and shots them right out of the series even though Shaq was just single-covered by Wallace all series.
Kobe: 113 shots at 38%
Shaq: 84 shots at 63%
Lakers lose in 5 to a heavy underdog with no superstars
2008 Finals: Lakers took off when Pau came on board to save a team that hadn't won a single playoff series in 3 years with Kobe in charge. Pau was a 20ppg scorer leading a playoff squad in Memphis, it's clear that he'd have to take a step back deferring to Kobe. But at least during the regular season he still averaged 13 FGA a game....then the first three rounds of the playoffs he averaged 14 FGA and 18ppg....but when the Finals came around, Kobe got greedy again and suddenly Pau just getting 10 FGA a game while Kobe shoots them out of the series.
Kobe: 131 shots at 40%
Pau: 62 shots at 53%
Odom: 60 shots at 52%
Lakers lose in 6, ending on the biggest elimination game blowout loss in Finals history
(damn near the same thing happened in 2010 Finals Game 7, with Kobe shooting 6-24 while desperately failing to improve his history of sucking ass in every elimination game he had as a leader. Thankfully the refs bailed them out at the line.)
Why does that happen over and over to the "unselfish" Kobe? Why is it that in critical close series when his team had a clear advantage inside, he constantly shot his team out of games instead of feeding his superior bigs?
RIGHT ON CUE, I KNEW U WOULD JUST POST A BUNCH OF NUMBERS LMFAO
U LACK THE CAPACITY FOR THIS DISCUSSION BRODIE .. U ARE ABOUT AS GOOD AS A COMPUTER. FUCCED UP PART ABOUT IT, MOST BRON SLURPERS WHO NEVER PLAYED BALL ARE EXACTLY LIKE U, JUST LESS ADAMANT WIT IT
I LITERALLY JUST SHOWED U WHERE KEVIN LOVE SAID LEBRON MADE HIM A SPOT UP SHOOTER + MADE THE GAME HARD FOR HIM, AND THEN U REPLY WITH CALCULATIONS TO DISPROVE KEVIN LOVE’S OWN WORDS ON PLAYIN WIT BRON
UR BEYOND HELP
YOU’LL SEE THE TRUTH WHEN ITS TIME.
You literally lied about Bron having all-stars on those squads and I'm the one juezling?
Meanwhile you just wrote all-caps text walls just repeating over and over with no evidence that Bron gives his teammates all the tough shots?
LEBRON DIDNT HAVE ALL-STARS ON THE CLEVELAND SQUADS?
LOL OK
THATS THE POINT
CAN U SEE PAU OUTPLAYIN KG OR DWIGHT ON A LEBRON TEAM?
U ARE DELUSIONAL IF U THINK THATS EVEN UP FOR DISCUSSION
AGAIN, THIS ISNT QUANTIFIABLE, SO A PERSON LIKE YOURSELF WHO ADMITTEDLY HAS A PROCESSING DISORDER WONT BE ABLE TO GRASP IT WITOUT THE ANALYTICAL DATA TO SPELL IT OUT FOR U
I C U
You mean the way that AD outplayed Jokic on a LeBron team? That was on YOUR Lakers, dumbass, and you already forgot it happened?
Not to mention that the #1 way Pau impacted against Dwight and KG was his rebounding and defense, which had jack shyt to do with Kobe. Kobe still wasn't getting Pau shots in 2008-2010, Pau only averaged 10, 12, and 13 FGA in those three Finals but he still managed to carry the team by shooting a high %, dominating the boards, and locking down Dwight/KG on defense, which none of Bron's bigs could do.
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But we weren't talking about all his Cleveland squads, dumbass. We were literally talking about the 3 years he had his highest scoring totals. He didn't play with another all-star any of those three years.
Can you read? My first paragraph only had 1 number in it, then I quoted a paragraph from Grantland that had just 3 numbers. Were you incapable of understanding the entire argument or are you just pretending not to be able to read?
Not only played but coached the game too, whereas I'm willing to bet you haven't ever played or coached at a level higher than where random half-employed guys hired off the street were calling your fouls.
And I literally just showed you that Kevin Love is a little bytch who couldn't score in the post long before he was anywhere near LeBron. Which part of that did you not understand?
Breaking Down Kevin Love’s Post Game
"Kevin Love is a shooter before anything else. Even though we would expect him, as a power forward, to be comfortable playing close to the basket, the centerpiece of Love’s game is his jump shot. He often struggles to score in the post, though it isn’t for lack of trying. According to Synergy Sports, Love posts up on 21.9 percent of his possessions — more than any other type of play this season. But Love shoots just 41.2 percent in the post and scores 0.881 points per possession."
In Kevin Love's last season in Minnesota before he joined Cleveland, he only took 25% of his shots at the rim. During his 4 years with Bron, he averaged 21-22% of his shots at the rim. First season after Bron left he also shot 21% of his shots at the rim and in the 3 seasons since then it's gone all the way down to 11%.
I really want to hear which part of that you didn't understand. Love couldn't do jack shyt in the post at an elite level and NEVER has, not before, during, or after his time with LeBron. Why would a team with two elite scorers like Bron and Kyrie clog up the middle with Love so he could just get turnovers and low-% two-pointers?
You mean the way that AD outplayed Jokic on a LeBron team? That was on YOUR Lakers, dumbass, and you already forgot it happened?
Not to mention that the #1 way Pau impacted against Dwight and KG was his rebounding and defense, which had jack shyt to do with Kobe. Kobe still wasn't getting Pau shots in 2008-2010, Pau only averaged 10, 12, and 13 FGA in those three Finals but he still managed to carry the team by shooting a high %, dominating the boards, and locking down Dwight/KG on defense, which none of Bron's bigs could do.
You have to be functionally retarded, that has no relation to an auditory processing disorder whatsoever.
Didn't you try to guess that it was like autism before and now you think it has something to do with numbers?
AD OUTPLAYED BRON TOO .. HE WAS A BETTER PLAYER THAT SEASON. AD IS ALSO A TOP 75 ALL TIME.. NOT A COMPARABLE SCENARIO.
IMAGINE HAVING A PROCESSING DISORDER WHICH HINDERS YOU FROM UNDERSTANDING THAT PLAYING DEFENSE AND REBOUNDING IS DIRECTLY CORRELATED WITH HOW GOOD YOUR LEADER IS AT PUSHING U, ALL BECAUSE ITS NOT QUANTIFIABLE
PAU WAS AN AWFUL DEFENDER BEFORE KOBE GOT TO HIM .. LEBRON WOULDA HAD HIM LOOKIN LIKE ANTAWN JAMISON AFTER 2 YEARS
I LOOKED UP YOUR DISORDER:
THIS EXPLAINS WHY BASKETBALL IS SO HARD FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND WITOUT THE NUMBERS.
APD:
- talk louder than necessary
- talk softer than necessary
- have trouble remembering a list or sequence
- often need words or sentences repeated
- have poor ability to memorize information learned by listening
- interpret words too literally
- need assistance hearing clearly in noisy environments
- rely on accommodation and modification strategies
- find or request a quiet work space away from others
- request written material when attending oral presentations
- ask for directions to be given one step at a time
SORRY MAYN
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HERE WE GO WIT THE AD-HOMINEM ATTACKS
SOME1 GETTIN A LIL MAD I SEE
ULL BE ALRIGHT CHAMP. THERE ARE OTHER AREAS U CAN EXCEL IN.
Nobody but Bron haters thought AD was a better player that season. Bron was 2nd in MVP voting and AD was 5th, with Bron ahead on almost every single ballot. Multiple Lakers and even other players around the league were campaigning for Bron MVP.
And let's just gloss over the fact that you falsely claimed a big like Pau wouldn't be able to outplay another great big on LeBron's team, and are trying to gloss over the fact that a big who plays just like Pau was able to do exactly that against an MVP-level center while alongside Bron.
I'm trying to figure out if "written" or "oral" is the word there you didn't understand?
WTF about preferring written material cause you can't hear clearly would somehow translate to any of the dumb shyt you've said?
Is that another word you don't understand? What do you think you've been doing the last 5 comments?
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That's not actually true, just another casual take. In Memphis Pau was a perfectly fine defender one-on-one, and he got a lot of blocks as well, his only issue was he was easy to beat by guys driving into the lane. I remember when the Lakers acquired him everyone said he'd fit in perfectly to the Lakers defensively cause they had a bunch of long players to shut down driving lanes and help off-ball. Pau was a plus defender for the Lakers literally the moment he got there.
Also, in those big Finals neither Dwight nor old KG were the kind of players that beat anyone off the dribble, and both Orlando and Boston were full of jump-shooters so they weren't exploiting Pau down there either. It was just a perfect matchup situation for LA.
Low-key Pau was a great leader already before he came to the Lakers too. In Memphis he led them to 3 straight postseason appearances while Kobe only had two, and Pau was getting his teams better seeds with arguably a worse supporting cast.
Nope review the Stats ... at 40 or older MJ was the only one to have consecutive 40+PT games...At 37 he was still on the bulls...Theres a 50 PT game if you look hard enoughMore than MJ after age of 37
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Bu bu but Bron only bulldozes and takes the close range easy shots.LeBron: 34.5% on 6100 career threes
Kobe: 32.9% on 5546 career threes
