so let me see if I have this straight:
90-blazers lose 3 games at home against an all-time great defense.
91-blazers lose against heavy underdog lakers despite league best record.
92-blazers blow 15-point 4th quarter lead with jordan on the bench.
was known, along with his teammates, to be mentally fragile.
95-wins 1st title playing second fiddle to hakeem.
never had a great jumper, yet will supposedly beat an all-time great defense because he played zone in college?
gotcha.
kobe does not have the ability to gain separation and score under duress like drexler.
when healthy, drexler shot better from the field, than kobe.
[he was hampered via injury in the lakers loss in wcf. also injury, hampered him in the pistons loss in the first trip finals, as well]
also,..drexler was a better dribble drive player, and finisher.
kobe also did not beat a celt's team using a zone.
drexler owned zone based d, and was a better above the rim scorer and dribble drive scorer. with a better pull up j,...a pull up j, kobe does not have.
illustrated and exploited by the ghost zone.
the zone d was added to up scoring from the higher bball iq era of drexler's day.
to aid the lowest bball iq era, kobe plays in.
where kobe failed to convert.
against a zone based era that illicits 23% percent base higher scoring per player.
evident by kobe's average going from mid 20's, in the old illegal defense rules era.
to his bean era days of significantly higher, ppg.
when drexler averaged significantly higher ppg than kobe, in a higher bball iq era. that did not feature zone because it was a defunct defensive tool to higher bball iq rich players in that era.
drexler, on a team with four other high quality ball players.
including, rod strickland on the bench killing it as well.
so drexler would have gone from 27ppg at his healthy period
times,...25%,..to also equal kobe's close to and above thirty in the zone based d era.
plus, drexler shot better and employed a higher iq and higher pedigree'd and educated shot selection.
incomparison to kobe when healthy as well.
evident by his numbers in 88-89.
next with the dream a versatile big,...drexler in an aged role beat a dominant young shaq.
a shaq magic team whom also had shooters, a much better frontcourt ex three peat important cog bull, horace grant, and that shining penny, as a great pg. for a big three like the boston three party, in boston.
so a healthy younger dexler with gasol could technically repeat phi slamma jam history in an inferior ball iq era.
for drexler to beat the celtics, using the ghostzone.
as gasol is a euro with a high bball iq.
when not verbally abused and doubted by kobe.
the same kobe who ballhogged and deflected.
to eventually post losses in o8, then and now in the past two off's.
the same gasol who executed in game seven.
when kobe before freethrows and ron artest saved the day.
only had seeventeen points and need to be bailed out.
to beat the wounded incarnation of the ghostzone with a higher pedigree'd frontcourt iq wise wih sheed wallace.
plus drexler would not ruin gasol's heart or mental complexion.
like kobe did in the finals, to now, and the present.
drexler would have annihilated boston's zone in this era with just gasol.
plus with phil's coaching and implementation of the triangle.
kobe never really used or executed well in,..under duress in a zine.
all because of his low bball iq and execution level under duress.
plus, kobe's inability to gain separation from multiple defenders.
all skills and then some drexler always employed when healthy.
art barr