Shaq Says Penny Was Every Bit As Good As Kobe

[Buckeye Fever]

Take the word of a man who tries to persuade you to buy insurance from The General, brehs

 

[theflyest]

Shaq is one precarious dude. The stuff this dude be saying sometimes is just

I know Penny was a more efficient player...definitely a better playmaker. I could see how he was probably more fun for Shaq to play with. But to say he was “just as good”

Penny was never as dominant as Kobe was. At his peak he was a 21/8/7 guy

At Kobe’s peak he was a 30/5/6 guy


That’s a big difference. Don’t get Shaq sometimes...

Penny didn't have a prime.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

What shaq saying is not wild though

Y’all must ain’t see penny play


The brother game was damn near flawless for goodness sake

We never got the chance to see breh hit that next gear, which is scary. Injuries are a bytch

 

[Knicksman20]

What shaq saying is not wild though

Y’all must ain’t see penny play


The brother game was damn near flawless for goodness sake

Truth bro. Some of these guys are going off YT highlights & weren't old enough or even born back then. Penny was a MONSTER & was scary good. His IQ & playing making were off the charts; and he could score all over your best defender. The Magic Johnson comparisons were rampant back then but his offensive game was already insane

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Just as good talent wise. Work ethic set them apart. Shaq could be right

Is this based on some known knock on Penny's work ethic, or just a random baseless claim? I've always heard that Penny had a fantastic work ethic. You don't build that level of skill by age 21 unless you are working constantly on your game. And there were all sorts of stories about how he worked coming up from poverty, getting shot, going from not even being academically eligible due to his shytty educational upbringing to graduating with a 3.4 GPA, etc.

At just 23 years old Penny made 1st-team All-NBA and took his team to the Finals where he averaged 26-5-8 on 50/46/91 shooting splits. That wasn't from any sort of pure athleticism or just inborn skill - he worked very hard to get there.

How do you know he wouldn't have continued working hard and improving his game if he hadn't gotten hurt? I mean even the way he came back from 5 knee surgeries to last 14 years in the league is evidence of a strong work ethic.

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

We never got the chance to see breh hit that next gear, which is scary. Injuries are a bytch

It’s only so many guards all time that’s better then penny.it’s not ten pgs sgs or sf u can name better then penny overall

I challenge anyone


Orl Magic Penny vs d wade ?

Who u got

 

[KidJSoul]

To be fair, Shaq and Penny made the Finals in just Penny's second year

And then made the ECF the year after where they lost to Michael Jordan's Bulls.

Who knows what Penny and Shaq could have accomplished if they stayed together

 

[En Sabah Nur]

Penny only took like 15 shots per game in his “prime” because he deferred to Shaq, plus Nick Anderson and Dennis Scott were also getting you about 15-18ppg. That’s why his 21ppg in his best seasons seems “low” compared to the stars of today. Not to mention the era he played in. I remember I had an Inside Stuff magazine where Penny said he felt he could lead the league in scoring. Unfortunately, this was right before he got injured, and right after Shaq departed for LA. Penny was a 3 level scorer with excellent court vision and handles at 6’7”. His ceiling was extremely high.

And the overall pace of the game was slowed down in the mid 90s. Forget the numbers, if you just saw the man play you knew...
Penny was better in his first 4 years than Kobe was in his first 4
Then in the 4th year the injuries started piling on, but he still had the Magic in the playoffs as the 7th seed with no Shaq ...dropped back to back 40 point games and brought them back from 0-2

But it was downhill from there

 

[Thegospel]

Is this based on some known knock on Penny's work ethic, or just a random baseless claim? I've always heard that Penny had a fantastic work ethic. You don't build that level of skill by age 21 unless you are working constantly on your game. And there were all sorts of stories about how he worked coming up from poverty, getting shot, going from not even being academically eligible due to his shytty educational upbringing to graduating with a 3.4 GPA, etc.

At just 23 years old Penny made 1st-team All-NBA and took his team to the Finals where he averaged 26-5-8 on 50/46/91 shooting splits. That wasn't from any sort of pure athleticism or just inborn skill - he worked very hard to get there.

How do you know he wouldn't have continued working hard and improving his game if he hadn't gotten hurt? I mean even the way he came back from 5 knee surgeries to last 14 years in the league is evidence of a strong work ethic.

Work ethic, injuries whatever. Bottomline is I get where Shaq coming from.

 

[BK The Great]

Penny never got over that hump, and that injury changed his trajectory ever since. He’s like Grant Hill in a sense, legendary bit could’ve been way more.

 

[Dwight Howard]

Penny was a monster. He was more talented than Kobe. I doubt he had Kobe's drive to be great tho.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Penny never got over that hump, and that injury changed his trajectory ever since.

Penny was 1st-team All-NBA and a playoff monster by his 2nd and 3rd years, then got his first injury during the playoffs his 3rd year. Which "hump" was he failing to get over?

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

That is really interesting in my opinion!

 

[VBM]

Kobe got to play with peak Shaq. Penny didn't.

 

[mson]

People like using that argument only when it agrees with their opinion.

Posters here were saying that Jerry West’s opinion on Lebron being better than Kobe doesn’t count because of West’s mental Illness/depression.

Jerry has depression?