"I was at a bar the other day and some clown told me Kobe Bryant isn't a top 20 player. I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. There has been a cultural shift in the NBA and it's breaking my heart. We used to respect the opinions of coaches and players, now we listen to stat geeks who can't chew gum and tie their shoes at the same time. Nobody wants to use game footage as the basis of basketball debates anymore, everybody wants to extract data and do algorithms and all other types of nerd sh*t. It has become painstakingly clear that statistics have failed Kobe Bryant."
I agree
Kobe has one of the 2 worst supporting casts in the NBA right now, but if they weren't tanking they would probably be 7-9 instead of 3-13. A 36 year old Kobe Bryant has the ability to will a team full of 8th man level players to victory solely by playing "the right way". People refuse to accept this fact because there is no stat that can quantify it.
Have statistics ever failed another player as bad as they've consistently failed Kobe?
I agree
Kobe has one of the 2 worst supporting casts in the NBA right now, but if they weren't tanking they would probably be 7-9 instead of 3-13. A 36 year old Kobe Bryant has the ability to will a team full of 8th man level players to victory solely by playing "the right way". People refuse to accept this fact because there is no stat that can quantify it.
Have statistics ever failed another player as bad as they've consistently failed Kobe?
