by Bang on Thu May 05, 2005 8:37 pm
Stats aren't everything.
"There people that dominate the ball but don't dominate the game"
Look at Stephon Marbury...He has 8.1 assists per game! 8.1! Shouldn't that mean he is an unselfish player?
How about looking at the fact that Kobe has a 43 FG%, the lowest he's had in many many many years? And for the 13 players that have more FG attempts than him, only AI, Tmac, Arenas, Antoine Walker and Steve Francis have lower percentages than him. Aren't those players largely regarded as selfish players? What does that mean? He shoots bad shots, he plays selfishly. How does he get all those assists? With all those double teams, he's gotta assist sometimes. It's assisting for the sake of assisting, not playing team ball. Kobe made 20% of the shots. And that's not even counting the games he was injured. He was injured more than all the other starting cast. So let's see...
Kobe 20 FGA/games played
Butler 12.8 FGA/games played
Atkins 11 FGA/games played
Odom 12 FGA/games played
I forgot, Kobe also attempts 30% of the team's free throws. You see, Kobe does hog the ball. How would he get so many shots?
How is it that with such an "unselfish" Kobe the team has 329 fewer assists than the league average!! (that's 4 assists per game.) FYI, they are 22nd in assists. Also 22nd in FG%.
Oh yea the APG - APG Opponents = -4.01.
Coincidentally, it happens to be that the Lakers have the biggest assist differential. I think Kobe has nothing to do with it, even though Kobe is the heart of the team. (Extreme sarcasm there.)
Billups and Jay Williams has much less FGA than Kobe.
Tmac, well he is selfish. bleah.
KG is shooting at 50 FG%, would you really want to make that many assists? Plus he played more games. Huh, he only has 16.5 attempts per game, that's 3.5 or so less than Kobe...PER GAME.
As for Jerry Buss being the next Krause...that is totally wrong. Jerry Buss has had very very very few lottery seasons and never hired a person named Tim Floyd. I think not hiring Tim Floyd kinda beats the hell out of the other arguments I could've made.
Bored.