LOL, Kobe was there to facilitate the offense full time, and Jordan was there to facilitate the offense part time, so let us see how they did.
The top 10 offensive ratings of Kobe Bryant, which, according to KM, was facilitated by Bryant, vs. those of Jordan, who was merely doing it on a part time basis. For those who have trouble understanding stats, which based on observation seems to be all Kobestans, this is the points per 100 possessions scored when a said player was on the floor. So if Bryant was there to facilitate the offense, and he is such a great offensive genius, logic will have it that the Lakers will score a lot of points with him on the floor ..... Let's fire away.
KB - 115, 115, 115, 114, 112, 112, 112, 112, 111, 111 - Career average, 112
MJ - 125, 124, 123, 123, 123, 121, 121, 119, 118, 117 - Career average, 118
Keep in mind, these are points per 100 possessions, so pace doesn't affect the numbers. And before you go,
Kobe played in an era with more sophisticated offense
. The three seasons where Kobe had a 115 Ortg, the league average was 106.5, 107.5 and 108.3, or in other words, Kobe was 8%, 7%, and 6.3% better than league average.
In Jordan's three best seasons? The league average was 107.9, 107.6, and 108. Which means that Jordan was 15.8%, 15.2% and 13.9% better than average. In fact, excluding Jordan's Wizard and partial years (2nd year where he broke his foot and the comeback year), Jordan's three WORST years gave him Ortgs of 118, 117 and 114, while the league average was 107.9, 108.3, and 105, respectively. That means Jordan was 9.4%, 8.0%, 8.6% above league average.
Jordan's WORST year was equivalent to Kobe's BEST year, taking compe ion into account, while, according to KM, Kobe was facilitating 95% while Jordan was doing it part time!
. Jordan doing something part time in his WORST year = Kobe doing something full time in his BEST year. Hilarious!
Craig Hodges, Toni Kukoc, John Paxson, Steve Kerr are better supporting casts than a dominant front court because they can shoot! KM will take a 7 ppg 3 point shooter as compared to the most dominant player in his generation average 44 ppg in the finals!
this is comedy gold. Speaking of shooters, guess which team made more three pointersy? The 97 Bulls (Jordan's most dominant team playing in a non-shortened three point line), or the 09 Lakers (the weakest of the 5 LA championship teams)? You got that right, the Lakers did.
Is that why Kobe had more FGAs than Shaq despite Shaq shooting a way higher % and the centre of the offense? Is that why Kobe had a career average of 4.8 apg, with a career high of 6 apg when he had seasons of Shaq, MVPau, and Bynum in the middle, while Jordan had a career average of 5.3 apg with a career high of 8.0 while he had incredible inside scorers like Horace Grant, Dennis Rodman, Bill Cartwright, Bill Wennington, Will Perdue, Dave Corzine, and Cliff Levingston to pass to on a PART-TIME basis?
And he didn't do a good job at it. Jordan defended Isiah Thomas and/or Joe Dumars, Magic and/or Byron Scott, Drexler and/or Terry Porter, Kevin Johnson and/or Dan Marjele, Stockton and/or Hornacek, are you now trying to tell me Pippen guarded both players at the same time, or are you trying to say that BJ Armstrong was a lock down defender?
Your defense of Kobe was that he did everything worse, despite doing it full-time as compared to Jordan who was doing it part-time, but he did everything, so he was better? What the kind of logic is that? Let's give an A to Kobe for effort despite him sucking at his job. WTF is this? Kindergarten's everybody get an award day?
LOL, Rick Fox was brought it strictly as someone to stop perimeter players while Kobe was floating.
Let's look at player's DRtg, similar to the ORtg exercise above, but this time, the lower the number the better.
KB - 98, 102, 103, 103, 104, 104, 105, 105, 105, 105 - Career Average 105
MJ - 100, 100, 101, 102, 102, 102, 102, 102, 103, 103, 103 - Career Average 103
Best three seasons for Kobe, the league average was 104.1, 102.9 and 104.5, which means that Kobe was 5.9%,
.9% and 1.4% better than average.
Jordan? The league average was 107.6, 105, and 108. Which means that MJ was 7.1%, 4.8%, and 6.5% better than average. Again, taking Jordan's three worst non-Wizard full seasons, he had DRTG of 104, 106 and 107 vs. a league average of 108.3, 108.1 and 107.9. Which means that in the three WORST seasons of Jordan, he was 4%, 1.9%, and 0.8% better than average, numbers that are comparable to Kobe's BEST seasons.
at defensive playing ability of Kobe.
, getting annihilated and pulling hyperbolas.
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