Lakers: Official Kirby Bryant 2015-2016 FG% Thread

[HarlemHeat37]

Easy to say that looking back now that the highest payed player in the league is one of the worst. Do not give a free pass to the Buss children and Chaz, they think like Dale thinks, he was putting up 25/5/5 and deserved it.

Obviously the Lakers' ownership is extremely incompetent, overall, but the decision to keep Kobe was clearly a move that had virtually nothing to do with winning basketball games IMO..

Now that most Lakers fans have kind of turned on him a bit, the team can probably part ways with him without any backlash, unlike a few years ago..

[Splits]

Obviously the Lakers' ownership is extremely incompetent, overall, but the decision to keep Kobe was clearly a move that had virtually nothing to do with winning basketball games IMO..

Now that most Lakers fans have kind of turned on him a bit, the team can probably part ways with him without any backlash, unlike a few years ago..

You're giving too much credit to the Buss children. They had/have no idea what they were doing after Pappy had massive chest pains from which he couldn't recover. Probably had a REALLY painful death, tbh.

[Splits]

[Kool Bob Love]

^WTF?

[Thread]

Our gold weighs the same

Absolutely. A 2nd 5th weighs as much as the 1st 5th.

[Canyonero]

[Calispursfan11]

Holy the old guy is trying but he is bad. His wheels have actually fallen completely off.

[K...]

I'd pay $20 million for a big name star to ruin their legacy, sell tickets, periodically injury their teammates, take the ball away from the young talent, destroy their confidence, and teach them how not to act.

We might never know when the Lakers decided to go and pull a Philly like multi year tank, but they've been pretty successful about it. Now you can criticize the picks, but you can't criticize their tanking successes. If they can keep the pick this year they should win front office of the year or something.

[K...]

You lazy asses. Making pull these numbers myself:

320 and 208.

[DMC]

Absolutely. A 2nd 5th weighs as much as the 1st 5th.

A missing trophy weighs the same as 10 missing trophies.

[KaiRMD1]

What exactly would you do if you were him?...and don't give me that retirement . Answer a serious questions with some in' aplomb.

Try and help build the team, truly be a team builder. If he loves the lakers as much as he does and wants them to succeed, he would have tried to be less of a cancer and more of a solution. That contract sure doesn't help but at least we know Kobe has his eyes on retirement and leaving the lakers in the dust.

[Mori Chu]

.320!

[LkrFan]

Wait wait wait. Did he really do that shiiiiiiiiiiiit?

[spurraider21]

Wait wait wait. Did he really do that shiiiiiiiiiiiit?

Yeah while making 25 mil

[benefactor]

Having this thread and lol on the front page all season is going to make for good times.

[Mori Chu]

.320!

[Mori Chu]

Kobe vs. Heat -

DNP - TOSB

[gambit1990]

​How bad has Bryant’s start been? Historically bad. No player in the shot-clock era has shot as poorly as Bryant is shooting on a similar number of attempts per game. In fact, you have to go all the way back to 1951-52 to find a minutes-qualified player who completed a season with a worse efficiency/volume combination.

http://www.si.com/nba/2015/11/11/kob...l-brick-layers

[Brazil]

http://www.si.com/nba/2015/11/11/kob...l-brick-layers

oh boy...

[Splits]

http://www.si.com/nba/2015/11/11/kob...l-brick-layers

that article is hilarious, I'll go ahead and post the rest of it here so everyone can laugh without clicking the link

How bad has Bryant’s start been? Historically bad. No player in the shot-clock era has shot as poorly as Bryant is shooting on a similar number of attempts per game. In fact, you have to go all the way back to 1951-52 to find a minutes-qualified player who completed a season with a worse efficiency/volume combination. That man: “​Jumpin' Joe” Fulks, one of the NBA’s first high-volume scorers and a Hall of Famer who is credited with popularizing the jump shot.

Fulks shot just 31.2% on 17.7 attempts per game for the Philadelphia Warriorsthat season, a rough showing that nevertheless managed to land him on the 1952 All-Star team. ( just like Kirby) “When I was hot, I was really hot,” Fulks said, according to his official Murray State University biography. “But when I was cold, sometimes it was bad.” Hmm… who does that sound like?

To fully comprehend the scope of the Bryant/Fulks comparison, here’s a “highlight reel” of Fulks’s deliberate set up and wonky two-handed delivery in glorious black and white.



While Fulks was on the cutting edge of his time, pioneering a form of scoring that would change the game forever, Bryant looks to be reaching back to a past that is gone for good. Everything looks difficult this season: Bryant is throwing up an uncomfortable amount of airballs, he’s settling for three-pointers at a career-high rate, he’s not consistently getting to his spots off the dribble, he’s generating little offense in the basket area, and he’s regularly beaten back in transition. Nevertheless, he’s still posting a 28.7 usage rate, tops among Lakers rotation players, and he’s leading the Lakers in shots per game.

Take that all together, and Bryant has been one of the league’s most damaging shooters this season, falling far short of his long-established standard. Lakers coach Byron Scott has repeatedly said that Bryant is the “last guy” he’s worried about. Scott really needs to rethink that position, especially if he actually believes it. The age-related trend in Bryant’s shooting, influenced by three straight season-ending injuries, couldn’t be clearer.



While it might not stay quite this bad over the course of an 82-game season, it’s hard to envision Bryant orchestrating a remarkable turnaround. No one wins—not the Lakers, not Scott, not Bryant, and certainly not young building blocks like D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle—when Bryant takes and misses this many shots.

Jumpin' Kirby Fulks

[Mori Chu]

Last night, Kobe Bryant:

DNP - TOSB

[SpursFan86]

The Cop-out has already started

[velik_m]

http://www.si.com/nba/2015/11/11/kob...l-brick-layers

We had Air Jordan, now we have Airball Kobe.

[Splits]

3-8 from deep raises his season 3P% to 0.232

7-15 from the floor?

Raises his season FG% to....

0.339

[Mori Chu]

Splits ...