Great to see that you are down to personal attacks on intelligence.
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I can never in a million years understand how you can say Kobe > Shaq as a Laker fan. Shaq took the Lakers out of a decade long drought of championships, or even contention, and gave you three straight. Shaq, for as short as his prime was, was clearly > Kobe in all aspects, even when just taking their Laker careers into account. -
Wrong. Shaq proved he was failure in Orlando. Got swept in his lone trip to the finals without Kobe and he had a stacked team
and he clearly coat-tailed Wade in 06. If not for that it would be Kobe 2 Daddy 0. Shaq was the most dominant no question but there is a huge difference in being the most dominant and the best...too bad you dumb-asses can't see it...the FACT is Shaq not only didn't be he couldn't win until Kobe came into his own. Let me give your re ass an example...while Shaq was more dominant Duncan was the better player skill wise..and being big men they both lacked the total skills that Kobe possessed so therefore Kobe was a better player than both of them...Kobe was also more dominant that Duncan..Duncan was dominant only 1 yr of his entire career and I think that was in 2001 if I'm not mistaken..Kobe's been both the best and dominant through-out his entire career.
As for stats of Kobe > Duncan, other than points, assists and steals (later being "guard" stats), there really isn't much you can say. Efficiency, rebounds, blks (big men stats), are Duncan's. When you put into account advanced stats, which is a much better measure of how a player contributes to a team's success, Duncan was better in WS/48 and difference of ORtg and DRtg, Duncan was better despite a lower usage rate.
Duncan contributed nothing to the game outside of SA...no one watches the game because of him...he's a just a boring cat to watch...fact is Kobe's stats as a 2nd option in LA are better than Duncan's as a first option in SA..I've posted proof ad nauseam before...Duncan is simply an inferior player to Kobe...dude couldn't even lead team USA when he had his chance and then he quit on his country...it's down right shameful conduct imho...
For Kool, puleaze, the dude was clearly trolling, and requires little attention. After a while, it's predictable and trite.
Nope...just all facts no trolling...
And as for ring counts to argue one player over another is consistently shown to be misguided and pure opinion. Kobe was clearly 2nd banana in 2000 to 2002, and yet you are summarizing as 5>4. You have clearly stated Horry > Kobe of 7>5 is stupid, and yet where do you put the cut off? Even you would have to admit Kobe was clearly batman in 2000 and 2001 (2002 was clear batman to me, but then you like to dismiss how the entire league was giving marginal bigmen contracts to foul Shaq, and nobody was making any special arrangements to contain Kobe) and you are counting those as equals to Duncan's 4 or Kobe's other 3? How does that work? You are just making standards up as you go.
Wrong..again numnuts
San Antonio hired all kinds of defensive specialists to try and contain Kobe..it was their primary job and the still failed...Bruce Bowen, Sean ******, Antonio Daniels, etc etc...Kobe torched every SA player..this had nothing to do with Shaq...Kobe torched your backcourt homie...Kobe torched players that don't rotate to double Shaq so I've just shat over your whole thesis..Popovich spent a lifetime trying to double Kobe and Kobe either broke the double or scored over it...I may be the only Laker fan on this site that won't let you re s rewrite history and if that's the case then so be it...
He also played horribly in 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2012, led his team nowhere in his absolute prime between 2005 and 2007.