I would call him the best jockey ever.
05-07 with no Shaq or Pau, Prime Kobe's Lakers were four games below .500 (121-125) with no second round appearances.
Pau hadn't won one playoff game. Not one.
Kobe had Odom and Butler. That was like a 2A-2B-3 combo. Pau had nobody. That's why they went from a playoff team to a team that couldn't win 20 games when he wasn't playing.
I don't speak gay code.
They are sour because Jim lost 18 times to Kobe in the playoffs, hence the MVPau talk, even though the numbers don't support that.
The numbers don't lie.
09 Finals
Kobe - 43 FG
Pau -60 FG
10 Finals*
Kobe 40.5 FG
Pau 47.8 FG
*Game 7: Kobe 7-28 FG, Pau makes game winning shot.
08-09 Playoffs:
Kobe's PER: 26.8
Pau's PER: 21.9
Kobe's Win Shares: 4.7
Pau's WS: 4.3
Kobe's WS per 48: .238
Pau's WS per 48: .221
Kobe's VORP: 2.2
Pau's Vorp: 2.0
Kobe's BPM: 7.5
Pau's: 6.5
Pau led the team in WS both seasons. Kobe was a 40 FG shooter in both finals. Pau carried Kobe, tbh.
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