I get your point. But scoring is a bad example.
Tim Duncan scored less points in his career than Moses Malone, Dominique Wilkins, Hakeem, Dirk, Shaq, Karl Malone...But I would pick TD over any of those players. And I would choose Kawhi over Kobe without a doubt.
Kawhi is a more complete and versatile player than Kobe. I would say he's way better than Kobe.
(Edit: Kawhi has a unique way to dominate games but if I have to choose I would say it's more jordan-esque than kobesque.)
This or his 10 pts in 2' vs GSW could help to understand