What never seems to amaze me is how black and white sports writers make statistics to be. The only reason a writer will not explain the statistics is because if they do, it will hurt their analysis. Most people believe that since Player A's statistics are better than Player B's statistics, that alone is the reason why Player A is better than Player B. So far in his career, Kobe Bryant is averaging, Also note that despite being known as a volume shooter , Bryant is averaging Michael Jordan averaged For the ball hog Kobe critics make him out to be; at the end of the day, Jordan averaged more shot attempts than Bryant, 3.
To add icing on the cake you can say that Jordan had an overall statistical output than Bryant. He averaged more points 4. You could therefore make a correlation and say that since Jordan was so precise on his shooting, his percentage and shot attempts is the reason why he averaged 4. Jordan was drafted at age 21, out of college into a lottery team that had no star to call their own which made Jordan the main man his rookie year. For Bryant, his best seasons are the ones between and which are 10 total seasons.
Looking at Bryant's career between those seasons, he averaged View this post on Instagram. Samir Mehdi I've been around basketball and have been following the NBA for nearly a decade now, so why not pen down my thoughts on some of the greatest athletes the world has to offer. NBA Latest Post. That Bryant was able to duplicate so much of Jordan's game was among the reasons their relationship became so unique.
At first, Bryant pissed off Jordan the way a little brother would. But they became close friends in part because Jordan admired Bryant's relatable passion as much as his relatable skills. But we were very close friends," Jordan said at Bryant's memorial service in February. He was like a little brother. Everyone always wanted to talk about the comparisons between he and I. I just wanted to talk about Kobe. It was a nuisance, if I can say that word, but that nuisance turned into love over a period of time.
To the naked eye, Bryant might as well have been Jordan's twin in terms of playing style. Between the ages of 21 and 34, Jordan turned the ball over on just 9. Meanwhile, on defense Bryant looks like the Derek Jeter of the NBA — soaking up defensive accolades on reputation rather than performance. Over his career which includes 12 All-Defensive team nods the Lakers have only been 0. Synergy Sports, the video-tracking service that classifies every play a player is involved in, has the most favorable view of Bryant defensively but still considers him to be just a 55th percentile defender on aggregate since it began tracking full-season data in a span over which Bryant was named to six All-Defensive squads.
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