Kobe Bryant has become UNDERRATED thanks to NBA analytics nerds | Los Angeles Lakers
Jason explains why he has Kobe Bryant as the third highest peak of the 21st century for the Los Angeles Lakers and why he’s somehow become underrated in the history of the NBA.
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Kobe has become the most underrated athlete in the history of sports.
Black Mamba FTW!! 🎉❤
RIP 😢😭
Try doing a video where your hair doesn't look greasy af.
Kobe is an example of someone who I actually think would have been seen as 'worse' in today's era. So many players like to talk about how past players would be so much better today with all the offensive advantages and would average 40, but I think Kobe was absolutely perfect for his time.
His shot diet was very difficult. Some of it was a product of the times, but some of it was self-inflicted. He was the closest thing to MJ, but was never really as good as MJ when it came to putting pressure on the rim so it meant he wasn't as efficient and had to settle for more and more contested shots.
But in that era, it absolutely was 100% necessary to have someone that could get you 25+ points, even if it was on 25+ shots. And his scoring held up in the even slower grind of the playoffs.
People today would fixate too much on efficiency and forget that.
There is no version of Kobe that was better than Shaq at his best. There just wasnt
He’s a top 25 of all time player. He’s not even a top 5 laker of all time. I’m sorry dude but I’m done, you’ve officially jumped the shark between your Kobe cult worship and disrespect of Giannis.
It's so odd to me. I remember how much of a savage he was. I watched him will victories out of sheer will and determination time and time again. Breaking down defenses, making and taking the hard shots… He was one of, if not the best closer I had witnessed that entire era. I remember his evolution–All the hype he had coming in–That disappointing first playoff series where 4 airballs led to being eliminated by Utah… I remember people being pretty down on him right after that–Only for him to come back like a hurricane. I remember how inspiring that indomitable, "aint shit gettin' in my way" attitude was. It was like something shifted. He became a machine. He was that guy shooting freethrows on a torn achilles, and playing through dislocated fingers. I believe his Lakers was the last team to ever 3-peat. I know it was with Shaq, but he won 2 without him. Right now, at this moment, he has more rings than Bron. Rings he was a major factor in attaining, that he did all on one team. And people say Bron's the goat? How? I got Kobe at 2. Behind MJ, in front of Lebron.
Fosho – Folks Playing The Blac(k) 🐍 Mamba Short!!!
My PG/SG/SF GOAT’s by Decade:
70’s: Dr. J 👨🏾⚕️
80’s: Magic 🪄
90’s: MJ 🐐
00’s: Blac(k) Mamba 🐍
10’s: LBJ 👑
20’s: ???
Big Men GOAT’s by Decade:
70’s – The Captain 👨🏽✈️
80’s – The Captain 👨🏽✈️
90’s – The Dream 💭
00’s – Shaq 🦸🏾♂️ (Duncan a close 2nd)
10’s – Dwight 🦸🏾♂️/ The Brow
20’s – Joker n Lead & it’s Not Close!!! 🃏
I Don’t think 🤔 it’s fair to compare Smaller Men to Big Men bcuz Shaq couldn’t stop MJ & MJ couldn’t stop Shaq.
Maybe hes a little underrated now but he was never a top 3 player all time like some people said he was
Kobe from 1999 to 2013 which is his 15 all nba season true shooting was above league average every year and also had a higher true shooting than Duncan and garnett who are bigs during that same stretch. Both kobe and Duncan have the same career true shooting at 55 percent and that includes kobe post Achilles tear seasons too.
You underrated Kobe saying you would take Steph over him. Kobe made 12 defensive teams, 9 first teams.
As a Dubs fan, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are now both becoming underrated!
Jordan was NOT inefficient by modern standards. Wade was NOT inefficient by modern standards. LeBron was NOT inefficient by modern standards.
This is such a disingenuous argument.
Kobe was less efficient because he would rather take a bad shot than pass to an open teammate who he deemed didn't work as hard as him. Period.
And that's not speculation. He said that.
*****
Jason is a Laker fan so I get it but still disappointing we need to pretend it's about era
Id argue he became overrated after he died.
Because as is typical with athletes dying too young, they get a weird "sympathy bump" when it comes to how good they were.
Its ruined the MVP voting too. These people have a superficial understanding of the actual analytics and the context required to get a true understanding of player impact yet place a premium on the data.
I would take 2008 Kobe over 2009 but I assume this is only players who won the title that season
I get that in 2009 he won the championship. But his real peak was in his 03 season like he himself said or it was in his 05-06 season imo.
This guy uses analytics to back up every argument he makes by also cherry picking too. He has a lot of recency bias though so it’s expected with these kids.
I think part of it is his death. If we could have heard him talk about basketball the past few years, i think some of the younger fans would have realized how smart of a player he really was. I feel like that would have influenced some guys just looking at his stats in retrospect and without comparison to his own era.
He would have made a great analyst and it's a shame we missed out on what would have been a great ambassador for basketball for decades after his career.