Kobe Bryant is he overrated or underrated all time?

[sammdogg]

Uhh, no.

Game 5 - 8 points, 4-20 FG (20% shooting)
Game 6 - 26 points, 8-27 FG (29.6% shooting)

What you should have said is that he only ha one good game in the series (game 4), and even that wasn't great (14-27 FG for 28 points).

well you cant argue with results

[Jacks3]

Uhh, no.

Game 5 - 8 points, 4-20 FG (20% shooting)
Game 6 - 26 points, 8-27 FG (29.6% shooting)

What you should have said is that he only ha one good game in the series (game 4), and even that wasn't great (14-27 FG for 28 points).

26/10/4/2/1 with only 1 TO and an excellent defensive game in the clinching game of the NBA Finals certainly isn't a bad game. And I think game 4 was a great game when you consider what he did in the 4th quarter and overtime.

[OldSchoolBBall]

26/10/4/2/1 with only 1 TO and an excellent defensive game in the clinching game of the NBA Finals certainly isn't a bad game.

26 points on 8-27 FG is sh!t, sorry. Anyone except you would agree with that. What "excellent defensive game" did he have? Rose and Miller (the guys he was guarding) both had better games than Kobe did (29/25 points on far better shooting than Kobe).

[sammdogg]

26 points on 8-27 FG is sh!t, sorry. Anyone except you would agree with that. What "excellent defensive game" did he have? Rose and Miller (the guys he was guarding) both had better games than Kobe did (29/25 points on far better shooting than Kobe).

yet... they have no ring.

[OldSchoolBBall]

yet... they have no ring.

He said that Kobe had an excellent defensive game when he had nothing of the sort in order to act like it offset his atrocious 8-27 shooting. Stick to the comments being made.

[Stiff #1]

1. Most people consider 2001 as the year Kobe finally became a superstar actually. Sorry, but Kobe only has one bad game in the 2000 Finals. No way can one bad game make a pathetic series. Also basketball is a team game. You can't blame Kobe solely for what happend in games 4 and 6. And as was previously mentioned the Celtics played great team defense..even when he was getting by Ray Allen and PP he had another guy waiting for him. Yet he still put up 26/6/5/3.

2. Kobe was better then Garnett in 2001 and 2002.

3. 27/6/4 in 35 MPG is bad now?lol. Only reason he isn't putting up monster numbers is because he now has a actual team and is playing less minutes. Dude has put up statlines like 35/5/5, 32/6/5/, 30/7/6... at giving all the credit to CP3. I love how you neglect to mention that those Suns team were some of the best and most talented in the league while the Lakers were one of the least talented. Wade/LeBron/CP3 would have fared no better. What has Wade done with a bad team? Lead them to a 18-15 record so far? How is that any different from Kobe in 05-06 and 06-07? CP3 has never succesfully done anything anything with a bad team. His 07-08 Hornets were far from a bad supporting cast. They were certainly much better thn the teams Kobe lead in 06/07. And Lebron's teams always played excellent defense and rebounded. And Kobe is far from just a scorer. Guy has made 8 All-defensive teams. Multiple 5+ assist seasons. Multiple 6+ rebound seasons. In fact, he's arguably the best all-around player in the league.

4. TS% accounts for threes and free-throws. eFG% adjusts for the extra value of threes. Both are very good stats. Besides the difference in purely FG% between LeBron/WADE/Paul and Kobe is minimal.

1. Kobe was no superstar in 2001. Even guys like Vince Carter and Grant Hill were better. Also, it wasn

[BULLZ]

Looks like someone ripped the Kobe posters off the wall of mom's basement!

[Jacks3]

26 points on 8-27 FG is sh!t, sorry. Anyone except you would agree with that. What "excellent defensive game" did he have? Rose and Miller (the guys he was guarding) both had better games than Kobe did (29/25 points on far better shooting than Kobe).

Nope. 26/10/4/2/1 in the series clinching game of the NBA Finals is not a bad game. at Jordan groupies.