"The Kobe Assist" = Biggest subliminal diss in NBA history

[ShaqTwizzle]

This should become an official stat and remain so forever.

[sundizz]

If you understand basketball you would know that the Kobe assist is actually a good thing (when done by Kobe). When done by imitators it is awful.

He was so good that teams would shade their entire defense to him. And predictably he would shoot anyways. This allowed teammates like Pau and Odom to become excellent offensive Rebounders.

In the playoffs u need this sort of predictability.

It is why Bron struggles. Some games he shoots a lot and some games he passes to a scrub to take an important shot. This leaves teammates confused about their role.

Exception was this last playoffs. He shot jacked like Kobe and the scrubs fit much better around him. They did excellent (made finals).

[Andrei89]

Delonte west got lebron's mom to assist him with a few things...

^

Perhaps this guy is Mr Jabbar after all

And I am not talking about the goat himself, I am talking about that fat slob from his stepfather's basement

[Prime_Shaq]

Do they really keep track of this? Where can I find the numbers?

[stephanieg]

Who else gets coined a stat on missing buckets, Kobe

Pretty sure it was originally the Iverson assist in the early 2000s, but I could be wrong.

[LBJFTW]

^

Perhaps this guy is Mr Jabbar after all

And I am not talking about the goat himself, I am talking about that fat slob from his stepfather's basement

^ Why do posters who live in their grandmother's basement like Andrei89 poke fun at someone else who lives in his stepfather's basement as if it's somehow less laughable?

[tmacattack33]

no its not and if you understood basketball at all you would realize this

a "Kobe assist" is simply a shot that falls smoothly off the rim making it easier to rebound offensively. Instead of clanking the shot and having the rebound go further back - making it easier for the defense to rebound - a "Kobe assist" falls gently off the rim giving the bigs a better chance at rebounding the miss for an easy put-back

Actually, it is the total opposite

Usually, the defender is between the offensive player and the rim.

Which is why three pointers (more force on the ball creating a longer bounce of the rim) are easier to offensive rebound off of than short shots.

[warriorfan]

^

Perhaps this guy is Mr Jabbar after all

And I am not talking about the goat himself, I am talking about that fat slob from his stepfather's basement

no one cares about lebron anymore

get over it

[BIG FURB]

Pretty sure it was originally the Iverson assist in the early 2000s, but I could be wrong.

yup

[LAmbruh]

Is there an official NBA stat tracker for the kb12 assist?

[SpaceJam2]

Is there an official NBA stat tracker for the kb12 assist?

Definitley should be

[FultzNationRISE]

Is there an official NBA stat tracker for the kb12 assist?

Not directly but if you look at the collective Win Shares of each team’s big men in meaningful games, it gives you an idea of how much their highest usage player is dishing Kobe dimes.

For instance if you look at Gasol leading his team in WinShare over a finals, you can work the math backward and reach the conclusion that Kobe shot 6-24 in Gm 7.

[LAmbruh]

[QUOTE=FultzNationRISE]Not directly but if you look at the collective Win Shares of each team

[scuzzy]

From 2015 r/nba

[nayte]

The kobe assist is similar to the kobe while shooting trash in a bin. Cam we get some stats on who was more accurate ? Kobe or the office worker shooting paper. It would be a good analisys