Comments on: Should Kobe ever be compared to Jordan again? http://www.hoopsavenue.com/2008/06/should-kobe-ever-be-compared-to-jordan-again/ NBA Blog - NBA News & Opinion Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:04:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 23isGOD http://www.hoopsavenue.com/2008/06/should-kobe-ever-be-compared-to-jordan-again/comment-page-1/#comment-22 23isGOD Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:26:49 +0000 http://www.hoopsavenue.com/?p=16#comment-22 Kobe is nowhere near Jordan. As you mentioned in your article, MJ wasn't known as a great 3 pt shooter, but on the world's biggest stage...MJ shot 37% from 3 pt range while Kobe shot 28% going into the Boston series (imagine MJ's shooting % with Shaq drawing triple-teams down low). That's a pretty telling stat and further emphasizes MJ's ability to elevate his game when it was needed the most. MJ also never got embarrassed defensively the way Kobe did this series on those occasions where he was matched up with Pierce. Blowing 24 point leads and getting waxed by 39 points in Finals games...not very MJ-like. This comparison is OFFICIALLY DEAD and only surpassed on the ludicrous meter by ABC's efforts at painting Kobe as a humble family man at every nauseous turn. Kobe is nowhere near Jordan. As you mentioned in your article, MJ wasn’t known as a great 3 pt shooter, but on the world’s biggest stage…MJ shot 37% from 3 pt range while Kobe shot 28% going into the Boston series (imagine MJ’s shooting % with Shaq drawing triple-teams down low). That’s a pretty telling stat and further emphasizes MJ’s ability to elevate his game when it was needed the most. MJ also never got embarrassed defensively the way Kobe did this series on those occasions where he was matched up with Pierce.

Blowing 24 point leads and getting waxed by 39 points in Finals games…not very MJ-like. This comparison is OFFICIALLY DEAD and only surpassed on the ludicrous meter by ABC’s efforts at painting Kobe as a humble family man at every nauseous turn.

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