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re: Ant man is the best player in the nba right now
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:25 pm to lsufanva
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:25 pm to lsufanva
He just wasn’t near the athlete MJ was. Jordan looked smooth because he was an A++ athlete and was as fundamentally sound as it gets for a rookie. Kobe was still raw early in his career and was only ever a B+/A- athlete at best during his absolute peak so it was harder for him to do the things MJ did from a physical standpoint.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 5/7/24 at 1:20 am to Madking
I'll take the opinion of Jerry West AND Phil Jackson who have consistently said that Kobe Bryant as a rookie was more NBA ready than Michael Jordan was his rookie year..
Kobe had professional basketball skills and talent as a rookie.
Jordan was a good college basketball player with superb athletic skills who improved his deficiencies (outside shooting and ball handling) to be in the TOP 3 NBA GOAT category..
I'll value the opinions and parrot those same opinions by NBA players who confirm the same!!
Phil has said the only advantage MJ had over Kobe was bigger hands!
ROOKIE MJ DID NOT HAVE BETTER FUNDAMENTALS, WAS NOT A BETTER JUMPERSHOOTER,WAS NOT A BETTER DEFENDER, WAS NOT A BETTER BALL HANDLING GUARD THAN ROOKIE KOBE.
People conveniently ignore and /or forget that MJ had a very suspect jump shot beyond '17-'20 feet and relied on his layups ,mid range jumper and dunks to score most of his points early in his career.
@Chicago in Jordan's rookie season Orlando Wooldridge was the best outside shooter at 55% and 22ppg.
QDaily avg 16 ppg and 47%...
In the playoffs Woodridge shot 50% followed by bigs Greenwood ,Sidney Green, Corzine and Caldwell Jones, who were all very effective and efficient shooting well over 50% as a group with the lowest % @ 50%...
Guards MJ @43% and QD @ 41% were not getting it done from outside...
QD (All Rookie @ 15ppg)didn't like MJ getting all the publicity.....
That team could score but couldn't stop anyone.
If QD was hot along with Wooldridge from outside they were good.
When Wooldridge was the only consistent jumpershooter they weren't winning against balanced teams.
Kobe had professional basketball skills and talent as a rookie.
Jordan was a good college basketball player with superb athletic skills who improved his deficiencies (outside shooting and ball handling) to be in the TOP 3 NBA GOAT category..
I'll value the opinions and parrot those same opinions by NBA players who confirm the same!!
Phil has said the only advantage MJ had over Kobe was bigger hands!
ROOKIE MJ DID NOT HAVE BETTER FUNDAMENTALS, WAS NOT A BETTER JUMPERSHOOTER,WAS NOT A BETTER DEFENDER, WAS NOT A BETTER BALL HANDLING GUARD THAN ROOKIE KOBE.
People conveniently ignore and /or forget that MJ had a very suspect jump shot beyond '17-'20 feet and relied on his layups ,mid range jumper and dunks to score most of his points early in his career.
@Chicago in Jordan's rookie season Orlando Wooldridge was the best outside shooter at 55% and 22ppg.
QDaily avg 16 ppg and 47%...
In the playoffs Woodridge shot 50% followed by bigs Greenwood ,Sidney Green, Corzine and Caldwell Jones, who were all very effective and efficient shooting well over 50% as a group with the lowest % @ 50%...
Guards MJ @43% and QD @ 41% were not getting it done from outside...
QD (All Rookie @ 15ppg)didn't like MJ getting all the publicity.....
That team could score but couldn't stop anyone.
If QD was hot along with Wooldridge from outside they were good.
When Wooldridge was the only consistent jumpershooter they weren't winning against balanced teams.
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