subject: Is it the worst season of Kobe's career? [print this page] Is it the worst season of Kobe's career? Is it the worst season of Kobe's career?
It is consider that Kobe wasn't played enough for good reason. The reason is that he hadn't proven he was worth the minutes yet. And from this we see that Kobe was the classic rookie. Recently, there is a report online show this information of the worst season of 15 best NBA players. And Kobe is inside of them. Let's have a look on the original text:
"Kobe came in at 18 and unlike LeBron at 18, wasn't immediately effective. He was immediately exciting, but not truly a guy you would give the team to or anything. The veterans on that team were better and he learned from them.
His career average ppg is 25.3 but in his first season he averaged 7.6 points in 15.5 minutes. His career FG% is 45.5%, but in his first season he shot 41.7%. In his next season he moved up to 26 minutes and 15.4 ppg, so the progression was on. In his third year he went up to 19.9 ppg.
Kobe got better over the years, and many fans think Kobe only averaged 7.6 because he was not played enough.
He wasn't played enough for good reason: he hadn't proven he was worth the minutes yet. He was the classic rookie."
Is it the worst season of Kobe? Some people said:"apparently he couldn't so he played 15 a night - it's etched in stone". Actually, Kobe wasn't allowed to play more than 15 minutes because the team doctor suggested that an 18 year old won't be able to take the beatings of 35 mpg over 82 games a year. May be some people given their bias against him. However, the fact that he schooled Jerry Stackhouse in a game of 1-on-1 while still in high school proved you wrong. He was clearly good enough to start on any team, and had he been sent to a lottery team like MJ, Lebron, Wade, and Durant have, he would have easily put up about 20 ppg at least. Yes, he had other stars in the backcourt like Van Exel and Eddie Jones, but Kobe also won 1-on-1 games against those two players pretty easily. Not surprisingly, Kobe had the second highest points per minute played stat on that team, behind Shaq.
To say Kobe came into the league as just a normal, everyday rookie. That is not anywhere near the truth, but even if it was so, it would be one of the most freaking impressive intangible facets of his game none the less.
Ike I've seen in other articles and use this point against Kobe, sometimes simply "not good enough." Well, look at what Kobe has become. Have you had a great time while the world ever had a Shannon Brown / V Sasha first of his two years? No, not because they are usually in league with their own equipment and have full control to initiate a reign of terror over a whole each. He gave the players to complement them. ... But it is not Kobe.
Kobe was just unlucky and gets a chance to the Lakers. I've heard that could go to Philadelphia, but at the last second decided by the AI when I went to Philadelphia, but I wonder how things would have changed? You never really know if the pieces have fallen together with the team and formed a back field Jordan-esque.. But I promise, may all those who had started and his statistics would have been much better.
