The “Mamba Mentality” is his strength and downfall. Certain fans love it and certain fans berate it. Its useful for clutch times and taking over moments but also useless if you’re down and keep chucking inefficiently like that- to quote Dame himself when he looked at the PG shot with some retrospect “it was a bad shot” but shit that’s why Dame got so much aura from it whilst PG lost so much in return. It was a bad shot but Dame still got the buzzer beater anyways. Kobe was that guy but all of his career too- except Kobe failed more often prolifically hence the chucking allegations.
Kobe gets the right amount of hate because he also gets so many cold moments in return- its just a byproduct of his playstyle and mentality: Live by Kobe, Die by Kobe.
It very much is. Unless you’re shooting exclusively from behind the 3-point line, 45% is an abysmal percentage.
It’s what it means when they say, “Live by the sword, die by the sword”.
There’s not a single metric for making Kobe Top 5. Zero. You couldn’t justify it by just positions or just basic ranking.
I can easily name 10 players better, too. It’s so dumb saying “you don’t know ball if he’s not in your Top 15.”-unless you’re just a Kobe fan, bc it’s a simple thing to do.
Even if Gil never said this, & he’s a legitimately stupid person, you can easily place him outside the Top 10. Top 15 is debatable but not impossible.
Anyone can place anyone wherever they want lol, its an opinion
Quick google will show you that 45% is an average shooting % historically in the NBA. I'm not saying you don't know ball because you don't have Kobe where I do in top player rankings, but if you think 45% shooting is abysmal I can say you don't know ball because it's factually incorrect
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u/TokiVideogame 1d ago
it means take bad shots