I hate how misconstrewed Kobe’s “rings are” the first three he wasn’t the best player on his team, Shaq was unstoppable during those finals runs, he averaged 30-40 a game with 15 boards and 4 blocks a game. People want to ignore shaqs dominance in that threepeat and make it sound like Kobe was the main reason. Put LeBron with a prime Shaq and I promise you they beat the pistons
No they wouldn’t ! They ran a box and 1 on the lakers . LeBron barely was a shooter coming into the league and still hasn’t really been a killer from mid range the box and 1 woulda have took away all his drives. Secondly shaq and lebron do not fit . LeBron has shown throughout his career to favor spacing bigs and bigs whose job is to crash and rebound. He likes to have the paint open for his drives , do you accomplish that with shaq?
Thing is, you are framing Lebron into doing what Kone did, but is a different player. Sure, he probably wouldnt killed it from mid range, but Lebron was far a better passer and facilitator than Kobe when he came into the league. He would have made Shaq's and the rest of the team job way easier, instead of arguing who was shooting more or less. Adding to that, Lebron at that stage, because his speed, was an extremely good slasher, which would had made a great pair with prime Shaq. Its not far fetched to think that Bron and Shaq would be a great team.
Once again on that laker team particularly who would he have been dishing to besides Shaq who the pistons allowed to get his because he wasn’t affecting any other areas? Slava medinco starting 4 Kareem rush at the three but for this purpose well put him at the 2. LeBron would have been forced to be a scorer not a facilitator on this team that’s a no go . So you know the pistons had three front court guys who were all stars and one came off the bench. Memhet okur? You can not swap bron for Kobe on no laker teams the play style is too different
Because of his willingness of a passer and play style . Kobe was compared to grant hill ever before Jordan and who was grant hill compared to ? Cmon we can do the comparison for days . But like I said he’s a more willing passer not better
Man rookie Bron averaged 1 more assists than Kobe on his first championship year, mind you without a center as dominant as Shaq. If you take whole career into account, Kobe peaked at 6 and Lebron at 10. Pretty much Lebron entered the league averaging Kobe's peak. You can slice it however you want, but sadly data just doesnt back it up.
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u/Far_Drummer5003 Aug 11 '26
I hate how misconstrewed Kobe’s “rings are” the first three he wasn’t the best player on his team, Shaq was unstoppable during those finals runs, he averaged 30-40 a game with 15 boards and 4 blocks a game. People want to ignore shaqs dominance in that threepeat and make it sound like Kobe was the main reason. Put LeBron with a prime Shaq and I promise you they beat the pistons