#8 Kobe vs #24 Kobe, which version of Kobe is better?

[Remote]

Young Kobe was better.

Old Kobe needed help to beat the Orlando Magic

 

[Chris Cool]

Wasn't as athletic or deadlier scoring threat every night. Breh avg damn near 40 for a month in 06

He had a ridiculous speed+strength+vertical combo during those years coupled with a post game and midrange accuracy. nikka was a 2k player on steroids.

he was deadlier. 24 had everything 8 had with a higher iq, footwork on some whole nother other shyt.

i don't know why yaw acting like he was when he changed numbers, he was still posterizing nikkas well up until the Achilles tear. dude was only 28 and still in one of his primes.

 

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

At anybody saying they felt bad for the Smush Parker Kobe days,
He pretty much pushed Shaq out of town and wanted to be the man. It was pretty much his choice.

 

[catskill247]

What jersey number entered that white girl's culo in the Denver hotel. I choose the opposite one then.

 

[QuintessentialBM]

As much as I like 24, 8 is superior..... doing it on both sides of the floor. Drooping 30-40 points on a team's best defender then shutting down thr opposition's best offensive player. What he did to T-MAC, in Orlando and in Houston sealed Kobe's dominance.

 

[CourtesyFlush]

Can someone explain to a newb like myself what the differences are?

 

[FS4LFE]

At anybody saying they felt bad for the Smush Parker Kobe days,
He pretty much pushed Shaq out of town and wanted to be the man. It was pretty much his choice.

The ''down years'' he referred to last night in which he created.

 

[Houston911]

#8

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

24

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Both had a huge dikk but I gotta give it pause to 24

 

[The Solid One]

8

 

[Killer Instinct]

#8 is the nostalgia pick. Frobe was a showman like none before and low cut Kobe from '05-'06 was historic. #24 from '07 - '13 was a better player and leader in every metric outside of athleticism.

His footwork? Improved. Midrange? Impeccable. Skill level? Never better. Feel for the game? Considerably superior. Leadership? It's not even close.

#24 is only glossed over today because guys remember the final three to four years where he was a shell of himself. In real time when he was rattling off 4 straight 50 point games the season after switching numbers and leading the Lakers as the guy to 3 straight final appearances, no one was claiming he an inferior version. The sentiment was that he was better than he had ever been.

#24 was a better leader, more refined, and smarter.