Disco Dirk Proclaims Kobe The Best Player He Ever Played Against

[Maximus]

Players around the league all know Kobe is the best. They keep telling you guys over and over and over again.

To be fair, reporters are asking SPECIFICALLY about certain players. There's a good chance that if Duncan was retiring right now instead of Kobe, Dirk would have just said "Duncan is the best player I ever played against, and I played against Kobe and Shaq."

Nope. Dirk said the same thing last year.

Dirk: Kobe 'greatest player in my generation'

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Dumb cac also playing for pennies for lotto team, can't take his opinion seriously

You're a fukken horrible poster. Are you forgetting Duncan took a paycut? Should we not take Duncan's opinion seriously too?

 

[ALonelyDad]

Who
Dirks pregame shyt>>>>Chris Dudley

the only dudley we care about

 

[TheNig]

Deshawn was losing every year when he was talking shyt and trying to injure him. He was role player status when the Mavs won.

But he won... Circle of life

 

[Da King]

You're a fukken horrible poster. Are you forgetting Duncan took a paycut? Should we not take Duncan's opinion seriously too?

He took a pay cut to hold together an elite team

That's not what dirk did, clown

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

He took a pay cut to hold together an elite team

That's not what dirk did, clown

He took a paycut to BUILD an elite team. If it wasn't for DeAndre pulling out at the last second, they would have had one of the best teams in the West. It ain't Dirk's fault that DeAndre's a bytch ass nikka.

D-Will
Matthews
Parsons
Dirk
DeAndre

And for your information if Duncan never took a paycut, the Spurs wouldn't have been able to sign LMA.

 

[Da King]

If it wasn't for DeAndre bytching out at the last second they would have had one of the best teams in the West.

No the fukk they wouldn't

 

[Goatpoacher]

He took a paycut to BUILD an elite team. If it wasn't for DeAndre pulling out at the last second, they would have had one of the best teams in the West. It ain't Dirk's fault that DeAndre's a bytch ass nikka.

D-Will
Matthews
Parsons
Dirk
DeAndre

And for your information if Duncan never took a paycut, the Spurs wouldn't have been able to sign LMA.

To a certain extent, that's not saying much given that the West looks flabby and sick this year with two exceptions.

It also seems like an overstatement even if you normalize for pre-season expectations. That's a terrible defensive unit even with DJ (who Malta believes to be an overrated defender).

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

No the fukk they wouldn't

The only teams that would've been better - Warriors, Spurs and Thunder. Top 4 seed. They're a 6th seed now, dealing with Matthews and Parsons coming back from injuries.

 

[Romey Rome]

Nobody really tried it though, except AI. Kobe had a lot of 50 point games vs bottom teams. Jordan used to get 50 point games vs top teams. Kobe pads stats whereas Jordan used to want to kill his competition.

Don't Dirk and Kobe have the same number of 50 point games in the playoffs? It's amazing how Kobe's high scoring in the regular season never really translated in the playoffs. I think Lebron has more 40 point playoffs games than Kobe in fewer seasons.

That don't mean Kobe tried it either tho. It just happened. I knooooooooooooooooow u not Trynna down Kobe while proppin up Lebron talkin about scoring or stat padding dude don't even take jumpers if he doesn't have like 5 made lay ups already. And as far as u talkin Jordan 50 vs top teams and Kobe 50 vs bottom teams I'm talkin about an over 60 points performance out scoring one of the highest scoring teams in the league not dropping 50 versus whoever. And the competition is a bit stiffer in the west than it is in the eastern playoffs breh playoffs aren't playoffs in the east until the conf. Finals.

 

[Goatpoacher]

That don't mean Kobe tried it either tho. It just happened. I knooooooooooooooooow u not Trynna down Kobe while proppin up Lebron talkin about scoring or stat padding dude don't even take jumpers if he doesn't have like 5 made lay ups already. And as far as u talkin Jordan 50 vs top teams and Kobe 50 vs bottom teams I'm talkin about an over 60 points performance out scoring one of the highest scoring teams in the league not dropping 50 versus whoever. And the competition is a bit stiffer in the west than it is in the eastern playoffs breh playoffs aren't playoffs in the east until the conf. Finals.

You're underthinking this. THe Eastern Conference regularly had stronger perimeter defenders from 2000 onward. Kobe learned this the hard way in 2004 and 2008. Kobe had trouble with the Pistons defense that Wade carved up in 2005 and 2006 and Lebron carved up in 2007.

 

[Bilz]

Nobody really tried it though, except AI. Kobe had a lot of 50 point games vs bottom teams. Jordan used to get 50 point games vs top teams. Kobe pads stats whereas Jordan used to want to kill his competition.

Don't Dirk and Kobe have the same number of 50 point games in the playoffs? It's amazing how Kobe's high scoring in the regular season never really translated in the playoffs. I think Lebron has more 40 point playoffs games than Kobe in fewer seasons.

That's the misleading part of Kobe's scoring streaks. The other great scorers don't insist that the offense goes through them. When you look at their 40-50 point games, they either caught fire and blew the other team out in limited minutes or it was a bad game where they took a ton of shots because it was close til the end. Thats why Jordans best games came against good teams. Since they were good opponents, Jordan hadnt knocked them out already with 35 or so. Kobe seemed to master the art of scoring a lot individually but keeping the game close so they needed more of him.

If a guy like Curry (who can actually make kobe shots at a much better rate than Kobe ever could) played that way for a few games he would put up ridiculous numbers but there's no point to playing that way when his own hot streaks open things up for others and you can kill them 5 on 5 instead of trading punches 1 on 5.

 

[Romey Rome]

You're underthinking this. THe Eastern Conference regularly had stronger perimeter defenders from 2000 onward. Kobe learned this the hard way in 2004 and 2008. Kobe had trouble with the Pistons defense that Wade carved up in 2005 and 2006 and Lebron carved up in 2007.

Ok

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

To a certain extent, that's not saying much given that the West looks flabby and sick this year with two exceptions.

They still would've been an elite team, or close to it - which was the whole point in me mentioning why Dirk took a paycut. There's virtually no margin of difference to what Dirk and Duncan did, yet @Da King is acting if Dirk took a paycut to be a lottery team - he didn't. It couldn't be further from the truth.

It also seems like an overstatement even if you normalize for pre-season expectations. That's a terrible defensive unit even with DJ (who Malta believes to be an overrated defender).

How exactly would the be an overstatement?

Matthews is one of the best 3D players in the league (albeit coming back from injury) and Parsons is a solid defender. They're currently ranked 12th in defensive rating. Add DeAndre who is one of the best defenders in the league: one of the best rim protectors, weakside shot blockers and arguably the best hedging big man in the league -

The Clippers had the second-highest Hedge% in the entire league at 22.19 percent. This was an effective screen-defense strategy as the Clippers had the lowest Points Allowed per Screen in the NBA last season at .073. Having the most agile post defender in the game in Jordan obviously is a big reason the Clippers can hedge with such frequency.

No other big man cleans up more defensive miscues than DeAndre does. He probably has the greatest margin of difference out of every defensive anchor in the league, given how average/shytty the Clippers perimeter defenders are.

 

[Goatpoacher]

They still would've been an elite team, or close to it - which was the whole point in me mentioning why Dirk took a paycut. There's virtually no margin of difference to what Dirk and Duncan did, yet @Da King is acting if Dirk took a paycut to be a lottery team - he didn't. It couldn't be further from the truth.

How exactly would the be an overstatement?

Matthews is one of the best 3D players in the league (albeit coming back from injury) and Parsons is a solid defender. They're currently ranked 12th in defensive rating. Add DeAndre who is one of the best defenders in the league: one of the best rim protectors, weakside shot blockers and arguably the best hedging big man in the league -


No other big man cleans up more defensive miscues than DeAndre does. He probably has the greatest margin of difference out of every defensive anchor in the league, given how average/shytty the Clippers perimeter defenders are.

Parsons is solid? I saw him more when he was on the Rockets and he seemed like he had the will to play defense, but not the necessary athleticism. I'll defer to your expertise on this, though I suspect the defense rating is propped up by Carlisle's brilliance.

All I know is... Dirk don't play no defense :JJ: