Kobe or Lebron?

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Cirio said:

Soundwave said:

I'd say Kobe even later in his years was prone to "ball hogging" more than Jordan. He just wasn't as smart of a player, Jordan had scoring 32 a game down to basically a science so he was fine passing the ball around, Kobe would go outside the offence and ignore the coach moreso. 

Not to say Kobe isn't a great player, he definitely was, but Jordan kinda grew out of that "I gotta score 40 every night" mentality to adopt a smarter style of player towards the end of his career. Kobe was more prone to be goaded into taking bad shots. 

Kobe's average assists per game over his last 5 years (not including this year since it's still in progress): 5.44 assists per game

Jordan's average assists per game over his last 5 years as a Chicago Bull: 4.58 assists per game 

Jordan's average assists per game over his last 5 years (incl. Washington): 4.22 assists per game

All this "Kobe is a ball hog" nonense is a load of crap backed by bandwagon hate about Kobe's game. Kobe has ALWAYS been a good all around player and is comparable to Jordan in every category minus total points per game. All the people who say Kobe was a ball hog either never watched him play or blindly follow the bandwagon hate of his playstyle. 

lol, I've watched Kobe from his *rookie* season (that's right way back in the 96-97 season). 

He's a terrific player, but he definitely could lose focus of the game and get fixated on taking bad shots even towards the end of his career. He and Phil Jackson continually butted heads about that. 

He's a good player, I would say LeBron is a bit better, he doesn't have the same competetive fire and can be a bit of a wuss at times, but he does have good efficiency: