Kobe Bryant Switches Hands in Mid-Air to Knock Down a Circus Shot

its ok, u don't have to take this loss personally, nobody can win them all

hahahah sorry.. i was j/k.. i forgot to type "lol"

MJ's defense was better enough to get Defensive Player of the Year and lead the league in steals 3 times, when has kobe done that?

Chris paul is getting a lot of steals now, and so did Iverson when he was younger , but you're not gonna say they're elite defenders roflz.

defensive player of the year is a popularity contest like Mvps. Jordan got torched often as well. he played good defense, so does Kobe, but good one on one defense doesn't stop good isolation offense.

PLUS jordan was allowed to handcheck so...

LOL, its not a mere popularity contest, its leading the league in steals and having the most blocks for a guard while being one of the best one on one defenders in the league that got MJ the Defensive Player of the Year. of course MJ was allowed to handcheck, his era was more physical than todays era which made it harder to score unlike today's era, so whats your point. its having the top stats, how u help your team and intimidate your opposing team that speaks for your game, not popularity lol

It's a popularity contest.

Good defense is almost never represented with "good stats."

ESPECIALLY for a guard.

Iverson used to average a lot of steals a game also, does that mean that he was a good perimeter defender?


DPOY, like MVP, all-star voting, all nba team, and all of that garbage is just popularity contests. The most deserving players do sometimes get these awards, but not necessarily.

my point with handchecking is that you can play closer defense on perimeter

thats the difference, Iverson is not MJ. MJ wasn't the player to fail terribly on defense while leading the league in steals and having alot of blocks for a guard. other than Gary Payton, MJ is one of the greatest perimeter guards of all time. if all that garbage is just a popularity contest, MJ would have more than 5 regular season MVPs lol. statistically speaking, MJ had Iverson's steals, kobe's points, Wade's blocks, scoring titles, MVPs, and rings for whole multiple seasons at a time.

fanboy detected. This conversation is over I guess.

with handchecking on perimeter defenders can play closer defense without having a blocking foul called on them as much, which allows for them to get more steal and block opportunities, but overall, steal and blocks aren't even all that solid as defensive stats, because it is possible to get a lot of both while failing terribly on defense (eg. steals: iverson, chris paul, wade a few years ago when he averaged a lot of steals, for blocks blocks: camby when he won dpoy, and right now dampier...)

Bottom line, steals and blocks != defense, they're. There's very little if any evidence to Jordan being a much better defender than Kobe.

And there's a good reason for that, neither of them are as good defensively as they are hyped up to be. They both are/were very athletic, understand the game very well, and work well under pressure, so occasionally they both came through with clutch steals or blocks, and because of that people assume they're great on defense.