What do you guys think? It would be interesting to see Phil Jackson's take because I feel like he would be the best source for the answer.
I can tell you without question that in his first stint with the Lakers (99-04), Jackson HATED coaching Kobe, who was the number one reason he retired after 03-04. In the midst of their championship run, he wanted to trade him to PHX for Kidd and Shawn Marion.
Don't know, didn't watch MJ play much. Kobe probably has great Bball IQ, but he's too full of himself sometimes to trust his teammates.
“Kobe has patterned himself after Michael, and there are a lot of identical things there, but it’s one thing to hope to be like him, it’s another thing to be like him,” Jackson said during an interview with The Los Angeles Times. “We have to take Michael Jordan out of the equation. Stop comparing anyone to Michael Jordan. It’s just not fair. He was remarkable. Kobe’s in his own sphere.”
Can't find the quote, but I remember reading or hearing Phil say explicitly that Michael had a higher BB IQ than Kobe.
On a 100 rating, I could give Kobe a slight IQ edge, like Kobe gets a 98.8 to Jordan's 98.3. For the heck of it. Kobe doesnt have the pure physicality of Jordan even though they're the same measurements, so you can say Kobe gets it done on polished skills and smarts. Kobe's distance shooting is a 93 to Jordan's 91. Everything else would be Jordan 100, Kobe 94. Or Kobe would at most win 2 categories.
This shouldn't even be a question. If Kobe had such a high bball IQ, he wouldn't consistently chuck up 20+ shots on 40% shooting when he has teammates who score very efficiently inside yet get only 8-12 shots.
I disagree. Game 7. Kobe was horribly ineffective and everyone else had to bail him out while Kobe kept taking bad shots. They would have won that game with a bigger margin if they fed Pau more.
Kobe didn't need to take 27 shots last game when he made just 10 and Bynum and Gasol were a combined 11-17.
