Impact of Kobe on Bynum & Gasol & why stats dont tell the whole story

GreatOne1978 · Apr 13, 2012

http://20secondtimeout.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-stat-gurus-say-does-not-correspond.html

red_alertz · Apr 13, 2012

GreatOne1978 said: ↑

http://20secondtimeout.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-stat-gurus-say-does-not-correspond.html
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kb24 made smush, walton, kwame looked legit at one time, and bynum is shooting hwat, i am guessing 34, 35% since kb went down?

Ziggy · Apr 13, 2012

red_alertz said: ↑

kb24 made smush, walton, kwame looked legit at one time, and bynum is shooting hwat, i am guessing 34, 35% since kb went down?
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34 and 35 are what his rebound numbers look like right now.

goodbug · Apr 13, 2012

Kobe is holding LA back. Every possession should go through Bynum. LOL

goodbug · Apr 13, 2012

This guy is saying what I have been saying for years. Kobe attracts double team on perimeter. Gasol and Bynum can get the pass under the hoop or has good chance of getting offensive rebounds. And Bynum's making Kobe inefficient because he takes too long to get rid of the ball and Kobe's going to take those bailout shots.

Without point blank alley hoop and putback, he has to earn his points and he has to force a shot if the clock is deep. I applaud Bynum for working on the glass but apparently he has a long way to go before he can be a 1st option.

One of the big headlines in the NBA on Wednesday night was Bynum's 30 rebound game versus San Antonio as the Lakers defeated the Spurs 98-84 even though Bryant missed his third straight game due to a shin injury. It is certainly impressive that Bynum posted such a huge rebounding total (even though he padded that number a bit by tracking down his own point blank misses) and the Lakers would be well served if Bynum consistently focused on defense and rebounding as opposed to worrying about the number/distance of his field goal attempts but the real story about the Lakers during Bryant's absence--the story that the "stat gurus" and their friends in the media will ignore--is that Bynum and Gasol's field goal percentages have cratered. The "stat guru"/media theory about the Lakers is that Bryant is an inefficient gunner who should stop shooting so much and pass the ball more often to Bynum and Gasol; my theory about the Lakers is that Bynum and Gasol do not fight for post position as aggressively as they should on a consistent basis but when they do venture into the lane Bryant gets them the ball--and they are wide open because Bryant generally has two or even three defenders on him.

Why does Bryant shoot so much more often than Gasol and Bynum if I am correct that he is not just selfishly gunning? Bryant ends up with a lot of "hand grenades," shots that he has to take because the shot clock is about to "explode." Fans and media members often do not understand just how important a factor the 24 second shot clock is in terms of NBA strategy; veteran college head coach/NBA assistant coach Hank Egan once told me that the shot clock is "a monster" and that "some of the things that you do in the pros are, exactly as you said, trying to force the offense to burn time and get them in the late stages of the shot clock." When Bynum and Gasol "trot" down court (to borrow Jeff Van Gundy's quite apt description) and fail to quickly establish post position the shot clock is ticking; many times the ball goes into the post, the opposing team traps and when Bynum or Gasol pass the ball back out to Bryant there is not time for a re-post and Bryant is left with a "hand grenade." If Bynum or Gasol had posted up earlier then there would be time for a re-post and it is always more difficult to trap a second time without leaving someone wide open. After a few times of being stuck with "hand grenades" Bryant sometimes tries to preempt the "hand grenade" scenario by taking a shot earlier in the shot clock when he only has one defender on him and can clear out some space. Former Lakers Coach Phil Jackson used to refer to this as Bryant "filling the vacuum," meaning that if Bryant's teammates do not step up and do their part then Bryant will assume greater responsibility; Jackson often linked Bryant's so-called volume shooting to passivity on the part of Bryant's teammates.
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Ziggy · Apr 13, 2012

Y'all are playing pee-pee games. Who cares if Bynum makes Kobe worse somehow (c'mon really?) -- the bottom line is Bynum, Gasol, and anyone else that is good make the LAKERS better.

rolyat93 · Apr 13, 2012

goodbug said: ↑

Kobe is holding LA back. Every possession should go through Bynum. LOL
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