You're lying. Flat out, bold faced lying.
Jason Kidd, in a BILLION years is or never was as good as Kobe at the game of basketball.
The guy was a great floor general, and he plays the gam differently than a lot of guys, but he was similar to Magic in that at 6-4, he was unique for a PG. That unique PG also shot seasons like this
.385
.381
.369
.391
.384
.398
.366
.361
.363
Those are SHOOTING PERCENTAGES. Those are real life, REAL, shooting percentages, and you guys want to discredit Kobe's shooting?
Those are JUST the seasons below 40%. I didn't even include the 40's, the 41's, etc. Why bother?
So what, he makes it up with rebounding, or, 1 more rebound a game than Kobe. Wow.
Or assists, or in other words, his 8.9 a game, to Kobe's 4.7, huge disparity, for such a talented PG that does nothing but distribute, or so the story gets told.
Kobe, the ULTIMATE ball hog, is 4 less assists a game than Kidd, the floor general, the great passer, the elite PG, the player that is, *
* better than Kobe.
Lemme guess, he is defensively way over Kobe's head. Where everyone now sees Kobe is not the defensive player he once was, for well over a dozen years Kobe was just as nasty on D as Kidd was.
Kobe's speed was just as fast as Kidd's was, Kobe had far more range than Kidd, jumped higher, had more bounce when going up, landing and going back up, not Matrix like like Shawn Marion, but certainly quicker than Kidd.
Kobe's ball handling was always very good, just as Kidd's was.
So, going "deeper" in here is nothing more than the trolls of the S&T department of Niketalk are just shoveling ******** and digging everyone deeper and deeper and deeper indeed. Kidd is NOWHERE near the player Kobe is, or ever was. Kidd was great, is a sure fire HOFer, and still not in the same realm of what Kobe did on the court.
We've gotten to pure ******g ridiculousness that names like Pierce, Kidd, Carmelo can just be thrown out, and haters eat it up and are like yeah, I could see that. Pretty soon we'll be rehashing Vince, AI, TMac, Grant Hill, Gilbert Arenas, Mugsy Bogues, and all sorts of other names that are "just as good as Kobe, they just didn't play with Shaq" And then watch NTer after NTer cosign it over and over and over as gospel.
But hey, I have Lakers in my sig, everything I just said bout Kobe and Kidd ain't true, I made it all up. Thas how it goes.