Explain how leading the league in assists at your position earns you the title "selfish"?

Question

Yes, it's another Kobe post, but I offer this challenge up for the labelers to explain their logic.

Kobe Bryant is a shooting guard. Let's look at the league leaders in assists at shooting guard:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/stats/byposition?pos=SG&sort=27&qualified=0&conference=NBA&year=season_2007

I want someone to explain to me how a SHOOTING guard can have more assists than anyone at his position year after year and still be known as selfish.

On the point of amount of touches and how often a SG handles the ball, combo-guards like Kirk Hinrich, Joe Johnson, Jason Terry, and others handle the ball and facilitate the offense even more than Kobe. Yet they have roughly the same amount of assists as he does.

Then you have SGs who handle it even more often like D-Wade, Ray Felton, AI, and yet only come away with 1 or 2 more assist per game.

Answer 1

this is an argument i've been having for every person that ever said kobe was selfish. He's been the best defensive player, best scorer (obviously), best passer and so on... if his selfishness comes from taking the last shot almost all the time, well then thats just plain dumb. There's not one other player in this league i would want to take the last shot than bryant. he's a shooting guard. he's suppose to shoot, score, cause defenses to collapse, put the oppositions interior defense in foul trouble, and pass out to open teammates for good looks that he creates. the bigest problem is that kobe has only had good three point shooters and perimeter shooters on paper... but that has not always materialized on the court. missed open shots seem to happen a lot with the lakers. how many point blank shots has kwame and company bricked after a good feed from kobe? or odom and walton passing to another teammate while being totally open. this season may finally work because of the return of fisher, vlad's shooting has improved. he has a big target inside with bynum. just waiting on odom to fully come around and be aggressive.

wow i guess i needed to get that off of my chest... if any part of kobe's game is understated, its that he is a team player and he DOES pass the ball.

Answer 2

Just like Lebron he has the ball in his hands 90% of the time so of course he's going to have the most assists on the team. Teams like the Celtics don't have a anyone close to leading the league in assists because all of them are spreading the ball around. On an unselfish team assists are spread out. The fact that Kobe has a bunch of assists does not get him out of the selfish category.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Could it be that he doesn't do enough to make the other players on his team better? Could it be that he has he ball so much that he is going to have a number of assists just because everything goes through him. Could he be considered selfish because he had a hand in breaking up the dominate team the Lakers once were until they are practically doormats?

Answer 5

he has the ball most of the time he's on hte court, so he's like a point guard in that sense. I don't think hes such a selfish player, he does what he has to do. A selfish player would be iverson, he's got talent on the team yet you see him from time to time playing like hes with the sixers.

Answer 6

willingness to give it up not at all times is the assit a way to show ball movement sometimes its cause you hold the ball and everything goes thru you that you have high assit kobe is NEVER 2 passes from the ball he follows it like a firefly to light

Answer 7

You can't!......





"He's has the best overall game then any player I ever coached" - Phil Jackson talking about Kobe in2002....

Kobe>Jordan..................

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Wanna know what selfish is...Michael jordan led the NBA in shot attempts a NBA record 9 TIMES...he averages over 22 shots a game for his career..compared to kobe at 18..shots per game!......Jordan once shot the ball 49 times in 1 Game!!!!.....he is by far the biggest "ballhog" ever.....but the watered down 90's and ESPN sold him to us...a product of the media..........(sad)
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CHINA - could it be Haters are everywhere?.....could it be most fans know nothing about hoop exept what they see on a Commercial?.......name 1 player Jordan made better?....