How do you like colors of this chart?
I cannot recognize colors of shots behind 3 point line. Looks like all are 'missed' for my eyes.
Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
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Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#22How was he able to make shots from behind the basket?
over the backboard on the way out of bounds probably
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#23Too bad you can't ONLY show the missed/made shots, only both.
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#24How was he able to make shots from behind the basket?
It depends on how they picked the points where he 'took the shot from'. You generally don't take a shot from a standing position in normal plat, you jump. You might not always land in the same spot from which you launch.
I suspect they picked the point where he jumped from, rather than too, therefore you can run parallel to the backboard, jump under it (from behind, and land in front) and lay it up so it goes in.
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#25It will be interesting to compare this shot chart, of the greatest scorer of his generation, to what Steph Curry's, who may be the greatest scorer of his generation, career shot chart ends up being. Where Curry's game is extremely efficient, with most points coming from behind the line or near the basket, Kobe was shooting all over the place. Kobe's game was also much more reliant on getting to the foul line. They we…
Their height and weight differences justify the different style, though. Curry is 1.91 / 86kg, hard to penetrate inside with force since he lacks the mass. Jordan and Kobe are both 1.98, you can compare them better.
The differences in their gifts also account for a lot. If Curry continues through his prime like he's played the past two seasons, he'll be the greatest shooter of all time. Kobe was never a great jump shooter but was remarkable at finding ways to get shots, as well as getting fouled.
Typically, in the NBA, the best scorers fit closer to the Kobe mold than Curry mold, Jordan and Lebron, for example. It will be interesting to see what influence Curry has on future generations and if others will follow his path like Kobe and Lebron followed Jordan's.
From what I hear, kids are now shooting long shots like Curry when they goof around, where my generation (I'm 34) used to like playing on lowered rims so we could dunk.
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#26How was he able to make shots from behind the basket?
Section I-Player The player is out-of-bounds when he touches the floor or any object on or outside a boundary. For location of a player in the air, his position is that from which he last touched the floor. [0]
[0] http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_8.html?nav=ArticleList
Kobe Bryant shooting from behind the backboard in 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnARpfzVIis
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#27Too bad you can't ONLY show the missed/made shots, only both.
You have to click "Explore on my own" to get the filters up.
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#28Too bad you can't ONLY show the missed/made shots, only both.
Click on "Explore on my own", a filter shows up. You can set it as you like.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't it just that if you're half a step away from 3 points, you might as well take the half a step back and try for 3 instead of 2 with a shot that's pretty much the same in difficulty?
Yeah, but a jump shot is more difficult after a step backwards. Perhaps it isn't if you're Kobe Bryant? :)
> But the situation isn't really any better if you take a single step forwards.
Not following your logic...
Re: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took
#30For anyone interested in the raw dataset: https://www.putdat.com/hnJwrwM