This slideshow ranks Kobe against the top shooting guard from the 10 teams the Lakers will most likely face.
To be objective as possible, I created a way to compare each opponent—Adjusted Player Rating.
Here is the formula:
Points per 48 minutes x 1.0
+ Rebounds per 48 minutes x 1.5
+ Assists per 48 minutes x 2.0
+ Blocks per 48 minutes x 2.0
+ Steals per 48 minutes x 2.0
+ Defense Rating
= Adjusted Player Rating
The statistics are from the 2010-2011 regular season and are adjusted per 48 minutes so the players can be compared apples to apples.
Since good defense is hard to measure by stats alone, I assigned each player a defense rating number from 1-10 and added it to the adjusted statistics.
Here is the Adjusted Player Rating for Kobe followed by his defense rating and regular season stats:
Kobe's Adjusted Player Rating: 71.9
Defense rating: 8.0/10.0
2010-2011 Stats: 25.3 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 4.7 apg, 0.1 bpg, 1.2 spg, 33.9 mpg
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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Los Angeles Lakers
