1. Kobe and Jordan got to the spots on the floor they wanted to. Well..Kobe didn't care where he was, he was gonna chuck up from anywhere..
2. Dirk says hi? The Dirk that didn't do shit in his entire career and settled for jump shots for the first 8 years of his career until he developed a post game and took the shots he wanted?
Yeah let's compare them to Melo, a guy who will take a 20 foot jumper he's not comfortable with because Glen Davis or some other bum is guarding him.
I'm not saying that driving to the rim or posting up players is a bad idea. Far from it. I'm simply refuting your incorrect notion that "a team is going nowhere when a star player settled for jump shots". That's just not true.
Many championships have been won by teams with a star player who shot jump shots for more than 50% of their total shot attempts. Dirk, Kobe, Jordan 96-98 come to mind. You're probably thinking of how relentlessly Lebron attacked the rim during last years finals, but go back to every game in the EC playoffs where the Heat
needed a win and he came through...most of those were jump shooting exhibitions (Game 6 against Boston comes to mind).
I would
much rather have a guy who's near automatic on his jump shot (because it's a shot you can get off at ANY TIME) then I would have a low post back to the basket player as my primary superstar. I don't think you win with low post back to the basket alpha dogs anymore in this league. Swarming defense and collapsing on the paint leads to open jump shots, and I want a guy who can hit those consistently. So Melo's jump shooting isn't Melo's problem, his overall basketball IQ is.
