Consider the following:
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KG averaged under 20 PPG career
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KG never averaged 25 PPG for a season
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KG's career FG% is under .500, and his 2PT% is only .504. He is 234th all-time in career 2PT% and has none of the 250 best seasons of 2PT%
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KG's TS% was only .546, and he never shot 59% TS%.He does NOT rank in the Top 250 in career T5%, nor does he have any of the 250 best seasons by TS
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KG wasn't a great spacer. His career 3 PT% was under 30%, he averaged far less than one 3PM a game, and never made more than 50 3s in a season
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KG wasn't elite at finishing from close. Many other 4s and 5s converted a higher percentage of close shots than he, and on higher volume as well
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KG wasn't a creator. Over two-thirds of his field goals came off of assists.
I could go on, but I think those seven points establish why KG is NOT an elite scorer or shooter. Compared to other forwards, KG is far outstripped on scoring not only by fellas like KG, LeBron and Kawhi, but even by somebody like AD, who a) had higher volume in his prime, b) does better from the inside, and c) does better from the outside.
PPG isn’t a good indicator of how good someone was at scoring when that player had close to a 20 year career. KG also went from being the sole star player who had the offense run through him, to joining a big 3 and sacrificing his numbers while still in his prime.
KG played in the slowest era ever. He didn’t have a PG that could run an offense for a couple years on the Timberwolves so he had to score and play point guard on offense for the Timberwolves for a couple seasons as a 7 footer.
This point is your best argument and it’s a trash argument. He wasn’t an efficient monster but he was average TS% wise for the majority of his career. Not bad when he was known mostly for his defense.
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Spacing isn’t only when someone shoots 3’s. KG was an elite long 2 shooter. He ojos regularly shoot the ball a foot or two inside the 3 point line because he played in an era where bigs didn’t shoot 3’s all that often. Teams respected his shot and that allowed his teams to have spacing.
KG wasn’t an efficient monster. Great job having one argument on your side for why he is an overrated offensive player.
I don’t know how many times I have to tell you this but here I go again, KG was arguably the best passing big man of his generation. He had great handles for a 7 footer and would run his teams offense regularly. In his mid 20’s. He was their literal PG on offense for most of the seasons. You’re once again using career numbers for someone that played over 20 years in the NBA. Go use his prime numbers, I’m sure they’ll be a better I dictator of who he was in his prime.
I can make one definite conclusion about you after reading your post. You didn’t watch KG play or you watched him at the tail end of his career. KG won MVP averaging 24.2/13.9/5/1.5/2.2(PPG/RPG/APG/STL/BLK) on .449/.256/.791 splits and .547 TS%. Not bad for someone who played in the slowest era ever.