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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeDW, post: 2774900, member: 2458"] Kobe was a better defender than Melo. Kobe wasn’t as good of a defender for most of his career as the accolades would suggest. He earned his rep for a couple years, and then from there he was ok on that end. He got like 9 first team all defense awards! He deserved maybe half of them. Melo wasn’t as bad at defense as most of the criticisms suggest either. Melo and Kobe’s offensive stats per game were/are remarkably similar. Kobe was clearly a better player, but I don’t think the gap was as wide as it will be portrayed. [/QUOTE]