He did kinda compare careers by sayin Chris really wasnt that good till he went to Sacremento,
that is not what he said.
Here is what was said:
CWebb: ....All it takes is for someone to believe in you and put you into a position for success so I'll definitely be looking forward to watching his growth with you guys this year.
Kahn: Well, and I think your career is somewhat indicative. What year was it that you feel like kinda like that you felt like that you were on your own in the league?
CWebb: Well...you know....well...I'm not really sure but we not really talking about me and Darko at the same time. (Laughs)
Kahn: But not til you got to Sacramento did your career take off!?!?
That's exactly what was said. He said his career is somewhat indicative of the way Darko's can be looked at. That Darko is now just feeling like he's coming into his own on the league and that it took time, similar to CWebb's career, even giving the start of his career at Sacramento as a starting point for when Webber first started to feel like he belonged in the league.
I posted the first for years of Webber career above. He didn't get to Sactown until two years after that. Does it appear, according to his stats or from what you((or I) remember of watching his game that the man didn't feel like he belonged straight from the get go?
Kahn is comparing the first years of a guy that he admits wasn't ready for the NBA or good enough to be the second pick in the draft with a man who came into the league and was immediately a 20/10 threat and averaged 20/10 in his third year.
How can the inference not be that he was saying that Webber's early game was like Darko's early game? Sorry Moranis, you are just not seeing and hearing what the rest of us are. What Kahn said was stupid and insulting and he's an idiot for saying it and deserves all the scorn Webber hurled his way.
Or I listened to the context of the whole thing. Just preceding that he was talkinga bout maturity and growing up and getting comfortable. It was clear what Kahn was talking about. He followed up what you posted by saying their careers weren't mirrors.
What you've posted alone certainly could be construed as you did, but not when you take the entire context of the conversation. It was obvious what Kahn meant. CWebb way over reacted.
I did not misconstrue anything and I am also taking into consideration the context. He was talking about his total game. He mentioned not being ready and started playing better in Orlando and then went to Memphis and New York where things didn't work out or weren't used. In this "context" he is inferring that Darko was good enough to play and play well but wasn't given the opportunity.
For cry aye, he compared his passing to that of Vlade Divac. Darko's Per36 assist numbers only ever went over 2 assists per 36 minutes once in his career. His passing IS NOT anywhere near that of Vlade.
Then he went into the above quotes. Was he talking maturity? Yes. But he was also talking performance and preparation and ability and that is what Webber understood and what many, many other are also understanding.
You are one that is focusing solely on Kahn's comments regarding getting married and growing up some and taking the above comments to pertain solely towards that area. That could have been what he meant but even then he is dead wrong to compare Webber in that manner because Webber just never exhibited an immaturity that severely effected his game to the point of making him ineffective.
The point is preposterous. Webber's maturity, whatever it may or may not have been, ever was to the point that it effected his play. He played like a star from the very moment he got onto the court and matured into an almost all-time great. Darko has matured from someone who didn't belong in the league to someone who is at best a marginal role player on the worst team in the league.
I am dumbfounded that anyone could listen to what Kahn said and read the actual words said and not think what he said could be looked at but anything as an insult to Chris Webber.
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