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.
KG’s prime on the Wolves totally overlapped the dead scoring era of 95 points a game.
His 24 points a game season was a league average of 93. Last season the league average was 115. That 24 points would literally be the equivalent of 30 last year.
Dude was an elite scorer. If you’re going to bash a guy you really need to get your ducks in a row and better understand the context of the era.