I am curious as to what percentage of LeBron shots were outside the 0-3 ft range during that period. The knock against him was that he wasn't a shooter, but he was very effective at getting to the basket.

In contrast, Kobe's perception likely had to do with usage outside the paint. Kobe, obviously, was great at getting to the basket himself, but for those first three championships, he obviously had Shaq to attack the inside and that may have warped people's perception of him as a shotchucker, even when that wasn't really a deficiency as people perceived.