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abovelegit1 wrote:
dland24 wrote:
amel223 wrote:
That wasn't a mess of a response. Read the content and not how it was structured
The content? Which part? The part how he says Rose has turnovers because the ball is always in his hands? As if other PGs dont? Or the part where he says Chris Paul cant win a game by himself? Or the parts where he says Rose's game is nastier? Scarier? His whole post was full of witty adjectives and excuses. That is all.
Yup. Whenever a Rose fan-boy asserts that Rose is better than Chris Paul it's always supported by arbitrary nonsense and pretend scouting.
And when people assert that Chris Paul is the best PG
They fail to note that hes the worst on ball defender at PG
His teams never win (suddenly basketball is a team sport again)
He cannot create his own shot
Paul is the most efficent at his position, but his team needs more than Steve Nash 2.0 same ole **%! to win. And unlike the Suns the Hornets can win with Paul using more posessions and scoring more. (and that comparison is actually valid.)
Advanced statistics mean something within the realm of evaluating a player. But when your comparing an alpha dog vs a cat. Those personalities affect a team differently.
The cat is always going to try and make the correct basketball play and win or lose deep down is going to be satisfied with his performance. Hes going to blame management for not having enough talent ( even though every new player has been virtually hand picked by Paul for the past 4 years. ( Im giving him a break on Peja) He will blame the balky knee brace he is forced to wear because HE decided to let James Andrews remove one of the meniscus in his knee which he had no business tearing, because he wanted to prove just how "compeititive" he was.
The alpha dog ( and there is maybe 5 in the league now). Durrant, Kobe, Rose, Wade and maybe Westbrook.
Is always going to work to silence the critics, play through pain and is going to give his all in attempting to win.
Does he make in correct basketball plays? Yup. Does he sometimes take too many shots? Yup. Is his personality always condusive to winning titles? Nope. But hes going to go down swinging even if it means demanding a trade (Kobe) that really doesnt improve his chances at winning a title.
As for Paul...
Now hes an undersized underwilled stat padding PG who's in basketball terms someone elses bottom.... That doesnt mean hes a bad person. It doesnt mean hes a bad player. It means that now in addition to you having to scheme to get Paul in position to score. You have to account for the fact Paul knows he cannot lead his team to a title. For all that "competitive fire" ( aka dirty play) he displays he knows that he thinks he needs to play with not 1, but 2 superstars.
On the basketball side for New Orleans
The correct move would have been to trade Paul for Billups and other pieces and rebuilt long term with DC at the point
Your finanical situation dictated that you couldnt do that. You still will not do that now that the league is in charge.
But I finally ( slightly beyond the superficial reason of being friends) do understand why a Lebron or a Melo would want to play with Paul, and I understand why Lebron is not a Chicago Bull. And that was worth the time it took me to type this out.