Wondering_Nova

What’s the point of these questions? Are you going to come back 15-18 years later and read the comments to Pat yourself in the back?

Technical foul! Naked Aggression!

And yet u/round-revolution-399 said that he isn’t anywhere near Wemby as a player and he even doubled down on it

It comes down to one thing. Kobe and MJ loved taking and making the last shot and it wasn’t common for them to “trust” their teammates. LeBron makes the right read almost every time even when he could take it to the rim at will on his prime.

Once again, u/round-revolution-399 and u/wrongerontheinternet said that Chet is not “even close to Wemby and it’s not even close” and they doubled down on it multiple times.

I will continue to tag them until they stop acting like there’s some huge gap between Chet and Wemby

Poole belongs in the league. He’s not suited to be a starter but there’s no reason he can’t duplicate or get close to his stats when he was a warrior as a bench player.

Scoring isn’t just ppg. Some players like Steph demoralize their opponents by hitting some insane shots and that’s something that not a lot of players do. AD for example scores really well but it never really feels like he’s dominating the offensive side. Kobe is a prime example of this. He wasn’t the most efficient legend (tho he was efficient in his era) but he would beat teams mentally with his onslaught of scoring and that would make it easier for his teammates to score or for him to score. It feels like people on this sub just look at ppg and think it’s just that number plus their TS% in order to get a sense of how good of a scorer a player is/was.

Essentially what I’m trying to say is that not all high scoring players are the same. Some score 30 ppg (Beal) but don’t really make defenses afraid of them like Curry, Jordan, LeBron, Kobe, etc… that aspect of their games is what made their scoring more impressive. Demoralizing teams is part of their legacy’s. Along with their scoring.

Once again, I just want to remind u/round-revolution-399 and u/wrongerontheinternet said that Chet is “no where near Wemby” if you discount scoring/TS% and only look at the a defensive stats they approve of.

1. PPG isn’t a good indicator of how good someone was at scoring when that player had close to a 20 year career. KG also went from being the sole star player who had the offense run through him, to joining a big 3 and sacrificing his numbers while still in his prime.

2. KG played in the slowest era ever. He didn’t have a PG that could run an offense for a couple years on the Timberwolves so he had to score and play point guard on offense for the Timberwolves for a couple seasons as a 7 footer.

3. This point is your best argument and it’s a trash argument. He wasn’t an efficient monster but he was average TS% wise for the majority of his career. Not bad when he was known mostly for his defense.

4. Read point 3

5. Spacing isn’t only when someone shoots 3’s. KG was an elite long 2 shooter. He ojos regularly shoot the ball a foot or two inside the 3 point line because he played in an era where bigs didn’t shoot 3’s all that often. Teams respected his shot and that allowed his teams to have spacing.

6. KG wasn’t an efficient monster. Great job having one argument on your side for why he is an overrated offensive player.

7. I don’t know how many times I have to tell you this but here I go again, KG was arguably the best passing big man of his generation. He had great handles for a 7 footer and would run his teams offense regularly. In his mid 20’s. He was their literal PG on offense for most of the seasons. You’re once again using career numbers for someone that played over 20 years in the NBA. Go use his prime numbers, I’m sure they’ll be a better I dictator of who he was in his prime.

I can make one definite conclusion about you after reading your post. You didn’t watch KG play or you watched him at the tail end of his career. KG won MVP averaging 24.2/13.9/5/1.5/2.2(PPG/RPG/APG/STL/BLK) on .449/.256/.791 splits and .547 TS%. Not bad for someone who played in the slowest era ever.

Jordan dominated his competition more than LeBron has dominated his competition.

It was against the Magic, they’re a long team with really good defensive pieces. So many players had bad opening games. Why worry about one game? Last year he showed promise. He’s a young guard still figuring out how to play. I think it’s too early to sound the alarm on him

Jokic would have a lot of trouble scoring on that duo. AD isn’t strong enough to guard Jokic for a whole game but Embiid is. AD is at his best as the free safety on defense so he would almost certainly deter Jokic from being a scorer in the post.

But that doesn’t mean much when Jokic would still just pass the ball to the open guy.