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I'm still a Bowen fan but Green >>>>>> Bruce easily.
If the Leonard and Green duo stick together, I see no reason why Green's jersey won't be retired someday
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With Bowen's jersey retired, considering his accomplishments with the spurs and sacrifices...I've been wondering a lot on how Danny will be seen five or six years from now if the spurs win another ring or two.
Bowen
- Great Defender with the luxury of having one of the best defensive bigman in the league and a younger Parker that didn't need help on defense
- Very good three pointer.
Danny Green
- Great defender with the luxury of playing alongside one of the best perimeter defender ever but an older and slower TD, and having to cover for an aging TP
- Greatest three point shooter in the NBA Finals
- 1 Ring and two finals
- Made one of the biggest financial sacrifices in team History...
If Danny wins another, does he deserve to have his jersey Retired?
Hypotetlixly, If you have the option now...Would you choose Bowen over Green?
I'm going with Green since he's a much deadlier three point shooter.
I'm still a Bowen fan but Green >>>>>> Bruce easily.
If the Leonard and Green duo stick together, I see no reason why Green's jersey won't be retired someday
bowen wouldve shut down cp3, tbh
If Johnson jersey is retired, it would be a joke not see Danny's retired..Provided he stays his whole career and the spurs win another one..IMO.
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Of course, he would have been playing with a young TD..one of the most well rounded defensive big the league has ever seen.
I'd take Bowen. He instilled fear in his opponents. He was ridiculously good at getting under the opponents skin and just irritating the out of them. Plus they'd be a little worried about the possibility of Bruce injuring them.
Dude couldn't even shut down Nash.
Green, primarily because he's a two-way player. If I had to choose one's defense over another, I'd select Bowen.
Nobody could.
bowen regardless of how great timmy is, was a very good defender on his own. i would take bowen 1v1 def over danny 9/10
Was about to say this...
Just like no one can shut down the good players that Green and Leonard routinely shut down? In this case, Bowen wasn't even a speed bump against Nash.
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nash>>cp3
People talking about Bruce while having no clue about him...
Stick to trolling, kid, you don't have the level to do more.
Bruce rang thrice last time i checked and is undefeated on the Finals... DG would need to at least win two more and be the shutdown D player on each ring run (Kawhi has that role now) that Bruce was to be put in the same category. Bruce>DG still
Why? Why was everyone in Bowen's day better than their modern counterparts? It's crazy how people try to justify the lower standard for defense last decade. Same people usually think Memphis just keeps getting screwed out of playoff wins every year.
I don't know. If the Spurs put prime Bruce on Alexey Shved, Spurs probably walk away with the 2 seed. I'm not sure why such vitriol towards Bruce. Did he knee you in the nuts and take your wallet? I'm not even sure Green or Leonard could stop a prime Nash. He was one, if not the best overall player in the league.
Bowen: 3
Green: 1.
Lettuce proceed
In that case, Barry is better than Patty because he rang more than him. Good argument indeed.
I'll take whoever doesn't get shut down by Matt Barnes tbh. So both
I think Bowen is mad overrated by fans who can't be objective. People don't realize how much better the Spurs defense is than it was with Bowen. Back then, the idea was that great players were going to get theirs and you just had to do your best to make things harder on them. But the Spurs can actually render the opposing stars ineffective for whole series with their defensive personnel. And it's not like Bruce didn't have advantages Green and Leonard don't have. Players were allowed to play much more physically than they are now. So the fact that the Spurs put up superior efforts against stars is even more impressive, given that it's extremely hard with the current rules to "get into the heads" of opponents.
Green and Leonard would be elite defenders in Bowen's era. At best, Bowen would be Tony Allen with worst driving skills but better shooting. And even though Allen has elite defensive metrics, he's barely a plus player against good opponents.
Bonner: 2
Robinson: 2
Quite the pickle you've created.
I love Bruce and everything he did for the Spurs, but Green is the superior player.
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