If Jackson were playing here under Pop and Manu in Golden State under Don Nelson, you wouldn't be saying the same thing. Manu would be averaging something like 25 pts, 7 assts, 7 rbds under Nelson.
You don't realize what you have until you lose it.
If Jack had stayed in San Antonio, Pop would have tried to make him the backup point guard and ed his confidence, ground him down benching by benching for missed rotations by other players, and traded him plus a draft pick for nothing in the offseason a couple of years ago.
^^^Im not going by stats because that completely subjective....If you plug him in here, he'll do this and so on. Who knows how their stats would look. Im judging purely on their play. Again Im not saying id take sjax over manu over their careers cuz I wouldn't....but now considering injuries/age, and play yea Id take Jax.
ps nice sig bro
You should lose your Argie nationality over that statement. Jackson can't drible the ball without looking at the floor 'cause he would drible the ball out off his foot if he wouldn't (I don't know if that sentence made sense). Plus he's slow as and my grandma can jump higher than him. Let's face it Jackson is role player playing with the responsibilities of a star.
Do you know that S-Jax is about the same age as Manu and right now is injured? Again I don't think many people here know how bad this season was for Jackson.
You're a Manu hater. FACT!
Jax, and it's not even that close in my opinion. I'd rather have someone who is durable and consistent over someone who can be superman one minute, a turnover machine the next, or unable to play after that.
If anything, Jax is a turnover machine consistently...
And up until this season, Manu played considerably more games than SJax... so I don't really know what do you mean by durable...
He's got a bigger size and he's a better defender than Manu. Manu is the better offensive player, and has the bigger basketball IQ. They're really two different players excelling at different things.
the coyote or mark cuban?
It was Artest who charged into the stands to find the fan that tossed the beer at him while he was lounging on the scorers' table.
Jax seeing his teammate go up there alone to face who knows what, followed him, to get his back.
Was this the right thing to do? That depends on your personal code of values. You see a teammate putting himself in harms way you gonna just chill and let him get hurt?
We can only imagine with his talents, how much different a basketball player, and Man, Stephen Jackson would have become had he stayed here in SA, under Coach Pop, with Tim Duncan, and all the character guys we had over the years for him to learn from.
I miss Feast or Famine and his fearless approach to the game. Imagine him and Manu making marvelous plays and getting the stadium krunk! Jax and Bowen hounding Lebron or Kobe.
Or in 2004 when TP was getting assualted by the Lakers, after an especially hard foul, picking up Tony, you better bet Jax then would have been in somebody's mug with Duncan glaring over top of him..
For as great as our core guys are, Jax dynamite like personality, would have added another dimension to the Spurs. In my mind you need a player like that as long as you have good people around him.
Pop is Earth, TD is Water, TP is Wind, Manu all Heart.. Jax would have been our mutha fukin fire!
Last edited by Yuixafun; 04-05-2009 at 07:55 PM.
Durable:
"News: Jackson underwent surgery to remove multiple bone spurs from his left foot Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
Spin: Jackson's bone spurs were located above nerve tissue under his big toe, according to Dr. Thomas Clanton, who performed the surgery in Houston. Jackson will begin rehabilitation in six weeks. He's obviously out for the rest of this season"
When was the last time Manu had a season ending injury? ... Oh that's right: never. Even though he has played the double of games in his career.
Consistent:
41 % FG - 33 % 3pt - 3.88 TO's If you want somebody that consistenly put those numbers you're crazy.
At this point Stephen Jackson.
It's not that we didn't want him. He walked away from us. There's a lot of people, me included, that would have loved to have kept Jax and see him grow with us. But after winning the championship, he decided he wanted to be 'The Man' and that was not going to happen in San Antonio.
I just don't know what has been going on with Manu this year.
I'm not even talking about his injuries, it's like all the bad decisions he made in his first few years! I'm so confused.
worst post ever. ginobilli's going to come back to his previous form after several games, remember last time he came back it took him several games as well to regain his unstoppable forum. he'll prove the believers right in the playoffs.
really
I am glad you know
I will run to vegas and drop 100 k on spurs
okay, maybe i shouldn't have been that dismissive of your post, at this time yes it is worthy to ask ourselves who's the better player. but manu's struggled post-injury before, i don't expect it to last.
I would never take Sjax over Ginobili. I love Sjax but Gino is the better player even if he has missed some time over the past few seasons!
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