1.) I'm not a Heat fan.
2.) I'm not a girl.
3.) Why would I need to be a Heat fan? My Hornets kicked your Mavericks' asses, even though Jason Kidd is better than the Hornets' second best player.
This is a really tough call. Dirk is definitely about 5 times more lethal on offense right now, but KG still plays better defense. Normally that would be enough for me to hand it to Big Ticket, however with his injuries as of late, and his at ude...
I still can't say. I think this is dead-even.
I'd take Dirk anyday, people underestimate his D and he's been in the top 10 scoring for a while now.
Are the Heat still trying to sign Odom and AI?
Shawn Bradley and a lot of other good euro players. But I already told you, you can left the gold medal out if you want.
Sprewell and Cassell were great in 04.KG never had someone comparable. When he did, BAM le. The decaying stains he had in 04 he drug to a WCFat somebody trying to dog that 04 Minny team.
let's not talk about NT, Dirk's teamnates in the german team are scrubs, they're not even average player in europe. He carried them to the bronze medal in a World Championship.
Hey NBA teams are an individual thing too.
Michael Doleac/Jason Kapono have rings. Ergo, they are better than Dirk.
Do you honestly believe that the Hornets mysteriously went from being able to beat the Nuggets on the road to losing to them 121-63? If you actually watched the Hornets at all this season, you would have seen the countless injuries and David West and Chris Paul playing 40+ minutes each game to beat ty teams.
lol comparing KG's American teammates to Dirk's German teammates.
Why don't you ask a Heat fan? But my Hornets don't need either of them to beat your sissy squad even with injuries.
Are you saying they weren't decaying stains? For real, for real? Cassel you might have a minor point, though he was older/injured in the playoffs so my point stands. Sprewell wasn't even in the league 18 months later if I remember correctly. He had to find SOME way to feed his family, y'know, and the NBA just wasn't cutting it.Sprewell and Cassell were great in 04.
Oh and Dirk at least tries to take the last shots. When's the last time KG even attempted a game winner? Made one?
he made multiple gamewinners his last season in Minny.
Sprewell avg. 20 in 04 was just awful.
The guys who talk about Garnett's achievements with USA National Team are just idiots.
Germany has a really poor team.All the players besides Dirk suck bad.
Dirk plays A-L-O-N-E with no help from ANYONE else.
Nevertheless,Dirk had won a bronze medal in 2002 world championship(he was the MVP in this compe ion) and a silver medal in 2005 european championship.
These succeses are ing HUGE for a bad team like Germany.
Dirk haters
Chris Paul, David West and 10 D-Leaguers should be able to stay within 58 points of the Nuggets. You are calling out a guy who got his team within inches of a le when you root for a team that defines the word "QUIT" after that game. And if CP3 is so great, why did he defer to Jannero ing Pargo in a Game 7 against San Antonio?
Anyone can take the last shot when it doesnt matter if it goes in or not...but where is KG when a championship is on the line? Thats right....either deferring to PP and Allen.
Make up your ing mind.
I think I'll hold off on agreeing with someone who's trying to make it a point that Sprewell wasn't a major factor on the 04 Wolves team.
Bottom line on my man Dirk is, it isn't that he lacks wherewithal, leadership, clutch, isn't a winner, etc, my man's simply unlucky
Unlucky that in 2003 an injury sidelines him for half of the WCF, so that he helplessly has to watch Steve Kerr hit a barrage of fluke threes
Unlucky that in 2006, the best shot at a le, he has to be on the wrong end of the worst officiated Finals in the history of the NBA, and the worst call in the history of the NBA.
Unlucky that in 2007 the Warriors got the 8th seed and went ballistic from the arc.
And unlucky that, since 2003 or 2004 (Not sure if Nash made all-NBA in '04), he has not had an all-NBA caliber teammate. Pierce/Garnett, Duncan/Ginobili/Parker, Jordan/Pippen, Bryant/Gasol, B. Wallace/Billups, Shaq/Kobe... I think it can generally be said, it takes 2 all-NBA caliber players in the core of a championship team... which makes Dirk's 2006 run toward a le even more impressive.
I just don't understand why so many players are judged for things that are beyond their control. Like my man, Steve Nash, who similarly has dealt with bad luck.
Sprewell is a headcase and threw away a viable NBA career because nobody would offer him the money he felt he deserved. If you think KG dragged 11 D-Leaguers with him to the WCF, I don't know what to tell you. That was a damn good team.
That point was obviously lost on you. Not surprising.
I did mention when KG got a good supporting cast he made it to the WCF, didn't I? Good. So what's your point? He wasn't a decaying stain? I disagree. He could have kept on playing for decent money and instead, completely ed himself. If that's not the definition of stain, I dunno what is. Decaying by getting older and more mental which I think we can all agree on. This wasn't 99 sprewell, gentleman. He was 34 years old in 2004 and wasn't far from being done had it not been a contract year.
I shouldn't have picked KG, looking at his stats this year, yes he was injured but now I'd much rather Dirk next year than KG. I just thought about KG being a defensive anchor and thinking he was still close to 20ppg.
Dirk should be through to the next round!
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