If this doesn't convince Spur fan then I'm dealing with a bunch of re s

[DMC]

In the Jordan/Kobe debate, all you need to understand is that people are not being compared to Kobe. When that happens, we can revisit it. There are no "baby Kobe" nicknames, unless you consider Neal but he was acquitted.

[lefty]

Timvp just trolling

[DMC]

The chasm between the Lakers and the Spurs is not that great considering the Lakers are the Yankees of the NBA, free spending to load up on talent while the Spurs, a small market team, has to penny pinch and get by with less talent.

I would expect the disparity to be much greater in the Lakers favor.

That's like looking at the efficiency of a small market compared to that of a large one. The large market will be less efficient because they compensate with money what they lack in ability. They don't need better scouting if they have better buying power, just as a billionaire doesn't price shop when hunting for vehicles and gets whatever they wanted. If they then bragged about how much faster their car is than yours, would you respond with the price difference? It would be a legit response, but it wouldn't sway the billionaire who thinks he's somehow done something wonderful to purchase a better vehicle, and that it makes him above you somehow.

I guess that's why "congratulations on your new purchase" sounds so stupid.

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That's like looking at the efficiency of a small market compared to that of a large one. The large market will be less efficient because they compensate with money what they lack in ability. They don't need better scouting if they have better buying power, just as a billionaire doesn't price shop when hunting for vehicles and gets whatever they wanted. If they then bragged about how much faster their car is than yours, would you respond with the price difference? It would be a legit response, but it wouldn't sway the billionaire who thinks he's somehow done something wonderful to purchase a better vehicle, and that it makes him above you somehow.

I guess that's why "congratulations on your new purchase" sounds so stupid.

Except you can't really prove your assumptions, yet you can prove that one franchise outspends another. How do we know that large market teams don't have better scouting? They can afford to buy the best scouts, the best GMs, and the best talent evaluators.

Now some big market teams may spend money on players that don't provide a significantly greater return. Or they may spend money on a player that turns out to be a dud. But on a small market team, that would crumble their prospects and force them to trade good players along with the bad salaried player to make their team profitable. Big market teams, however, can either sign more good players, making their team better, or they can make mistakes and it makes less of an impact on their win totals.