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Who do you all think is better Lebron or KD?
How the did you make the right pick? Thats some ed up thinking.
Who do you all think is better Lebron or KD?
My question would be come 2012, if Kobe still plays for Team USA, who starts at the middle three positions, SG, SF, PF among these five players: Kobe, LeBron, Wade, Durant, Carmelo. You can get away with LeBron or Carmelo at PF so that helps the log jam at the swing positions. But still, you'd have five superstar players for three positions. I guess they could slide Wade or LeBron to point guard as well.
Nice problem to have though.
You can't pass on a 7 footer that has the talent that Oden has. He just needs to be healthy. If he gets hurt again this year I will admit it was a mistake, but I still think he'll be fine physically. If he's healthy we're going to be NASTY!
How the did you make the right pick? Thats some ed up thinking.
KD is better in the international game. His game is just a tailor-fit for the FIBA game, like Melo. The NBA game? Still LeBron.
Ma discusses Pritchard, Paul Allen, the consulting work he provided to the Blazers, the team's emphasis on pace, Pritchard's emphasis on a "big three" and, of course, who his numbers recommended drafting in 2007: Greg Oden or Kevin Durant.
"If people that use analytics to predict player performance in the NBA, using performance analytics, meaning what they did in college, and they tell you they had Oden ranked higher than Durant, they are full of crap," Ma said this morning. "There are very few statistical measures that would have rated Oden's numbers in college better than Durant's. Oden was injured his entire career, that one season at Ohio State. He had to shoot free throws left handed, was not efficient, didn't have a great statistical season.
"Our numbers absolutely said they should pick Durant. It wasn't even close."
http://www.blazersedge.com/2010/9/10...kjack-king-and
That's your only chance of keeping your streak alive.
History has proven that while it's very difficult to pass on a 7 footer with great talent, it certainly isn't a case where a team "can't pass" on a 7 footer with great talent. Especially in the draft era of high school kids or freshman kids straight to the pros, sometimes tangible production has to trump the great potential of a 7 footer with yet fully untapped great talent. Goes back to Darko and Kwame Brown. Goes even further to a guy like Michael Olowokandi who was a college upperclassman and still didn't pan out. If the other draft candidates are mediocre talents, it's obvious you go with the 7 footer with the high ceiling. But if it's a talent like Kevin Durant who already proved himself by dominating college in a major conference, that decision isn't a no-brainer.
To be fair, many if not most so-called experts and analysts felt Oden was the pick. But again history tells us that the 7 footer isn't a "can't pass on this prospect" simply because he's a 7 footer with great talent.
2-1 vs Lakers last year.
Lol are we really going to turn this into a my NBA team is better than yours thread?
One more game, USA. get this thread back on track.
You can definitely pass on a talented 7 footer if there is another player who is clearly more talented. Durant was by far the better talent. There were question marks of Oden's durability before the draft. He only played half of his freshmen year due to injuries and he wasn't a legit can't miss prospect like Shaq, Duncan, Hakeem, Ewing, etc since he was still raw compared to those guys. Bad pick.
Yeah, you'll be saying that next off season, too.
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