Mike Trout would be a 10 WAR player on any team, there just aren’t any interaction effects in baseball. But could a team of 12 Novaks really get the necessary looks to maintain his 3pt%? That just makes no sense.

Juany8: Asik was always crap offensively, but he’s a defensive and rebounding monster, I think at this point I’d take Asik as defensive player of the year in a landslide, even if he won’t get that respect since the Rockets aren’t doing anything special. WS and WP don’t even pretend to properly account for defense, Asik is definitely a better player than Felton at this point, and I think he’ll figure out how to be passable on offense (here’s where THCJ will shoot off some point per shot number from his first 2 seasons like he’s playing the same role in Chicago and Houston)

As for Lin, I do think he’d at least look like a clear cut average point guard if he wasn’t on a team that was awful for his talents. There are not good pick and roll partners on the Rockets, only passable spot up threats, and he’s spending most of his time off the ball. He was never a star and was never going to be a star, but I think he’s better than he’s looked. At least I hope so, I was never a particularly big fan of his but I’d prefer it if the Rockets weren’t paying him 8 million a year lol

Yeah but these guys are getting starter’s money and are playing like backups. In Lin’s case, I have to disagree. If he can’t shoot and can’t go left, he will never be a decent starting PG in any system. The league has obviously figured his game out on both ends, and unless he adapts (and the jury is out on whether he’s capable of adapting) I doubt that he ever becomes much more than the solid backup he is right now. Prigioni is a good P&R PG in a P&R-heavy system, but because he doesn’t score or get to the line, he would also probably never have been more than a good backup at the NBA level. Maybe someone like D’Antoni would mask his warts for a while, like he did for Duhon, but eventually the league catches up.

Ryan Anderson scoring 18 per at a 61% ts%.

DRed:

As for Tyson’s low usage ‘forcing’ his teammates to take shots, there’s some truth to that, but his incredible efficiency and his offensive rebounding mean that his teammates don’t have to be as efficient.He’s a net positive on offense despite his relatively low usage rate.

I strongly agree with this, I think Chandler is actually a pretty nice offensive player and a star overall, but this idea that he’s an all time great on the offensive end (or defensive end for that matter) is ridiculous. He only looks so great as a center now because there aren’t any other great ones in the league. Dwight Howard’s been the best center for the last few year, and I don’t know if I’d even take him over Alonzo Mourning, much less someone like Ewing. The guy has been single covered by guys like Perkins and Gasol in the playoffs, compare that to being single covered by Hakeem or Robinson…

ruruland: Again, the red herrings with you people whenever the discussion gets going.

You mean like logging games with your own opinion of each shot?

Anyone know of video of the Mark Jackson teardrop ???

Couldn’t find any.

DRed:
Oh, bullshit, ruru isn’t even a Knicks fan. It’s ridiculous that he’s upset that people are sullying the memory of a player he didn’t even care about until his precious was on the Knicks.

That being said, young Ewing was an tremendous basketball player.The memory most people have of Patrick is him lumbering around on shot knees and hitting his turnaround, but when he was in his prime he was an athletic monster on defense and he was pretty good on offense as well.I’d take him in his prime over Tyson.It’s not Patrick’s fault he played at the same time as Robinson and Hakeem.

As for Tyson’s low usage ‘forcing’ his teammates to take shots, there’s some truth to that, but his incredible efficiency and his offensive rebounding mean that his teammates don’t have to be as efficient.He’s a net positive on offense despite his relatively low usage rate.

Please. I’m a basketball fan and I certainly consider myself a Knicks fan.

Ewing is an all-time great. And as a young Nuggets fan, there wasn’t a whole lot of NBC Sunday afternoon or playoff games to watch of my hometown. Loved watching games at the Garden on Sunday and always watched the playoffs intently. Ewing was a beast,

And as we’ve seen, it was an idiotic statement to say Chandler is better.

BTW, no one is saying Chandler is less than a positive an offensive.

Again, the red herrings with you people whenever the discussion gets going. Chandler is great at the things he does and a huge benefit to the offense.