UTJazzFan_Echo1 wrote:The differences in Bosh's contract and LeBron's is minimal. Pointing that out does nothing other than show how desperate you to come up with a defense.
Borris Diaw doesn't put up huge numbers on a stacked team... this is nothing new. He has clearly taken Millsap (the supposed MVP of this Jazz team) almost entirely out of this series which is far more important than putting up stats. Sap wasn't sitting alone at his locker last night for no reason, he knows Diaw had kicked his butt this entire series.
Mo Williams was the second best player on the best team in the league when he made the all-star team and is still a very important piece to a contending team. He also was the starting PG for a team that went the ECF multiple times. Not sure why you even brought him up in this discussion...
And Favors has clearly been our best player this entire series. You're a fool to think otherwise. Again, not sure why you even bring him up. This isn't about Favors, it's about the utter failure by Millsap to make a significant impact in the series and and how it shows his limited capabilities in regards to starting for a contending team at the PF spot.
This post could go into wikipedia's definition of "red herring." You have yet to defend Al's abysmal help defense which I'll point out here is extremely important and over half the game.
Bosh and williams were brought up to illustrate how salary and all-star games ought not determine a players value (metrics you used earlier). Both of those are obviously stupid measures of a players impact. Mo is a solid player. Yet I can think of dozens of non-all-stars who are more valuable. Bosh is only paid a little more than lebron, yet is substantially worse. Thus, neither salary nor all-star appearances are good indicators of value.
I agree favors is our best player. I guess I'll connect the dots for you why I brought him up. I was using favors on-court value despite his poor fg% last game as an analogy for pauls value (albeit, he isn't as good as derrick) despite his poor shooting.
Millsap is a significantly better defender than Al, so when they both are mediocre to poor offensively, at least Paul is still contributing in other ways. Al isn't. Paul is a hustle guy, he's not a first option. "Taking him out of this series" as you mentioned is merely referring to his scoring, fortunately he contributes in other areas, so he hasn't been taken out of this series. It's also absurd to say diaw is playing better than him if you compare their stats. Diaw might be overachieving, and paul is underachieving, but he's not being outplayed.
Paul is paid less, requires less maintenance in terms of ego / game plan, as mentioned before doesn't destroy our defensive rotations, and didn't cost us a lottery pick.
I don't really see anything new in this post except for "nuh uh," so I think we'll just agree to disagree about Paul vs. Al.