Playoffs: Pierce or Melo

[GetItDone]

Playoff run, you get to choose any year Paul Pierce or Carmelo Anthony...who are you choosing?

[koko88]

i can't choose a guy who in 9 years was eliminated 8 times in the first round.

paul pierce without a doubt for me.


for regular season i pick melo.

[Tabitha]

I'd choose the better defender, better scorer, more efficient, better playmaker, slightly worse rebounder in Paul Pierce

As for which Paul Pierce? I'll say 05 Pierce

[tsherkin]

i can't choose a guy who in 9 years was eliminated 8 times in the first round.

It's funny you should mention this, since prior to KG and Ray-Ray showing up, Pierce played in a very weak EC and made it TO the playoffs only four times in 9 years. He made it out of the first round in consecutive seasons, going as far as the ECFs in 2002, but that's not really a much more sterling record.

Now, things to consider.

In his full seasons Denver, Melo's teams won an average of 48.3 games, including a 3-year stretch of 50, 54 and 53.

In that time, Denver was 8th, 7th, 3rd, 6th, 8th (with 50 wins!!), 2nd (WCFs) and 4th in the conference.

Notice how many times they won a lot of damned games and were still only the 8th seed?

OK, let's just look at the 6th-8th seed appearances. That's 04, 05, 07 and 08. So that's 43, 49, 45 and 50 wins.

In those same seasons, they'd have been 4th, 3rd, 4th and 4th in the Eastern Conference.

Those years, they ended up facing the MVP-Garnett Timberwolves, the title Spurs, the title Spurs again, and the NBA-finalist Lakers (making their first of 3 consecutive Finals appearances).

You don't think that had something to do with Melo's playoff record?

I don't even LIKE Melo as a player, and I can't help but see a giant fault in your logic here.

[rrravenred]

"I may agree with what you say, but I will attack it to the death if it's based in bad logic" - Mangled Basketball Voltaire

[tsherkin]

"I may agree with what you say, but I will attack it to the death if it's based in bad logic" - Mangled Basketball Voltaire

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Yes.

[JDs_loot]

Pierce all day and I'm a knick fan.