bleeds_purple wrote:evilpimp972 wrote:Who did shut down Anthony Davis? Draymond Green? Your post is nonsense, and i bet you are the guy who don't watch Pelicans game. I saw Aldridge gave him a hard time, that's about it, kid's still learning though.
Watched plenty of NOP games. He's a great defender but offensively quite limited. With the ball all he can do is face up and try to drive by you. He has no post game. We had a game where we put Rudy Gay on him and the dude literally couldn't do a damn thing. He would try to face up and drive past him but Rudy was too quick and Rudy isn't even known for defense. If he was stronger or had post game it would have been mince meat.
He doesn't strike me as a guy who can ever be your number one option but he could still win an MVP. He's just like Garnett, great player but not a guy you think of as being the number one guy to carry an offense. He's never going to command a constant double team like Cousins would, not that I'm saying Cousins is overall a better player.
If he's ever going to win in the playoffs he'll need to team up with a guy like Harden. AD would be perfect for Harden really. Set him screens, catch some lobs, and anchor the defense.
I'd love to be offensively limited, and score 33 pts / games in my first playoffs series
His post game is limited, but so was Lebron post game before 2011, would you call Lebron pre 2011 offensively limited? Nah, post game isn't everything.
Plus you can always go back and watch the series against GS, he started off bad (Green was bothering him) but later in the series he was playing in the post whenever he had a smaller guy on him. He destroyed Green after the first 2 games, again, he's still learning.
What's more impressive ? We actually complain about his touches on offense, plenty of times where he doesn't see the ball, that'll change with the offensive mastermind Gentry, oh boy I can't wait!
Cousins is a better post player, but he's not a better offensive player than Davis, kid is too good at moving without the ball, that's a SKILL, not a flaw. And you can't double that, he's gonna get his, anyway.
Man, everybody thought his game would suffer come playoffs, but guess what happened, and he's not playing with some kind of hall of fame PG. Just imagine what the kid would do with one of them, I can't!
Harden + AD? Okay, but I'll bet AD will score more, because Harden will actually pass him the ball better than Evans or Holiday, plus the attention than Harden draws...oh man, that would have been wonderful.
