Red Larrivee wrote:dice wrote:you completely missed the point. it's not about what they once were
It does matter. The better you are at basketball, the higher your floor is when you get older as a player. Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili's "old" is better than a lot of players prime.
of course it is. but you're missing the point once again. it doesn't matter that they used to be elite. they're not anymore. and they're favorites to win the championship. zero superstars. just like detroit ten years ago. it's not a common occurrence, but it's a more common scenario than acquiring carmelo anthony
certainly. but not by much is my point. they pulled out some wins at the ends of games
They pulled out wins because they had multiple stars and we had 1 player doing everything on offense.
and if you replay that series 100 times the most likely outcome is heat in 6 or 7 games. it just didn't play out that way over the course of several days in may of 2011
rose was missing open jumpers that he had knocked down all season long. on a sprained ankle
He was being double teamed and blitzed on pick/rolls with nobody else to help him
as well as missing open jumpers
How are Butler, Taj and Noah supposed to help with that? None of them score efficiently nor are they high volume offensive players.
passing, open jumpers, and dunks. particularly with the improvements noah has made passing. we were starting to make those adjustments in that series
He isn't talented to enough to beat a team like Miami by himself. That's the point.
of course. he needs a sufficient supporting cast. with or without another star
and refresh my memory: who did the celtics trade for those two guys? seems to me they didn't have much of a team before they acquired those two. not so of this bulls team
They traded a 21-year-old Al Jefferson among other things
uh huh. for kevin freaking garnett and ray allen exiting their primes. both of which were better than carmelo anthony (garnett by a mile)
