younggunsmn wrote:shangrila wrote:Cliff notes:
Brewer sucks
We're all fat girls at a slumber party
Brewer sucks
Yep. fat girls at a slumber party gushing over corey brewer.
A perfect metaphor for fans punch-drunk from years of losing suffering from lowered expectations.
I can't imagine the fanbase of any team that was a winner being this okay with Corey Brewer starting at SG. Over an uber-talented guy you just picked 4th overall and another guy you traded the 16th pick and cap space for, while your team stands at 10-30 with 12.5 million in cap space and has a total of 3 conference wins.
Defensively, Brewer has a defensive rating of 109, Johnson has one of 114. On/Off stats show that when Brewer is off the court, the team allows 5 points more defensively, whereas when Johnson sits the team defence improves by 4 points. The On/Off stats themselves are almost mirror images; when Brewer is on the court every single defensive stat improves. While Johnson is out there, they mostly decrease. Also, at SG, Brewer holds his opponents to an 11.9 PER, Johnson can only hold them to a 14.7. Really, the statistics clearly prove Brewer is the better defender, both individually and team wise.
This is pretty much all I got from your rants: I don't like Brewer and everyone that disagrees is either blind or ignorant. You don't back much, if any, of it up with evidence. It's just your opinion and that's fine, but it's not fact either.
So here's MY opinion. Wes isn't uber-talented (LOL) right now, because he's still adjusting. Offensively he sucks and defensively he lacks the energy to be the same sort of pest Brewer is. And honestly, with Beasley, Love and Ridnour all shooting >40% from 3, I'd rather have someone that can at least get to the line then another floor spacer that the team doesn't need. Really, there's not a lot, box score or with the old eye test, that puts Johnson over Brewer at this point.