I completely disagree and the irony of your very last sentence.OhayoKD wrote:Sign5 wrote:OhayoKD wrote:You're not sure how Zion not being a successful model is relevant to an argument that hinges on Zion being a successful model?
Zion having nice basketball reference slashlines without the results to go along with it is not actual evidence Wade would mantain his impact in a much stronger league with much better players. Shai is far more effective than Zion is. Your Zion comparison was aimless yapping. And that's setting aside the comedy of treating them as if they're similar players physically because of their height. Wade finds and punishes gaps, Zion, when healthy, creates them. Wade is not nearly strong or big enough to generate the same sort of inside gravity healthy Zion does.
Incredible achievement. No one is arguing Wade wouldn't be capable gaudy basketball reference slashlines. The question is the relevance of gaudy stats in a league where everyone has them. Wade's team getting torched by a sort of Modern defense is not the talking point you think it is.
Lol what a joke. "gaudy basketball reference stats", like Wade isn't a 3x champion and didn't put Heat on his back en route to his first title.
You do know that when you use "Like" like that, what follows the "like" is supposed to contradict what you're responding to? What does Wade winning a title in 2006 prove about whether he'd maintain, get better, or get worse in 2025?Also Wade isn't as strong as Zion but he's quicker, smaller, more elusive/slithery meaning he'd be able to manuever through gaps and zones better than zion which is what I initially stated.
No. This is what you initially stated:The bigs today are also on average smaller so it would mean less resistance for arguably the best slashing guard of all time to inevitably get to the rim.
The bigs are smaller, in exchange for being quicker and more explosive. As Wade is as incapable of overpowering Wemby as he was Dwight Howard, making today's bigs worse matchups for Wade than the bigs he played against. In other words, going by "tangible logic", the matchups theoretically bolstering Zion, limit Wade: You are arguing against yourself.
Wade is going to have a much harder time dunking on Wemby or Bam or AD than he would have had dunking on Jermaine O Neal. This league's bigs are much better suited for containing explosive slashers than the bigs of the 2000s were.
And that's before we get to you explaining how small stretches where the Pelicans weren't mediocre or bad leads to Wade capably leading one of the best regular-season teams ever
I don't know. I think it would preferable if you waited to comment on other poster's brain-cells, after you've managed a semblance of a point.
So let me get this straight. Wade would have a harder time dunking in a league with more spacing on average, equipped with more 3pt shooters (rather than 1-2 guys operating in the elbow) and smaller bigs at the rim than a league that was more defensively stout due to officiating/rules. Had not just a "Wemby"/"Bam"/ "AD" singlehandedly manning the paint but also a 6'11-7ft Hartenstein/Miles Turner/ Brook lopez type center next to them clogging the paint? Are you serious??
What's funny is that the latter two (Bam and AD) have been PRAYING and PLEADING for another center to pair up with them due to how hard it is to protect the rim and you're saying Wade would have it harder?
Again that very last sentence you typed. The irony. Have a good day Ohay.
