Better Defender: Gary Payton or John Havlicek

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Who was the Better Defender: Gary Payton or John Havlicek

Gary Payton
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44%
John Havlicek
5
56%
 
Total votes: 9

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Re: Better Defender: Gary Payton or John Havlicek 

Post#21 » by kooldude » Thu Jul 3, 2008 1:34 pm

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Re: Better Defender: Gary Payton or John Havlicek 

Post#22 » by Malinhion » Thu Jul 3, 2008 2:13 pm

Nobody is "owning" this thread. There are a lot of good arguments on both sides.
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Re: Better Defender: Gary Payton or John Havlicek 

Post#23 » by JordansBulls » Thu Jul 3, 2008 3:43 pm

Malinhion wrote:Nobody is "owning" this thread. There are a lot of good arguments on both sides.


Exactly!! Owning is when someone can't put together a logical explanation or can't rebuttal points taken.
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Re: Better Defender: Gary Payton or John Havlicek 

Post#24 » by tsherkin » Thu Jul 3, 2008 4:50 pm

I'm inclined to agree with True and Malinhion; I didn't own writerman... I soundly refuted a couple of his points but even my own argument suggests that Havlicek is in a similar category to Payton, not that GP is so radically superior as to set himself unreachably far apart from the Glove's defense.

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