Wolfay wrote:
How did "physical comparison" turn into "playing style", and what was Oscar Robertson's playing style anyway? Absolute domination of the game? I don't see the similarity, and to compare a guy who has yet to play an NBA game to a hall-of-famer and all-time great is indeed, blasphemy. Tyreke would be lucky to get even one triple-double in a season, let alone AVERAGE a triple-double in a season.
Why are you grasping at straws. I shouldn't have to spell this out for you like this.
Physically, Tyreke Evans is similar to Oscar Robertson. They stand the same height (6'5), the same weight (220), and have similar speed/leaping ability.
The point being that Evans can use Oscar's game as a kind of template to develop a playing style. When you evaluate a prospect and want to reasonably predict how well they fit in with a team,
this is how it's done. In this case, Oscar was primarily a post up guard who ran the pick and roll. Sound familiar?
And no, it's not blasphemous to mention them in the same sentence. It's not blasphemous to say Greg Oden had better physical tools than Bill Russel. It's not blasphemous to say Demar Derozan jumps higher than Jordan. It's the skills that made these players great, not their athleticism or physical tools.