IllmaticHandler wrote:Greenie wrote:This thread is boo boo.
So much hate and insecurity over other teams players. Then we wonder why we aren’t given props?
Welp.
Let the hate flow.
Fixed
There is probably a little bias involved in general, to be fair, but I'm not so much like that. I hated but thought really highly of Pierce. Tatum might have even better skill than Pierce but Pierce had extra because of how smart he was and his ability to feel out a game, and keep defenses off kilter. He was better than his stats and yes, better than Melo.
Plus Paul won the big one.
I really see nothing "wrong" with Tatum and think he's the best rookie for sure, but I think Simmons (very much our competition too) is more special. Simmons has court vision and size that is really special. Tatum looks more to me like a prototypical SF who is high quality but is not big or wide or different enough to say he's a one-man team.
I also think Embiid is better than any Celtic. I'd take both the 6ers young guns before Tatum. And again, 6ers are in the Knicks' way and young and a rival too ... albeit not as big a rival. But they're every bit the obstacle.
Quality can be called special and Tatum seems like he'll be a near 20 PPG scorer at least and that's very valuable. But into the next dimension of greatness? I don't think that's a lock just because he's having a very good year. He is closer to Mitchell and Smith in that he's already showing you a lot of what he can do when he fully matures ... though he will take it up a notch in perfection when he does mature ... whereas a Frank, you really don't know what his ceiling is yet.
And scarily, I don't think you know that for Embiid or Simmons either if they stay away from injuries. And both are already way more polished than Frank, just to be clear that I'm not equating the 3.
