tsherkin wrote:WiggOuts wrote:Jokic would not look nearly as good in an older era, his defense would be exposed and he would've had much better competition at his position(he'd still obviously be good)
There's a litany of other bigs who suggest that this isn't true.Westbrook deserves way more respect then he he gets. He has a very unlikable personality which makes it easy and it almost became cool to clown on him for a while but he was a monster in his prime
His shot creation gets a lot of attention on this board. The fact that it's been nearly a decade of him having fallen off a cliff, however, has a tendency to erode people's perception of him. He is a great example of box score averages influencing people, although he certainly was very productive in his MVP season, and was less of a disaster as a scorer at the time.The NBA needs a few more teams in Canada. If they put teams in Vancouver/Montreal/Winnipeg/2nd team in Ontario I bet they'd support their franchises better than some of the current NBA cities.
Vancouver, sure. Dunno about Winterpeg. You'd certainly have an even worse time trying to get anyone to come up there, because it's flat, it's windy, it's cold as bawlz and it is boring as sin. You could watch your dog run away for a week all through the prairies until you hit the mountains. And that's before you add in all the usual issues like taxes and border crossing and all that stuff.
I didn't want to say Winnipeg but I couldn't think of another city where the population is starting to climb, thats why I mentioned a second city in Ontario. Either way, I think they need to just do it. Who cares about getting people to go there, maybe superstars won't want to go but as long as there NBA contracts being handed out they'll get talent. They point is to expand the league, add teams down south as well. There is an abundance of NBA talent out there and its growing
