Won't happen in real games I.e. Playoffs. Lillard has shrunk a bit in that situation.
Curry has the better team. No way Portland beats GS in the playoffs. Portland shouldn't even be in the playoffs in the first place. I can't even name their starting 5.
Lillard is amazing. Last year when Brow carried Pels to the 8th seed, the hype train was there. Lillard deserves it too.
I hope Lillard and Paul George join up later in their careers, that would be a nasty duo.
Sure. On the Lakers.
lillard
george
dlo
randle
clarkson
westbrook
durant
do it mitch.
Only if Mitch can convince the league to give us a 40% higher cap than every other team
ok ok...we'll let go clarkson for westbrook. randle for george. now we're good.
Won't happen in real games I.e. Playoffs. Lillard has shrunk a bit in that situation.
Curry has the better team. No way Portland beats GS in the playoffs. Portland shouldn't even be in the playoffs in the first place. I can't even name their starting 5.
Lillard is amazing. Last year when Brow carried Pels to the 8th seed, the hype train was there. Lillard deserves it too.
I hope Lillard and Paul George join up later in their careers, that would be a nasty duo.
Sure. On the Lakers.
lillard
george
dlo
randle
clarkson
westbrook
durant
do it mitch.
Only if Mitch can convince the league to give us a 40% higher cap than every other team
ok ok...we'll let go clarkson for westbrook. randle for george. now we're good.
Nah. Randle is cheap. Clarkson would have to go, as well as one of your big four. Four max salaries is 100-140% of cap space. But heck, since this is a fantasy maybe you're doing one of those fantasies where Durant and Westbrook since here for the vet's mininum. In which case might as well add in Davis or Cousins for the vet's min
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Runway8 wrote:
cKPayasoLoco wrote:
lillards cooked steph 2x already this season. Switch their teams and i think GS still would be winning titles
Not that ridiculous of a statement. Lilliard is averaging 24.9 and 7.3. Only thing is his field goal percentage is much lower at 42.5%. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
lillards cooked steph 2x already this season. Switch their teams and i think GS still would be winning titles
Not that ridiculous of a statement. Lilliard is averaging 24.9 and 7.3. Only thing is his field goal percentage is much lower at 42.5%.
And Steph is having one of the greatest seasons in NBA history. His 67.4 TS% is BY FAR the highest TS% for any player with a Usage Rate of 30%+, with the next closest being 64.9%. His BPM amongst that group is the 3rd best in NBA history. Damian Lillard was a borderline All-Star.
Sorry, really good and historically great are not comparable.
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:15 am Post subject:
GoldenThroat wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
Runway8 wrote:
cKPayasoLoco wrote:
lillards cooked steph 2x already this season. Switch their teams and i think GS still would be winning titles
Not that ridiculous of a statement. Lilliard is averaging 24.9 and 7.3. Only thing is his field goal percentage is much lower at 42.5%.
And Steph is having one of the greatest seasons in NBA history. His 67.4 TS% is BY FAR the highest TS% for any player with a Usage Rate of 30%+, with the next closest being 64.9%. His BPM amongst that group is the 3rd best in NBA history. Damian Lillard was a borderline All-Star.
Sorry, really good and historically great are not comparable.
Right, but that would still be a pretty stacked team.
Lilliard
Thompson
Barnes
Green
Bogut
Bench: Iguodala, Speights, Livingston, Ezeli
I don't think they get past San Antonio with Lilliard instead of Curry, but it's still a contender. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
The OP likes Lillard more. On the list of favorite players, Lillard ranks higher. Is his favorite player better than Curry? No. But he's pretty darn good. I'd take him over any version of Chris Paul. _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0
lillards cooked steph 2x already this season. Switch their teams and i think GS still would be winning titles
Not that ridiculous of a statement. Lilliard is averaging 24.9 and 7.3. Only thing is his field goal percentage is much lower at 42.5%.
And Steph is having one of the greatest seasons in NBA history. His 67.4 TS% is BY FAR the highest TS% for any player with a Usage Rate of 30%+, with the next closest being 64.9%. His BPM amongst that group is the 3rd best in NBA history. Damian Lillard was a borderline All-Star.
Sorry, really good and historically great are not comparable.
Steph, with 25 games remaining, is 10 completions away from breaking his record for 3-Pt Field Goals. Amazing. _________________ "A metronome keeps time by using a Ringo"
..... rather have Westbrook. But, Lillard has a broader skill-set, than Curry or Westbrook.
curry has one of the broadest skill sets the league has seen since Nash. He can do it all. Westbrooks athleticism does make it hard to choose though
Westbrook plays at the intensity and violence of Rafael Nadal in tennis. Not sure how long that can realistically last, but so far so good. He's still in his 20s. He's quicker than Curry on crossovers, penetrations into the paint. More explosive and athletic, generally. While Curry has to use a bit more guile.
WB is better at drawing fouls and get to the line much more. That doesn't sound like a sexy skill or stat, but it's a legit asset. He gets the opponent in foul trouble. Not sure how often Curry does that, staying mostly on the perimeter. I also love WB's rebounding. He plays a bit more under control and has improved his shot selection these days. Very fun to watch. _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0
..... rather have Westbrook. But, Lillard has a broader skill-set, than Curry or Westbrook.
curry has one of the broadest skill sets the league has seen since Nash. He can do it all. Westbrooks athleticism does make it hard to choose though
As fun as it is to watch someone as crazy athletic as Westbrook, Curry distorts defenses and makes it easy on his teammates to be great, also. His impact on the game is why the W's may end up with the best record ever, depending upon how much they rest their players to end the season. OKC probably has the most talented team in the league. Curry has been on another level, however. His historic season individually is leading to an historic season for his team.
In a seven game series, however, who knows? OKC seems to have the best opportunity for an upset. With two players as good as Durant and Westbrook, all it would take is a hot series for them and Curry or Thompson to be average for them, or a little less.
The OP likes Lillard more. On the list of favorite players, Lillard ranks higher. Is his favorite player better than Curry? No. But he's pretty darn good. I'd take him over any version of Chris Paul.
I love Lillard. He is sensational and I respect him even more for being a guy from Oakland, played at a mid major and then rose in the draft because of his skills. But then delivered big time at the NBA level.
Seems like a good dude also, I love Lillard.
However, Steph Curry honestly is a transcendent player and at a completely different level than Lillard or frankly almost anyone else who has ever played with what he is doing right now.
For Curry, it will just come down to longevity and injuries. If he can do this for an extended period of time, he rises HIGH in the all time list because I have never seen a guy making shots like this at this rate of accuracy, it is historical and must watch television every time he takes the court these days. _________________ Love, Laker Lanny
..... rather have Westbrook. But, Lillard has a broader skill-set, than Curry or Westbrook.
curry has one of the broadest skill sets the league has seen since Nash. He can do it all. Westbrooks athleticism does make it hard to choose though
Nash had No D. Are you implying the same thing, for Curry? Again, Lillard has a broader skill-set, than Curry or Westbrook. Is Lillard better? No. Has a broader skill-set? Yes.
Durant and Steph are just on another planet. If Lebron's jumpshot didn't fall off so hard the past couple years, and especially so, this year, I'd have him in the same tier. He has been so streaky this season. That's kind of generous, his shot has been pretty bad. It's a wonder he can still put up 25ppg on 50+% and 58TS%. He's carrying the hell out of his team, as shown by his on/off numbers.
Stephs team is extremely stacked and perfectly built, but he is still living up to all of the hype he receives.
Lillard is 3/4ths the player Lebron is (my current 3rd best player in the league), at best- Dame is so bad defensively, too.
The OP likes Lillard more. On the list of favorite players, Lillard ranks higher. Is his favorite player better than Curry? No. But he's pretty darn good. I'd take him over any version of Chris Paul.
I love Lillard. He is sensational and I respect him even more for being a guy from Oakland, played at a mid major and then rose in the draft because of his skills. But then delivered big time at the NBA level.
Seems like a good dude also, I love Lillard.
However, Steph Curry honestly is a transcendent player and at a completely different level than Lillard or frankly almost anyone else who has ever played with what he is doing right now.
For Curry, it will just come down to longevity and injuries. If he can do this for an extended period of time, he rises HIGH in the all time list because I have never seen a guy making shots like this at this rate of accuracy, it is historical and must watch television every time he takes the court these days.
..... rather have Westbrook. But, Lillard has a broader skill-set, than Curry or Westbrook.
curry has one of the broadest skill sets the league has seen since Nash. He can do it all. Westbrooks athleticism does make it hard to choose though
Nash had No D. Are you implying the same thing, for Curry? Again, Lillard has a broader skill-set, than Curry or Westbrook. Is Lillard better? No. Has a broader skill-set? Yes.
No I was not implying that at all. Nash was as offensively skilled across the board as anybody. Just like him Curry can finish in a variety of ways with both hands. He can shoot it off the dribble, spotting up, or off screens. He has all of the dribble moves. Lillard is good at all of those things but not great at all of them like curry. The flip shots curry makes over shot blockers in the key are a big reason why I think he has the broader skill set. Lillard uses athleticism and not skill in those scenarios.
"I respect Steph Curry," Lillard said Thursday. "Because what he's doing is amazing. But I'm my own man. So don't come to me and say I'm impersonating him. You telling me I'm impersonating somebody by doing well at my job is disrespectful."
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"I just think you respect the man as the man that they are," Lillard said. "You can respect what Steph Curry's doing and love what Steph Curry's doing. But that has nothing to do with me. I'm my own man."
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"I've got a lot of respect for Steve Kerr," Lillard said. "But when he said I looked like Steph Curry, I didn't like that either. It might seem like a compliment coming from him and how he meant it. But I didn't like that either. If anybody had a good game against us, I don't think coach (Terry) Stotts would go and say, 'He looked like Damian Lillard.' So it depends on how you want to look at it."
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