So who put the parenthesis? Was it quick or you? If it was quick, I have lost 100% respect for him. If it was you, I could understand, since you aren't held responsible for things printed.
You are taking Rip Hamilton, one extreme "off the ball player" to Roy, even in this system probably won't be playing off the ball all the time. Rip's game was 100% or close to it, playing off the ball. Do you really think this new system has him doing that? And I would agree that Brandon's game is very similar to Wade and Kobe. But they don't have the ball in their hands 100% of the time.
Hamilton was injected as a simple way to show the flaw in USG%. That poster was not in any way comparing Roy's game to Rip's. He was showing the flaw in a stat. You somehow miss that.
I didn't miss it. I added observation as a determinent. Regardless, your m.o. seems to be to simply follow me around and criticize me. You're on ignore now, and I typically don't ignore posters, but I've started in the past few days when it's clear the arguments are personal, and not based on basketball. Buh-bye.
No problem. As I said, it's difficult keeping up with 5 different conversations at one time. I took care of one of them, though. Now I can be more focused.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing Dog. I mean I've been searching for this since this thread started and couldn't find anything. I think he heard it on the radio or something.
The Rip Hamilton interjection shows to me that there is too much "static" in the usg% to work for this argument... the actual time held by each player within a possession would be sweet but I don't think it exists... or this discussion could have a winner!
Usually you use brackets to indicate a word that the speaker elided, or to clarify, for example: Actual quote: "She came running up and tore off my pants, and she started hitting on her" Cleaned up: "[HCP's wife] came running up and tore off my pants, and [Beer Boy's wife] started hitting on her". But you wouldn't insert your own thoughts into the brackets, such as: "[HCP's wife, that slut,] came running up and tore off my pants, and [Beer Boy's wife] started hitting on her." You could break the quotation up, or only use part of it, e.g. Roy said HCP's wife, a notorious slut, "came running up and tore off my pants..." barfo
Anyways, back to our discussion. For me, why should Roy be open to change his game? Jordan was always changing his game. Hakeem did as well. Hell pretty much any superstar has always evolved their games. Wouldn't he embrace it? Seriously, any player that thinks they are good enough has already lost. It's those that are always working on their game, working on their deficiencies are the ones that propel themselves to "GREATNESS". The ones fine with the talent they have and get by with that are ones that are ridiculed. Look at Sheed. An amazing talent, yet choose to be a role player.
