There have been offshoots, mostly by me, sorry, of Lowry and 14 + 16 for 6. I think I am confusing people.
Still, in that scenario it isnt just pick 6 for lowry. Youre getting 14 and 16 back. A possible duo jones, waiters, sullinger, marshall, moultrie zeller, along with lowry for drummond.
I'm not a big Lowry fan. I am hoping for Dragic. But, Lowry is no Felton. There have been a bunch of late blooming point guards (Billups, Nash off the top of my head) which I could rattle off stats for to counter your Felton argument. But if you watched Felton and Lowry during their good runs, you can see a sizable (no pun intended!) difference. Lowry created for Houston, Felton was a product of 7 seconds or less. Need more proof? Felton was traded something like 4 times in a few years, Lowry's asking price appears to be a top 10 pick in a deep draft. That tells me Lowry is more coveted than Fatty Felton.
http://www.hoopsworld.com/rockets-targeting-dwight-howard-deron-williams like I said, the way to get good in this league to championship level is to make huge gambles to get superstars.
It's really what small market teams have to do to be competitive, but I have been bashed over this enough.
"but its impossible to do so!" :MARIS61: if there's a will, there's a way. even stat-geek morey has to see his philosophy doesn't work.
As others have said, people are talking about the #6 for Lowry, the 14 and 16. I say that's worth it in this deep of a draft. It's mostly likely Lillard, Drummond, or Waiters for Lowry, and two other prospects who really aren't much worse than the previous three mentioned. I'd do it.
Lowry was traded once, and this offseason could be twice. Felton was traded twice, one of those was to bring back a superstar in Carmelo, hardly something to hold against him as being unwanted.
Oh yeah... the cold hard stats of 38 games arbitrarily singled out from a 7 year career in an effort to prove Lowry isn't in the vicinity of average... Thanks! Good effort on your part too.
Felton has played for 4 different teams since 2010. That number is about to be 5. You're right that he wasn't traded each time, as some of them were teams letting him sign elsewhere via free agency. But he is about to play for this 5th team since 2010...I don't know everything, but that seems pretty telling to me.
Even Nate couldn't force Felton to miss as many shots as he did. Lowry was never in the 7 seconds or less system, and hasn't even had a chance to regress yet, let alone plummet the way Fatty Felton did.
Lowry never averaged more than 25 minutes a game for Memphis. Plus, he was obviously really young then. What did you expect, him to average 20 and 10? Once again, I'm not even a very big Lowry fan, but I am surprised at how little respect he's getting around here.
A few years ago, I proposed a deal that would have got us Lowry and Elton Brand for Rudy/Joel/Martell, with Iggy going to Houston, and people were flaming the shit out of me, saying that was the worst idea they had ever seen posted on this board. I knew Lowry would end up bein the best player in that hypothetical deal. And based on player values at the time, it probly coulda got done
