This is all true. But don't worry Denny, one day DRose will overcome his phobia of round orange things. Baby steps. I heard he's growing pumpkins in his back yard.
League Leader: Minutes Played All-time Leader: 3-pointers by a rookie League Champion: Skills Contest All-time Leader: Rookie of the Month Awards No one else in the history of the league has had a better rookie regular season resume. Yet, few people are saying he's the top 5 in the league. He's neither overrated nor underrated.
Just pointing out the absurdity of the logic. What we want to see is Lillard go from a 16 PER to a 19 PER or something like that. As for Rose, I didn't want him to play last year. Don't want him to turn out like Oden.
I had zero expectation he'd come back last season. Guys with similar injuries came back and took weeks to regain their confidence, if at all. After the team cut loose guys like Asik, I knew he was going to sit the season. Why risk him getting hurt again on a team that isn't trying to win it? I think he'll regain his confidence by playing with the guys in preseason and he'll have had the whole summer to work on conditioning and strength. Maybe he won't come back at anything close to his previous level of play. There's that chance, too.
I hope not. I like DRose. Fun player to watch and I think he has a bright future. After watching Roy get cut down in his prime, I really hope it doesn't happen to Rose.
I don't see why people are so afraid to admit Lillard can and imo will enter that elite level PG list. Is it because he isn't flashy like Irving, Paul, Westbrook, and Rose? He has so far straight up balled against some elite level players. He put up 38 on Kobe, 29 and 35 on Parker, 37 on Curry, 33 on the Heat, and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of good games against good players. He was only a rookie and broke a ton of records and joined a lot of elite level players in rookie stats. It's not that far fetched an idea that he will just explode and turn into the next big thing.
I don't worry about his injury as much as his confidence. Sometimes guys get injured like that and decide the outside shot looks safer than driving to the rim. It will be interesting to see how he responds.
There is a major difference between a rookie that played one year of college, and a rookie that played for years of college. Lillard put up great numbers because he came into the league NBA ready. I'm not saying he won't improve from his rookie year (and if he doesn't I wont be disappointed), I'm saying that it's not fair to compare Irving's rookie year to Lillard's rookie year and expect that same of jump.
Age means nothing. Players use to stay three or four years of college and they still got better through their career, why can't Lillard just as easily make that jump? Experience in the NBA is what makes players better, Lillard has 82 games under his belt, he is only going to get better.
I don't think this will happen. Because I think his body and height will yield to greater improvement overall. But... Anyone remember Damon and his rookie season?
I waited in a long line around the block in Times Square to get Dame's autograph. People on the East Coast know who he is. That's how Paul plays. Sets up for others and then comes on late. Unless Griffin is hurt. Then he guns all game long. See 2013 playoffs Great post As for the link, you have to read between the lines to get the actual answers to the questions. Read everything and you will see that the truth is...... Russell Westbrook is the best PG in the league (after all, at 2nd team All NBA,he was) Damian Lillard is the most underrated PG in the league (no one mentions him except to say he's overrated) Chris Paul is the most overrated PG in the league (if Westbrook is obviously the best then Paul is overrated by definition)
Remember how ordinary he turned out? I think his size and physical consititution played a bigger role in how ordinary he was. Lillard, I don't believe suffers that same problem
