<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nba dogmatist @ Mar 26 2006, 02:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>you're acting like playing 75+ games is a feat. It's what players are expected to do. Plus, we're not talking about last year. He has a back problem THIS year. He is not very dependable.</div>And Kobe had shoulder problems last year, and Amare has problems this year, yet people are still quick to say both players are/wer better than other stars.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>That post is complete <Censored>. Pierce was 10x better on an off night than Walker was in his prime. His team was not very good at all. He had Antoine, Tony Battie, Eric Williams. So that's one other legit scorer, a few good defenders, and the rest were garbage. He took them to the ECF. Far Better teams? God, when will people stop making that excuse. Pierce and Walker were that team. T-Mac still had Mike Miller and Drew Gooden. The teams were not that far apart.How does the player's ability to win barely effect this argument?? That's what defines a player's career!!</div>T-Mac had Mike Miller only. He was traded for Gooden, who is not the player Miller is. If they didn't trade Miller, they would have probably beat Pistons in 2002-2003. Over his 3 seasons, Miller averaged 14PPG and 4RPG. Gooden averaged 12PPG and 6RPG during the year Orlando went to playoffs and almsot beat Pistons. As you can see, T-Mac had very little to work with, especially in a 2nd go-to guy, yet still mananged to do damage in playoffs and get huge season stats.Look at AI's team that won the ECF. That also wasn't a very good team. It didn't take much to get to ECF back then, and there was only a 6-7 game difference between the #1 and #8 seeds. Lastly, Walker was averaging 22/8 from 2001-2003. That is 1 rebound better than Pierce, and about 2 points less. He was almost equally as important to those teams, and much ebtter than Miller or Gooden. Lastly, Pierce has won nothing. He got to ECF finals once and was a duo with Walker. As a lone star, he has done nothing.
