Thanks! That's a shit list, though. Three of those guys are SFs (yes, I consider Faried to be a SF). Anthony Davis needs to play before he ranks #3. And Ryan Anderson is an average player - a great shooter for his position, but an average player.
Yeah, two of the "best" power forwards in the game and they only won 27 games. You think with such an awesome front court they would have been going against Miami in the finals. And on what planet is Ryan Anderson (16.2ppg, 6.4rpg, 0.4bpg, .423 FG%) a better power forward than LaMarcus Aldridge (21.1ppg, 9.1rpg, 1.2bpg, .484 FG%)? Even if you totally ignore defense and the "eye test" and just look at their stats, that makes ZERO sense. And Kevin Love barely played last year, and when he did, he sucked. I also think that to be considered a power forward, you also have to guard the other team's power forward on the other end. Basketball is played at both ends of the court and rankings like this tend to only look at offense. When has LeBron or Carmelo ever guarded LaMarcus or Duncan? Stupid list.
Two of them - Battier and Ray Allen are average NBA players. That is just fine for a bench player. Look again at our list. Toss out Maynor - he came too late in the season to matter. Toss out Nolan Smith - he played too few minutes. Then you get to our "real" bench from last season: Pavlovic was the "best" at -5.6, which is bad, and it only gets worse from there. Miami has 2 bench players better than that, and 2 other bench players MUCH better than that.
I'm glad this WARP ranking came out and disrespected LaMarcus. The last time he felt disrespected, he played with a chip on his shoulder and we started calling him LaMonster. I hope he reads that drivel and it pisses him off.
Great way to look at it. LA seems to become a monster when he gets slighted or pissed off. We need to send mags to every game with the intent to piss off LA before tipoff. Shouldn't be hard, all he would need to do is show him blue9 post about him. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
