We're two games into this season and it's plain as day to me. Sorry, Aldridge, I know you thought you finally had your own team but you don't. Welcome, once again, to Secondbananaville. Sorry, Nic, but you'll always have Paris.
LA would be better as the second banana. that being said, LA is probably the best PF in the game right now.
Better than LeBron? You might make an argument for him being the equal of Love. But it's an argument only homers like me would listen to.
Hmmmm ... awfully early in the season to making these kinds of proclamations. All I'm going to say is that Lillard seems to have a boatload of talent on offense and he's pretty flammable on defense. Not much point in saying much more than that.
What i would like to know is, why did this guy have to play at Weber State? He's from Oakland so it's not like scouts never got to see him play.
You know, I've sat through all four "License to Lillard" vids (kind of a waste of time really), read every damned interview, seen all the talk about how Kidd and Payton and (well, ahem, Brian Shaw) came out of Oakland, and nobody ever addresses that point. Was he just, like, drunk and a total dickhead in high school?
The PG position is the hardest to learn how to defend well. I'm not worried about Lillard's defense at all.
He may be "really a 3." But he won a world championship as a 4. And he played a lot of the Olympics as a 4. Truth is LeBron is the best SF and best PF in the game. He's also probably in the top 4 of PG, SG and C, if the coach told him to play those positions. He is crazy good at hoops.
Seems like all the threes are moving to the four. LeBron, Carmelo, and it looks to me like Durant is playing a lot of 4, partly because Perkins is sucking.
He's played very well in 2 games despite not finishing at the rim a bunch of times. He's gotten rejected by the likes of D-Ho and Thabeet. In summer league and pre-season, he showed no problems finishing. I am sure he will eventually adapt and adjust his game to score over or around the big trees in the league. And when he does, he will be unstoppable offensively.
He only played power forward in high school. Never handled the ball. He was talented but none of the major colleges thought he could learn to run a team when he had never done it before.
