I'm not sure why that matters, but I feel Roy is the more complete offensive player, and would work better as a 1A or solid 2 than Anthony.
I think if it happened you'd be looking at them playing together 24 minutes and wearing out defenses, and 12 minutes by themselves each where they get to just dominate. Each half: 0-6: Paul/Roy 6-12: Paul/Rudy 0-6: Roy/Rudy 6-12: Paul/Roy And yes I think if we were to get Paul, Rudy would look a hell of a lot better. Roy - 36, Paul - 36, Rudy - 24?
Well yeah, Anthony is definitely an amazing even transcendent scorer. I question his BBIQ compared to Roy and almost every other aspect of the game besides scoring goes to Roy in my book. Apparently, Carmelo is more clutch then Roy which blows my mind as that sure didn't seem to be the case in their head to head matchups the past few years.
It matters because "more complete" isn't that relevant with Chris Paul. Chris Paul handles the ball every possession. He sets up other players. He scores himself off of the dribble. In some ways, he plays keep away from his own team until he sets them up to score or does it himself. Roy could do what he does best in the absence of a complete PG. Steve Blake did almost none of that and Andre Miller has holes (no perimeter shooting) and strengths (post-up game) that let Roy handle the ball more than he would with Paul. While Roy's game would be impaired playing with Paul, Anthony, on the other hand, get his value from being able to score, and that scoring would remain unchanged. I'd love to have Roy and Paul, and from a personality perspective I'd prefer Roy to Anthony, but I think Paul and Anthony might be more efficient in terms of optimizing each of their talents. Ed O.
Yawn. If we have a healthy Oden + CP3 +LMA, Roy won't have to do anything special. The other team will have to either 1) abandon the idea of offensive rebounding (in which case Roy hurts them in the half court) 2) try to get offensive rebounds (in which case LMA+CP3 run it down their throat) Pick you poison fools! (I feel so HCPish )
I agree that he is, but some of that completeness would go to waste, IMO, when Paul is doing the vast majority of the play-making.
Given that much of Roy's "playmaking" has devolved into "bail me out" passes to 3 point shooters, I'm not sure that is such a big consideration.
