It was Neil's job to realize that the Dame/CJ/Stotts foundation was never going to work. It was obvious against the Pels.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ts_pct_career.html How dumb is it, that Deandre Jordan has the highest TS%? TS% is a silly stat, which is why the 50-40-90 club does not factor that in......because it divides them into three...as it should be. Dame will never hit the 50-40-90 like those two, cause he is not efficient on a nightly basis. You have amazing games like yesterday, then those 10 pts games like the other night.
I'm actually curious how many 10-15 point games Dame has had. On the top of my head I can remember maybe 8 or 9. But not many.
hmm. Something like the thread I created a few weeks ago or so.... I damn near got run out of the joint. lol
As I have been saying, it is more about his efficiency. Not just the 10 pts, but he shot 10%. Let me ask you all a question, can you win a title, with Dame as your best player???? (This is my point, I say you cannot......Hypothetically, if we get Kawhi, Bron, AD, KD, Giannis, etc....he aint the best player. If we have a CJ caliber player, it aint enough)
How many finals have we been to with him as the best player? Dwight Howard, Bron, Kidd, Butler among others took crappy teams to the finals Portland are far from a crappy team without Dame, we are above .500 this season if memory serves. Dame aint that guy, we got 9 seasons of tape.....Now, if he takes us to the finals this year (Which is possible given how banged up everyone is), I will give him props. However, I don't think you win titles with Dame as your guy. There is zero proof to say otherwise. His high volume style of play, isn't suited for championship ball. Like Westbrook, great player, but his game never translated to winning anything.
Every one of those players took their team to the finals....in the east. Dame would have seen a finals already had he played in the east.
It's hard to say that when the east was the JV squad for a decade plus... and we had kobe and Steph or whatever juggernaut was in the west for dames years. We needed a 2nd star to compete in the west. You needed booby Gibson as your 2nd star to win in the east lol.
Doubt it Most of the superstars are in the east. Can't see Dame beating BKN, PHI, or MIL. He has a better chance beating DEN (Which he will tonight) or that flaky PHX team with no superstars. With GS out, and LAL hobbled, this is out time to make a run....if dame is who you all say he is......
Tried to say something nice about Dame, cause everyone is giving me a hard time about it.........He let me down....As usual........ Even with 6 guys in double figures.....
