<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Aug 13 2008, 09:58 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kk30 @ Aug 13 2008, 01:51 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Guys I want to know what you think of my new team after I traded for Paul Pierce.
Milwaukee Bucks -
C: Jeff Foster/ Andray Blatche
PF: Amare Stoudemire
SF: Gerald Wallace
SG: Paul Pierce/ Rashard Mccants
PG: Mike Bibby
This team is a very solid team all around. Foster provides the perfect compliment to Amare as a guy who is a good defender and rebounder. He'll do the dirty work that Amare doesn't like to do. He allows Amare to play PF making Amare much for effective.
Amare- the best offensive big man in the league. No not even Tim Duncan can stop him. Is just an average defender though but maybe on this team instead of the Suns he'll do better
Mccants is instant offense off the bench and is learning. Hes a borderline starter and having a guy like that come off the bench is a huge plus. Averaged 15 pts in 26 mins in his third year. Also shot over 40% behind the arc and averaged 2 threes a game last year
Bibby is a good leader and knows how to run an offense. I'm not asking him to go back to his 18-8 days. Hes kind of an x- factor, someone who will hit big shots and also average 6-7 assists.
Pierce- obliviously great leader, defender and scorer. Knows how to play in big games and in the clutch.
Gerald Wallace- Works hard on defense and offense, never takes plays off. Developing into a very solid scorer and one of the league's best defenders. BTW hes only 25. He needs to stay healthy but if he misses a few games, Mccants can come in and play the two and Pierce will shift to SF.
Blatche believe it or not is only 21. He just starting to develop last year and is a dangerous shot blocker who is just learning his jumpshot. I was talking with some people from Washington and they said he has the potential to be kind of a late bloomer like Jermaine Onea'l. Won't go that far yet but hes kind of like our version of Sean Williams except hes bigger and stronger. He'll split time with Foster. Hes been on all three of Washington's playoff teams so he has experience there too.
Can't wait till we start voting because another team in my division is Denny Crane's Chicago Bulls that is also very solid with
Chicago Bulls - Denny Crane
C: Samuel Dalembert
PF: David Lee
SF: Andre Iguodala
SG: Ronnie Brewer
PG: Gilbert Arenas / Earl Watson
His team is competitive to mine but obliviously I think my team is better</div>
Dalembert > Foster
Lee < Amare
Iggy > Wallace
Brewer < Pierce
Arenas > Bibby
Watson >= McCants
*shrug*
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I don't want to get into a deep argument yet and leave that to voting if we ever get to that point but... just using greater than and less than signs isn't going to cut it.
Amare is a lot better than Lee
Iggy is better than Wallace but not by that much if you look at stats and they have similar athletic ability.
Pierce is a lot better than Brewer even though I have a ton of respect for Brewer
Arenas is a lot better than Bibby
Dalembert is better than Foster by a solid amount but they are both defensive centers and both good rebounders. Dalembert could give a few more points a game a couple more blocks a game but they both have similar impacts on their teams
So... it would be a good matchup but I think I just have too much firepower. Your team has one true scorer and the others all work hard on both ends but are not great scorers ala Detroit Pistons so it'll be a very interesting matchup. I'll leave it that and probably go into greater depth during voting. Please let it happen because last year it didn't happen so I'm a little nervous voting won't happen.