Yeah, my estimation that Simmons was only in a slump was wrong. I don't have a problem saying that. I thought a guy who was 24 at the time could come back. I abandoned that idea the next season he played which was almost a year and a half later. I never had a hard time admitting what was obvious to see, once there was a large enough sample size to see it.
There is more than a large enough sample size to see that Ant isn't close to being as good as Dame has been. People like to point out what their numbers looked like when they were the same age despite the fact that Ant has been in the league a helluva lot longer than Dame was at the same age but let's look at it. Dame's numbers were pretty close to Ant's when he was 24 but Dame was the point guard on a team that was going to the playoffs for the second year in a row, Dame had hit The Shot against the Rockets the year before, Dame had been named to the all star team... Dame put the numbers up in games that mattered, in wins instead of losses, with defenses worried about how his performance would impact the outcome of games.
This shit is so fucking ridiculous. My last post to
@beast crnjo was that I was done discussing these ridiculous and untethered arguments with him and now I'll do the same to you. Good luck with your irrational assessment of Ant and please if Ant gets traded try and keep your incoherent whining about how we didn't get enough for him to yourself. Your arguments are intelligible, you are articulating your points but the reasoning behind them is absolutely incoherent. It would be like me now saying that I thought Ben Simmons was likely to come back from a "slump" that he's in, that's how far off this Ant being anywhere close to as good or valuable as Dame bullshit is.
