<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Jul 19 2007, 06:51 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>220lbs?!?
Kobe is 220lbs, that is not impressive whatsoever. Magloire is a very solid 6'11'', 265lbs. Much more suited to play against Shaq, Dwight, Curry, etc...Last year Magloire was a bench player that just didn't fit in with the team. He is a 9-10RPG guy, especially when he will be playing next to a very soft rebounder in Krstic. As you saw last year with the Cavs killing the Nets on the boards, the Nets need rebounding from the bigs.Moore is a weak defender. Bosh is also an extremely skinny player, and Collins did a lot of work on Bosh as well. Collins was on Z in the 2nd round. Moore is not big enough to play ANY center's and big PF's of the league.All of Moore's offensive number are a result of playing next to arguably the best PG in the league, an elite player in VC, among other players that take any offensive pressure whatsoever off of Moore. This year Moore would be going back to the bench and would not be as productive as he was last year (remember, he was a 6PPG guy before Krstic went down in late December). Magloire will do all the stuff a center needs to do by Krstic that Moore is incapable of doing, and is proven he can score. With all 4 of the Nets other starters being dangerous offensive players, Magloire will benefit from them like Moore did in 06-07.</div>Ok so I mightive overrated him abit on that weight thing, (I was trying to make him look strong)

Back to topic though, 1. I dont get what you mean by Bosh being skinny. He drops 22 a game, Moore lowered that total to 17. Hence him being a solid defender. Ontop of that, Bosh is bigger than Moore.2. I didnt watch that series much, but Moore was eithier on Z or Gooden, both who had sub par 2nd rounds compared to their first.3. What does it matter that he has players that can take off offensive pressure off him? Hes still lightyears ahead of Magloire offensively. My point was that, while being just as good or almost as good defender and rebounder as Magloire, he can also score way better and more efficiently. Rarely do you see Moore miss when he is open.4. Ill agree to saying Magloire is the better rebounder, but he is not 'wow moore is nothing compared to him when it comes to rebounding' at best, especially last year, he is better than Moore by like 2 rpg. 5. Defensively, Moore can hold is own as well. You really never saw Magloire last year gaurd the Shaqs or the Howards because Aldridge did that, having only started 23 games last year.6. Lastly, he may play with Jason Kidd, but Magloire will never be as good as a scorer as moore or shooter even playing with Jason Kidd, Moore is just that much better.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Moore has never averaged over 5 rebounds in a season before. Yes, Magloire only averaged 6 rebounds last season, but at the same time you have to realize he was sharing the paint with Randolph and Aldridge, while Moore was sharing the paint with Collins and Nachbar. Jason Kidd was the leading rebounder for the Nets last year, and put up the most rebounds of his career because the Nets had no reliable rebounders downlow. In '04-'05 in Milwaulkee, the season before last, Magloire averaged 9.5 rebounds. IMO, and stated by the facts, Magloire is a better rebounder, and overall player, than Moore by far.
Like I've stated before, there's a reason why Moore has only played 382 games over 11 seasons (42%) with 7 different teams.</div>Moore has also never played a full season with legit minutes. This is his first year playing 25+ minutes year round, and you saw the improvement he made over his past years. His past also has nothing to do with that, hes improved vastly over the past couple years and thats why hes where hes at right now.Again the main idea of my statements is that, Magloire may be a margin or two ahead of Moore defensively, but Moore is a way better offensive player. The Nets settled for Magloire who cant play on the offensive end, and beat out Moore by one or two rebounds per game, while playing almost the same mediocre defense as Moore. Defensively there is nothing Magloire totally beats Moore at all that much. hes also decline excessively in the past 3 years in rebounding, he was once at 10 rpg, now hes down to 6, and I dont see that changing by a mile or two.