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The Knicks Big market team with 70M in cap space can’t sign anyone lol. Poor Knicks fans
 
LayneStaley said:
I’d prefer having a guard like Curry or Dame who could stroke the 3 with 2 of them over 3 forwards.
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AD, LeBron, and Kawhi can all shoot the 3. So can Kuzma.

Also, they’re all way better defenders than Curry or Dame.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
And LBJ is getting old and AD sometimes floats and is injury-prone. They all have some warts to me, other than maybe Kawhi....
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In my opinion, the Lakers should just play them all about 60 games - punt the other 22 - roll into the playoffs around the 4th seed somewhat fresh and healthy.
 
JoshuaHall said:
AD, LeBron, and Kawhi can all shoot the 3. So can Kuzma.

Also, they’re all way better defenders than Curry or Dame.
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I’ll give you Kawhi at a career 38% but AD shoots the 3 over his career at 31% and lebron around 34%, Curry on the other hand shoots at 44%. I would take Curry/Lebron/Kawhi over AD/Lebron/Kawhi and it’s not close. But that’s just my opinion.
 
Id have my top 5 as, Harden, Kawhi, Steph, LBJ, Giannis, AD / Dame.

AD’s really talented but that dude is hurt all of the time, and Dame is available almost all the time thats worth something...
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
So is LBJ at this point.
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During the regular season, sure.

During the playoffs? Uh... Not so much.

And he is at least *capable*

Oh, and he won’t have to carry the squad on his back all season long, won’t shoulder the entire offensive load, and can work harder on defense — something he has outright said he won’t do during the regular season with all his other responsibilities.

Do you honestly think Harden and Curry are even comparable to LeBron on defense?
 
LayneStaley said:
I’ll give you Kawhi at a career 38% but AD shoots the 3 over his career at 31% and lebron around 34%, Curry on the other hand shoots at 44%. I would take Curry/Lebron/Kawhi over AD/Lebron/Kawhi and it’s not close. But that’s just my opinion.
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I refer you to my post above.

Do you think teams are gonna leave LBJ and AD wide open, unguarded, at the 3pt line during the playoffs like they do Aminu?

And I would take AD/LeBron/Kawhi because AD in the PnR with any of them is a nightmare — and AD is invaluable as a defender — switch anything, protect the rim.
 
JoshuaHall said:
During the regular season, sure.

During the playoffs? Uh... Not so much.

And he is at least *capable*

Oh, and he won’t have to carry the squad on his back all season long, won’t shoulder the entire offensive load, and can work harder on defense — something he has outright said he won’t do during the regular season with all his other responsibilities.

Do you honestly think Harden and Curry are even comparable to LeBron on defense?
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Well, no, but I also think Lebron is 35, and Im not sure he still has what he did 3-4 years ago. Also I hate watching Harden but that dude is incredible, call it bad refs whatever but he gets points and carries that team.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
Well, no, but I also think Lebron is 35, and Im not sure he still has what he did 3-4 years ago. Also I hate watching Harden but that dude is incredible, call it bad refs whatever but he gets points and carries that team.
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For context — LeBron, in this shitty season, was a +2 in Defensive plus minutes. Curry was negative 1.4. That’s not stats from 3-4 years ago. That’s the most recent season, where LeBron was “bad.” And “not trying.”

Edit - and I love Harden, he’s probably my favorite player, outside of Dame.
 
JoshuaHall said:
For context — LeBron, in this shitty season, was a +2 in Defensive plus minutes. Curry was negative 1.4. That’s not stats from 3-4 years ago. That’s the most recent season, where LeBron was “bad.” And “not trying.”
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Did I say Lebron was bad or crappy or not trying...?

He’s a good defender but Id still rather have steph at this point in their career.
 
JoshuaHall said:
I refer you to my post above.

Do you think teams are gonna leave LBJ and AD wide open, unguarded, at the 3pt line during the playoffs like they do Aminu?

And I would take AD/LeBron/Kawhi because AD in the PnR with any of them is a nightmare — and AD is invaluable as a defender — switch anything, protect the rim.
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If it happens we will see, it will be the first “Big 3” with all Front-court players, like Ive said imo a little more balance like the Heat and Warriors had would be better. I would definitely clog the lane and let AD and LBJ beat me with the 3 though.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
Did I say Lebron was bad or crappy or not trying...?

He’s a good defender but Id still rather have steph at this point in their career.
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I said Harden and Curry are non existent defensively. You said “so is LeBron at this point in his career.”

He is still vastly superior, without trying, to both of them.

I said he wasn’t trying — not you — but because LeBron has said so himself that he doesn’t go 100% on D during the regular season — yet still is a way better defender. That tells me what I need to know about Curry and Harden defensively.
 
Benches and chemistry are very underrated during the first hrs of free agency.
 
LayneStaley said:
If it happens we will see, it will be the first “Big 3” with all Front-court players, like Ive said imo a little more balance like the Heat and Warriors had would be better. I would definitely clog the lane and let AD and LBJ beat me with the 3 though.
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But Kawhi and Kuzma can pull the 3 too. So how you gonna clog the lane on a LBJ/AD pnr? Who ya gonna help off of? And most teams won’t be able to honestly guard a LBJ / AD pnr.
 
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