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Originally Posted by tbach24
I think some offenses will be better (the Kobe, Rashard, Big Al team comes to mind OTOH), but because of how good defenses are going to be, they won't look as good. IMO. Also, like seadood said, more depth.
I'm not really sure I'm understanding this "OMG Alex's team is so great on offense" mindset. A comparison between Alex's team's first year(age 24 seasons) and this year's Orlando Magic:
-Rashard Lewis of the Magic>>>Rashard Lewis at 24
TS% was only 52.7 at 24...basically he was an inefficient chucker. This year he got it all the way up to 59.1%. All his bulk numbers were pretty similar.
-Hedo Turkoglu<<<<<<Kobe at 24
Hedo had a great year, but yeah Kobe is Kobe. Still on offense alone, Hedo was pretty damn good this year putting up 19.5 points on 57.6% TS.
-Dwight Howard>>>Al Jefferson
They scored about the same number of points, but Dwight had a TS% of 61.9 while AJ's was only 53.5. I was very surprised to see that their offensive rebounds were similar though, as I was expecting Dwight to be way ahead(in fact, AJ is actually ahead here!!)
Ugh...just realized that I can't go any further due to undrafted players on the Magic. But, as you can see the Magic win 2/3 of the matchups here and they're more efficient in each of them. And Alex's other starters are Dalembert and Hinrich, neither of whom is an offensive fireworkhouseboy.
Now I'm not saying that the Magic are better on offense than Alex's team. In fact, I'd gladly admit that Alex's team is better. However, its at least comparable, no? And the Magic were only 7th in offensive rating this year.