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Originally Posted by Assani Fisher
No! It does not take a great PG to make Amare successful in the pick n roll. Steve Nash is great because of his insane shooting ability for a PG. Contrary to popular belief, Steve Nash is not that much better at passing than (just realized I was naming names...basically I named a bunch of slightly above average NBA PGs)....
Where are the Sun's homers and acolytes of Nash Head to bash this?
I'm sorry, but I can't think of a PG in the NBA right now that makes the pick'n'roll bounce pass better than Nash, with either hand, off the dribble or not. And that's not a trivial pass to make, otherwise you'd see it a lot more.
Anyway, as to the Epi debate, I actually mostly agree with him, but the homerism is ridiculous.
McHale is a better player than Amare no doubt, but it's not because of offense. And while his great defense certainly has a lot of value in this format, an offensive black hole is similarly less valuable.
I think that, while in general the teams are going to be about as deep as a regular NBA team, there are a lot more good bigman defenders spread throughout the draft than exist in the NBA at any 1 time. Low-post iso's with a guy who can't pass is NOT the way I'd go about running an offense, even if he could handle the task better than anyone else (except Shaq, who probably WAS good enough to do this). See how the good the Spurs look when NO doubles Duncan? That's because Duncan is great at passing out of the double, not just putting the moves on in the post.
And just reading this thread, I've come up with a lot of tasty ideas about ways to better analyze rebounding, but I find it very doubtful that when I run the numbers, Barkley is going to look any less dominant on the boards relative to KM.