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Originally Posted by tbach24
People act as if we put Pierce in the category with Kobe and LBJ (YOU CAN AFTER LAST NITE LOL!!!!), no Celtic fan really does that. But you can't deny his greatness. He's the third best wingman in the NBA right now behind Kobe and LBJ IMO, although a little ways behind those guys.
I was going to bring up TMac, but then I went and looked at the stats. Wow TMac is an insanely inefficient scorer, while Pierce is pretty damn efficient. Obviously Pierce's 60% TS% this year is in part do being surrounded by such a good team, but for his career hes at 56% which is damn good for a bulk scorer who is asked to do so much.
TMac meanwhile is pretty bad at only 52% TS% for his career and under 49% this year(yuck!!!). And its not like he hasn't been surrounded by decent talent around him in Vince/Hill/Yao.
To give a comparison, Iverson is widely critisized as an inefficient scorer, but his TS% for his career is only .3 percentage points lower, and hes had very little surrounding talent and is even more of a bulk scorer than TMac.