Comments on: Scouts See Lakers, Cavaliers as Title Favorites http://ballerblogger.com/2009/10/19/scouts-see-lakers-cavaliers-as-title-favorites/ NBA blog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:58:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Tsunami http://ballerblogger.com/2009/10/19/scouts-see-lakers-cavaliers-as-title-favorites/comment-page-1/#comment-31968 Tsunami Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:07:25 +0000 http://ballerblogger.com/?p=1805#comment-31968 I meant, Cleveland, ORLANDO, or Houston, not Boston. I meant, Cleveland, ORLANDO, or Houston, not Boston.

]]> By: Tsunami http://ballerblogger.com/2009/10/19/scouts-see-lakers-cavaliers-as-title-favorites/comment-page-1/#comment-31967 Tsunami Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:06:40 +0000 http://ballerblogger.com/?p=1805#comment-31967 More that zero GMs picked the Pistons to have a better record than the Cavs and the Wizards to have a better record than the Magic. More than zero GMs say Melo is a better SF than LeBron. Pau Gasol is criminally underrated in the best PF in the NBA. Kobe Bryant is the 4th best defensive player in the NBA? No, sorry. He "can" be a lockdown 1 on 1 defender, but that doesn't make you the 4th best defender in the NBA. Some of the best on-ball defenders in the NBA aren't even LISTED - Mhah a Moute, LeBron, Ginobili aren't even on the list. Neither Cleveland, Boston, or Houston were given votes for best defensive team in the NBA. Mike Brown got no love for best defensive coach, nor did Nate McMillan. I have a huge problem with the "best leader". Chauncey Billups runs a great game on the court, but in Detroit he couldn't keep the Pistons from piling up Ts for years and melting down at crucial times. That's what leaders do. In my opinion LeBron is the best leader in the NBA by a long shot but I'm biased. But I've never seen a group of guys stand behind their "leader" more than the way the Cavs play for LeBron. Kobe is an absolute joke as a leader - throwing teammates under the bus, questioning management...it's easy to say he's a good leader since he was the best player on a championship team, but frankly, despite his unbelievable attention to detail and neurotic tendencies, that doesn't make him a good "leader". I find it hilarious that Phil Jackson is the coach that is best at managing personnel and Kobe is the second best leader, and yet the Lakers had the whole Kobe/Shaq thing, the Kobe/Karl Malone thing, the Kobe/Smush Parker thing, the Kobe/Bynum thing, the Kobe/Trade me thing, and that's not even any of the visible ON COURT chemistry issues. A few weeks before winning the title, some of the same announcers who would later gush over Bryant's MJ-like series (yeah, right) were absolutely killing the Lakers lack of effort against a Yao/T-Mac less Rocket team. How does that work? Taking the shot with the game on the line? I'll take Melo http://82games.com/gamewinningshots.htm or LeBron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELDBMX_huE or Hedo Turkoglu Not Kobe. Some pretty pathetic results if you ask me. More that zero GMs picked the Pistons to have a better record than the Cavs and the Wizards to have a better record than the Magic. More than zero GMs say Melo is a better SF than LeBron.

Pau Gasol is criminally underrated in the best PF in the NBA.

Kobe Bryant is the 4th best defensive player in the NBA? No, sorry. He “can” be a lockdown 1 on 1 defender, but that doesn’t make you the 4th best defender in the NBA. Some of the best on-ball defenders in the NBA aren’t even LISTED – Mhah a Moute, LeBron, Ginobili aren’t even on the list.

Neither Cleveland, Boston, or Houston were given votes for best defensive team in the NBA.

Mike Brown got no love for best defensive coach, nor did Nate McMillan.

I have a huge problem with the “best leader”. Chauncey Billups runs a great game on the court, but in Detroit he couldn’t keep the Pistons from piling up Ts for years and melting down at crucial times. That’s what leaders do. In my opinion LeBron is the best leader in the NBA by a long shot but I’m biased. But I’ve never seen a group of guys stand behind their “leader” more than the way the Cavs play for LeBron. Kobe is an absolute joke as a leader – throwing teammates under the bus, questioning management…it’s easy to say he’s a good leader since he was the best player on a championship team, but frankly, despite his unbelievable attention to detail and neurotic tendencies, that doesn’t make him a good “leader”.

I find it hilarious that Phil Jackson is the coach that is best at managing personnel and Kobe is the second best leader, and yet the Lakers had the whole Kobe/Shaq thing, the Kobe/Karl Malone thing, the Kobe/Smush Parker thing, the Kobe/Bynum thing, the Kobe/Trade me thing, and that’s not even any of the visible ON COURT chemistry issues. A few weeks before winning the title, some of the same announcers who would later gush over Bryant’s MJ-like series (yeah, right) were absolutely killing the Lakers lack of effort against a Yao/T-Mac less Rocket team. How does that work?

Taking the shot with the game on the line?
I’ll take Melo http://82games.com/gamewinningshots.htm
or LeBron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELDBMX_huE
or Hedo Turkoglu
Not Kobe.

Some pretty pathetic results if you ask me.

]]> By: Brandon Hoffman http://ballerblogger.com/2009/10/19/scouts-see-lakers-cavaliers-as-title-favorites/comment-page-1/#comment-31945 Brandon Hoffman Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:14:34 +0000 http://ballerblogger.com/?p=1805#comment-31945 <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2009-02-14-kobe-vs-lebron_N.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">How so?</a> ;) How so?

;)

]]> By: Tsunami http://ballerblogger.com/2009/10/19/scouts-see-lakers-cavaliers-as-title-favorites/comment-page-1/#comment-31943 Tsunami Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:55:08 +0000 http://ballerblogger.com/?p=1805#comment-31943 I'd like to see scouts weigh in on all the things that GMs do - because those GM polls are borderline ridiculous sometimes. I’d like to see scouts weigh in on all the things that GMs do – because those GM polls are borderline ridiculous sometimes.

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