NBA Championship: Lakers Vs. Magic

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

I didnt mean i would give him max and i should have clarified. Right now though, he is a poor man's dirk nowitzki.

He is worth Antawn Jamison money and that means 8 figures.

When has Dirk ever run the point? I don't think you could have come up with a worse comparison.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

When has Dirk ever run the point? I don't think you could have come up with a worse comparison.

Do you guys not have cable up where you live? Hedo and Dirk are about the same size and play a similar outside in game. Dirk is better but hedo plays a similar style. Dirk may not bring the ball up the floor much but they run the offense through him in a similar way and he handles it a lot in the halfcourt.

Why is that such a bad comparison?

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Do you guys not have cable up where you live? Hedo and Dirk are about the same size and play a similar outside in game. Dirk is better but hedo plays a similar style. Dirk may not bring the ball up the floor much but they run the offense through him in a similar way and he handles it a lot in the halfcourt.

Why is that such a bad comparison?

They are white Europeans, that is about the extent of the comparison.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

They are white Europeans, that is about the extent of the comparison.

Both shoot threes?

[dalakhani]

Both handle the ball well for men their size?

[dalakhani]

Both, despite being 6-10, 6-11, play the game outside in instead of inside out?

[dalakhani]

Both pass well?

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Both handle the ball well for men their size?

Turkeyglue is light years ahead of Dirk
off the dribble. It aint even close. When was the
last time you saw Dirk back the ball to midcourt in
a halfcourt set to get some distance between
himself and his defender?

Ball handling and the ability to go
to the basket off the dribble is a
huge diff. between these two.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Turkeyglue is light years ahead of Dirk
off the dribble. It aint even close. When was the
last time you saw Dirk back the ball to midcourt in
a halfcourt set to get some distance between
himself and his defender?

Ball handling and the ability to go
to the basket off the dribble is a
huge diff. between these two.

Dirk handles the ball very well and gets to the basket. he was 8th in free throw attempts.

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Do you guys not have cable up where you live? Hedo and Dirk are about the same size and play a similar outside in game. Dirk is better but hedo plays a similar style. Dirk may not bring the ball up the floor much but they run the offense through him in a similar way and he handles it a lot in the halfcourt.

Why is that such a bad comparison?

They do not play similar outside games.
Dirk is a spotup 3 guy from the perimeter.
Hedo is much more versatile from the perimeter.

Dirk handles the ball a lot in the halfcourt when
he is backing down a smaller player to shoot
a fallaway jumper. And again, Dirk handles the
ball on the dribble when he is close to the basket,
he does not pull the ball back out to the perimeter
to set up his man for a drive.

Im sure you can find cases where both have done
the opposite of what I have said. But for the
majority of the season and the playoffs, this
is how I see a small part of both player's games.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by pgardn

They do not play similar outside games.
Dirk is a spotup 3 guy from the perimeter.
Hedo is much more versatile from the perimeter.

Dirk handles the ball a lot in the halfcourt when
he is backing down a smaller player to shoot
a fallaway jumper. And again, Dirk handles the
ball on the dribble when he is close to the basket,
he does not pull the ball back out to the perimeter
to set up his man for a drive.

Im sure you can find cases where both have done
the opposite of what I have said. But for the
majority of the season and the playoffs, this
is how I see a small part of both player's games.

Dirk is not a spot up three guy in any offense from anywhere on the floor. He is too big a part of the offense. He handles the ball from any part of the floor although certainly not as much as hedo because its not the same offense. They are similar in skills if not how they are utilized. Dirk certainly being a much better player.

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Dirk is not a spot up three guy in any offense from anywhere on the floor. He is too big a part of the offense. He handles the ball from any part of the floor although certainly not as much as hedo because its not the same offense. They are similar in skills if not how they are utilized. Dirk certainly being a much better player.

Dirk does not handle the ball as much as Hedo
because the cannot handle the ball as well and
he is not as quick. They may run diff. offenses,
but Dirk could not do what Hedo does for the
Orlando offense.

Absolutely agree that Dirk is the better player.
He is Dallas. If Dirk had Howard instead of
the lumbering Dampier... a much tougher team.