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Originally Posted by sike
too much yelling with certainty when all we have is conjecture, subjective opinion, and hypothesis. Be nice guys.
I agree that Jefferson alone would not vault the Mavs into favored status...only James or Wade could do that in one move.
But I also think that much of Jefferson's supposed defensive liabilities (though no one has taken the time to prove him to be a subpar defensive center thus far) would be negated by having Haywood behind him.
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so you think the opinions of pro-nba players about jefferson/haywood dont count? all those sites with defensivstatistics that state that haywood is the way better center dont count too?
ok then whats with the Defensive Composite Score... its not up-to-date though, but it gives you an insight of how well a person performed in this team defensivly.
http://www.82games.com/nichols1.htm
just some examples: al jefferson was way worse than d. harris (!!!), josh howard and erika dampier (at dallas) ... hell
some opinions from hoopshype:
http://hoopshype.com/players/al_jefferson.htm
"Defense needs work" btw. also listed as power forward
prove that the wolves played better when love was on the court instead of jefferson:
http://www.82games.com/0910/09MIN12.HTM
http://www.82games.com/0910/09MIN11.HTM
and look at the 5-man-units... they actually played WAY better when jefferson played his natural power forward position
yet another fact:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2010.html
scroll down to advanced statistics and see that love was better in nearly every stat there is (offensiv rating / defensive rating)
to sum it up:
every basketballexpert, every site that provide statistics is saying: jefferson isnt a good center.
i mean, i postet 4 references now and there are still some people out there that think jefferson could fix our center-whole ? i've watched around 10-20 minnesota games complete in this season... everything i saw was a good scorer, that cant defend. but i never felt bad about that, he is a power forward. he produced the same bad defensive rating like dirk did when he played center 7 years ago. i just felt relieved when love was on the court so they had at least a slightly chance to play good defense in the paint - most of the time it worked. there is absolutly NO chance that he(jefferson) will change his gamestyle when he comes to dallas. so a combo of dirk+jefferson on the court will break our neck. every GM will stick to the center that can defend and produce 10 ppg / 10 rebs than having a defensive liabilitie that scores 7pps more - and so do i
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hi king, hast du in deutschland gearbeitet, oder warst du nur zu besuch dort ?