Lowry himself has already said that he's not injured tho. Stop making excuses that he isn't even making himself. If it was his elbow then he wouldn't be shooting practice jumpers after games.
These are direct quotes from him -
I don't know how many times I need to go through this.
You mean stats don't fly when they go against your agenda?
And one shouldn't think I'm saying that the difference in team offensive ratings (when both players are on court) are all simply down to each player, and there's not any out-of-control factors in play. But with what I've said all throughout this thread; taking into account their scoring mentalities and skillsets it paints a general picture on what offensive impact they have/had.
If I can change or at least get one person to see where I'm coming from, it won't be all in vain.
Nah, he isn't blinded by positional laws like the rest of y'all are.
That stat boy geek shyt doesn't fly. You can't judge players just on stats and you certainly can't compare players from different eras using stats without putting them in context. I don't care what his reg season stats are, we can see how good he is(isn't) watching him play. Dude's reg season numbers are inflated and the proof of this is how they fall off dramatically come playoffs time. They goes for him and that entire team.
Save the excuses too. Dude has repeatedly said that he's not injured and he hasn't shown any signs of injury. He hasn't favored that elbow one bit out there on the court.
Nope, you said that they were just as good or better than that Magic team. The only reason that I remember is that it was such an outrageous comment. You're lucky that this site is shyt and I can't pull the thread.
This shyt is bizarro world Art. Cats are actually doubling down on the dumb shyt even after being thoroughly checked. Can't respect that.
I don't deny that the Raps are a flawed team only obtaining any kind of success due to playing in a garbage ass league. The Raps aren't that good? No shyt? One of the biggest problems that the Raps have is their lack of a play making point guard. One of the reasons that Derozan shoots so poorly is because he doesn't have anybody setting him up for easy buckets. Lowry can't consistently break down a defense to set himself or his teammates up. You do know that you can control or take over a game without shooting/scoring right? This is why the Kidd comparison is so stupid. Neither Lowry or Kidd are great shooters but only one could dominate a game even while his shot wasn't falling and that was Kidd. Dude could dominate a game taking 12 shots because he was great at all the other facets. Lowry is incapable of doing that. If his shot isn't falling then he's a liability out there. Imagine Kidd walking off the court back to the locker room to "get his head together" due to his shot not falling in a ecf game. He would've never did that.
You're making excuses and cherry picking. Lowry is a volume streak shooting guard. Of course there will be some games where his shots fall. Highlighting the games that his shots fell doesn't disprove the fact that he isn't that good. His is the playoffs where every game is a time to step up. His performance in the playoffs speaks for itself.
This is the problem with you dumb as posters regardless of age, you try to argue with people and you don't know what you're talking about. Nobody has even argued that Jackson was a better scorer. I said that he was a better player. A volume shooting pg who can't shoot and is weak mentally isn't worth much. Give me the high IQ play making point guard who could lead and motivate his teammates. Nobody doubles Lowry. For what? He's one of the worst post season performers in NBA history. Didn't he set the record for the most consecutive playoff games shooting below 40%? On the other hand, Mark Jackson actually did draw double teams by posting up opposing pgs. The Bulls used to put Scottie on him to combat this because he was too much for their smaller point guards in the post. The league actually instituted a rule commonly known as the "Mark Jackson rule" that says players can't back down defenders for more than 5 seconds. You don't know what the fukk you're talking about.
shytting on Derozan to prop up Lowry is pathetic. They're both flawed players who don't necessarily compliment each other that well. Derozan's flaws don't erase Lowry's.
Saying that they'd only be slightly below that Shaq-Penny Magic team is basically saying that they're almost just as good which is ridiculous. You're the one who lied. The words "definitively" and "slightly" mean two different things. Slightly means extremely close, definitively means clear. The Raptors aren't anywhere near as good as that Shaq-Penny Magic team. You're an idiot for saying that they were only slightly better than this Raptors team.So you're basically admitting you lied about me saying they were just as good as the Magic?
This doesn't even warrant a proper response. You're saying a bunch of nothing here. Just STFU.
