I'm not saying Wade is as selfish as Marbury.It's just not in his nature as a player to consistently look for the pass.His main objective is to score.Basketball smarts/IQ wise, Wade is beyond Marbury, but at the same time, he's similarly wired.I used Marbury because he's the most extreme example.Wade is a sg, so he's expected to score more.Marbury was a pg, but more like a undersized sg disguised as a pg.Even then, I'd say Marbury made some better passes, but he wasn't a better passer.If you looked at a Marbury passing reel, you'd probably gomore than a few times.Having said that, he wasn't as consistent/ efficient as Wade in any facet of the game.
That's why I say Penny was a bit of an eccentric.He was similar to Bron in that he was a lil passive on offense, but he was a monster when he needed to score.He had the talent/offensive repertoire to put up more points than he did.Not to the extent that Bron does it...Bron is a physical freak.Athletically, there's no comparison between him and Penny.On a scale of 1-10, Bron is a 12 or some shyt.Penny was more like a 8.5, but from a fundamental/technical standpoint, he had better moves, footwork/ scoring technique than Bron.Basically, he wasn't as versatile/dominant, but he was more refined IMO.For whatever reason, it just wasn't in their nature to stay in attack mode.It's like they only go into that mode when shyt reaches emergency levels.
Having watched both (Wade & Penny) I'm not saying one is better than the other.I just think it's funny how people say it's disrespectful to take '95 Penny over Wade or Wade over Penny as if one is light years better than the other.To me, it's a toss up.Depends on your preference.
I know I'm going hard with my opinion that Penny was more of a natural passer, but I acknowledge that Penny didn't have the natural scoring grace of D Wade.That evens the playing field for me.
That's why I said I'd choose '95 Penny over Wade.I think he was better at getting his teammates involved, had a size advantage, and although he's not the scorer that D Wade is, he still had the ability to be a dominant scorer with his well crafted, all around game(offensively)
But that's just me
Now if somebody came in here and chose Wade, I'm not going to lose my shyt, and call them stupid or crazy.
I can feel that but Penny was more of a scorer than a pure point just like Wade and I think him and Wade are equal as passers. Even with Shaq and two shooters on his team Penny only averaged 7 assists a game in his best season. And I know that's not the end all when it comes to judging who was a better passer but I never looked at Penny as pure point on the lines of a Magic or Stockton. I always considered him like a hybrid of Jordan and Pippen where he was the teams best ballhandler and got a lot of assists cuz he was the guy that bought the ball up the court the most and he could score pretty much when he wanted.
I could see that.
was easy to stop, or should I say neutralize, because his teams used to get swept every year. So you're saying the guy who got swept every year (young Shaq) is unstoppable but the guy who wins the championship every year (prime Bron) can easily be stopped by "forcing him to shoot jumpers" even though he just proved that doesn't work. If it were so easy to stop him someone would have done it the last 2 years.
