Now this cracked me up.... You sound as if Sir Charles was a cupcake..... Charles Barkley was a beast and he did average as many rebounds as Rodman and played offense... T_Man
Yeah. Imagine if Allen Iverson were the same height as Patterson. He could have been the greatest player of all time! Stupid comment is stupid. (Sorry, Z-Ro. It just was.)
I've been saying all along that if Boykins was Shaq's size, he would be the absolute GOAT. You heard it from me first.
If we're just going to bump this thread every time Patterson has a good rebounding night, then we're going to be bumping this thread four, maybe even five more times this season!
Maybe, oh wait. I might be going on a limb here, but did Patterson grab more boards when he wasn't playing while Asik is on the floor? Oh wait... that can be true! Greg Smith is supposed to be the better rebounder... and he outrebounded him while they were playing similar minutes? The world as we know it is ceasing to exist! There was a reason Mchale put Patterson at center over Smith and Asik in the fourth.
Trade him right now. Value is all time high. Great rebounding asset for a low price of milsap,lamarcus,damarcus..........
Not a knee-jerk. Just an observation. The "when somebody doesn't play with one of the top rebounders in the league he will grab more rebounds because he boxes out well" observation.
Patterson played hard tonight because he doesn't like coming off the bench. There's been many games where he played like a softy inside so don't act like the criticism was unwarranted. If he plays like this every night then that's another story but right now this is the anomaly to Pat's usual play.
