Come on now. You see why I think we may be hyping up our own players a little too much. I won't say it's ridiculous to think parsons and gallo are comparable, though I think gallo is the better player. If you slid gallo into our offense he would average over 20 points. But either way George and parsons are not in the same conversation. That's just ridiculous.
Did you just skip my comment and hone in on this one? Why would Gallo be better in our system? He is more of a volume shooter and works worse off the ball than Parsons. He needs the ball in his hands more, and with our team as it is, that is a bad thing. Next, Gallo might take the ball out of say Lin's or Harden's hands more, but to the detriment of the team as he is a 41% FG shooter. Why we would want the ball more in his hands is beyond me. I think they are 'comparable' but Parsons comes out on top as he is virtually better than Gallo (and more efficient and better in our system as an off ball player/less ball dominant) in EVERY category than Gallo short of FTs. Why you think otherwise, I don't know. I do think Paul George is better than Parsons now and has more potential than Parsons. I would easily agree to a swap of George for Parsons, but not Parsons for Gallo (all salaries even being equal).
Haha. Skipped it because if one feels like parsons is better, then that's fine. Your opinion and I respect that. Honed in on the parsons vs George because I thought it was ridiculous
I think you hit on something here .... How Parsons is able to fit into this offense seamlessly while any of the other options outside of Harrison Barnes and Kawhi Leonard (And maybe Batum) would each need the ball much more to be as effective as they are with their current teams in place of Parsons. I think Parsons & Leonard are both in the perfect situations to thrive .... as is Galanari. Each of these players fits well within their respective teams schemes. That said , the only SF's I'd trade Parsons for are Lebron , Durant , George and Barnes .... contract be damned. (No , I don't want Melo with this roster).
Love Parsons and Asik, but if we packaged them together along with some additional salaries, we could net a superstar. I still don't want to see it.
I agree with your earlier list EXCEPT for Barnes. I see him as comparable to Parsons, but 'contract be damned', I would rather have Parsons. Iggy I would not want, even assuming he's playing the 3 and not the 2. Not a knock on Iggy or even saying he is worse than Parsons -- his defense is amazing -- he just does not really fit in our system. Can't take outside shots well enough (esp. compared to Parsons), does better in a half court game than running the open floor (which is weird right? because he's in DEN) though obv. isn't bad at the latter. I just don't see Iggy work off the ball as well as Parsons does on offense...though he makes up for it w/ his defense. If he weren't WAY more expensive and approaching 30, I'd take him for the defense alone as we really need a perimeter wing stopper. But with reality being what it is, I would stick w/ Parsons over Iggy atm.
A couple of things... are we seriously debating who is better/has a higher ceiling/you would rather have .... Paul George or Chandler Parsons? Paul George was the #1 option on his team for a lot of this year, with the best defender guarding him. He can guard 2s. a superior rebounder man defender (to the person who said he had hibbert, parsons had asik) help defender he's better at creating his own shot dribble moves to the rim. He's really not far behind shooting the 3. For all we know, parsons 40% year could be a fluke. Check our parson's stats when he's not being assisted, looks worse than Georges 41.9% (http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/parsoch01/shooting/2013/) I love parson's. Some veterans on this board can vouch that I was on his bandwagon the first month he was starting, his rookie year, but between George and Parsons, there's just no question who is better. What would morey do? Would morey trade a million a year Chandler Parsons for 2 million a year Paul George?
Having not read past your first couple of sentences, I will answer your rhetorical question: no, we aren't seriously debating if Parsons is better than Paul George (at least not the person you quoted). If you chase that line of quotes far enough back, the ones talking about George's FG% are due to a conversation of Iggy wishing he had a jumper as "wet" as George's...and people saying Paul George doesn't have such a high FG% that would make Iggy jealous. Not comparing Parsons to George, or even Iggy overall to George overall. Just people shooting down that one comment.
Small Forwards I'd rather have than Parsons Lebron Durant Melo George (defense) Leonard (defense) Deng (defense) Josh Smith (defense) Iggy (defense)
So you list a power forward in J.SMoove and a SG in Iggy .... interesting. As I stated above , I think a lot of Leonards success is the situation he is in - For the most part , he's an afterthought to defenses concentrating on Duncan , Parker and Ginobli. Parsons success I believe can also be attributed to the situation in which he found himself .... and the freedom which he has to play his game here with the Rockets. I like Leonard's game a lot .... We coulda had them both ..... But Im not so sure I'd trade Parsons for Leonard straight up. I think the difference between the two is Parsons ability to attack the rim as a playmaker on occasion where Leonard is reliant upon someone else to create his shots - other than putbacks.
Leonard's physical attributes (freak wingspan) put him above parsons in my opinion. there's also the fact that he's only 21 and has been pretty consistent his rookie and sophomore years. I would take Leonard over Parsons.
