If the draft was today and you could choose Chris Paul or Deron Williams to build your team around who would you choose and why?
Hard not to pick Paul at the moment, but really it kinda depends. I feel like Paul is better at getting to the rack, better on D... basically better at being a one-man team. But if I already had a dominant big man (like Boozer), I'd like Williams' superior mid-range and 3pt shooting. But hey, you can't really go wrong...
Deron Williams has been awesome of late. But Chris Paul is just unbelievable. I think he'll eventually go down as one of the top 5 PGs of all time.
Rght now, I tihnk Chris Paul is better player, but in a few years later, deron will be as good as chris paul.
Paul is a bit better at scoring, but... Williams is the kind of point you want on a championship team: he can score, he can pass, and hes BIG. Paul is good, but you cant teach size. People with big guards will exploit that in a playoff game.
After watching Deron Williams dominate and beat the snot out of Nash last night in a way that Chris Paul cannot, it's hard not to pick him. But if Paul develops a consistent outside shot that works every game, he is totally unstoppable and has to be the choice. Both guys have great court vision and prefer to set up teammates instead of scoring themselves. Paul's speed and quickness put him in a special class of players. Williams' physicality gives him the ability to dominate smaller PGs at will when he wants to. Right now, Paul is better. Long term career-wise, I call it a draw.
I'd like to echo some of the other comments and say that Chris Paul really is an outstanding player, but I think Williams is under-appreciated. He's not as flashy, but damn is he efficient.
I really can't defend myself, because Chris Paul is playing at an insane level, but for some reason I prefer Deron Williams over Paul. I just really like his game.
You can't teach size. D. Williams gets the nod. He is also a better defender and has shown he can do his thing in the playoffs against quality PG (B. Davis and Tony Parker). Chris Paul has a nice game but anytime a guy is a midget who probably cannot bench more than most WNBA players he is a liability defensively against any team with size in the back court.
exactly why he might win defensive player of the year. c3po is pretty damn good. i wouldnt say he's overrated at all
I would certainly take Chris Paul over Deron Williams at this point, and for the future as well. CP3 doesn't have as good of a supporting cast as D-Will does (West is a beast though), but he still manages to make every single one of those guys around him better. Before CP3, Tyson Chandler was nearly useless on the offensive side of the court, but now he's an alley oop machine. Peja definitely has Paul to thank for putting him back on the map as one of the better shooters in this league. The thing about Paul that separates him from any other PG is his ability to easily get into the lane (even with his small stature) and find either Peja for a three, David West for a mid-range jumper, or Tyson for an oop. Paul's court savvy is something people most likely don't realize. He's only a three year vet, yet he plays like someone who knows the ins and outs of every NBA type situation. & to the guy who said how he saw Deron Williams make Steve Nash look bad in the Utah/PHX game a couple nights back, I would definitely say it's safer to say that CP3 made Nash's head spin when he got 42 pts, 9 assists, & 9 steals in their meeting earlier this year when NO won in overtime. Well, now that I've made it known of my man-love for CP3 in my first post here, maybe I should head over to the Houston forum and start talking up our Rockets.
And... Who cares if Williams is bigger? Since when has that mattered for PGs? Magic Johnson is the only big PG worth a damn. Isiah wasn't big. Stockton wasn't big. Nash isn't big. Kidd is big and doesn't have a ring. But ya, Williams has 20lbs on Paul. Sweet. Ya. That means something. Okay... Right
I don't know why everyone keeps forgeting Parker in this big/small debate. He surely destroyed everything that came on his way last-year playoffs. So I don't think DWill being bigger means that much..
