Good rookies are vital

terse · Jul 22, 2006

StupidMoniker said:

No team has ever won a championship if they start a PF that eventually goes on to score 20,000+ points, grab 10,000+ rebounds, and dish 4,000+ assists. This occured 35 times since 1983. Whatever the Rockets do, they must not get one of those again.
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*cough* Tim Duncan *cough*. He hasn't scored 20,000 points yet, but is there any doubt that he will? He has almost 15,000 already.

terse · Jul 22, 2006

Forget my previous post. I missed the other conditions: 4000 assists, etc.

To Stupidmoniker: so what? If these super PFs were as common as significant rookies, you might have point. But they are not.

StupidMoniker · Jul 22, 2006

The point is you can come up with statistics to prove anything, terse, 14% of people know that. Just as having one of the best all time power forwards on your team doesn't prevent you from winning a championship, not playing a rookie for 1,000 minutes doesn't prevent you from winning a championship. If the Lakers had traded for Kobe in his second year, would they then not have won three titles? If the Celtics had played McHale only 999 minutes in his rookie campaign, would that dynasty never have begun. You have discovered a trivial bit of statistical information. It is just as true as the one I provided, and just as meaningless.

peterlake144 · Jul 23, 2006

terse said:

If Chinese centers in the NBA have been common in the NBA for the last 50-odd years, you might have a point. But they have not been.
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I might have a point? Gosh I hope not because I was trying to come up with something bogus...

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