Camden wrote:I'll clarify my point regarding the TS%... I just wanted to post a stat that was displayed during tonight's broadcast that caught my eye. I don't think Rubio's scoring hinders this team like it gets played out to and his efficiency gets brought up more than his volume. So, it was interesting that he's right around John Wall's mark this year.
I am also not saying that Wall < Rubio. It wasn't too long ago that the doper and I talked about elite point guards in the NBA and I had him in my top-five (along with Curry, Westbrook, Paul and Lillard). I'm a huge Wall fan and have been for a while. I do think Rubio has a huge, positive impact on the offense he's running, as does Wall. I do think Rubio outplayed Wall tonight, evident by a number of single game stats. I do think that Rubio's getting to the point where he's underrated by most people. I'm also 100% sure that fans that don't watch Rubio nightly cannot understand how big his presence is on the court, so, I don't really give a shit about what fans of other teams think of him, to say it nicely.
That's fair. My point was that we're not watching John Wall day-in, day-out either.
And I think as fans of the team, we tend to overvalue the players we watch and root for. For example, you can find dozens of very positive posts or threads about Rubio, Towns, Wiggins, LaVine, Muhammad, Dieng, et al. Even last year. And the year before. And the year before... you get the point. Heck, people humped the legs of guys like D. Milicic, M. Beasley and R. McCants regularly.
Yet the team sucks balls every year with all these better than average players. While I agree that people watching from afar can't truly appreciate the Ricky experience... I think it's myopic to think he's the only PG out there like that. And that outside this forum, I can't imagine anybody even floating the idea that they're equals.
