CosmoKramer
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You disagree while conveniently ignoring the argument. Do you honestly believe that Kyrie's offensive impact offsets the horrible team defense whenever he's on the floor? Shouldn't a team's greatest player make the greatest impact?
Like Battier or Bowen, Varejao's impact isn't in the box score, so fans tend to support the guy who fills it up. His defensive contributions go ignored, while Kyrie's inefficient offensive contributions get put on a pedestal. Varejao's a poor man's Noah. If he could play Noah's minutes, he'd be a rich man's Noah. And the last time I checked, Noah's twice the player Irving is.
Correct. They're both elite, contrary to what some choose to believe.
.... considering you've changed yours so often you don't have the room to accuse anyone of ignoring the argument. At this point we're all tired of debating with someone that shifts his points anytime someone proves him wrong.
In regards to AV's and Kyrie's impact, you're completely ignoring context. It's much easier to make a positive impact as a role player coming off the bench in limited minutes. Increasing Andy's minutes wouldn't make him a rich man's Noah (terrible), you'd decrease his efficiency and increase his odds at suffering another injury.
Andy also spent most of the season replacing Andrew Bynum and Spencer Hawes in the lineup, you don't think replacing two of the worst defensive bigs in the league didn't help inflate his on court impact? You can see the same effect with Nick Collision in OKC, replacing Kendrick Perkins (worst offensive player in the league) pushes his RPM among the league leaders at his position.
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