I personally hated that Ewing got so much blame. The guy was a great player - he just wasn't Jordan. He was good enough that with another Superstar he could have won - he just never got that.

I also would defend KG, Kidd etc. These guys are great players - but only one team wins a year. A great player takes you a long way but it's a team game and no one player should get all the credit or all the blame.

Houston takes some grief on this board - but he won't get as much as Ewing. As other posters have said it's basically because he is NOT as GOOD.

Houston is a good not great player. I don't think we disagree there. He deserves some blame - I don't think we disagree there.

What I sometimes disagree with is the "grass is always greener on the other side" mentality. There are very few GREAT players. I think a lot of the names thrown about in comparison to the players we have are no better and often times worse. It's easy to see the warts on the players you see all the time.

Good post OldFan.

Posted by purple012870:

Are you kidding me?????

Top SG
1) McGrady, 2) Kobe, 3) Iverson, 4) Rose, 5) Allen, 6) Carter, 7) Finely, 8) pierce, 9) Stackhouse, 10) Artest 11) Arenas, 12) Terry, 13) Eddie Jones, 14) Spree, 15) Houston

Rose??? No way in hell.
Allen??? He should be better, but is not.
Finley?? Nope.
Artest??? Is not a 2.
Arenas??? Is not a 2.
Eddie Jones??? This is the biggest reach on the list until we get to Jason Terry.
Spree??? Come on.

exactly, that post was a joke... I stopped reading when I saw arenas and Terry... and Rose.. LOL..

tkf: I didnt draft that TOp SG list. I got it from Yahoo's Fantasy NBA list. I acknowledged the discrepancies and later modified them. Also, ziocat posted some stats on how 1-demsional Houston is.

Out of 31 SGs that has averaged 30 plus minutes this season, Houston ranks:
30th in Rebounds per 48 minutes. (2.7)
30th in Assists per 48 minutes. (2.9)
31st in Assists to TO ratio. (0.91)
29th in Steals per 48 minutes. (1.01)
30th in Blocks per 48 minutes. (0.11)

Thats not a joke!

Posted by Silverfuel:

I also stopped arguing about Houston's skills because my point is something totally different but the guy who questioned the top sg's list also calimed that Houston is better than Ray Allen and Finely!

No one can honestly argue that H2O is better than either of them. It would be a joke if they tried to.

finley never had to carry a team, he always had help, so did ray allen, Houston scoring numbers are comparable if not better, and look at the head to head matchups, I know for sure, Houston had career games VS the bucks when ray allen was there....

Posted by tkf:

finley never had to carry a team, he always had help, so did ray allen, Houston scoring numbers are comparable if not better, and look at the head to head matchups, I know for sure, Houston had career games VS the bucks when ray allen was there....

Finley always had help? Dallas was really terrible team until Dirk's second year. For example, second leading scorer on Mavs in 1998 season was Shawn Bradley at 11 points average, that isn't much of help. And Houston has carried a team? which team? to where? I'm guessing being a leading scorer on a lottery team doesn't qualify as carrying a team, so I have no idea what you are referring to.


If I was going to rank the SG:
1) bryant 2) mcgrady 3) pierce 4) iverson 5) allen
6) redd 7) stackhouse 8) hamilton 9) ginobili 10) finley
11) sprewell 12) barry 13) mobley 14) j.richardson 15) christie
16) wells 17) q.richardson 18) miller 19) jones 20) kittles