TMS wrote:Paladin55 wrote:TMS wrote:for starter's, Amare is playing against much tougher competition out West & has been able to distinguish himself at the top of the NBA... he's also bigtime proven in postseason play against the best the NBA has to offer.David Lee has put up stats on a crappy team his entire career, & while he has improved his game admirably & worked his ass off to become an Allstar, he is not nearly as proven a player as Amare is.
for these same reasons a guy like Amare is much more likely to lure Lebron here than David Lee.
hope that answers your question.
I'm playing devil's advocate, to an extent, but the situation is not as simple as some think.
Who knows how Lee would be looked at if he had been in Amare's place on Phoenix? Who knows how Amare would have been in Lee's spot over here? And which of them has played with the best PG of the past decade for 6 of his 8 years (and 2 with Marbury when he was averaging 8 APG)?
u can ask these questions all day... what i do know is that Amare has proven himself to be a better player than D Lee for his entire career... the questions surrounding him have to do with his health history, but his ability is undeniable.
I think they are the kinds of questions you have to ask when you are about to give a player $18-20 M/YR. Personally, I would probably not feel this way if Bosh, and not Amare, was in this spot, even though some folks believe Bosh is the inferior player.
Hope that any doubts I have about him are unwarranted, and that he amounts to being a very significant upgrade to Lee. We will see, but I'm saying now that we may regret giving Amare this much money unless we pick up LeBron or another franchise type player this year or next, because Amare, alone, is not worth a max contract.
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