Joe Johnson destroyed him last night... which is to be expected.
This is the second time you have said this in 2 threads.
You are also the guy that admits to not watching the Celtics.
Did you watch last night's game.
I watched the second half and it was either Teague or Hinrich guarding Bradley and vice versa at all times. In the fourth they attempted to trap and double Bradley when he touched the ball to get others to beat them.
Did Bradley even guard Johnson in the first half? Because if he did then Bradley torched Johnson as bad as Johnson torched Bradley, which at this point, unless I'm am told differently from someone else, I'm not even willing to concede.
Of course i watched it. When Bradley got stuck guarding Joe JOhsnon (who is a shooting guard), Johnson just backed him down and shot over him. Get use to it. That's what happens when your starting shooting guard is 6'2 and 180 pounds.
How about Gary Payton and Hersey Hawkins?
That's inspired, because Hawkins was small. A bit bigger than Bradley, though. And Rondo is nowhere near as good as Gary Payton. Payton was 6'4, could back most point guards down and post up on them. He could hit shots, post up, drive at will (the best finisher ive ever seen in my life), knock down threes, was a far superior defender and managed to average 9 assists despite averaging 24 points a game... while being the best player on the team. I'd also give the edge to Gary on rebounding (he averaged 6.5 one season). There was a 6 year stretch where he lead them to 55-64 wins... probably would have won a title had it not been for Jordan. Payton was painfully underrated nationally. I'm slightly bias, because I watched him play in Seattle numerous times... but I'm serious when I say Payton was the best all-around point guard of his generation. Anyone who watched him closely in his prime would agree. He was better than Jason Kidd. Surely you could make the case that Stockton was better, but Gary Payton consistently destroyed him in matchups. Ultimately you have to rank Stockton higher due to the assist numbers and longevity. Bill SImmons agreed with me in his book of basketball: "I watched Kidd, Stockton and GP in their absolute primes and thought GP was the most talented all-around player of the three"... and later backs me up on the Stockton thing: "So yeah, GP was more talented than someone like Stockton, as we witnessed in the '96 Conference Finals when Payton did everything but stick a red ball in Stockton's mouth, duct-tape him to a chair and introduce him to the Gimp." Rondo isn't on that level. Of all the players in the league right now, the closest I've seen to someone of Payton's skill set is Deron Williams. I know that sounds ridiculous coming from me, because I have a recent hilarious trend of exclaiming how much better Deron Williams is than Rondo. But really, Deron is the only one I can think of who seems to use his size (Deron is 6'3 200) to back down smaller point guards, post them up, drive to the basket, hit shots, etc. Payton's a bad example for Rondo. Rondo's offensive game is almost non-existent beyond driving to the basket. He's a setup and intangible man. Stick with poor man's Jason Kidd. If you want two players to compare Rondo and Bradley with... maybe go with Jason Kidd and Tony Delk. They played a season together in Phoenix. Again, it's hard to find 6'2 shooting guards.
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