yamaneko

I have maintained that redd is top 3-4 pure SG's in the nba or in the world depending on how you look at it. It was countered that he was worse or just "as good" as the following, "Kobe, Wade, Allen, Manu, Kmart, Gordon, Johnson, Ellis, Roy, Carter, Hamilton, Tmac, Iverson, Durant)"


First of all, i do believe that kobe is better than him, kobe might be the best player in the world at any position. However, we can take off a few others from that list, as they dont meet the criteria that i was saying as a pure SG. Gordon is a combo guard. Ellis is a combo guard. Tmac, a SF/SG, Iverson again a combo, and durant a SG/SF.

Wade is borderline, but lets call him a pure 100% SG. Same with joe johnson, brandon roy. Vince carter is very borderline as if hes a SG or SG/SF.

I think that hands down top SG's would be kobe and d wade. If you include the hybrids then perhaps a healthy tmac and carter. That still puts redd right there where i said.

Kevin martin no way is as good as michael redd yet. If were going to base it on just being a 20+ point scorer then wed have to say maggette is there too, which i doubt anyone outside of our resident maggette fan would say. ray Allen is on the decline, redd has passed him. Ginobli, for sure a SG through and through, but not on the level of redd. Hamilton, a SG, a good one, but not on redd's level, its hard to be an elite SG when you rarely even take 3 pointers. Great player though. Brandon Roy i think has great potential, could be 20/5/5 next year, but another guy that you really cant say has proven himself enough to be on redd's level. Joe johnson is one i havent really thought of as a star, but i think he might have reached that status the last two years.

You watch the olympic qualifying tournament, national broadcasts, other things, and you will hear the commentators say how redd is arguably the best pure shooter around right now. I dont think that puts him on the level of a kobe or tmac, but theres a reason lebron had him at the top of his wish list, a reason why the bucks gave him all the money they could...its very hard to find a SG that can 150 3's a year. A guy who can light it up in the 4th, a guy who can average 25+ a game.

I would not mind seeing redd in a clippers uniform to see how he can do here. Someone on a bucks board even suggested something ridiculous like our 6th pick, mobley, and thomas for redd. I dont know why the bucks would ever consider that, but that would give us a pretty amazing one year shot at things with a core of kaman/brand/redd, and possibly an up and coming thornton if he can learn dunleavvy's SF position.

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