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What? Battier was a dominant lock-down defender. Hayward is not. Not even close.

"Look at Durant"? What are you talking about? He's been in the league 4 years - there's no guarantee he stays in OKC past his current contract (which, just like with LeBron and Co., has an opt-out clause).

Oh, and for the record, OP, Deron never said "I'm as good as LeBron and/or Kobe." In any case, it would be perfectly fair for a top-10 player (which Deron is) to lump himself in with two other top-10 players.

What the hell? How are you already "loving" what we got in return? Devin Harris was terrible (and a bad fit for the system, too), and Favors and Kanter are two completely unproven wild cards at this point. This just proves the blatant lack of perspective of so many people on these boards. If the...

You're an idiot, because I watched Rome yesterday, and that's not what the guy said. He said he had all the physical skills to be the best PF ever, but he did not say there's "no question" that it would definitely happen. He was talking about skill level - the same way people talked about LeBron...

If you watch basketball and don't realize how much of an impact Raja has made on the defensive side of the ball - as well as in the locker room - well, I don't really know what to tell you. By all means, friend, let your ignorance shine.

The more egregious problem in that awards watch is Chris Paul being No. 4 in the Defensive Player of the Year discussion. It represents one of the most bafflingly persistent misconceptions in sports - that Paul is an elite defender simply because he gets a lot of steals. No one can take the...

Kinda hard to not have teammates ignore you when you have terrible floor positioning and you're getting pushed around - quite easily, I might add - by defenders.

Was that meant to be sarcastic? What is it that has impressed you so much about his play so far? Is it the missed assignments? The poor rotations? The indecisiveness? The poor shooting? Getting completely overwhelmed on defense? Pray tell, what "great potential" has he shown when they've let...

Worth mentioning that Adande gets a basic fact wrong, says Sloan has had two losing seasons in 21 years. He's only had one. (Plus a 41-41 season.)

That's so NOT a relevant parallel, it almost seems like you're parodying bad analogies. But as ridiculous as your example is, I'll bite anyway: A better analogy would be teaching style. I've had great teachers who ran intensive, interactive class discussions, and I've had terrible teachers who...

Yes, I knew someone was going to use that particular quote to either distort the purpose of my post or ignore what I actually said - or both. So bravo, you're the one. I find it interesting that nobody has yet actually taken issue with any specific point I made. Either way, what I wrote was...

Sometimes it's amusing to just sit back and see what some of you people think you know. Whether Sloan is right or wrong on this issue isn't really relevant. What's relevant to me is the kind of completely asinine comments on this thread - "that's Coaching 101!," "he's not doing his job," etc...

And what does that have to do with anything? Nobody said Devin Harris was better than Rondo. Nobody said Raymond Felton was better than Rondo. I said Rondo isn't in the conversation for best PG in the league - because Deron, Paul and Nash are all clearly better, IMO. Personally, I'd rank him...

Do I have to explain this again? Christ. OK, pay attention this time. He did NOT have Rose higher on his list of point guards than Nash (or Deron, for that matter). That was his trade value column - he was talking about VALUE, not current level of quality. Age and salary were determining...

Yeah, and you're gonna be the guy next June saying, "Yeah, I just don't think the Heat get to the Finals without Carlos Arroyo (or Mario Chalmers, or whatever)." Sorry, but no - Rondo does not deserve to be in the conversation. He's definitely a great point guard. Fourth-best in the league, IMO...

Did you even read the article? That's not his ranking of the best point guards in the league - he's talking about value there. Saying he'd rather have Rose at 1/3 the price of Williams - and even THEN, he had to think it over.

Yes, he made an argument for Rondo, but didn't flat-out say he was definitely the best PG in the league. And even if he DID hand Rondo the conch during that series, he EMPHATICALLY took it away after the Finals. And please, don't bring the "winning games" argument into it. Please. He was...

Wait, what the hell are (some of) you people talking about? The top 4 isn't D-Will, Paul, Rondo and Rose. It's D-Will, Paul, Rondo and NASH. Yes, still. Once Rose learns how to pass, hit outside shots and play defense, he'll be able to jump into the discussion. Until then, no dice. (And yes, I...

Calm down about Simmons. He repeatedly said Deron had "the conch" (Lord of the Flies reference) as the best point guard in the league during last year's playoffs, and he admitted that Paul/Williams was an actual argument after he'd dismissed D-Will for years. He's come around on Deron. I do...