better shooter:Peja or Drazen Petrovic?
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Huh.... I don't know who Kresimir Cosic is either...
Yeah I didn't really get into basketball until the 2002 Western Conference Finals. Before then I had never really been interested in watching sports on TV, but it was soooo awesome and magical that I watched every game, and I think I almost cried when we lost game 7.... and that horry 3...
But so this Drazen guy was really good? That stinks that he died
Yeah I didn't really get into basketball until the 2002 Western Conference Finals. Before then I had never really been interested in watching sports on TV, but it was soooo awesome and magical that I watched every game, and I think I almost cried when we lost game 7.... and that horry 3...
But so this Drazen guy was really good? That stinks that he died
What separated Drazen from not only Pedja, but most basketball players was his incredible passion for the game and his competitiveness and will to win. I don't think that can be measured in stats, which by the way are stronly skewed by his very limited minutes when he was with Portland.
I'm not sure how one can compare a PG/SG to a SF anyway. In international competition (I am saying this because Drazen's NBA career for so strange and short), Drazen took games over almost every night, something that Pedja does very seldom. He was better than Pedja in the only thing where Pedja really excels, and that's scoring.
In fact in 84/85 Drazen averaged 43.5 points per game in then pretty strong Yugoslav league and 37.0 in Euroleague. Keep in mind that these are the statistics with 40 minute games and 30 second shot clock. Imagine what would have happened had he shot more...
I'm not sure how one can compare a PG/SG to a SF anyway. In international competition (I am saying this because Drazen's NBA career for so strange and short), Drazen took games over almost every night, something that Pedja does very seldom. He was better than Pedja in the only thing where Pedja really excels, and that's scoring.
In fact in 84/85 Drazen averaged 43.5 points per game in then pretty strong Yugoslav league and 37.0 in Euroleague. Keep in mind that these are the statistics with 40 minute games and 30 second shot clock. Imagine what would have happened had he shot more...
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uolj said:
Yeah, lucky for Peja his first NBA coach was better. 
Piksi, you should really have added a smiley to that one. You just might get creamed for it.
Piksi, you should really have added a smiley to that one. You just might get creamed for it.
honestly, could not care less because I started following BB when Drazen started playing and considering what kind of player he was - a person/coach has to be really incompetent not to realize the skills and the potential
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Thanks for the incites. I wish I could have seen more of Drazen, as we all could of. He sounds like an aggressive and passionate basketball player, I wish that could rub off onto Pedja.
Piksi, Drazen was the third best point guard on that Portland team (maybe that evil coach was right). Terry Porter and Danny Ainge were proven NBA guards who should not have lost their jobs to a new comer. It would be like Drazen getting point gaurd minutes on our current healthy team (Bibby and BJax). Getting him to a team with less depth, in New Jersy, was good.
Piksi, Drazen was the third best point guard on that Portland team (maybe that evil coach was right). Terry Porter and Danny Ainge were proven NBA guards who should not have lost their jobs to a new comer. It would be like Drazen getting point gaurd minutes on our current healthy team (Bibby and BJax). Getting him to a team with less depth, in New Jersy, was good.