Courtney Lee vs Vince Carter

[Kris Brockington]

Vince is still better offensively. I just would have taken him out earlier if he wasn't producing.

[VC_Fan]

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This is a very unfair comparison. The whole point of the trade - from Thorn's POV - was to dump salary and start rebuilding. They weren't supposed to challenge for a playoff spot.

 

Nonsense. It's a very fair comparison. Battie and Alston were non-factors. Ryan Anderson was a factor for the first little bit of the season, but the rest of the regular season and the playoffs was a non-factor. By the end of the year, it was essentially Carter for Lee.

 

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As with any non-star player, his surroundings can have a huge impact on his performance. Success breeds confidence which breeds success.

 

Aside from the previously mentioned non-factors of Anderson, Battie, and Alston, Carter had basically the same "surroundings" his last year with New Jersey as Lee had this season. Actually, Lee had what was supposed to be a solid rookie in Chris Douglas-Roberts as well.

[Fultz4thewin]

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Originally posted by HerdNation:

as for the college pedigree, there's a reason guys at UNC and UConn are asked to be go-to scorers: it's because they've done it against the best in college. there is a difference to scoring 20ppg against georgetown, duke, WVU, GT than teams in the Sun Belt. but, i'm not exactly sure what this has to do with the comparison. VC has done it at all levels; CLee has not.

 

however, you are correct to a certain extent. we do not know for sure if CLee is that type of player--a player you can isolate at the end of games so he could create, score or get to the foul line. we never really got to see him in that role. but there may be a reason for that.

 

it's logical to come to the conclusion that SVG didn't think Lee was that type of player. do you remember the Magic running any pindowns or clearouts for lee? was he consistently involved in pick-and-rolls (was he ever involved)? Lee was at best the 6th option on offense (behind Dwight, Hedo, Jameer, Rashard and Rafer). i'm no basketball genius, but SVG is; he didn't seem to think Lee can handle the role last year.

 

who knows, maybe Lee can develop into that type of player. but that's a separate discussion. that's less VC vs. Lee and more JJ vs. Lee.

 

you dont give that role to a rookie when you have established players who've already excelled (to a certain degree)in that role.