Is it finally Dame time?

[Chronz]

You could argue last year was his year given the Curry was out with injury but now that both are available, is this the year Dame is the best PG in the game? Hes off to a slow start but Curry has nobody.

Also, excluding the point-forwards, was CP3 really the 2nd best PG in the game at his age or was his All-NBA selection more of a team award?

[NBA all the way]

Luka?

[beasted86]

Trae Young.

[beasted86]

Luka?

Can you count as a PG if they aren't defending the opposing PGs?

[NBA all the way]

Can you count as a PG if they aren't defending the opposing PGs?

BBR says yes.

[More-Than-Most]

You could argue last year was his year given the Curry was out with injury but now that both are available, is this the year Dame is the best PG in the game? Hes off to a slow start but Curry has nobody.

Also, excluding the point-forwards, was CP3 really the 2nd best PG in the game at his age or was his All-NBA selection more of a team award?

give me dame over curry every time even previous years... curry was an all star talked about as a superstar because he played on an all star team.. One of the more overrated players is curry compared to one of the more underrated players in dame..... Put dame on the current warriors and curry on the current blazers and dame and the warriors win more games easily... We have seen the real curry minus dray/klay for about 9 games now including last season before he got hurt and we will see it for the entirety of this season.

[Mr.B]

Can you count as a PG if they aren't defending the opposing PGs?

Yes because offensively he’s the PG.


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[HowFit]

Trae Young.

Certainly, if he can improve his D. Being with the Hawks doesn't help but they look to shine some light this year...

[mightybosstone]

Meh. I guess if we're not calling Luka or Harden point guards, technically, we can give Dame the crown. But the old school mindset of "your point guard is your best playmaker" has been dead for decades. Hell, Dame isn't even close to being the best playmaking PG; he's just the guy putting up the best statline who happens to be shorter than 6'4" and has "PG" next to his name on ESPN and BR.

If we changed the question to, "Is Lillard the best playmaking back court player?" then the answer is pretty obviously "no." And I'm not sure he'd even be the PG I'd want most in the postseason, given his track record of poor postseason performance. Give me CP3 or Kyrie instead.

[LaVar Ball]

It’s ALWAYS Dame Time ...

Until the playoffs roll around. His defense gets worse with each passing year. Nobody looks on that side of the ball when it comes to Dame. Unreal. Dude is legit a liability on defense. He couldn’t hang with Schroeder last night

[ewing]

Can you count as a PG if they aren't defending the opposing PGs?

Magic has always counted


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[mrblisterdundee]

You could argue last year was his year given the Curry was out with injury but now that both are available, is this the year Dame is the best PG in the game? Hes off to a slow start but Curry has nobody.

Also, excluding the point-forwards, was CP3 really the 2nd best PG in the game at his age or was his All-NBA selection more of a team award?

It'll never be Lillard's year. He's too one-dimensional as a score-first point guard whose shot sometimes disappears at inopportune moments. I'd compare him most to Kyrie, who is more dependable in the playoffs and performing much better through the first few games of the season.
Harden, Luka and LeBron will always be better. Paul was deserving of all-NBA last year because of his unrivaled savviness as a floor general. Booker and Trae will probably be clearly better than Lillard by the end of this season. Then there's Simmons

[valade16]

It's weird seeing all this Kyrie is more dependable in the playoffs than Dame talk. Since when? Oh, you mean when he played with LeBron?

His playoffs in Boston are every bit as bad as the worst Dame Playoff performances.

I would not trust Kyrie over Dame in the playoffs. I'd trust whichever one of them was playing next to LeBron.

[mightybosstone]

It's weird seeing all this Kyrie is more dependable in the playoffs than Dame talk. Since when? Oh, you mean when he played with LeBron?

His playoffs in Boston are every bit as bad as the worst Dame Playoff performances.

I would not trust Kyrie over Dame in the playoffs. I'd trust whichever one of them was playing next to LeBron.

To be fair to both guys, Kyrie's postseason sample size is super small compared to Lillard's. So you could argue that Lillard having as much postseason experience as he has and being capable of pushing his team to the playoffs as a No. 1 year in and year out is more impressive. On the flip side, it's hard to knock one poor postseason performance in Boston or the fact that the rest of Kyrie's postseason experience is as Lebron's No. 2.

It's easy to look at the numbers at face value and say Kyrie is the better postseason player just like it's easy to use the "but Lebron!" excuse against him. You can interpret it however you'd like. Dame clearly has not had as much help as Kyrie did in his years with Lebron, and he's had to have a greater responsibility as the alpha in Portland pretty much his whole time in the NBA.

Gun to my head, though, I am slightly more inclined to trust Kyrie's clutchness in the postseason more than Lillard's just like I'm more inclined to trust Lillard to get me to the playoffs as a No. 1 more than Kyrie.

[valade16]

To be fair to both guys, Kyrie's postseason sample size is super small compared to Lillard's. So you could argue that Lillard having as much postseason experience as he has and being capable of pushing his team to the playoffs as a No. 1 year in and year out is more impressive. On the flip side, it's hard to knock one poor postseason performance in Boston or the fact that the rest of Kyrie's postseason experience is as Lebron's No. 2.

It's easy to look at the numbers at face value and say Kyrie is the better postseason player just like it's easy to use the "but Lebron!" excuse against him. You can interpret it however you'd like. Dame clearly has not had as much help as Kyrie did in his years with Lebron, and he's had to have a greater responsibility as the alpha in Portland pretty much his whole time in the NBA.

Gun to my head, though, I am slightly more inclined to trust Kyrie's clutchness in the postseason more than Lillard's just like I'm more inclined to trust Lillard to get me to the playoffs as a No. 1 more than Kyrie.

That's your opinion, but I really can't understand it to be honest. Heck, Kyrie's playoff "clutchness" comes off his finals winning shot (which was a big one), but Lillard literally has 2 series winning last second shots.