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[QUOTE="Phenomenon, post: 1837606, member: 3610"]
Roberson started over Dion because he couldn't be counted on to be a bench scorer.  When the games were on the line, Dion was in.  There's a reason.  When focused, he can play well on both ends of the court.

Straw man.  The question was whether Dion not looking good alongside LeBron was an indictment of himself.  Nothing to do with Jordan retiring.  Nice waltz through the platitudes though.

This purported marriage of "advanced" stats and winning is quite unfounded.  The point of finding the traditional statistics is to show that you can find statistics to prove whatever you'd like. Basketball is too fluid, dynamic, and variable to be selectively qualified on an individual player basis with a statistic with total accuracy.  PER was the love child of a failed basketball adviser who had the Suns winning the championship every year in a landslide.  There's a reason why analytics' team of destiny just lost the championship in a series that they supposedly had a 99% chance of winning and it can't be explained with a calculator.

Second highest paid player in NBA history says what's up.  Even the World Champs traded for the poster child chucker in JR Smith.  People who can get buckets will always be at a premium.
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