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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1317337, member: 40"]
Statistics?  Steals are great.  But they are only a small part of what constitutes defense.  And I never said that he didn't create for others, just that he wasn't as good as it as Douglas.  And both the statistics and the eye test bear that out.

I get that you prefer Pearl, but I think you're laying it on a bit thick and waxing superlative.  I love Pearl, too.  But I have a DVD collection hundreds of games long, dating back to the early 80s.  I've watched plenty of Pearl games over the years, not just when he played.  So for every phenomenal game in the BET or amazing individual performance he had, he also took a lot of games off.  He let guys from out of conference, lesser programs have big games against him because he would merely go through the motions.  He was big and strong, but was also out of shape, and preferred to reach and gamble and conserve energy for offense.

Pearl was a terrific player for us.  And he got the ball rolling on our national profile--no question.  But pound for pound, Sherman was the better point guard.  And I suspect that if you placed those two lead guards on the same teams and had them play [with the other same personnel], that Sherman's teams would win more frequently than they'd lose.
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