I’ll be surprised.

22 points, nine assists and six rebounds on the Knicks on Tuesday.

it was against the knicks, d’antoni inflates both his teams stats and the team they are playing stats! I think hollinger is wrong, i think westbrook might have a lot of potential in terms of skills, but d-rose physically has far more pottential to be well…unstoppable. Maybe westbrook might become a chris paul (doubt it) but d-rose has the ability to become a mini-lebron.

so I would hate to dismiss him like that, but I have a hard time believing that he’s racking up these numbers under nearly the same circumstances Rose is. I mean, Derrick is THE focal point for the other team the entire game, he’s getting denied the ball all over the court, he’s getting double teamed constantly, he’s seeing the best defender the other team’s have to offer, yet he still finds ways to dominate games.

I’ll admit he has struggled as of late, but he’s basically carried this team on it’s back since day one. Westbrook has the comfort of being his team’s fourth option at times. I would really love to know if this means Hollinger would draft Westbrook ahead of Rose and Mayo at this point if he could do it over. It just seems like a guy trying to be outrageous, but who knows? I’m really looking forward to the OKC game all of a sudden.

(I’m a pac 10 guy) but I don’t see how 1 month of better play makes him all of the sudden better than Rose. Over the course of their careers Rose has been a better player. In Hollinger’s December comparison, Rose is averaging more points and assists than Westbrook and shooting only .03% lower. But he is playing 4 more minutes which contributes to a wide disparity in PER (which in truth is the only number that matters to Hollinger). Those are 4 wasted minutes Rose is playing in my opinion because the Bulls often have no direction on offense. Rose spends a considerable amount of time on the floor not involved in the offense.

I think Westbrook will be good (and he has athleticism and size similar to Rose) but I think Rose will be better because Rose is a pg where as Westbrook a combo guard. Rose numbers have come down as defenses started to game plan for him as the Bulls main weapon. If Westbrook ever gets that attention (he won’t) than his numbers will come down to. Hollinger is just trying to stir debate, which I guess(?) is his job.

Or Green . . .