Filed under: 76ers, Cavaliers, Rockets
I wrote it as clear as you heard: Bethlehem Shoals is sick of rumors. I wouldn’t refer to myself in the third-person unless I really wanted to call attention to my own folly. So there’s your disclaimer on this: I LIE.
However, the future of Andre Iguodala is about more than who goes where and for what. Comparing Andre Iguodala to Lamar Odom is misleading; besides being a more unique player, Odom is at once spacier and in theory, more likely to serve as a nervous center of a team. A weird one, indeed, but wasn’t that the premise behind that rad Odom/Dwayne Wade/Caron Butler Heat team? Why does Shaquille O’Neal ruin all the interesting teams?
As we’ve seen from Odom’s post-Heat career, though, he’s either most comfortable, or at least has no problem with, taking a secondary role. In fact, with the Lakers, Odom’s nearly an afterthought.
Iguodala has much to recommend him: stellar defense, great feel for the game, strong passing and rebounding, world-class athleticism, superb slashing, and the willingness to develop his outside shot. And yet Iggy, like Odom, might be about to surrender his place on pedestal.
