[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

He isnt nearly as athletic as mcgrady is/was. Mcgrady is a swing, Turk is a 4. Come one kg, you are slippin...at least turk and dirk play the same position.

That's like saying Ron Harper and John Stockton played the same position. Or Brian Shaw and Chris Paul. Come on. What position a guy is listed as is meaningless. Turkoglu does not play the post at all. At all. Nobody said he's as athletic as McGrady. But in looking at their roles on their respective teams, it is very similar. Both of them are the secondary ball handlers on their teams and can either be used to relieve pressure on the point guard or to initiate the offense themselves. Both create their own shot off of the dribble and don't need screens and picks to get open. Both are good outside shooters but not great. Both can get to the basket. Both rebound fairly well and play slight defense. Both can go to the boards and get it off and take it up the floor. Dirk can't do most of those things. He can shoot off the dribble on only two moves. One is the pull-up and the other is the reverse spin dribble. Both of those, he can only do against big guys. He has big time trouble trying to take advantage of smaller guys that he should have a size advantage over. Notice how Bowen and Stephen Jackson both gave him tons of trouble. Dirk excels when he's guarded by someone of similar size that he can take outside because he has a quickness advantage over most of them. Turkoglu has an advantage over any power forward and he can also do his thing against small forwards. Offensively, they are completely different.