[KingChris504]

Originally Posted by Eviltaxi

Yeah Thornton is clearly already a better shooter than Wade but, Gerry V and his cronies started getting all ****** when this was brought up. Then he brought up his season stats as a rookie to say he was better than Thornton but, failed to mention at the beggining of the season Thornton was getting scrap minutes under Byron and had to play behind Devin Brown since they where trying to up his stock to trade him(along with Chris Paul and Darren Collison being there) which drastically hurt his season stats playing in such limited minutes.

If you compare Thornton after All Star Break when he started getting minutes(even though not as much as Wade and didn't have team built around him with the ball constantly in his hands) you can certainly make an argument for him being better as a rookie.