dhsilv2 wrote:CIN-C-STAR wrote:dhsilv2 wrote:
The high ranking of KG has everything to do with his mind blowing stats...which paint him as better than Duncan to the chagrin of many of KG's biggest backers. Game film studies that showcase his elite skills that match up to what we expect to see from elite players. How his profile matches again everything we see that maps out to have high impact.
KG is simply put the greatest player in NBA history to simply never get a fair shake in terms of team around him during his apex. We'll likely see more KG like profiles as we move forward with 30+ teams in the league.
As the generations that worshiped Jordan age, there will be less mapping of expectations to "play like Jordan" and with that I expect we'll see a trend towards appreciating the KG's of the world.
Timmy w more ppg on better shooting, more rebounds, more stocks... really KG just has the slight edge in assists and that's about it for traditional stats.
I think the idea of KG is quite a bit more exciting and fun than Duncan, but the reality that played out is even more unequivocal: Duncan was the more dominant player.
And the opinions of the guys who went against both seem to back that up pretty consistently.
Opinions of players are pretty worthless, which has been proven out time and time again.
But yeah one on one Duncan was harder to guard. Nobody will debate that. But there's a bit more to basketball.
Off Dr J Topic: One test that's still opinion based but still viable is the ol' if you put KG on the Spurs and Duncan on the Wolves who has more success argument?
