Mikal Bridges or OG Anunoby

[CanadianBacon15]

I believe that both are elite role players that would be great fits and welcomed additions to any team in the league. What I am asking is which player would you chose to be magically placed onto your favorite team? This does not factor in contracts at all.

Mikal Bridges 26 years of age 6 foot 6 and 209lbs

16ppg/5rpg/3ast/1blk/1stl on 50/42/88

or

OG Anunoby 25 years of age 6 foot 7 239lbs

19ppg/6rpg/2ast/1blk/2stl on 48/34/83

[realball]

OG's a better defender, but Mikal is just so much better at shooting. He has literally never shot lower than 60 TS% aside from his rookie year, it's an easy choice.

[cupcakesnake]

Mikal Bridges is more efficient on offense, and better at chasing guards off the ball. He probably guards the 1 and the 2 better than Anunoby. He's a lot more mistake-free than OG offensively and straight up a better passer (less turnovers and more assists). He's a better catch & shoot player. He's too skinny to guard big wings and forwards.

OG is a much stronger player. He gives you better on-ball scoring with his ability to shoot off the dribble from 3, and post up mismatches. This year he's been a much improved passer out of post-ups, though he's still a poor playmaker overall. Defensively, he's much better than Bridges at guarding the 3-4-5, and he's way more disruptive off-ball than Bridges is. OG is also a year longer.

They're very similar. I think OG gives you more oomph on offense, but he just doesn't approach Bridges as a mistake-free offensive player. Defensively, OG is simply the bigger version. There's a couple things that Bridges does a little better than OG (off ball screen navigation and point guard defense), but OG this year is just monstrous at every aspect of wing defense.

Basically I think Mikal is the better glue guy wing, but OG is kind of more... powerful overall, but makes way more mistakes and plays outside of himself more.

[rocketsfan100]

OG is already better and has a higher upside.

[HoopsterJones]

Mikal Bridges by a good margin. Better pure shooter and was the runner up DPOY last year. The perfect 3 and D compliment player/ 4th option for any team. Also he’s very durable and has not missed many (if any) games in his career.

[CanadianBacon15]

Mikal Bridges is more efficient on offense, and better at chasing guards off the ball. He probably guards the 1 and the 2 better than Anunoby. He's a lot more mistake-free than OG offensively and straight up a better passer (less turnovers and more assists). He's a better catch & shoot player. He's too skinny to guard big wings and forwards.

OG is a much stronger player. He gives you better on-ball scoring with his ability to shoot off the dribble from 3, and post up mismatches. This year he's been a much improved passer out of post-ups, though he's still a poor playmaker overall. Defensively, he's much better than Bridges at guarding the 3-4-5, and he's way more disruptive off-ball than Bridges is. OG is also a year longer.

They're very similar. I think OG gives you more oomph on offense, but he just doesn't approach Bridges as a mistake-free offensive player. Defensively, OG is simply the bigger version. There's a couple things that Bridges does a little better than OG (off ball screen navigation and point guard defense), but OG this year is just monstrous at every aspect of wing defense.

Basically I think Mikal is the better glue guy wing, but OG is kind of more... powerful overall, but makes way more mistakes and plays outside of himself more.

That is a pretty darn good breakdown right there.

[levon]

Bridges is far more durable, so that's an easy tiebreaker for me

[Kingdibs19]

OG but polls re Raptor players on this site will always be skewed in their favor

[nikster]

Mikal Bridges is more efficient on offense, and better at chasing guards off the ball. He probably guards the 1 and the 2 better than Anunoby. He's a lot more mistake-free than OG offensively and straight up a better passer (less turnovers and more assists). He's a better catch & shoot player. He's too skinny to guard big wings and forwards.

OG is a much stronger player. He gives you better on-ball scoring with his ability to shoot off the dribble from 3, and post up mismatches. This year he's been a much improved passer out of post-ups, though he's still a poor playmaker overall. Defensively, he's much better than Bridges at guarding the 3-4-5, and he's way more disruptive off-ball than Bridges is. OG is also a year longer.

They're very similar. I think OG gives you more oomph on offense, but he just doesn't approach Bridges as a mistake-free offensive player. Defensively, OG is simply the bigger version. There's a couple things that Bridges does a little better than OG (off ball screen navigation and point guard defense), but OG this year is just monstrous at every aspect of wing defense.

Basically I think Mikal is the better glue guy wing, but OG is kind of more... powerful overall, but makes way more mistakes and plays outside of himself more.

I agree with the assessment. I think a lot of OG playing outside himself is raptors organization encouraging him to try to expand his offensive result, tho hard to say how much. He has had injuries force him into a larger role at times too

[beeshma]

Mikal can't guard 3's in playoffs. That's a big gap in his skill set. So I went with OG.

[Lockdown504090]

biased raptors fan, but if we are talking defense and you make your list of the top 10-12 players, youre going to see a lot of guys that have really bullied bridges inside. to me, even if you have bridges, you still need a guy who does what og does defensively in order to compete, you saw it with the difference that wiggins with his lower body made compared to mikal.

[celticfan42487]

Bridges for sure. 50/40/85ish shooters who are good defenders are worth their weight in gold.

Let alone ones on top of that who can playmake and rebound at good levels too.

On a team requiring a higher workload he's Utah fully developed pre injury Gordon Hayward all-star player.

I mean he's putting up 15 on only 12 shots with ELITE level efficiency.

So easy to plug and play into a contender or have him step up while you're assembling one on a young team.

Love the defense of OG but in the end he's a wing and as I think my own Celtics are showing you... no matter how many DPOY guards or great defending wings or PFs or Cs you have... defense still starts with elite defensive bigs and without one there just isn't too much the preimter guys can do. Or at least there is a very clear ceiling they can never reach.

The impact on a team's defense that non bigs can have is just limited without that foundation, but with one someone like Bridges can bring just about as much with a Robert Williams behind you as an OG can. (or a Bam, or a Giannis, or whatever the few other great elite defensive bigs in the NBA there are today). And you basically need one of those as much as you would need an MVP next to either an OG or Bridges to win a title so you might as well factor that in.

I think Bridges is better for a team that is all set up with the talent to win now like a MIL, or a team looking for a #1 like a Pistons team. OG however will standout more in treadmilling teams or a like 10th-4th seed kinda team than Bridges where Bridges won't get the shots to have the impact that OG would never get anyways on a lesser team.

But in the end I'd suggest Bridges would be better for any other type of team other than the stuck in the middle types.

[CanadianBacon15]

OG but polls re Raptor players on this site will always be skewed in their favor

I agree. I tried to word it so that fans of teams other then the Raptors/Suns would vote. I just knew if I did not make a poll I would hear about not making a poll in the comments.

[TheLand13]

Mikal Bridges is the only player I would have no problem whatsoever with Cleveland trading away Jarrett Allen for.

[CanadianBacon15]

Mikal Bridges is the only player I would have no problem whatsoever with Cleveland trading away Jarrett Allen for.

Either player would be perfect for the Cavs.

[Phystic]

Depends on the makeup of the team honestly.

But the most important number is 82. That's how many more regular season games Bridges has played than OG

[jameslayfa342]

Who would you pick to defend Tatum, Brown, Lebron, and Luka?

Mikal couldn’t defend luka in the finals from what I remember. I don’t have the stats, would be curious to see OG compares. He’s having a monster defensive season

[Revived]

Who would you pick to defend Tatum, Brown, Lebron, and Luka?

Mikal couldn’t defend luka in the finals from what I remember. I don’t have the stats, would be curious to see OG compares. He’s having a monster defensive season

Mikal didn’t defend Luka in the finals because both play in the same conference so that would be impossible. But he did guard him in the 2nd round last season. However a player like Luka (like most scorers) uses screens to get good defenders off them and have someone else guard them.

I think Luka did a vast majority of his damage on Cam Johnson, Chris Paul and DeAndre Ayton in the playoffs.

[Duffman100]

I love OG but Bridges' shooting and durability give him the win here.

[BK_2020]

Mikal is much more durable.