D'Angelo vs Devin Booker

Up-And-Coming · Post #1 » by **Up-And-Coming** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:03 am

D'Angelo this season just made it to his first All-Star game and just had a career game. That got me thinking and I'm curious to see what the general board thinks. At this moment would you guys rather have D'Angelo or Devin Booker? Who do you think is the better player right now and who do you think will project to have the better career?

Both players were drafted in the same draft (Russell selected 2nd; Devin selected 13th), both play the same position (combo guard), both are the same age (23) and they actually have been close friends even before they got drafted in the NBA.

Devin has consistently put up more stats with more responsibility, but Russell has contributed to a winning, playoff team.

I know who I would choose, but what do you guys and gals think?

TurboTitan · Post #2 » by **TurboTitan** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:09 am

Im taking Dlo all day every day. Never been a big fan of book ngl

NoDopeOnSundays · Post #3 » by **NoDopeOnSundays** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:10 am

D-Lo is the better player and I don't think it's that close either, he's even a better defender than Booker.

jlokine · Post #4 » by **jlokine** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:11 am

i think a large group of us have concluded that booker cant be a franchise player on a winning team..

Bolivar · Post #5 » by **Bolivar** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:11 am

And with Booker you just get a tanking contract, whereas with D-Lo you have a playoff team and some potential for building a contender.

Up-And-Coming · Post #6 » by **Up-And-Coming** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:19 am

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised everyone so far is rolling with D-Lo, whose reputation before this season was pretty meh. No doubt though he is a big part of what Brooklyn is this season. How about if you consider them on identical contracts, would that change your choice?

Revived · Post #7 » by **Revived** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:21 am

When D’Angelo was in the West, he was seen negatively just like Booker is now.

If Booker got to play on some team out East then I think he would be seen in a similar light as Russel.

The talent discrepancy between the two conferences is too significant to ignore imo.

Upperclass · Post #8 » by **Upperclass** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:34 am

Booker is better and it really isn't close. He'll likely avg 30 and 6 next season

Crives · Post #9 » by **Crives** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:39 am

Booker is going to prove a lot of people wrong next year

udfa · Post #10 » by **udfa** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:53 am

Booker. I like his offensive talent a lot and I believe in his drive to improve offensively (he has every single season of his career so far). Peak Booker could be something like 30 ppg / 58% TS / 8 apg. It would help though if he could improve defensively to the point where he's only a moderate burden instead of radioactive waste.

darmani · Post #11 » by **darmani** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:30 am

Player A: 25.5 pts, 6.8 ast, 4.2 reb, .572 TS%
Player B: 20.7 pts, 6.9 ast, 3.7 reb, .531 TS%

RealGM Player Comparisons forum: "Player B and it's not close". Every. Single. Time.

Some people just don't understand that "win-loss record" is a team stat.

Colbinii · Post #12 » by **Colbinii** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:29 pm

darmani wrote:Player A: 25.5 pts, 6.8 ast, 4.2 reb, .572 TS%
Player B: 20.7 pts, 6.9 ast, 3.7 reb, .531 TS%

RealGM Player Comparisons forum: "Player B and it's not close". Every. Single. Time.

Some people just don't understand that "win-loss record" is a team stat.

They also understand that not all stats are equal. Players have different roles and responsibilities.

One of these players is leading a team to the postseason while the other is still figuring out if he is in NCAA or the NBA.

Context matters with statistics.

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ZUDAMAGIC · Post #13 » by **ZUDAMAGIC** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:23 pm

darmani wrote:Player A: 25.5 pts, 6.8 ast, 4.2 reb, .572 TS%
Player B: 20.7 pts, 6.9 ast, 3.7 reb, .531 TS%

RealGM Player Comparisons forum: "Player B and it's not close". Every. Single. Time.

Some people just don't understand that "win-loss record" is a team stat.

Player B didn't take off till December and plays 5 mins less per game.

Colbinii · Post #14 » by **Colbinii** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:53 pm

ZUDAMAGIC wrote:
darmani wrote:Player A: 25.5 pts, 6.8 ast, 4.2 reb, .572 TS%
Player B: 20.7 pts, 6.9 ast, 3.7 reb, .531 TS%

RealGM Player Comparisons forum: "Player B and it's not close". Every. Single. Time.

Some people just don't understand that "win-loss record" is a team stat.

Player B didn't take off till December and plays 5 mins less per game.

He also rates comfortably better in RPM [though they have different roles].

Hard to compare, but I'm comfortable taking Russell here.

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E-Balla · Post #15 » by **E-Balla** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:35 pm

Booker has never been able to play in his optimal role and I feel people are taking that out on him. He's had no talent around him his whole career and has no PG so now he's on ball even though he's way better off ball.

I'm still taking DLo because I always thought he'd be a star player and has superstar potential and nothing I've seen in the NBA so far has changed that opinion.

kobe_vs_jordan · Post #16 » by **kobe_vs_jordan** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:44 pm

Colbinii wrote:
darmani wrote:Player A: 25.5 pts, 6.8 ast, 4.2 reb, .572 TS%
Player B: 20.7 pts, 6.9 ast, 3.7 reb, .531 TS%

RealGM Player Comparisons forum: "Player B and it's not close". Every. Single. Time.

Some people just don't understand that "win-loss record" is a team stat.

They also understand that not all stats are equal. Players have different roles and responsibilities.

One of these players is leading a team to the postseason while the other is still figuring out if he is in NCAA or the NBA.

Context matters with statistics.

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How is DLO role different from booker?

kobe_vs_jordan · Post #17 » by **kobe_vs_jordan** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:47 pm

Think DLO becoming overrated. Got a 20 PPG scorer on meh efficiency . Sub par defender. He got room for improvement but he isn't there yet.

Cavsfansince84 · Post #18 » by **Cavsfansince84** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:54 pm

Upperclass wrote:Booker is better and it really isn't close. He'll likely avg 30 and 6 next season

That in itself isn't always a good thing. Also, I don't really see any basis for thinking he will do that. His scoring this year is almost identical to last year so why would his ppg suddenly jump up from 25 to 30 next year?

Eskobar13 · Post #19 » by **Eskobar13** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:19 pm

darmani wrote:Player A: 25.5 pts, 6.8 ast, 4.2 reb, .572 TS%
Player B: 20.7 pts, 6.9 ast, 3.7 reb, .531 TS%

RealGM Player Comparisons forum: "Player B and it's not close". Every. Single. Time.

Some people just don't understand that "win-loss record" is a team stat.

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Rk            Player  Season  G  PER  TS% 3PAr  FTr ORB% DRB% TRB% AST% STL% BLK% TOV%  USG% OWS DWS  WS   WS/48 OBPM DBPM BPM VORP
1       Devin Booker 2018-19 57 19.0 .572 .333 .356  1.9 11.5  6.6 33.6  1.2  0.5 15.5  32.1 2.3 0.4 2.7    .064  3.1 -2.8 0.3  1.2
2    DAngelo Russell 2018-19 72 19.3 .531 .417 .134  2.0 10.9  6.5 40.8  1.9  0.7 13.2  31.5 2.1 2.2 4.3    .096  3.7 -0.7 2.9  2.7

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Rk            Player  Season  G   FG  FGA  FG%  3P  3PA  3P%  2P  2PA  2P%  FT FTA  FT% ORB DRB TRB  AST STL BLK TOV  PF   PTS ORtg DRtg
1       Devin Booker 2018-19 57 11.9 26.1 .456 2.8  8.7 .323 9.1 17.4 .522 7.9 9.3 .856 0.8 4.8 5.7  9.2 1.2 0.3 5.5 4.3  34.5  107  117
2    DAngelo Russell 2018-19 72 12.6 29.2 .432 4.5 12.2 .366 8.2 17.0 .480 3.1 3.9 .797 0.9 4.9 5.8 10.9 1.9 0.4 4.7 2.7  32.8  107  110

I also believe Booker is the better player, but posting 3 basic stats and then their TS% without any context isn't really helping your point.

Anyway, Booker is still a much better driver, finisher, actually gets to the line and historically hasn't been much difference in their shooting prowess. I expect Booker to become a lot better next season - while I'm not sure Russell will come scorching the earth on this floaters and mid-range game.

Difference is not big though.

Colbinii · Post #20 » by **Colbinii** » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:59 pm

Wasabi_Johnson wrote:
Colbinii wrote:
darmani wrote:Player A: 25.5 pts, 6.8 ast, 4.2 reb, .572 TS%
Player B: 20.7 pts, 6.9 ast, 3.7 reb, .531 TS%

RealGM Player Comparisons forum: "Player B and it's not close". Every. Single. Time.

Some people just don't understand that "win-loss record" is a team stat.

They also understand that not all stats are equal. Players have different roles and responsibilities.

One of these players is leading a team to the postseason while the other is still figuring out if he is in NCAA or the NBA.

Context matters with statistics.

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How is DLO role different from booker?

One is the leading playmaker, scorer and leader of a young playoff team. One of them is a very fundamentally sound Point Guard.

The other isn't either of those.

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