Random face off of the day: Jerome Kersey vs Derrick McKey

[durantbird]

Who was better for peak and carerr?

[mojomarc]

I think this is Kersey pretty handily tbh. They played against each other 34 times, and in those games Kersey outscored, out rebounded, out stole, and out assisted McKey, and had fewer turnovers doing it. I used to go to all of the Portland home games back in the Kersey prime era, and I don't recall a time where anyone seriously suggested McKey was a better player at least during Kersey's prime. About the only stat where McKey peaked higher was the year he got DPOY consideration, where he VORP was 3.0 vs. a peak for Kersey of 2.8. Pretty much everything else stat-wise seems to confirm my memory of Kersey being better prime vs. prime.

[SportsGuru08]

I think Xavier McDaniel is a more apt comparison to Kersey. But Kersey peak and career is my answer.