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David West or Andrew Bynum?

Andrew Bynum is one of the most fundamentally sound big man offensively and defensively in The NBA.

I take Bynum.

Right now?

David West

The future, I'd probably take Bynum because he will be a great player. Expecially because he has Abdul-Jabbar as his mentor, and he's getting a lot of experience from him.

right now? easily david west

int he future? easily bynum

Right now West easily.

However, Bynum is about 7 years younger, so if I get to pick either of them to add to a team I take Bynum

West now, Bynum future.

All though, if Bynum didn;t get injured, the right now would be a lot harder to chose.

Derekman wrote:West now, Bynum future.

All though, if Bynum didn;t get injured, the right now would be a lot harder to chose.

Idk, 20 and 9 as compared to 13 10

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farzi wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Idk, 20 and 9 as compared to 13 10

to be fair, Bynum's production was going up with each week... and he started the season coming off the bench

^^To be even more fair, you would equalize minutes and adjust for the Hornets slow pace and the Lakers' faster one.

Bynum now. It would be harder to find a good center than a good power foward.

Bynum now and future easily...

FlawlessVictory wrote:

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Pace Adjusted Per 40
        FGA   FG%   FT%   REB   AST  STL  BLK  TOV  PTS   PER
Bynum   11.4  63.6  69.5  13.6  2.3  0.4  2.8  2.0  17.5  22.6
 West   18.7  47.5  84.6  9.8   2.5  0.9  1.4  2.4  22.2  19.7


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Hmmm, well I haven't watched enough of West to really have a comprehensive idea of what he is doing. From highlights it always seems West gets a lot of easy feeds from Paul who draws the post players and tosses it up to West. If Bynum could stay in the high 50% FG range while scoring 20 next year I'd go with him.

West's efficiency in 37.7 minutes: 21.83
Bynum's efficiency in 28.8 minutes: 21.86

Who's more dominant? Who's the 7'1 center?

Pretty easy choice for me.

Bynum's split stats:

11.4/10.7/1.3/1.5, 59.3% in November
13.9/9.1/1.8/2.7 66.1% in December
17.3/12.2/2.7/2.3 70.0% in January

CBS7 wrote:Bynum's split stats:

11.4/10.7/1.3/1.5, 59.3% in November
13.9/9.1/1.8/2.7 66.1% in December
17.3/12.2/2.7/2.3 70.0% in January

The last 5 games Bynum played made him seem like he was the best Center in the NBA.

I have to go with Bynum.

David West is underrated and a very good player; he scores well with or without Paul, had about 20 feet of range on that J, good post up skills, decent face-up skills, good mobility, can dribble a bit on the break, good passer... Solid but unspectacular rebounder.

But Bynum's 7'1, 280, way more efficient, a way better rebounder and improving pretty much game-by-game on offense as he gets more comfortable and gets more involved in the offense. He's also younger, IIRC.

I mean, I don't see a compelling argument for West, despite the fact that he's a very, very good player.

I take Bynum just because of his defensive impact. Having that anchor does so much for the entire team......

farzi wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Idk, 20 and 9 as compared to 13 10

bynum wasn't a 13/10 player when he got hurt. those were his season avg's, but as you'd expect from a 20 yr old, he was improving every week, every month.

just look at his last 15 games:

32.6mpg, 16.4ppg, 10.7 rpg, 2.3bpg


so u can call him a 13/10 player but thats really ignoring the improvements of a young player and the impact he was having.

theoilslick wrote:Hmmm, well I haven't watched enough of West to really have a comprehensive idea of what he is doing. From highlights it always seems West gets a lot of easy feeds from Paul who draws the post players and tosses it up to West. If Bynum could stay in the high 50% FG range while scoring 20 next year I'd go with him.

West is a solid face-up post player from the mid-wing and mid-post. He can take advantage of Paul's penetration when his man doubles down to help on CP3 drives. He hustles and has a little back to the basket game though he is much superior when in triple threat.

As far as getting spoon fed, West has 58% of his passes assisted. Bynum, on the other hand, has 56% of his buckets assisted. The difference, however, is that West benefits less from teammate creation on the inside as he has 51% of his inside shots assisted. Bynum receives assists on 58% of his inside attempts.

In my opinion, Bynum could easily score more than West if the Lakers simply gave him the touches necessary to do so. If the Lakers gave Bynum the same amount of shots as West per 40 minutes, Bynum would get an additional 7.3 shots. He'd only need to shoot 32.2% on these shots to score more than West. Considering that is LESS than his jump shot %, it is more than feasible that Bynum could easily reach that %, if not much higher. Bynum has actually shot 0.2% higher than West on "close" shots (non-dunks in the paint) and has less % of his close shots assisted than West. Again, further proof he could have scored more if he was on a team that needed it.