Brand for me, comfortably. Far more efficient scorer, and I value that more than C-Webb's playmaking from a bigman. Man, 51.6% TS for an offense-first bigman is terrible, even by 2001 standards.
Brand compares favorably based on most metrics in the regular season, and owns C-Webb in the playoffs. Playoff gap is seriously shocking, regardless if it's compared to the competition they faced or not, the gap is so large that it's not even a debate, at all.
I think Webber is overrated offensively and underrated defensively (especially 2004 season makes me think so, if you notice how the Kings improved offensively without C-Webb, but declined defensively by a massive margin), but I would say Brand was also better on D.
sp6r=underrated wrote:Like most "outlier" seasons, but unlike 2003 T-Mac, Brand's 2006 campaign wasn't an outlier. He just was playing with slightly better talent than normal. Brand wasn't anything special as a floor raiser. That was a big problem with the teams he joined. The post-MJ bulls and 00s Clippers were shipwrecks that Brand wasn't capable of lifting.
Brand has some pretty good years in RAPM in addition to his stellar box-score stats, so certainly I think that it was his supporting casts that should be blamed. Even KG in his prime in 2006 and 2007 had two seasons when his Wolves were in the lottery, with low 30s wins (32-50 and 33-49), but there's no doubt that Garnett had a major impact even in those years (numbers back it up, and anybody who watched those Wolves definitely noticed how much worse they were without him, whether he was sitting on the bench or not playing at all, as he missed 6 games both years). That seems to be the case with Brand, too (obviously to a lesser extent, as Brand wasn't as good as Garnett, with the exception of '06).
