two of my favorite players and power forwards in the league
as a big they are both mobile , can shoot well from ft and 3, have some handles and passing ability, can rebound and play decent defense
both coming of one of their best career seasons,
who would you take rn, Kristaps Porzingis or Julius Randle?
some quick career stats just for reference but their stats last year were generally better:
Kristaps Porzingis
19.6pts | 7.9reb | 1.9ast | 0.7stl | 1.8blk | 1.7tov
Julius Randle
18.7pts | 9.4reb | 3.6ast | 0.7stl | 0.4blk | 2.8tov
who u got?
Randle probably has more value and has been a 2x all-nba player for a Knicks team that made the playoffs in both those seasons. BUT, in the playoffs Randlehas been horrific. Think he’s like a 34% shooter in those 3 series. That’s like Ricky Rubio lol.
KP is so unreliable bc of injuries. But even if he only shot 3s, he’d shoot better than Randle has
I mean it’s not like Porzingis has been noticeably better in the playoffs. Porzingis is basically entirely unproven in the playoffs. So sure he could be better than Randle, but I’m not sure why we’d think it’s a guarantee.
Yeah but I think the idea is that since neither have been great in the playoffs the guy you’d rather have would be the one that projects as a better candidate to take a back seat and play a role vs being the main guy
KP seems like he fits that mold better
From a shooting standpoint only, it’s absolutely a guarantee. Randle has been one of the worst shooting big man all-stars that I can ever remember. We’re talking an almost 60 game sample size. Yes, KP is unproven but he’s a true shooter and could never build that many houses.
Randle was getting tripled team after carrying the worst team in the league to the playoffs in the first run and was clearly injured his last run. he is genuinely one of the best shooting big man in the league