This concerns who you feel is the most IMPACTFUL player, not necessarily the most skilled. While team success is a way to measure impact, I wouldn’t use that as my main argument, because everyone knows the Kings were horrible. At the same time, please don’t let that cloud your judgment on DMC’s actual impact on winning. I’ll give my answer in the comments.

Using the 2015-2016 season* as DMC’s “peak”, the averages are as follows:

DMC-

65 games, 26.9 PPG/11.5 RPG/3.3 APG on 45/33/72 splits, NBA All-Star and Second Team All-NBA

KAT-

62 games, 21.8 PPG/8.3 RPG/3.0 APG on 50/41/87 splits, NBA All-Star

*IMO his best statistical season, but feel free to argue another season if you’d like.

  • SharpenedToenailBEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Boogie was one of those big stat guys who didn’t really lead their team to wins because his attitude was poor and he sucked defensively. And honestly, until the last year or two KAT was kinda the same way, but he’s since proven that he can be a key contributor on a team making a deep run while also being a good 2 way player at the same time.

    So if I were the pistons or hornets I would probably take Boogie, because he’s gonna get his 25 and look good doing it and also put some butts in the seats, but for any team with winning aspirations you take KAT who can stretch the floor much better and play some solid defense while also being willing to play that second fiddle and defer to the main guy.