I'm not saying he hasn't this year, Dame is a relatively bad defender, but he is amazing on offense, to another degree that Kemba is, and has proven to be a killer in the playoffs, John wall is having somewhat of a down year for his standards, but that Wizards team is pretty damn bad. I would take both slightly over Kemba from a non-bias point of view, but Kemba is killing it and deserves to be in the discussion 100%
i post on there occasionally . realgm has great basketball discussion, its not riddled with teenagers like r/nba.
Okay he is a bad defender, but from the stats someone showed earlier Kemba isn't a great defender either, he is obviously a lot better on defense, but I think it's pretty obvious Dame is a better offensive player. Him and Kemba are closer, but I think Wall is better than both too.
wall has better box score numbers at first glance, so your point is valid, i just don't think he plays winning basketball, which is completely subjective on my part. Ive never been duped by his gaudy assist numbers, he does alot of hunting and turns the ball over twice as much as walker.
Well that is another huge plus, Kemba has an insanely low turnover rate for how often the ball is in his hands, on par with Chris Paul. But the Wizards have been pretty bad for the majority of Wall's career, and Beal is so often injured. Kemba has had some awful teams to deal with as well, but he has only become a true star the last 2 seasons when his team has been good.
Wow that stinks, no wonder they are like -11 on the road ON A B2B from la.
don't head to r/collegebasketball , every other thread is some first hand account of seeing a player on campus partying and chugging vodka. really appreciate the depth of our college hoops discussion on here when i go on that subreddit
You must be a Knicks fan.
I love Kemba but at some point you have to take the UCONN blinders off man. John Wall is a better player than Kemba. Kemba is a great player, but averages half the assists that Wall does. And don't argue like someone else he is "assist hunting", a point guard has to get assists. Kemba is a score first Point Guard and Wall is probably pass first, but is a very good scorer as well.
Right now, I also think Kemba is better.
If your talking about advanced statistics, it helps being on a team that is actually good and 13-9 rather than a bad team that is 8-13. Maybe Kemba is having a better year thus far, that's not my opinion but it's reasonable to have that opinion. But when push comes to shove, I think John Wall is an outright better player.
I just can't agree that Wall is better.
i had to hit nate with an unfollow recently, his bias has just overun his analysis (green kick) , doesn't help his partner danny started as a gsw beatwriter and still is one with a new site. Hard to follow league trends when you watch only gsw games even blow outs, i'm desperately looking for new pods to listen to at work with actual knowledge of other squads (locked on nba is pretty cool, specifically the pod with a league scout). there really was nothing like when cleveland came back and won , that dunc'd on podcast was hilarious lol. solemn as hell.