Kyrie Irving or Anthony Davis

[elcheato]

If Kyrie had stayed another year in college like he was thinking about, who do you take #1 in this years draft if you have the pick?

 

[bosoxlover12]

Kyrie, and not think twice about it

 

[Pugz]

id still take anthony davis but damn itd be hard.

 

[Hurricane Season]

Do we assume Kyrie stays healthy in his 2nd year at Duke? Knowing what we know now, this is a tough question, but due to his small sample size during his freshman year, he wasn't even the consensus #1 pick in a pretty weak draft last year.

 

[elcheato]

I'm posing the question off what we know now. Picking between what looks like an established star at PG already, or a guy who has a chance to be the best PF/C in the league, and maybe a top 5-10 player.

 

[bosoxlover12]

In a league dominated by players under 6'5", I say Kyrie is more necessary. Plus, he's already a Top 5 PG now. Imagine him in 3 years

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Davis easily.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

In a league dominated by players under 6'5", I say Kyrie is more necessary. Plus, he's already a Top 5 PG now. Imagine him in 3 years

The headlines are dominated by players under 6'5.

I'd much rather a dominate big.

 

[elcheato]

The only team left in the playoffs whose best player is a big man is the Pacers and even that's debatable.

 

[Pugz]

a big guy like davis in three years could make any point guard look better.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

The only team left in the playoffs whose best player is a big man is the Pacers and even that's debatable.

Same could be said for the point guard position.

Either way though, it depends on the team. As a Hornets fan, I'd MUCH rather Davis or Kyrie. Dominate big men are much harder to find and are much more valuable, especially when you have a guy like Eric Gordon.

 

[bosoxlover12]

Davis averaged 14.2 PPG, 10.4 RPG, and 4.7 BPG this last year

Not all too different from the 13.6 PPG, 10.8 RPG, 4.2 BPG season Hasheem Thabeet had.


Since we are going off of what we know, its clearly Kyrie. Thabeet went Top 2, and busted. He posted quite similar stats than Davis did, and was super dominant defensively as well. Thabeet didn't win all the big awards like Davis did, mainly due to the fact that the freak named Blake Griffin won them all, but HT was still the DPOY.

Kyrie is more of a sure thing

 

[elcheato]

Well, Tony Parker is clearly the Spurs best player, and CP3 is the best player on the Clips, but they did just get eliminated so that doesn't help me.

edit: and as bosox said, Rondo.

Ball dominant wing players are becoming more important than bigs, simply because of how easy it is for a big to get in foul trouble with the rules now.

Still, don't think you can go wrong on picking either.

and bosox, the Thabeet comparison is awful, stop it.

 

[bosoxlover12]

Same could be said for the point guard position.

Either way though, it depends on the team. As a Hornets fan, I'd MUCH rather Davis or Kyrie. Dominate big men are much harder to find and are much more valuable, especially when you have a guy like Eric Gordon.

Tony Parker and Rajon Rondo.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Davis averaged 14.2 PPG, 10.4 RPG, and 4.7 BPG this last year

Not all too different from the 13.6 PPG, 10.8 RPG, 4.2 BPG season Hasheem Thabeet had.


Since we are going off of what we know, its clearly Kyrie. Thabeet went Top 2, and busted. He posted quite similar stats than Davis did, and was super dominant defensively as well. Thabeet didn't win all the big awards like Davis did, mainly due to the fact that the freak named Blake Griffin won them all, but HT was still the DPOY.

Kyrie is more of a sure thing

Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Did you just compare Davis to Thabeet?

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Tony Parker and Rajon Rondo.

So two compared to one?

Well I'm convinced now.

Parker being the Spurs best player is debatable, btw.

 

[bosoxlover12]

I'm not really comparing them, but I'm comparing them.


We know how good Kyrie is already, and it looks as if he'll be even better.

We don't know how good Davis will be. He probably will be very good. Or he can bust like Thabeet did.


Thats really all my comparison was to do. Say that we dont know persay how AD will do, but we know how Kyrie will

 

[elcheato]

There's nothing to debate, Tony Parker is better than Tim Duncan and Manu.

And like I said, I think of it more as ball dominant guards/wing players compared to bigs.

 

[Mexi]

i want that athletic freak who plays insane defense and wont have any problem running with those small lineups everyone is using nowadays

nothing against kyrie. i love him

but man, anthony davis is hard to pass up.

 

[bosoxlover12]

Parker being the Spurs best player is debatable, btw.

Don't think this debate would go too long, Parker was 5th in the 2012 NBA MVP voting.