David.
Radical Centrist
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just because I posted a quantifiable statistic showing how eerily similar their production actually is doesnt mean it ends there.Glad you can tell all of that from simple box scores!
they both need the ball in their hands to be anything remotely above ordinary players (kyrie obviously excels more than dion but I posted the 5% difference to go along with why I believe theyre practically the same player: they play the exact same except statistically kyrie is literally only 5% better), don't put effort in on the defensive end, aren't good enough to be game changers in their roles (which are the same: scoring production and basically nothing else), and just are not, by any means, looking to get their teammates involved in games. They take the ball, they shoot the ball. Kyrie just dribbles more first and can make layups. I was going to leave out 'gets to the line and hits ft's' so the overall efficiency angle is taken away from the argument, but fuck it. He's scoring about a point a shot in the last 15 games or so I believe.
The only thing they are good at is creating for themselves, which limits the rest of the team (due to their tunnel vision and sole priority of creating for themselves), and Kyrie is marginally more efficient. I dont see how you can argue this.