Anthony Davis vs. KG at the same age

[Artillery]

That version of KG was still a better defender than current Davis.

[TheReturn]

That version of KG was still a better defender than current Davis.

For some reason I feel like some posters here always try to put current/young players down when they are comparing them to retired/older players. I don't get that.

[fpliii]

For some reason I feel like some posters here always try to put current/young players down when they are comparing them to retired/older players. I don't get that.

I don't think that's an issue at all. I do think that a lot of 90s players get overhyped on here though, but a lot of us started watching during the beginning of the decade, so there's a huge nostalgia factor.

[2LeTTeRS]

For some reason I feel like some posters here always try to put current/young players down when they are comparing them to retired/older players. I don't get that.

Can't speak for all situations; but I think the reason here is that after we've seen a player in his prime we have a hard time imagining he didn't have that ability even in his youth. Seeing that KG at this point in his career spent an awful lot of time swinging between the 3 and the 4; whereas AD plays primarily as a big its hard to compare the 2 defensively.

Additionally the T-Wolves weren't really on national TV that much at that time, which makes it even harder to quantify how good Garnett was on D as a 2nd year player.

[Carbine]

His stats are nearly identical to 2nd year Duncan and he's 2 year's younger than 2nd year Duncan. He's definitely shown he has crazy potential so it's unfair to say he's shown nothing.

That's why stats don't show impact.

Kevin Love out there doing 26.3/12.6/4.3 on TS% almost as good as Jordan's best year. I doubt three other people have put up those numbers in the history of the league. He might be the only one.

Davis will be great, but his numbers won't dictate this. His impact will.

[oarabbus]

That's why stats don't show impact.

Kevin Love out there doing 26.3/12.6/4.3 on TS% almost as good as Jordan's best year. I doubt three other people have put up those numbers in the history of the league. He might be the only one.

Davis will be great, but his numbers won't dictate this. His impact will.

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

KG b/c he could actually impact the defense of his team
New Orleans defense-27th
Wolves-15th

KG legit was an AllStar AD only made it b/c of injury to Kobe

[rhowen4]

I don't think that's an issue at all. I do think that a lot of 90s players get overhyped on here though, but a lot of us started watching during the beginning of the decade, so there's a huge nostalgia factor.

are you saying you don't think nostalgia has that effect, or that the effect of nostalgia isn't significant?

[BlackWhiteGreen]

kg in his prime was amazing but only made it deep into the playoffs once and declined rapidly as soon as he came to boston while duncan is still instrumental on a title contender.

Let's be real here, KG started declining because of the knee injury

[fpliii]

are you saying you don't think nostalgia has that effect, or that the effect of nostalgia isn't significant?

I don't think it's nostalgia, more so agendas. Perhaps nostalgia is fueling said agendas, though.

There is a horrible pro-recency bias on this site as well that makes ISH unbearable at times, but I think the two groups are mutually exclusive on here.