DeMarcus Cousins or Anthony Davis?

[navy]

Davis is still young, people need to stop overrating him too early.

[Maniak]

Tough...need more time to think on this. Like Cousins but I question his impact as a big. His teams dont win enough.

I guess that comes down to how much blame you put on him and how much blame you put on the talent around him/ownership/coaching. Also would Davis do any better? (I don't necessarily have the answer, just hypothetical to contribute to this comparison).

As for impact, it's tough when a guy settles on offense, and I feel like DMC does that a bit too much. Catches it midrange and just puts it up with a lot of time left on the shot clock & little to no ball movement leading up to it. As a Suns fan makes me think of Gerald Green.

[cos88]

imagine cousins surrounded by a HOF coach, veteran unselfish teammates and a great front office.

something like what duncan had at the beginning.

[fpliii]

Davis. People need to stop underrating him.

I like DMC though, I watch as much of his as possible. Still, this isn't close.

[Genaro]

Davis. Better defender, better attitude and younger.

[KyrieTheFuture]

I don't think you can call Davis a defensive anchor yet seeing as NO is one of the worst defenses in the league.

[SHABBA]

Boogie. I'd love to see them together though.

[dzav323]

I don't think you can call Davis a defensive anchor yet seeing as NO is one of the worst defenses in the league.

That is on Monty Williams. Brian Roberts does not deserve to even be on a NBA roster and the Pels don't have a decent center to take some pressure off AD. Also Eric Gordon looks disinterested out there.

[bdreason]

Surprised how many people are taking Cousins.

[Miller for 3]

Cousins, not close. Davis can't create his own shot, and plays little to no defense (watch him leave Dirk open in last Pels game, it was like open gym for him, and that is an occurrence in every game.). Cousins is a far superior offensive player, and slightly worse on D. AD looks like a good defender because he is long and appears athletic, until you realize opposing Cs put up a 21.8 PER against him and he does not close out on jump shooting bigs

[Lebron23]

Cousins is a much better player this season.

[notatop29pg]

Cousins, not close. Davis can't create his own shot, and plays little to no defense (watch him leave Dirk open in last Pels game, it was like open gym for him, and that is an occurrence in every game.). Cousins is a far superior offensive player, and slightly worse on D. AD looks like a good defender because he is long and appears athletic, until you realize opposing Cs put up a 21.8 PER against him and he does not close out on jump shooting bigs

Who are these opposing C's and which games? Davis has played centre maybe 4 times this season? He takes the tip and then guards power forwards. And has matched every single one of them.

[Uriah_Hall]

Cousins (32.5 mpg) is putting up 23.5/11.5/3ast on on 49% FG / 55% TS and Davis (35 mpg) is putting up 19.6/10.3/3blk on 53% FG / 58% TS.

Who you got?

Dmac fo sho

[dzav323]

Cousins, not close. Davis can't create his own shot, and plays little to no defense (watch him leave Dirk open in last Pels game, it was like open gym for him, and that is an occurrence in every game.). Cousins is a far superior offensive player, and slightly worse on D. AD looks like a good defender because he is long and appears athletic, until you realize opposing Cs put up a 21.8 PER against him and he does not close out on jump shooting bigs

Again, Monty Williams defensive scheme is to blame. Ask and Pelicans fan and they will tell you the same thing.

[IGOTGAME]

Surprised how many people are taking Cousins.

Same here.