I was actually looking at the first two years. I am not a Rondo hater by any means, but rather I was pointing out the futility in using the first two-years statistics of both players to make any comparison.
Just use your eyeballs. Rondo clearly doesn't suck. Period.
GP is just a curmudgeon (but GP was a better defender for what it's worth).
I think it was a pretty appropriate comparison. Definitely relevant to this thread, regardless of how useful the stats are in comparing how talented the two players were in their respective second years in the league and how good they were/will be when all is said and done.
I think you're just backing off now that you realize how off-base you were. If it's so futile to use those numbers to compare, why did you pick out specific stats from them to point out the numbers actually favored Payton (even though they didn't really)?
Isn't that "using the first two-years statistics of both players to make any comparison"?