LOL at people comparing the roster in Minnesota for the majority of KG's career to the roster in Dallas. It's a joke.
Who did that, I merely compared the one season they met in the post season and said the teams were fairly similar, which they were.
You're certainly in the minority in thinking those were similar rosters
Perhaps so, but I think most people have their own biases and don't actually look at that particular year with any detail. Nash and Billups were very similar that year. Wally pre-injuries was an excellent scorer though not quite the all around player that Finley was that year. The rest of those rosters were also pretty similar pretty much across the board.
Comparing Wally to Finley is an insult to Finley. That team was probably more Finley's than it was Dirk's. Finley was a far superior player to Wally no matter how you slice it.
Also I don't really get the Nash and Billups being similar that year. Billups didn't even start half the season that year and was playing like 28 minutes a game. What was so similar about them?
Billups had a better Rebound Rate, better Steal Rate, smaller TOV%, better defensive rating, similar offensive rating, and not an all that much worse Assist Rate. Nash was a better overall offensive player, but Billups was a better overall defensive player and they weren't as close defensively as they were offensively. Billups and Nash weren't all that dissimilar in 2001-2002.
Chauncey was also much better after Brandon went down with an injury and was a monster in the playoffs, scoring at will against Nash in that series and totally dominated 2 of the 3 games and holding Nash well below his season averages in all 3 games.
Of course Dirk outperformed KG pretty much across the board in every category in every game and the Mavs won in 3. Position by position, the only real difference in that series was the Dirk v. KG matchup.
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