Current Sully vs '07 Jefferson

[BballTim]

By piece I'm going to assume you mean trade piece and if thats the case by far big AL.

Sully is skilled, but hes limited by his size and athleticism, he has a defined ceiling.

In big AL many gm's saw huge potential which he never truly met. However, at the time he was a very attractive prospect with a lot of value.

  If you compare Sully's current season to Al's season the year before he was traded they're pretty even:

http://bkref.com/tiny/0tb8k

  Slight edge to Al, but keep in mind he'd played about 2.5 times as many minutes in the nba before those seasons. I can see teams being wary of Sully's back but that's the only real reason to say Al's ceiling was much higher than Sully's. Al was the better rebounder and low post scorer, Sully's the better defender, passer and ball-handler and is probably a more versatile scorer than Al was at the time.

Al was valued enough to be the main piece in a trade for KG, wouldn't it be slightly comical if the celtics traded sully in a similar package for a player of KG's caliber?

  I'd take that kind of comedy any day.

[Celtics4ever]

Sully was a normal human tonight folks.  Bad shooting night and not exactly dominant on the boards.

[BASS_THUMPER]

sully now
is better than al now and then

[TheWatersEdge]

Al's brilliant low-post skills are one of a kind, and Sully is just a more regular undersized big, albeit both have incredible instincts in their own ways.  I think looking back at the early days of Al, he was similarly a bit overweight, which was why those bad sprains of his kept him out of the line-up for prolonged stretches.  I think in this quicker era of the NBA I'm happy to keep Sully, it was Al's suspect D that made him expendable in a lot of people's eyes, though GM's and fans alike are always astonished by his seemingly unlimited repertoire of post moves.

[pokeKingCurtis]

Sully's D, though, is at least half a head above Big Al's D.

Shut down Z-Bo, shut down Duncan, not a MASSIVE liability when played at center (even though Sully is way undersized at C).