As a scorer, peak Amare was better than AK
How many bigs in this draft were never a top 10 rebounder? For his size and athleticism, AS's rebounding was pedestrian. Compare AK's rebounding to other 3s and compare AS's to other 5s.
AK's top year in WS was 11.6, Amare's was 11.3
TS% yes, that obviously goes to the big who shoots mostly <3 feet from basket. I probably would not use that matric to prove that DeAndre was better than LeBron, however.
Career FT%, Amare was indeed 0.007 higher than AK. Touche.
Amare's best two year of WS were 14.6 twice...
Amare had better mid range shooting numbers than AK. Most of AKs shooting was also around the rim. He did shoot some threes but fairly poorly.
Amare got better at shooting FTs. His first 2 years were bad but after than he shot a good percentage. Ak on the other hand had his best season shooting from the FT line as a rookie and then went downhill from there fairly steadily. Just another sign that he was mentally weak and lazy. He was much more of a could have been good than a was good.
Also what was AKs best playoff year? Should we compare those numbers? Or was his playoff seasons past his prime? I guess AK does have more post playoff interview cries.