In no fukking way is Bargnani better than Amare. Bargnani is a poorly conditioned, airheaded, questionable effort-giving, non-rebounding big who arguably plays the worst help defense in the league for any front court player. He takes poor shots, makes J.R. type decisions at times, doesn't stretch the floor ( but he plays like he can, and his three point chucking hurts the team) and he's slow as fukk. He had a decent first month last year ( if that) and after that he was just as bad as he was in Toronto, he's pretty much a back up center at this point( he should never play at pf ever again ) and he may not even deserve p.t. over Aldrich at this point. Amare still showed he could be a dominate offensive player on the other hand, his post game became more natural and efficient, better at creating his own shot, way better in pick and rolls because he can pop or roll to the rim with the best of them, and he's still pretty fukking explosive. Also Amare is a better team defender than Bargs, and knowing someone is actually worse than Amare in the aspect of the game fukking blows my mind, and he is better rebounder by a decent margin. Man to man D is Bargs only real advantage to Amare. Really the only question for me can Amare stay healthy, and if he can't, then I'd rather one of the youngins get some extra playing time over Bargnani to help them develop.