Who's the Better PF: Prime Kenyon Martin vs Blake Griffin

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Griffin hands down
dude is a top 5 PF in the league n he's just in his 3rd season wit numbers in the 20 points n 10 boards easily
3x all-star

i think he's overrated as f*ck tho
but between them
Kmart didnt even have a 20-10 year, career high 16.7 ppg


having a PG like cp3 really helps out tho

TBH, I think Blake's numbers would be better without Chris Paul around. Obviously the team wouldn't be winning games though.
 

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kenyon was awkard as hell on the block and has alligator arms. blakes ceiling is so much higher than kenyon can even dream of. blake already has better footwork and mid range J than kenyon, plus he can handle the ball and pass it.
 

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Kenyon at Cincy better than Blake at Oklahoma? :whew: im on the fence with that one

Kenyon was definitely better. If he didnt break his leg before the NCAA tournament, Cincy probably wins the ship that year. That nikka was a man among boys in 2000

 
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i actually feel prime Amare, particularly in '04-'05, was arguably better than either one of them. On one hand you could use the same argument that Kenyon was miles better on defense than Stat (just like with Blake) but offensively, even with Stat's basic ass face up and jab/drive, he was still automatic buckets and was giving the business to guys like KG and Duncan (mind you, he was prob giving it right back on the other end with questionable defense and selective rebounding). And it also looked like he weighed more/was more swoll back then as well so he was able to bang on big mfers like olawakandi head on. Talented as Blake is, he doesn't strike me as the type of raw scorer Stat was before knee injuries killed it for him after '05.

imo it was similar to kenyon and mcdyess in that he was never the same after all those surgeries. Even when he came back with the suns or his 1st year with NYK, he was beasting but it seemed a lot more jump shot oriented and double clutched layups than it was him simply jamming over people off the 1st step.
 

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i actually feel prime Amare, particularly in '04-'05, was arguably better than either one of them. On one hand you could use the same argument that Kenyon was miles better on defense than Stat (just like with Blake) but offensively, even with Stat's basic ass face up and jab/drive, he was still automatic buckets and was giving the business to guys like KG and Duncan (mind you, he was prob giving it right back on the other end with questionable defense and selective rebounding). And it also looked like he weighed more/was more swoll back then as well so he was able to bang on big mfers like olawakandi head on. Talented as Blake is, he doesn't strike me as the type of raw scorer Stat was before knee injuries killed it for him after '05.

imo it was similar to kenyon and mcdyess in that he was never the same after all those surgeries. Even when he came back with the suns or his 1st year with NYK, he was beasting but it seemed a lot more jump shot oriented and double clutched layups than it was him simply jamming over people off the 1st step.


Once blake griffin starts utilizing the midrange jumper, and still has the hops/speed to beat his defender in his step, we gonna be looking at one the dominant PF's for the next 10-12 years for sure unless his knee comes back to bite him
 

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Once blake griffin starts utilizing the midrange jumper, and still has the hops/speed to beat his defender in his step, we gonna be looking at one the dominant PF's for the next 10-12 years for sure unless his knee comes back to bite him

the concern i have with these athletic pfs who dominant more with their explosiveness than fundamentals. Over the course of 82 games + playoffs you can't just be jumping all over the place tryna catch oops or bang on 250+lb'ers who WILL foul the crap outta you. your knees simply wouldn't last and theyll only be so many bad landings they can take.

even with the more conservative leapers, we saw what almost happened to lebron yesterday, not to mention what happened to kg in '09 when rondo and pierce got a little too excessive with the alley oop attempts.

blake def needs to tweak that jumper a little more. more so, he should go ahead and join dwight and whoever else is going to work with hakeem this summer. He'd be better off smoothening out his back2 the basket game and perfecting a little chris webber hook shot (going to either hand) as a go to move now, so that an improved jump shot and his athleticism would be more so added luxuries than anything he has to really rely on.
 
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