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Originally Posted by Justin7
I'm not emotional. You are emotional, obviously you are enjoying trying to protect your Tatum investments. Since I am not emotional, I am guessing the only reason you think I am is because you are experiencing emotion because you cannot counter my argument once again you have provided no refutation to the facts outlined. You know I am right that he cannot defeat these players in direct competition and without MVP/DPOY and multiple chips, his cards will decline.
Here's Giannis current stats against Tatum's
PTS
29.5
5th
REB
13.6
2nd
AST
5.6
23rd
PER
31.94
Jayson Tatum
PTS
23.4
15th
REB
7.0
35th
AST
3.0
80th
PER
20.45
37th
Yes Giannis is 3x the player of Tatum. It is not close. What a silly argument. He's also vastly superior in just about every advanced stat out there from +/- to winshares and it isn't close. He's not in the conversation. He cannot compete with Luka or Giannis or any of the greats still in the league, he's a whole tier if not two well below them.
Name a player who has achieved back to back MVPs DPOY and put up generational points by age 25? Oh but you think he's bad because he didn't win a chip when your guy also didn't win a chip? Give me a break.
I'll bet you very strongly that by age 25, Tatum will not have achieved what Giannis has achieved by age 25. He will not have 2 MVPS and a DPOY. At best he will have 1 chip, best case scenario and he will never put up better numbers in his entire career than what Giannis did this season.
Tatum is not currently averaging anything close to a top 10 player in the NBA.
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I believe JDan was asking to compare Tatum's Year 3 numbers vs. Giannis Year 3 numbers. Granted, I don't think Giannis had the same usage as Tatum in Y3 but comparing Y3 to Y3 is better than comparing Y3 Tatum to Y7 Giannis...
Of course right at this present time, Giannis is a back to back MVP just entering his prime while Tatum is just getting started.
Anyway, if we could all go back to Giannis Y3 (2016), I'm sure we would buy up whatever we could.
Tatum will likely not have the same career arc, but that's okay. Not everyone has to be Giannis/LeBron or bust.