In response to Trophies post comparing Brogdon, Matthews, and Korver I'm reupping this from a couple of pages ago comparing Brogdon and Bledsoe. Literally the only think Brogdon does better than Bledsoe is catch and shoot 3s. I was surprised at how poor Brogdon was shooting pull up 3s. He might be the best guy in the league when no one is near him (FT shooting and wide open 3s after Giannis draws about 4 guys on a drive). Brogdon has to either catch and shoot when he's open or get all the way to the rim against a guy whose overcommitted on the closeout (which is easy to do if Lopez and Middleton draw other big guys out to the 3 point line). In other words, Brogdon is the perfect fit as the 3rd or 4th option on a title contender. Instead, he's now going to be expected to be the 2nd option on a mediocre team. Playing with Victor Oladipo is not going to get him the kind of open 3 point shots that playing with Giannis did - where Brogdon can basically count to 3 after he catches before he shoots.
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From a couple pages back:
I'm been dogging Bledsoe as much as anybody, but he really has only one weakness. That's catch and shoot three pointers. The problem is that it's at the front of minds right now watching him be left wide open for 3s in the Raptors series.
Other than catch and shoot wide open 3s and FTS (where Bledsoe is still almost an 80% career shooter), Bledsoe is better than Brogdon at almost every measurable category - including other shooting stats. Bledsoe is an elite on-ball guard defender. There's a reason he was First team All-NBA defense. He's a better ball handler, better at the rim, and he's extremely durable. For as much as we complain about his decision making sometimes, his assist to turnover ratio is also significantly better than Brogdon's.
Bledsoe 5.5 to 2.1 (2.6 ratio)
Brogdon 3.2 to 1.4 (2.3 ratio)
Brogdon is at 57% inside of 10 feet, while Bledsoe is best guard in the league at 62%. On pull up 2s in the mid-range, Brogdon was 19 for 59 (32%) while Bledsoe was 100 for 259 (39%).
Catch and shoot 3s: Brogdon (86 for 181, 47.5%); Bledsoe (58 for 198, 29.3 %)
Pull-up 3s: Brogdon (16 for 60, 26.75); Bledsoe (63 for 164, 38.4)
Here's the webpages if you want to look for yourselves. I've included Middleton's page as well.
https://stats.nba.com/player/2...n&PerMode=Totals
https://stats.nba.com/player/1...n&PerMode=Totals
https://stats.nba.com/player/2...n&PerMode=Totals
If you look at all this and then consider that Bledsoe will make 3.5 million dollars a year less than Brogdon, he's a lot better overall player for the money than we give him credit for right now. We basically get Wes Matthews and Bledsoe for the same money Brogdon is getting.
Music's also right in that Bledsoe's much more likely to improve on shooting wide open 3 points (Brook Lopez did after 10 years in the league) by practicing than Brogdon is all of sudden going to become better at his relative weaknesses.
I think a lot of love for Brogdon from national writers is that I would guess he's one of the best interview subjects in the league. Extremely, extremely bright and widely read. I'd want my son to grow up to be like Brogdon out of anyone on the Bucks last year, but that doesn't make him an NBA superstar worthy of 21 million a year.
