In regards to rebounding, Hood is at 10 or 11% rate and Beal is at 6%. So almost twice the rate. You can't just look at basic stats, your teammates matter. So yea, Hood is a much better rebounder.
As for age, college experience, etc...it's not like Beal played for some bum in Donovan...he's doing a pretty good job with the Thunder these days. So each played under good coaches for one year (Hood had a RS year). And you'd have a point on age if Beal was less than a year younger, but he's a year younger. Doesn't matter. 4 years of pro experience vs 2 years means more than one year of being alive. Cmon.
Lol at saying that Beal has Win Shares though. You're comparing their totals, so it's shocking that Beal would have more WS totals in 4 years than Hood in 2...he's played twice as much!! Lol. Compare their average numbnuts, you'll find that Hood is better. Crazy he has more win shares on a team with a worse record...
Yes, Beal's PER is higher...by one point. When you compare everything else, it's pretty negligible.
Beal did have a good playoffs year last year, but not that great. Sure he put up 23 points a game...it took him 20 shots though. It took him 42 minutes a game. They're good numbers, but they're not that good.
Bradley Beal has never even put up an Ortg as good as Hood, in over twice the time. He's never posted a positive net rating. He has a great PG...maybe he's just not that good?
And finally, Utah was better with Rodney Hood on the court. Washington was better with Bradley Beal off the court. You wanna give a max to him? You think he's that much better than Hood? Beal can't even get around a freaking screen, how's he going to fit into our system? It's all pretty simple. Hood is a better player. Overall, the statistics show it.
Great thing is if you sign Beal you are getting both players and the Jazz have room for a max player and room to resign our players over the next 2-3 years just fine.
Normal stats are good, Advanced stats are good the Eye test is good but they all have their flaws. I think it was you claiming Middleton was one of or the best wing defenders in the NBA since advanced stats had him there. Then suddenly this year he drastically dropped off when his team defense got worse this year. Although Khris did step up more than I thought he would on offense this year. Kind of a tangent I guess he shouldn't be your leading scorer as their record indicates.
So lets start. I disagree with your entire premise about age. Ill take the younger player every time. I understand your argument and disagree. I would listen to an argument about training age vs actual age or about physical maturity that happens for different athletes at different ages but neither of us has access to that information. So without knowing those things about these players ill still take the younger player if everything else is equal stats wise. Ill also expect his body to hold up longer and physically mature more over that 1 year. That has always been my experience with the NBA and college players that I have trained.
As far as rebounding goes I am looking at the advanced stats and I show Hood at 6.3% and Beal at 6.2%. Looking at every stat available they rebound at the same rate. So I am not sure where you got your numbers from but they are the same at rebounding.
As far as win shares goes I am showing Beal higher on average as well unless you are just looking at this season where Beal missed a large chunk of the season and his team basically had the same record at the Jazz. His Warp is better and a 1 point in PER is not a ton but it is better. Beals player impact is higher. Beals team with him Healthy last season made the playoffs and won the first round of playoffs. This year with him injured and slowed with injuries for a large portion of the season they missed the playoffs. That is a large impact.
You can say his stats were not that great last year in the playoffs due to efficiency of taking 20 shots but advanced stats show him as the top player for his team in both series. At the age of 21 he was the leading scorer in 7 out of the 10 games and was a large reason they won the first playoffs series. He also averaged 24 point still per game in the games where he was the primary ball handler when Wall went down for three games. Additionally the year before at the age of 20 he helped get his team to the playoffs (which again didnt happen when he missed a large chunk of the season this year) he lead his team in scoring in a playoffs series win and was the leading scorer in 5 of the 10 games they played in the playoffs.
Again pointing out that Wizs are better this season in which Beal played very little and was injured and recovering for the majority of it with him off the court does not prove he didnt help his team. They were a much worse team this year than the previous years with him.
Yes Beal did play with a solid PG. But Hood played with solid players around him as well such as Hayward being the primary option on offense. They both played 2nd to someone. The Jazz and Wizs had very similar seasons. Had Beal been healthy this season they would have made the playoffs. As far as Ortg goes Hood was 102 and then 104.9. Beals has been 98, 103.8, 104.7 and 103.6. So the are pretty close to the same. Beals was lower his first year but for the last three years he is basically at 103 and so is Hood. Once again you claim he has never posted a positive net rating yet he did both his 2nd season and 3rd season. In that third season he had a much higher positive net rating of 5.8 then Hood has ever had which is 3.3. With that said I dont find that stat very useful especially the defense side of that. Defense stats work for a team not for an individual. They are really inconsistent and the team defensive scheme has more to do with that stat often than the individual does. The only stat I really like for defense is the one about players staying in front of the ball handler. But even that stat changes with schemes of switching on screens or if they are trying to funnel a player somewhere.
There are a couple stats that might point to Hood having a slight edge in a couple things. Overall most stats point to Beal. Beal has a much better track record and has done a lot more with his career even if you only compare their first two year in which Beal came into the league 2 years younger and did more. Ill take the more accomplished, better stats and younger in age player ever time. But again this isnt a trade in this scenario it is trying to get both on our team.
That was a lot of ramblings and I dont really care to edit it much.
