The overall consensus here was this was a case of a sure thing vs a calculated risk.

Both are performing in away commiserate with early expectations.

There are also two MASSIVE contextual wrinkles in terms of their respective circumstances Basa won't go anywhere near.

1. Jah has carte blanche to score at will on a team full of nobodies and losing IS- or was-absolutely the priority.

2. Russ has a team full of NBA players and 4 other guards on the food chain, a Kobe farewell tour that became Chuck City once Byron decided he had no interest in standing up to Kobe and possibly management or doing anything resembling what a good coach would do.

Between those two glaring factors and what everyone figured before each player was drafted, NO SHIT.

Plus, I mean, Russ showed some serious flashes of what he might become when he was actually given a set of decent circumstances.

Shit if we're talking right today I'm not so sure both teams didn't fuck up by passing on Zingis anyways.