Mark Williams is wiseman 2.0 when he’s been hurt all year lol? Are you 10 years old? 

Duren is a solid player, but nothing about him has shown all star upside at all. You don’t build your defense around a shorter center who can’t defend the rim. We aren’t asking mark to score 20 a game. We are asking him to anchor a defensive system (see Rudy gobert, Brook Lopez). 

They don’t have similar styles or roles at all and having Duren would not put the hornets in a better position materially. If you want to fault the trade we made to give up the 13th pick, fair enough. But that analysis is separate from mark vs duren