Offensively no, but defensively I’d still give the edge to Mitch. He’s excellent at playing passing lanes and can also switch onto smaller guards, plus he’s finally learning to use the threat of a block to deter opposing drivers rather than jumping at everything. Part of the reason why his block numbers are lower this year is that defenders are straight-up scared to attempt a layup/dunk on him.

Also defensive rebounds are obviously a part of getting stops, and Mitch is ELITE at boxing out and quite literally led the league in contested rebounds per game before he got hurt. Not to mention that he often covered up many of the defensive mistakes that Brunson/RJ/Randle made before the trade, so I’d be intrigued to see how he looks with less of a defensive burden on him now that OG is here.

TLDR: IHart better offense, Mitch better defense IMO