Noa Essengue vs Royce O'Neale
Essengue · O'Neale
↳Bottom lineScoring: Essengue · Efficiency: O'Neale · Playmaking: O'Neale · Impact: O'Neale · Boards & defense: Essengue.
?How to read this chart
- Each row
- is one 2026-27 regular-season stat, Essengue on the left and O'Neale on the right. The better number is in the club's color.
- The bars
- show each player's share of the two totals added together: a 60/40 split means one has half again as much as the other. Turnovers are flipped: fewer is better.
- The five areas
- at the top group the stats that belong together. An area goes to whoever wins more of its rows; the big number in each card is the key stat, with the real values.
- Role and availability
- (games, minutes, usage) describe the role, not how good a player is, so they are shown but not scored.
- The raw count
- Essengue 5, O'Neale 12 rows won. Every row counts the same here, so read it as a curiosity, not a verdict.
Where the gap is
from the numbers aboveNoa Essengue scored more in 2026-27, 0.1 points a game apart (5.3 vs 5.2), on Essengue's heavier usage (17.4% vs 11.5%).
O'Neale is the more efficient scorer by true shooting, 50.3% to 45.9%; TS% folds threes and free throws into one number, so the gap survives shot-diet differences.
Playmaking goes to O'Neale (0.7 vs 0.4 assists), the glass to Essengue (3.5 vs 3.1 rebounds).
With O'Neale on the floor his team outscored opponents by -7.6 per 100 possessions, against -20.2 for Essengue; on-court net rating carries the teammates with it, so read it next to PIE.
On the books for 2026-27: Essengue $5.7M through 2028-29, O'Neale $10.9M through 2027-28. Whether either fits a trade is a Trade Machine question, not a stat one.
Splits
2026-27 · from the game logs↳Bottom lineEssengue's team is 1-7 with him on the floor, O'Neale's 4-7. Essengue has the bigger home-road scoring gap.
?How to read this chart
- Each row
- splits the same game logs a different way: home or road, wins or losses, plus the big-night counts.
- The bars
- show each player's share of the two numbers added together, and the bigger number is in the club's color.
- Record when playing
- is the team's record in the games he suited up for, so missed games are left out.
Last games & contracts
test a trade in the Trade Machine →More comparisons
pick any two players →Per-game numbers and percentages are 2026-27 regular season from stats.nba.com; splits and last games from our own game logs; contract figures are cap hits from public salary data and can lag a signing by a day. Bold marks the better number in each row (turnovers: fewer is better).
Their teams right now
Chicago BullsNoa Essengue's team
Charlotte HornetsRoyce O'Neale's team