Lakers were ranked 6th on defense in 2011. In 2012 Mike had a better version of Kobe and Bynum and they fell to 13th in defense and that's with Mike Brown who was supposed to be a defensive genius.There are no who's better, they are both but Pringles might be worse. In that lockout season, Lakers were pretty good defensively, cooled off at the end of the season once Session came through was when the offense got better. Lakers at least had Kobe, Bynum, & Pau to be the offense. But, there are no who's better, both Pringles & Potato Head are awful, and they just so happened to get hired by the Lakers, fitting.
At least Pringles has offensive sets that work. Offensively he isn't bad at all. Brown isn't good at anything.