Anything you would change about this Top 5 at each position since 1980

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Re: Anything you would change about this Top 5 at each position since 1980 

Post#21 » by Eric Bieniemy » Sat Nov 6, 2021 7:00 pm

Curry, to me, is a shooting guard.

There's a reason Jerry West built a team around him with many ball handlers.

Also, Moses Malone and Isaiah Thomas have to be the most underappreciated players of all time.

Hot Take: For one year, to win it all, with oldschool strict man to man defense only, I'd take prime Moses Malone over Kobe Bean ... abd I'm a die hard Laker fan.
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Re: Anything you would change about this Top 5 at each position since 1980 

Post#22 » by Lalouie » Sat Nov 6, 2021 7:42 pm

pull curry and move him to the 2. curry is a "what's wrong with this picture"

take out wade, add thomas at pg

pull ewing add davis or jokic. take that back, ad doesn't like playing center. just add jokic
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Re: Anything you would change about this Top 5 at each position since 1980 

Post#23 » by algope » Sat Nov 6, 2021 9:23 pm

I suppose Erving, Gervin, Moses malone, kareem and gilmore are considered 70s players.
I still consider Harden a SG (I think has played more time in that position accounting his whole career). Considering Harden a PG, then I am OK whit your list. Maybe the only changes I would made would be Iverson instead of Tmac in the SG position. I don´t like very much Iverson but his resumee is more complete. Howard maybe could compite with Ewing for the last C spot.
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Re: Anything you would change about this Top 5 at each position since 1980 

Post#24 » by LAL1947 » Sat Nov 6, 2021 11:02 pm

mdonnelly1989 wrote:Anything you would change about this Top 5 at each position since 1980

Nice list... my additions to it are in blue.. altho I didn't highlight when I changed the order.

PG:

Magic
Curry
Isaiah
Nash
Stockton

SG:

MJ
Kobe
Harden
Wade
Iverson

SF:


Lebron
Bird
KD
T-Mac
Kawhi

PF:

Malone
Giannis
Dirk
KG
Barkley

C:

Hakeem
Shaq
Duncan
Jokic
Dwight - I'd even go with Gobert here because I'm biased against Ewing and David Robinson for how MJ and Pippen used to clown them... plus I don't think either would fare very well in this new era of spacing.
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Re: Anything you would change about this Top 5 at each position since 1980 

Post#25 » by Cavsfansince84 » Sat Nov 6, 2021 11:25 pm

Mainly I'd put Moses over Ewing, Nash over Harden and move Harden to the sg list over Tmac. I mean Harden led the league in scoring like 3x which tells me sg is a more natural position for him.
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Re: Anything you would change about this Top 5 at each position since 1980 

Post#26 » by ZombieKilla » Sat Nov 6, 2021 11:33 pm

Duncan is not a C.
Harden is not a PG.
Curry is not better than Magic.

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