What's your top 10 defensive guards, wings and centers in the league?

[Gibson22]

Make 3 different top 10 for guards/wings/centers

[Dutchball97]

Centers:
1. Rudy Gobert
2. Bam Adebayo
3. Joel Embiid
4. Jarrett Allen
5. Robert Williams

Wings:
1. Draymond Green
2. Matisse Thybulle
3. Jaren Jackson Jr.
4. Jimmy Butler
5. Paul George

Guards:
1. Jrue Holiday
2. Marcus Smart
3. Alex Caruso
4. Ricky Rubio
5. Chris Paul

[Gibson22]

Centers:
1. Rudy Gobert
2. Bam Adebayo
3. Joel Embiid
4. Jarrett Allen
5. Robert Williams

Wings:
1. Draymond Green
2. Matisse Thybulle
3. Jaren Jackson Jr.
4. Jimmy Butler
5. Paul George

Guards:
1. Jrue Holiday
2. Marcus Smart
3. Alex Caruso
4. Ricky Rubio
5. Chris Paul

Dort is top 3 imho, I actually consider him one of the best defensive guards I've seen, he just doesn't play in a good enough team to be recognized. Regardless, I would never pick injured rubio or 37 yo cp3 in the top 5. I would also put ayton in the top 5, maybe ahead of embiid or allen. JJJ I would probably put him as a big. Oh, and you forgot giannis, he's at least top 3 if we put him as a big and at least top 2 as a wing. And there's also mikal.
Then there are obviously Kawhi and AD who easily deserve top 5 but they've been injured.

Guards:
1)Smart
2)Jrue
3)Dort
4)Mikal
5)Caruso

Wings:
1)Giannis
2) Draymond
3) Thybulle
4) Butler
5) Pg



Bigs:
1)Gobert
2)Adebayo
3)JJJ
4)Robert Williams
5)Ayton
6)Allen
7)Embiid
8)Turner
9)Poeltl
10)Capela

With AD and Leonard being 2 dpoy caliber defenders that I have to leave out because of injuries

[Gibson22]

Centers:
1. Rudy Gobert
2. Bam Adebayo
3. Joel Embiid
4. Jarrett Allen
5. Robert Williams

Wings:
1. Draymond Green
2. Matisse Thybulle
3. Jaren Jackson Jr.
4. Jimmy Butler
5. Paul George

Guards:
1. Jrue Holiday
2. Marcus Smart
3. Alex Caruso
4. Ricky Rubio
5. Chris Paul

I changed it to top 10

[Dutchball97]

Centers:
1. Rudy Gobert
2. Bam Adebayo
3. Joel Embiid
4. Jarrett Allen
5. Robert Williams

Wings:
1. Draymond Green
2. Matisse Thybulle
3. Jaren Jackson Jr.
4. Jimmy Butler
5. Paul George

Guards:
1. Jrue Holiday
2. Marcus Smart
3. Alex Caruso
4. Ricky Rubio
5. Chris Paul

Dort is top 3 imho, I actually consider him one of the best defensive guards I've seen, he just doesn't play in a good enough team to be recognized. Regardless, I would never pick injured rubio or 37 yo cp3 in the top 5. I would also put ayton in the top 5, maybe ahead of embiid or allen. JJJ I would probably put him as a big. Oh, and you forgot giannis, he's at least top 3 if we put him as a big and at least top 2 as a wing. And there's also mikal.
Then there are obviously Kawhi and AD who easily deserve top 5 but they've been injured.

Guards:
1)Smart
2)Jrue
3)Dort
4)Mikal
5)Caruso

Wings:
1)Giannis
2) Draymond
3) Thybulle
4) Butler
5) Pg



Bigs:
1)Gobert
2)Adebayo
3)JJJ
4)Robert Williams
5)Ayton
6)Allen
7)Embiid
8)Turner
9)Poeltl
10)Capela

With AD and Leonard being 2 dpoy caliber defenders that I have to leave out because of injuries

Mikal is good but I'm not so sold on the hype that I think he's a top 5 wing defender. I did forget Giannis, I'd put him behind Draymond though. I think we see the difficulty with the 3 positional classifications though as it can be unclear whether a SG is more guard or more wing, while PFs especially are often hard to classify as wing or center/big. Bridges is definitely not a guard though, how could he be when he plays next to CP3 and Booker?

[Colbinii]

Centers
Rudy Gobert
Bam Adebayo
Robert Williams
Jarrett Allen
Jakob Poeltl

Wings and Draymond
Draymond Green
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Jimmy Butler
Mikal Bridges
Jayson Tatum

Guards
Jrue Holiday
Marcus Smart
Alex Caruso
Matisse Thybulle
Patrick Beverley

[Gibson22]

Centers:
1. Rudy Gobert
2. Bam Adebayo
3. Joel Embiid
4. Jarrett Allen
5. Robert Williams

Wings:
1. Draymond Green
2. Matisse Thybulle
3. Jaren Jackson Jr.
4. Jimmy Butler
5. Paul George

Guards:
1. Jrue Holiday
2. Marcus Smart
3. Alex Caruso
4. Ricky Rubio
5. Chris Paul

Dort is top 3 imho, I actually consider him one of the best defensive guards I've seen, he just doesn't play in a good enough team to be recognized. Regardless, I would never pick injured rubio or 37 yo cp3 in the top 5. I would also put ayton in the top 5, maybe ahead of embiid or allen. JJJ I would probably put him as a big. Oh, and you forgot giannis, he's at least top 3 if we put him as a big and at least top 2 as a wing. And there's also mikal.
Then there are obviously Kawhi and AD who easily deserve top 5 but they've been injured.

Guards:
1)Smart
2)Jrue
3)Dort
4)Mikal
5)Caruso

Wings:
1)Giannis
2) Draymond
3) Thybulle
4) Butler
5) Pg



Bigs:
1)Gobert
2)Adebayo
3)JJJ
4)Robert Williams
5)Ayton
6)Allen
7)Embiid
8)Turner
9)Poeltl
10)Capela

With AD and Leonard being 2 dpoy caliber defenders that I have to leave out because of injuries

Mikal is good but I'm not so sold on the hype that I think he's a top 5 wing defender. I did forget Giannis, I'd put him behind Draymond though. I think we see the difficulty with the 3 positional classifications though as it can be unclear whether a SG is more guard or more wing, while PFs especially are often hard to classify as wing or center/big. Bridges is definitely not a guard though, how could he be when he plays next to CP3 and Booker?

Yeah you're right about bridges being a wing

[feyki]

Guards:
Caruso
Smart
Jrue
Lonzo
Bane
Beverley
Quickley
Matthews
Conley
Rubio,

Forwards:
Draymond
Yannis
Jaren
Horford
AD
Thybulle
PJ
Jaden
Nassır
Kleber,

Centers;
Gober
Robert Williams
Jarrett Allen
Adebayo
Mitchell Robinson
Nic Claxton
Landale
Boucher
Mobley
Embiid
.

[parsnips33]

Bigs:
Draymond
Gobert
Bam
Giannis
Embiid

Wings:
Bridges
Butler
Tatum
Finney Smith
Kawhi (benefit of the doubt)

Guards:
Smart
Holiday
Caruso
GPII
Lonzo

[Gibson22]

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[pipfan]

When Ball/Caruso were on the floor earlier in the year, they were dominant on D. If they stay healthy, they will lead the Bulls next year to a top 3 seeding