What's your top 10 defensive guards, wings and centers in the league?
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 11:56 am
Make 3 different top 10 for guards/wings/centers
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Dutchball97 wrote: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
Dutchball97 wrote: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
lebron3-14-3 wrote:Dutchball97 wrote: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
Dutchball97 wrote:lebron3-14-3 wrote:Dutchball97 wrote: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?